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My name is Akshay (stage name: Akshay zAck). I am a rapper by passion and a trainee Data Scientist at NIIT Technologies Ltd. by profession. I have recently been into the top five underground rappers<\/strong> of Delhi as per the established rappers Raftaar and Kr$na (Gully Boy Movie fame) at the contest \u2018the Gully bhai show\u2019 lead by Hit 95 FM. Two of my raps that took me to the top were \u2018Haalat<\/a>\u2019 and \u2018Aag\u2019. Haalat (my single) is also available on platforms like iTunes<\/a>, Saavn<\/a>, Hangama<\/a>, Spotify<\/a> etc.<\/p>\n How did it start?<\/strong><\/p>\n I had a habit of writing my daily personal journal. One day I read what I had written 5 years ago, it stated \u201cOne day I will surely launch my own music video when I start earning\u201d. I was staggered after reading that line because that fine day, I realized that it has already been 3 years since I am earning money but still I did not have a faintest idea of propelling my music video. It made me introspect myself; I asked myself \u201cWhy did I write that line? Did I write that line just for the sake of it? Is rap just another hobby? Should I dump those pieces of paper with lyrics and verses in a dustbin or should I actually be the man of my words and do what I actually wanted to? I picked the last mentioned and chose to work over it instead of simply discussing it.<\/p>\n It has been more than 10 years that I am writing raps and I finally started my YouTube channel Akshay zAck<\/a> (formerly known as \u2018Artists under construction\u2019) with the first official music video of mine titled \u2018Corporate Mazdoori<\/a>\u2019 on 18th<\/sup> February 2018. It voiced my corporate life at Nagarro, where I used to work as an Associate Lead (Software engineering) until 26th<\/sup> July 2018. It was difficult to dispatch a music video with a restricted spending plan, yet my energy propped me up and I did it for myself. I spent a total of 2500 rupees on recording\/mixing mastering\/shooting\/composition\/editing. My friends helped me shooting the scenes using my phone; I myself shot some chunks of the video and then edited the video on my own (just to save some cash). Now, I have a decent number of videos on my channel as well as on a record label too. It is tough to sail on two boats simultaneously, yet I do it as rapping gives me happiness and employment gives me cash to appreciate that joy of mine.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n – Akshay zAck<\/strong><\/p>\n MBA – IDS I<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My name is Akshay (stage name: Akshay zAck). I am a rapper by passion and a trainee Data Scientist at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-expression"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.niituniversity.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}