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He performed the song 'Engeyum Eppodhum' with singing legend SP Balasubrahmanyam under the music direction of GV Prakash. Yogi B, who is an independent artist and music producer, made his debut in the Tamil film industry with Dhanush’s Polladhavan, which released in 2007. She used to play the Kanda Sasti Kavasam song every day, and if I listen to it anywhere, it immediately reminds me of her and I start crying,” he says, the emotion evident in his voice. For me, Tamil means my mother.her Tamil was so pure. “Now I am able to write the Tamil words in English and sing it, and there are others who can help me. He attributes his success as a Tamil hip hop artist to his late mother, who helped in translating the Tamil rap portions without the poetry going amiss and clarifying all his doubts, since Yogi B did his education in an English medium school. The 46-year-old, considered the godfather of Tamil hip hop, says that the reason he wanted to release the song officially in high resolution was because he wanted to trigger nostalgia among music lovers. It is my seminal work and a milestone in my career.” People were just listening to the song and making their own versions of it and celebrating it.”ĭescribing the popularity of 'Madai Thiranthu', he says, “That song was ‘viral’ before viral was even used as a word to describe a video’s popularity. However, without any deep regrets about it, he adds, “I did not see it as something ethically wrong. I did not understand YouTube back then or grasp its potential, so we did not release it on that platform. “A fan, out of love, had shared it on YouTube. His family has been living in Malaysia for more than two generations now. Speaking to TNM, he says that he does not know when his family migrated to Malaysia, and which part of Tamil Nadu they originally belong to. Yogi B is a Malaysian citizen of Tamil ethnicity. It earned Yogi B the crown of being the first Tamil hip hop artist. The song, a lovely fusion of the classic Ilaiyaraaja number with the unassuming rap music, made Yogi B and his unit Natchatra (comprising Dr Burn and Emcee Jesz), a sensation. The 2006 ‘Madai Thiranthu’ song from the Vallavan album, for which Yogi B was the executive producer too, resonated with the diaspora as well as the Tamil community in India. A conflict between the western and Tamil culture led to Hip Hop). I was a chubby kid, darling to my parents. Angilamum Tamilum kalacharangal modha, Kandu pudichenada indha hip hop” (When I was just little. Pattanam maari ponom ennai malai vandha vellum. With total swag, he revealed the gist of his journey in the rap portion from the song ‘Madai Thiranthu Yogi B and Natchatra’: “When I was just little.