Shah Rule: ‘The simplest verse can get the job done’

Rapper Shah Rule says trust is the most important factor when collaborating with other artistes as he discusses his debut EP ‘Hooked’

Hip-hop is still evolving as a music genre in India, but the scene isn’t less crowded by any means. Ask 28-year-old rapper Rahul Shahani — known professionally as Shah Rule — who recently released his debut EP titled Hooked, and he describes the space as a ‘pyramid’. “There are a few guys at the top and then [the field] keeps growing as you go down. There are people still struggling to find their place, or their managers; some are still trying to figure what they want to talk (read as: rap) about. I started when I was 13 and only in the last three years have I figured what it is I want to talk about,” he says, over phone from Goa.