Adhi was born on 20 February 1990 as Adhithya Ramachandran Venkatapathy while Jeeva was born on 29 June 1991 as Jeeva KRS Adhi was born into a middleclass family with no knowledge in music or cinema his father works at Bharathiar University while his mother comes from an agricultural background Adhi came to know of rap music through Michael Jacksons Jam His interest in hip hop music started developing when he was in the tenth grade He would upload rap songs to the internet and got positive response from people expressing interest in listening to more of his music this encouraged him to start rapping in Tamil also because he was more comfortable with it Adhi named his account on the videosharing site YouTube as Hiphop Tamizha with an image of the Tamil poetSubramania Bharati to avoid being caught by his parents Adhis father had initially opposed his idea of choosing music as his career Adhi himself had no formal education in music He studied at Chavara Vidya Bhavan andelectrical engineering at Bannari Amman Institute of Technology He holds a statelevel rank in Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test and is a graduate in Master of Business Administration from Madras University As of October 2014 he is studying a PhD course at Bharathiar University Adhi first met Jeeva in Orkut in 2005 the latter adopted the moniker DJ Jeeva Beatz In 2006 Adhi released Viswaroobam Arambam considered the first Tamil hip hop mixtape It also played a major role in promoting hip hop as a part of the Tamil culture In the same year he met Yogi B of the Malaysian hip hop group Poetic Ammo who became Hiphop Tamizhas advisor I used to send some of my underground music releases to Yogi and one day I received a call from him but I thought someone was playing a prank on me It turned out to be him and he encouraged me to start Hiphop Tamizha recalled Adhi years later The duo started as underground until they were asked by the Tamil Nadu Election Commission to compose an election anthem Adhi never knew how they found the group Hiphop Tamizhas single Ezhuvoam Vaa was eventually chosen as the official anthem for Tamil Nadus 2011 state elections though the song was unsuccessful Adhi and Jeeva considered it at one point their best work so far Although Hiphop Tamizha is a duo Jeeva has seldom made public appearances Adhi told IndiaGlitz that this is due to his shyness and compared him to the unseen lion in the emblem of India which includes four lions but shows only three Other independent artists have also collaborated with them including beatboxer Bharadwaj Balaji also known as BBB or Triple B and Bboy Bravo The official logo of Hiphop Tamizha is a graffiti of Bharati
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