Rap Rakesh

Rap Rakesh Sethulingam
Rap Rakesh Sethulingam
	Rakesh in Music Video Launch and Press Meet
Born	January 11, 1992 (age 32); Tiruchirappalli, India
Other names	Rap Rakesh
Alma mater	Bannari Amman Institute of Technology
Occupation(s)	Entrepreneur, music composer, lyricist, singer, rapper, actor, writer, screenwriter, choreographer
Years active	2007–present

Rakesh Sethulingam, also known as Rap Rakesh, is an Indian rapper and YouTuber.

Career

Rakesh Sethulingam sought to popularise rap when it was under-represented in Tamil music. Inspired by 'Pettai Rap', he composed a song in 2009, performed it at IIT Saarang, and won first prize. Since then, he has been known as 'Rap Rakesh', first to friends and then to Facebook fans.^[1] In 2014, he released the song 'Munne Vaada' which is centered around female empowerment.^[2] In 2016, Rakesh launched a further music video focusing on this subject matter entitled '12 AM (Women Empowerment)'. The video is an ode to a woman who was robbed and brutally killed by kidnappers. It was released by Vijay Sethupathi.^[3]^[4]

Independent projects

Year	Song	Composer	Lyrics	Singers	Notes
2007	Rap Rakesh "Kadhal" (underground song)	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh	First Youtube Official Song in TamilNadu & First Independent Artist YouTube Channel in South india who Released Official song before the start-up of Sony Music, Saregama, T series, etc.
2008	Rap Rakesh "Boomi" (underground song)	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh	Audio Song
2009	Love of Rakesh (underground song)	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh,Sneha	Audio Song
2011	Poita Poitan (underground song)	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh	Audio Song
2011	Yarukaga (underground song)	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh, Subhatara (Classical VOC), Srinidhi Iyer (Western VOC)	Audio Song (underground release) replacement of voice in 2015
2012	MY INDIAN GIRLS (underground song)	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh	Audio Song (underground release)
2014	Munney Vaa Daa (Student Anthem)	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh, Pooja Vaidyanath (Pooja Av), Saisharan , Nithyashree	Music Video Released by Drums Sivamani, Esq.RaviChandran & Ishari K. Ganesh
2016	12 AM (Violence Against Women)	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh, Subhatara	Music Video Released by Vijay Sethupathi and Performed by Rap Rakesh & Smruthi Venkat
2016	Patti Song (Old age homes)	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh, Nithyashree	Music Video Released by Paravai Muniyamma & Valliamma Patti
2017	Vanam (Deforestation and Animal Welfare)	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh, Gomathi, Visa, Subhatara, Sujha, Aswathi, Ram	Music Video Honoured by Vivek, Released by Vijay Sethupathi
2025	10,000 (Cartoon Music Video)	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh, Visa	Cartoon Music Video Pre-production
2025	Hansika I love you baby	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh	Rap Rakesh	Music Video Pre-production

As actor

Year	Music Video	Role	Language
2014	Munney Vaa Daa (Student Anthem)	Singer & Rapper	Tamil
2016	12 AM (Violence Against Women)	Rapper	Tamil
2024	Hansika I love you baby	Singer & Rapper	Tamil

References

^ "Rap Rakesh, Pollachi". The Hindu. 11 February 2016.
^ "Rap Rakesh's song on women empowerment". The Times of India. 14 August 2016.
^ "Vijay Sethupathi releases Kovai rapper's latest video". The Times of India. 14 January 2017. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 21 October 2024.
^ "Rap Rakesh's song on women empowerment". The Times of India. 14 August 2016.

External links

Rap Rakesh on Facebook
Rap Rakesh's channel on YouTube

[1] "Rap Rakesh, Pollachi". The Hindu. 11 February 2016.

[2] "Rap Rakesh's song on women empowerment". The Times of India. 14 August 2016.

[3] "Vijay Sethupathi releases Kovai rapper's latest video". The Times of India. 14 January 2017. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 21 October 2024.

[4] "Rap Rakesh's song on women empowerment". The Times of India. 14 August 2016.

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