Dee MC is an Indian rapper, singer, songwriter, and hip-hop performer.
One of the female rappers that is regarded as carrying the torch for other aspiring female rappers is she. She is a pioneer of feminist rap and has performed globally, representing India at the La Belle Hip Hop Festival in Belgium in 2018, the Alchemy Festival by Southbank Centre in the UK in 2017, and DesiFest in Canada in 2019. She made an appearance as herself in the 2019 movie “Gully Boy.”
PERSONAL INFORMATION
On Monday, February 14, 1994, in Mumbai, Deepa Unnikrishnan was given the name Dee MC. She is an Aquarius by birth sign.
Mumbai-based Malayalis make up Dee MC’s family.
Unnikrishnan Pisharody, her father, is employed in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. He is an NRI who was raised in Mumbai but was born in Kerala. Homemaker Jayasree is her mother. Divya is the name of her older sister.
She talked about her long-term romance in an interview. When asked if she had ever used Tinder in an interview, she discussed this relationship. She responded, “I personally haven’t used it yet but I know of individuals around me, my friends and family members, who have used it and have some fantastic relationships through online dating but I personally, not yet.” She had been in a relationship for a very long time. Never say never, though.
EDUCATION
Dee MC competed in debate, elocution, and poetry writing contests at Lok Kalyan Public School in Kalyan, Maharashtra. She began studying Bharatanatyam at age 5. When she was in the sixth grade, she began to listen to hip-hop. Her parents encouraged her to study chartered accountancy and find a respectable profession. She studied to become a CA and passed the entrance exam, but she twice failed the qualification examination.
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
• Height (approx.): 5′ 2″
• Weight (approx.): 45 kg
• Hair Colour: Black
• Eye Colour: Black
CAREER
When she was 18 years old and in her first year of college, she composed her first song. When she posted a rendition of Nicki Minaj’s song in 2011, someone commented on it and told her that if she is serious about rapping, she should leave Kalyan and connect with the hip-hop community in Mumbai.
On October 30, 2013, she made her YouTube debut with the song “Talk My Way,” which served as the platform’s initial video release. On October 30, 2014, she released “Greenhouse Effect,” her second single, after a year. She released the song “Kal” that same year, in which she rapped in both Hindi and English. In 2015, she wrote the song “Chaar Logo Ki Baatein.” Deepa rapped in the Kru172 song “Taking My Time” from 2017. The song “PRETTY EYES,” which Dee MC released in 2021, received more than 400k YouTube views in a single year. In 2022, she published the song “Haath Hi Mera Saathi,” which she wrote, conceptualised, and performed.
She released her debut album, “Dee=MC2,” in 2019. The album’s seven tracks featured musicians including MC Altaf, D’Evil, Poetik Justis, and others. Sunit Music produced the entire album.
She released “DEKH,” a single with Yungsta and Seedhe Maut, in 2018. She composed and delivered the song “AADATEIN,” a stand-alone track from Aakash Ravikrishnan’s album “Overseas,” in 2019. She released the song “REWIND” in 2020, which included Full Power, a rapper duet. Three additional female rappers, including SIRI, Meba Ofilia, and Dee MC, were featured in the song “Rani Cypher,” which Raja Kumari released on her YouTube channel on June 21, 2021. The music video had more than 2 million views. Doing Okay was a song co-written by Dee MC, Wild Wild Women, and Instine and published in 2022.
AWARDS
At the third annual Shorty Social Good Awards in 2018, she won a Shorty Award for “No More Limits.”
Won Best Electronic- Jury Choice Award at the 2019 Radio City India Freedom Awards with “Tu Bas Naach”
Won “Tu Bas Naach” the Best Indie Collaboration- Jury Choice Award at the 2019 Radio City India Freedom Awards.
ABOUT
Her first stage name was “Aura,” but she later changed it to “Dee MC,” where “MC” refers for microphone controller and “Dee” is a shortened version of her name Deepa.
The first hip-hop musicians that Dee MC listened to were Kardinal Offishall, Akon, and Mike Shinoda.
Her parents forbade her from performing anyplace during her early years of rapping because she had to go to rap events, many of which took place at night. As a result, she was unable to perform anywhere.
In order to raise awareness about personal hygiene on Menstrual Hygiene Day, she collaborated with the charity group WASH United and published the song “No More Limits” on October 31, 2018.
In order to inspire women to pursue their aspirations and defy social standards, the cosmetics brand Glow & Lovely worked with rapper Dee MC and published the song “Glow Ko Na Roko” in 2020.
Alongside Guru Randhawa and Anirudh, Dee MC appeared in the music video for the song “Swipe Right Material.” The song was created in association with the Tinder dating service.
In the Red Bull Spotlight, a countrywide contest for young rappers, she served as one of the judges.
Dee MC had no formal rap training before starting out. She used the internet to conduct her independent research and learn everything. She stated in an interview that she was one of the fortunate kids to have access to the Internet at a young age because her father worked abroad (in Saudi Arabia). Some of those websites don’t even exist anymore. I started downloading songs from the Internet when I was in sixth grade.
Dee once responded, “My journey towards dancing inspired me a lot,” when asked how she became motivated to pursue a career in hip-hop. I started dabbling in hip hop through dance. I started dancing when I was five years old. Since I have Bharatnatyam dancing experience, performing on stage is nothing new to me. I already had the desire to perform in front of others and the artistic inclination. When I was 17, I started b-boying (also known as b-girling, an athletic form of street dancing popular in the United States), but I was unable to continue. I became quite interested in rapping after that, and I first began in 2011. This came after I was introduced to Bombay’s rap scene by someone who had seen my album cover.
She twice failed the CA eligibility test. She tried to persuade her parents that it was not her fault that she failed twice by placing the responsibility on the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. I informed them that the (Institute of Chartered Accountants of India) intentionally fails students in order to gain a few points, she claimed. It was quite downbeat. I had failing grades of two and three. My parents refused to accept that I couldn’t always be held responsible.
She worked as a freelance writer for websites from 2014 to 2016 in order to supplement her income while honing her rapping abilities through practise away from home. She revealed that I would travel to Grant Road in south Mumbai for the work from Kalyan. You know how far Kalyan is? It irked me. Then I was forced to write about the financial success of Hollywood or Malayalam movies. It was not at all exciting, and I only did it for the money.
In the 2019 musical drama “Gully Boy,” which was based on the hip-hop scene in India, Dee MC starred as herself. We (artists) don’t really want to talk about our hardships; things that happened more than 10 years ago, she noted when discussing the movie.
I mean, where were you guys when we needed help and exposure? Between January and February, all of a sudden, people start contacting us and asking about our experiences because a movie has just come out and a certain actor is promoting it. I want to add, with all due respect, that Gully Boy has only scratched the surface for us. People used to make fun of us, laugh at us, and write us off until a few years ago. We established our own support network. We would act in each other’s videos, encouraging and supporting one another’s creations.
