{"id":41677,"date":"2022-02-14T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T15:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2022\/feb\/13\/eva-b-the-rap-star-of-karachi-my-veil-cannot-take-away-the-talent-i-have"},"modified":"2022-02-14T00:01:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T15:01:44","slug":"the-rap-star-of-karachi-my-veil-cannot-take-away-the-talent-i-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41677","title":{"rendered":"The rap star of Karachi: \u2018My veil cannot take away the talent I have\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eva B, who was brought up in a notorious slum, has become Pakistan\u2019s latest music sensation<\/p>\n<p>Her phone has been buzzing with non-stop messages and calls. Eva B, once a little-known rapper from the Karachi urban-slum settlement of Lyari, has become Pakistan\u2019s newest music sensation, racking up millions of views on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>She is not just the first female rapper from Pakistan, she is the first veil-wearing female rapper from Pakistan\u2019s Baloch minority. She says her brother had told her if she wanted to rap she had to wear a veil, but that it is now a part of her identity and personality as a musician.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2022\/feb\/13\/eva-b-the-rap-star-of-karachi-my-veil-cannot-take-away-the-talent-i-have\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eva B, who was brought up in a notorious slum, has become Pakistan\u2019s latest music sensationHer phone has been buzzing with non-stop messages and calls. Eva B, once a little-known rapper from the Karachi urban-slum settlement of Lyari, has become Pakist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2909,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,2533,425,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-hip-hop","category-music","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2909"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41678,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41677\/revisions\/41678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}