The loneliness hardened into her personality. Teachers found her difficult; she disliked routine and authority. “I was a bit of a troublemaker,” she says.<\/p>\n
Science became one of the few things that could hold her attention. An engineering degree in Bengaluru followed, though she speaks of it now like a temporary detour. “I knew I won’t be able do a nine-to-five.”<\/p>\n
That resistance eventually became the defining act of Reble itself.<\/p>\n
The stage name, she explains, is less persona than alter ego – “a very personal rebellion”. Rap gave shape to emotions she did not know how to organise earlier. “It became the perfect medium to express this feeling of being a misfit,” she says.<\/p>\n
That tension still runs through her music. While many Indian rappers showcase big personalities and emphatic bravado, Reble’s style feels tighter and more restrained – less explosive anger and more something quieter and personal.<\/p>\n
Her rhymes move instinctively between languages. Years spent away at boarding schools meant English gradually became dominant, though Jaintia – the language spoken at home – remains, as she puts it, “my emotional anchor”.<\/p>\n
“When I write in Jaintia, it’s a very personal emotion,” she says. “But I’m also not very fluent in the language unfortunately.”<\/p>\n
The contradiction feels central to her work: local and global at once, deeply rooted yet emotionally detached.<\/p>\n
There are other ironies too. For someone now praised for her lyrics, Reble insists she dislikes writing. “I can’t write,” she says bluntly. “I get bored and I make mistakes.” Even now, most of her lyrics exist as scattered notes and unfinished scribbles.<\/p>\n
Her growing popularity has also brought backlash. Some listeners accused her of “selling out” after her Bollywood breakthrough, while others online claimed her music was anti-Christian or even satanic because of its references to demons – a particularly loaded criticism in Meghalaya, where church culture shapes much of public life.<\/p>\n
Reble seems amused by the outrage. “When you get commercial success, people think you sold your soul,” she says. <\/p>\n
For her, working on film music feels more like experimentation than compromise. “If I’m singing for a film, I enjoy that,” she says. “But I’m picky about the projects I take.”<\/p>\n
Part of Reble’s mystique comes from Shillong itself.<\/p>\n
In Meghalaya’s capital, music spills constantly through public life: church choirs rehearsing late into the evening, teenage metal bands in garages, blues musicians drifting through dimly-lit bars.<\/p>\n
Reble emerged from that ecosystem, but also from a newer internet-shaped version of the city where local influences collided with global hip-hop and trap.<\/p>\n