Sample: Asha Bhosle and Mohammad Rafi – Chandi Ka Badan Over a decade on, any Indian wedding DJ worth their salt has this up their sleeve as a guaranteed dancefloor filler. Slightly distasteful references to snake charming aside, Jay Z revved up the bandwagon, and before long everyone was on it. The stripped-back original is largely indistinguishable from most folk-tinged bhangra, which makes the Panjabi MC remix all the more impressive. Somehow, a bloke in the Midlands slapping some dhol and a vocal over the Knight Rider theme sparked a period of Hindi and bhangra revolution in the urban music industry, and never one to miss a trick, Jay Z got himself involved for the official remix.

This was one of the first major crossover hits, a song that would creep in to school discos and punctuate adverts as well as blast from radios. The next, I was being mobbed at school by people wanting me to either sing, translate or identify songs for people. One minute, national radio geared towards Asian people was a bit of a joke, with production values that sounded like the music was being broadcast through a yoghurt pot and string from a Solihull basement. Nothing prepared me for the first time I heard Asian music being sampled by the biggest names in R&B and hip-hop.

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