Grime or Drill? (Skit)

This skit is based on an actual conversation I had with Amandeep Jagde (hilarious comedian) on the very same topic during an open mic with Punchline Comedy Club at Two Grapes in Hurlingham, which he references somewhere along the way. The song that prompted him to ask me the question that day was "Nairobi Tofauti", which DJ OCS always plays when I'm introduced to the stage (maybe that'll change with the release of this album).

I wrote a script for the skit sometime after the conversation and sent it to Aman. He liked it and we eventually laid it down in the studio, though he ad-libbed most of his lines to fit his own vocabulary and cadence, and even added some funny lines off the top of his head; if you pay attention, you can tell when he's reading and when he's just riffing, which I feel adds to the humour of the whole thing.

The skit initially wasn't accompanied by any music, but after a while I felt it would be difficult for casual listeners to get through, given that it was more than 3 minutes of plain dialogue. AndyBolo and I first started thinking about adding music after Aman suggested using elements of grime and drill at points when we reference them, but that didn't really go anywhere. At home, I started playing around with the stems for "Simama Kando" and "Super Police" (both 138 BPM), and suddenly the idea of combining the two for some laid-back background music started coming together.