Those are the psychological aspects of the album explored in the lyrical themes. Musically, for the listener, it’s like a kid walking into an amusement park that’s full of rides. There’s a rollercoaster of jazz. Drum ‘n’ bass elements take the tracks further up and down. The rapping see-saws between being fast-paced and being slower, with a more melodic tone. “I have no professional training in music,” Prabh Deep says, adding, “But I have people around me who have been trained, and I learn from them. It’s always interesting to have no rules, because I haven’t been taught anything [formally]. If you look back in time, there were like 10 different genres of hip-hop, New York-style, LA-style or whatever. That’s what I want to be like. I want to have fun.”

It’s easier to have fun when you have peace of mind, and the 26-year-old seems to have found more than a modicum of that, based on his reflections over the phone about the difficult period he had. “It was basically like [pressing] a switch that made me see things differently. I realised my mistakes and understood that I can’t fix them because I can’t go back in time. But what I can do is not make those same mistakes again,” the rapper says about the mindset he had while creating Tabia over two years, adding that he is still in the process of truly detaching himself from all his emotions to understand who he really is. And every time he feels that he can’t do it, he goes back to his father’s words — anything is possible apart from a dead man coming alive.

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