Srujanika Das is a Kolkata-based hip-hop artist from Orissa, India, currently pursuing music production at Point Blank Music School in London. She came to rap from a background in dance, communications, and visual art in Tokyo, drawn to its power as a “liberatory medium for the disenfranchised.” Performing as The Joyful Creatrix, her debut single “Purple Swag / I’mma Live Forever” — a feminine reimagining of trap drawing on the myth of Lilith — caught the attention of AWAL, who offered her a distribution deal. She approaches music as a healing art and an act of resistance in a male-dominated genre.