With this album, Sameer `Dada' Hussain hopes to begin a new "revolution," that of goonda rap in India. His kind of rap is inspired by gangster rappers like Tupac Shakur, Puff Daddy and DMX. But their kind of rap has little, or no relevance, in India and so Sameer has opted for a milder form. Though he insists his music is ‘goonda' rap, we prefer to call it tapori rap.

Like the albums of the musicians who inspire Sameer, his debut album features barking dogs, recorded telephone messages, gun fire and wailing sirens. Where Sameer draws the line is the lyrical content. And the language of the content. While the gangsta rappers from the East and West Coast freely use swear words indicating, lets just say, relationships with mothers and sisters, Sameer will go no further that saalay and harami. It's also very different from Baba Sehgal's kind of rap.

In one aspect, Sameer's form of rap is superior to gangster rap. The meter of his poetry is in almost perfect rhythm. Where the album falls short is technicalities. Rap recording requires special facilities which Sonic Trance in New Delhi certainly didn't have. The lack of these facilities are evident on the album, in parts, where the music and samples sound cluttered.

Unlike his western counterparts, Sameer's lyrical sensibilities rarely go beyond that of a son missing his dead father and a son wishing to protect his mother at all cost. So there's Koi To Poochay in which he wonders what happens in death; if man cries even in heaven (koi to poochay marne walle se kya hota hai; kya jannat mein bhi aadmi rota hai). Then in O Ma, he sings a tribute to his mother, beautician Shahnaz Hussain. He also happens to wash dirty linen in public in the same song. And even though Sameer is committed to a form of music that seems to encourage ‘goonda-gardi' and violence, he also sings, body bannao, ladki patao, magur condom zaroor lagao.

Where Sameer's album scores over others, is that it dares to be different. This is no Indipop or bhangra; that's all you'll hear these days. This is goonda rap.