THIS WEEKEND, WHEN Wild Wild Women take the stage at Indian Music Experience’s (IME) Women’s History Month celebrations in the city, they won’t just be performing — they’ll be making a statement. Wild Wild Women, believed to be India’s first all-female hip-hop collective, was never just about music — it was about defiance, about storytelling, about carving out a space that for too long had been closed to them. What began as a casual meeting in Marol (Mumbai) in 2020 — a gathering of poets, rappers, singers and artistes — quickly ignited into something far greater.
“Wild Wild Women started as an informal gathering and within no time turned into a shared mission — to carve out space for female-centred hip-hop in India and challenge the male-dominated industry,” says Ashwini Hiremath, better known by her stage name Krantinaari, the collective’s founder. By 2021, the group had officially taken form, with a formidable lineup of rappers, break-dancers, a graffiti artist and even a skateboarder — each member adding a distinct layer to the movement
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