Adhi (born Adhithya Ramachandran Venkatapathy) was born on 20 February 1990.[2][7] Jeeva R. was born 29 June 1991.[8] Adhi's family is from Sathyamangalam in the Erode district.[9][10] Adhi was born into a middle-class family with no knowledge of music or cinema. His father works at Bharathiar University while his mother comes from an agricultural background.[3] Adhi's first exposure to rap came when his neighbour showed him Michael Jackson's "Jam".[11] His interest in hip hop music started developing in the tenth grade. He uploaded rap songs to the internet and got positive responses from people expressing interest in his music, who also encouraged him to start rapping in Tamil.[12] His decision to rap in Tamil rather than English was made, in his words, to avoid looking like a "wannabe".[11] Adhi named his account on the video-sharing site YouTube "Hiphop Tamizha", with a profile picture of the Tamil poet Subramania Bharati, to avoid being caught by his parents.[13]Adhi's father had initially opposed his choice to pursue music professionally.[14] He wanted Adhi to pursue higher studies, but gave him a year to do what he wanted, with the only constraint being that Adhi should not expect any help from him. After realising that Adhi was "trying to do some good work", he encouraged his son's musical interests.[13] Adhi then moved to Chennai to "try [his] luck".[15]
Although Hiphop Tamizha is a duo,[5][16]Jeeva has seldom made public appearances. Adhi told IndiaGlitz that this is due to his shyness, and compared his partner to the unseen lion in the emblem of India, which includes four lions, with only three visible.[17] Jeeva adopted the moniker Jeeva Beatz sometime after the two met in 2005.[1][13]
Adhi studied at Chavara Vidya Bhavan, and electrical engineering at Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam in the Erode district. He holds a state-level rank in Tamil Nadu Common Entrance Test and is a graduate in Master of Business Administration from the Department of Management Studies, University of Madras. Beginning in October 2014, he enrolled in a PhD course at Bharathiar University,[13] which he completed in June 2015.[18] Jeeva, an engineering drop-out,[19] is also an alumnus of Loyola College, Chennai.
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