Indian rapper, singer-songwriter and music producer Badshah is all set to release his new album ‘Ek Tha Raja’ which is the third studio album for the musician. Badshah got immense popularity after his singles “ONE (Original Never Ends)” (2018) and “The Power of Dreams of a Kid.” The rapper come to the map after his hit songs in flims like “Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania” (2014), “Khandaani Shafakhana” (2019) and “Jawan” (2023) starring Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan. Moreover, Khan also narrates the album’s announcement video Badshah also reveals the process of convincing the superstar. In an interview with Variety the rapper unveiled a lot of facts about the new album. Let’s check out the complete details of this story.
Badshah talked about the making process of the album
The rapper said about Khan who narrated the album announcement video, “The next day I got a half-hour long file with those seven dialogues spoken in different emotions and that day I found out why Shah Rukh Khan is Shah Rukh Khan because once he’s in it, he gives his 200% and he’s just so kind. All those things that you’ve heard about him are true.”
In this new album Badshah will also perform with several guest musicians, including Morocco’s Draganov, Canada’s Nora Fatehi and numerous popular Indian singers such as Karan Aujla, Hiten, Divine, Nikhita Gandhi, Raftaar, Aastha Gill, Seedhe Maut, Kr$na, Prajina, Shai, MC Stan, Mehar Vaani, Ikka, Dino James, Fotty Seven, Raga and Sharvi Yadav. Apart from then he will also collab with with Arijit Singh on the track “Soulmate.”
Talking about Singh who is one of the most popular Bollywood singer of this time he said, “I was really excited about working with Arijit Singh because he’s someone I’ve looked up to. And, more than that, I was just happy to be in his company and learn a lot of things from him. Because, he for me is like a higher power,.I composed and wrote the lyrics for the song and sent it to him. When it came back, it was a different song. I was literally crying listening to my composition in his voice. That was an almost supernatural catharsis.”
Moreover, he also addressed what inspired him to make the album, “I consider myself as a listener as well, and I could feel the generation change. I was trying to find my own self, my own personality, my new sound, the direction where I want to go the, the narrative that I want to build myself, the stories that I want to tell, and hence, it [“Ek Tha Raja”] was the result of all this contemplation.”
He also added, “Then I just realized, people want to listen to who I am. And people love me the way I am. So, I don’t need to change. And that’s what I did with this album, I have collaborated with some of the new artists who are doing really good work. I have moved out of my zone, I made them move out of their zones, we’ve come in a middle place and tried to create a new sound. And that’s the fun of a collaboration. When two songs collide, it’s like two colors combining to make a new color.”
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