When Badshah Asked Khanzaadi To Leave Hip Hop

Rapper Firoza Khan aka Khanzaadi, rose to fame after her stint in Salman Khan’s TV reality show Bigg Boss Season 17. During the season, she often faced massive criticism for her behaviour towards Salman during the Weekend Ka Vaar episodes. Besides that, she has also appeared in shows like MTV Hustle 2.0 and MTV Splitsvilla. Recently, Khanzaadi revealed how she felt demotivated after Rapper Badshah, King, and Dino James made discouraging remarks about her rapping skills on the rap-music-based reality show Hustle.

During an Instagram live session with Rapper Bohemia, she recalled an interaction with Badshah, where he allegedly advised her to leave the hip-hop genre which left her completely disheartened. Badshah’s remarks led her to question her worthiness in the music industry.

Khanzaadi said, “Though Badshah complimented me as beautiful, he also told me to leave the Hip Hop genre and told me that I should try my hand at Pop music. It felt like I did not deserve at the moment, at least they could’ve motivated me to pursue this path. I could’ve learned it in three months, six months, or a year. After that, I locked myself inside my room and started writing songs. Every day, I used to wake up and listen to music. Now, I have written a total of 15 songs.”

The rap-music-based reality show MTV Hustle 2.0 was judged by Badshah along with four group leaders; EPR, Dino James, King, and Dee MC. Rapper Abhishek Baisla, popularly known as MC Square, won the second season of the show.

Meanwhile, on the work front, after her exit from the Bigg Boss 17 house, Khanzaadi has been a part of a few music videos like SabSahi, Konwa, and Rangreza in which she was seen with her Bigg Boss 17 house mate Anurag Dobhal, known as UK07 rider.

In the Bigg Boss house, she had a love-hate bond with his co-contestant Abhishek Kumar. But, the duo surprised their fans as they dropped a romantic video on Instagram, where they recreated Shehnaaz Gill’s song Dhup Lagdi. While Abhishek looked dapper in a blue kurta, Khanzaadi looked gorgeous in a multi-colored Anarkali suit.