From rags to rap

From rags to rap

"If I weren't a rapper, I would have been a criminal or dead by now" were some of the first words I heard Asif Balli say. Son of a scrap collector and a housemaid, Asif was born and grew up in the Buffer Zone area. He also collected scrap from an early age to support the family. His everyday routine included waking up at 4AM, walking the streets to collect scrap in a big sack, then walking four kilometres to his school in Gulberg. After school, …