Hiphop Tamizha
One of India’s seminal hip-hop acts, the duo Hiphop Tamizha was comprised of
Adhithya “Adhi” Venkatapathy and R. Jeeva. The pair of music enthusiasts first
got together in Chennai, Tamil Nadu in 2005 and started creating music
independently. Because hip-hop had not caught on yet in India, they remained an
underground act, eventually adopting the Hiphop Tamizha moniker in 2010. In 2011
their track “Ezhuvoam Vaa” became the anthem of Tamil Nadu’s elections. Their
debut album, 2012’s Hip Hop Tamizhan, considered by many to be the first
Tamil-language hip hop album, combined the duo’...
