Jaspal Naveel Singh is a hip hop head, knowledge producer, soul searcher and father to a little toddler. He currently works as a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics and English Language at the Open University, UK. His first monograph Transcultural Voices: Narrating Hip Hop Culture in Complex Delhi (2022) develops an approach called global hip hop linguistics to study breakers, graffiti artists, musicians and rappers in the emergent scenes in urban India. Moreover, Jaspal has published in the fields of gender and language, intercultural communication, political discourse and sociolinguistics. Originally from Germany, he has lived and worked in India, Hong Kong and Wales.