{"id":36,"date":"2018-12-18T07:42:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T00:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/binus.ac.id\/hiveindo\/?p=36"},"modified":"2019-11-08T14:38:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T07:38:56","slug":"in-the-pursuit-of-passion-for-music-in-jakarta-the-story-of-the-hip-hop-artist-nayaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/binus.ac.id\/hiveindo\/2018\/12\/18\/in-the-pursuit-of-passion-for-music-in-jakarta-the-story-of-the-hip-hop-artist-nayaka\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Pursuit of Passion for Music in Jakarta \u2013 The Story of the Hip-Hop Artist NAYAKA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-39 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/binus.ac.id\/hiveindo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Nayaka-768x1154.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/binus.ac.id\/hiveindo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Nayaka-768x1154.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/binus.ac.id\/hiveindo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Nayaka-480x721.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/binus.ac.id\/hiveindo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Nayaka-1024x1539.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/binus.ac.id\/hiveindo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Nayaka.jpeg 1416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/h6>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center\">Ariel Nayaka, 24, is one of Indonesia\u2019s rising hip-hop<br \/>\nstars, charting out the future of this genre in the<br \/>\nIndonesia\u2019s capital. He endorses the pursuit of passion<br \/>\nwith positive thinking and community building.<\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><br \/>\nWhy hip-hop?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I grew up with music and have been drawn to it. I learned to play guitar, drums, I did vocals, I wrote lyrics and music. I started rapping in high school being influenced by artists such as Jay-Z.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Today, Indonesian rappers have a community with the aim to bring the hip-hop scene into Indonesian pop culture. I work closely with my band, The Blue Room Boys in this effort.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Do you feel accepted here in Indonesia?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I have spent some time in the U.S. and have noticed that in Indonesia, we are very concerned with being polite. Behind the bouncy music that draws people to the dance floor, hip-hop is quite forthright. I sometimes feel that Indonesian audiences are<br \/>\nnot always ready for this.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">However, Indonesians are very open to the West in their music taste, so I anticipate a positive future for hip-hop in Jakarta.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>What is your message?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I really think positivity and co-creation are important. In my music projects, I do my best to find the right team and have a good time. I have done several collaborative projects so far with artists in Indonesia and overseas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">The project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wUc7RuL3eWc\">Decide<\/a> with the leading composer in Indonesia, Dipha Barus, peaked for<br \/>\na while on New York radio. Right now, I work closely with several friends I met during my studies at <a href=\"https:\/\/binus.ac.id\/\">BINUS University<\/a>. My teachers there have taught us to follow our passion, and this is the message we are trying to spread as The Blue Room Boys.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Where can we hear your music live?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I participated in Jakarta\u2019s popular summer festival \u2013 We the Fest. I perform with my band The Blue Room Boys every Wednesday evening at Park 19 in Kemang. We do R&amp;B cover<br \/>\nsongs and play our own hip-hop pieces.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Hear NAYAKA&#8217;s music <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?playnext=1&amp;list=PLXc62GiISH4nNlX9vIhXHcI4Cu0958FHC&amp;feature=gws_kp_artist\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ariel Nayaka, 24, is one of Indonesia\u2019s rising hip-hop stars, charting out the future of this genre in the Indonesia\u2019s capital. He endorses the pursuit of passion with positive thinking and community building. Why hip-hop? I grew up with music and have been drawn to it. I learned to play guitar, drums, I did vocals, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":39,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-passion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/binus.ac.id\/hiveindo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/binus.ac.id\/hiveindo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/binus.ac.id\/hiveindo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binus.ac.id\/hiveindo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binus.ac.id\/hiveindo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/binus.ac.id\/hiveindo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/binus.ac.id\/hiveindo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binus.ac.id\/hiveindo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/binus.ac.id\/hiveindo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binus.ac.id\/hiveindo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/binus.ac.id\/hiveindo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}