Top 5 famous Indian rappers

1. Honey Singh

Honey Singh is a big name in Indian rap history. Honey started his career as a music producer in 2005. He just used to make music for other artists and singers, but later he realized that he should also sing, then he started singing.

With his unique talent for music production and singing, he became famous worldwide, and in the year 2011, his song Brown Rang became a globally hit. The song broke all the records at that time and came upon the top list of Billboards https://www.billboard.com/.

In the year 2013, Honey Singh got signed by T Series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Series_(company), where he worked for 4 years but, Due to his illness, Bipolar disorder, He disappeared from the industry and took a break of 2 years. Now he came back, so let us see what he does next.   

2. Badshah

Badshah's Real name is Prateek Singh Sisodiya. He belongs to Chandigarh (Haryana). Badshah got fame with his massive song Saturday Saturdayhttps://www.india.com/topic/saturday-saturday/ with Indeep Bakshi in the year 2012. The song became globally hit, and the rap part was amazing what Badshah had performed.

In 2015, The first song DJ Wale Babu with Astha Gill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Waley_Babufrom his Album ONE got a huge success for him. The song broke all the records and kept on the trending#1 for one month.

He also broke the record of BTS The Corien Musician Bandhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTS for the most viewed song in one day on youtube for his song Pagal.

3. Emiway Bantai

Emiway Bantai is the first Indian rapper and hip hop, an artist who brought the diss culture in India before his song samajh me aaya kya https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/emiwaybantai/samajhmeinaayakya.html people did not even know what the diss culture is but after this song, Everyone got familiar with the name of Diss.

He became a revolutionary artist in India hip hop music and got international attention from Russ for his powerful rapping way. His song Machaynege https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machayenge is a commercial track that got popular in just one day.

He is the first Indian rap artist who got a chance to do a song with Dax, A Canadain Rapperhttps://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Dax, and he used it very well with his Awsome flow and lyrics.

4. Raftaar 

A very few people know that Raftaar's real name is Dilin Nair, and he belongs to Kerala. As well as a rapper Raftaar is a very talented dancer also. He started his career with a crew called Mafia Mundeer in 2009, But later, he decided to go solo.

He came into the mainstream with his Swag Mera Desi with Manj Musik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW63GZHF1wQ&list=PLz6Ix91EvBgNeEto6qCB30Yjhd3eMygOs&index=5&t=0s.

In this song, Raftaar performed a rap so fastly and said himself an Indian Rap God. This was a direct reply to Honey Singh.

As Honey Singh said to do to this in his song Party With the Bhootnath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KW6jTHNN_A So, Raftaar replies to him in his own way.

5. Ikka

Ikka comes from Jamnapaar Delhi. His real name is Ankit Singh Patiyaal, and popularly known as Ikka. He was the first member of Mafia Mundeer, who left the crew first of all. But he never told the reason why he left the crew.

His first song was 922 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdXNzDiPaw4 with Gaurav Dayal. But this song could not full fill the expectations of Ikka, so he came up with a new song Disco Wich Giddha https://www.pendujatt.net/punjabi-songs/song/disco-wich-gidda-deep-money-money-ikka-xuyc.html with Deep Money and this song became a great hit.

He treats Honey Singh as his Elder brother. He says that whatever he is now of that, all credits go to Honey Singh. He has told everything about his journey and how he met with Honey Singh and Rafaar in his song Interview.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8HsA4LIhPE.

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