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Interview With Serenada Iblis by WhiteboardJournal.com Treasure the whole interview on Page 1 http://whiteboardjournal.com/features/w_music/interview-with-serenada-iblis.html/1 Page 2 http://whiteboardjournal.com/features/w_music/interview-with-serenada-iblis.html/2 Indonesian hip hop, rightly or wrongly has a pretty bad reputation in my ears. Besides memories of listening to IWA K from my younger days, I virtually haven’t heard of any worthwhile Indonesian hip hop ever since. I must admit, that is mainly down to the embarrassing fact that I wasn’t even searching. That was until the Internet (and a host of friends) introduced me to a whole host of producers and emcees who are making Jakarta’s creative hip hop scene. One of these is Serenada Iblis, a beat-smith; jazz head and punk enthusiast who produces jazz-heavy tracks for Magnum Opus and other Indonesian hip hop heads, which sound like a cross between an updated version of early 1990s jazz-rap and early 2000s underground hip hop. W_Music caught up with Mr. Iblis and sent him a few questions. W: Tell us a little bit about the man behind Serenada Iblis. I was born Muhammad Irfan Handeputra, 23 years ago in Jakarta. I completed my primary and secondary education in Kalimalang, East Jakarta, before earning my bachelors degree from the University of Indonesia, majoring in Communication Studies W: Serenada, tell us how you got into hip-hop. Well to tell you the truth, I only really started listening to hip hop in 2006. I w