Rapper Hanumankind never saw the wild success of ‘Big Dawgs’ coming. Seriously, he admits he just rolled with the punches and kept grinding, no master plan, no crystal ball.
In an interview with Hindustan Times, the 33-year-old from Malappuram looked back on his journey so far. For him, music isn’t some overnight lottery win; it’s more like slowly chipping away at a stone, day after day, hoping to shape something real.
Hanumankind opens up about his success
“I mean, there’s no way to predict this stuff. The universe has its way of surprising you,” he said, thinking about how ‘Big Dawgs’ blew up out of nowhere.
Hanumankind’s rise wasn’t some flash-in-the-pan moment. It was years of hard work finally paying off. “If you check out the stuff we did before ‘Big Dawgs’, you’ll see we’ve been at this for a while.
The intention was always there. That track just happened to catch on, but it’s really just one piece of a bigger puzzle.”
He traces that defining moment back to December 2019, when he first hit the stage at NH7 Weekender in Pune. “That’s when I made up my mind, I was going to do music, sink or swim. I had no clue if it’d work out, but I knew I’d rather give this a shot than play it safe.”
Hanumankind talks about his new release
Now he’s out there pushing his latest project, ‘Monsoon Season’. He calls it a patchwork snapshots of his life, stitched together with sounds and moods he picked up along the way. “It’s all fragments from different parts of my journey. I tried things, messed around with different emotions and sounds. It’s pretty varied because, honestly, I was in all kinds of headspaces before I landed here.”
Naming it ‘Monsoon Season’ wasn’t random, either. For him, the monsoon is loaded with meaning. “Sometimes it feels romantic, sometimes it’s heavy. Either way, you can’t avoid it. Growing up, the rains meant travel, memories, India—it all comes rushing back.”
Aside from ‘Big Dawgs’, he’s got a whole arsenal now: ‘Run It Up’, ‘Namma Stories’, ‘Go To Sleep’, ‘Maadeva’, ‘Rush Hour’, ‘DAMNSON’. Not bad for a guy who never expected any of this in the first place.
With 13 years on the line, Ashish Kumar Singh loves everything when it comes to movies, music, travel and pop culture. Formerly employed at ANI, Pinkvilla, India Today and HT, Ashish has interviewed some of the top celebrities of India, including Shah Rukh Khan, Aamir Khan, Ranveer Singh, Ranbir Kapoor and Hrithik Roshan, among others. Breaking news excites him and deadlines are what he chases. Interviewing comes naturally to him. Hit him up at ashish.kumar02singh@gmail.com.
