SHREYAS IS STILL ON A TRIP THROUGH INDIAN RAP'S FRONTIERS

The breakout star behind 'Taambdi Chaamdi' is putting Marathi rap on the map

- ANURAG TAGAT

Mumbai-based, Pune-bred hip-hop artist Shreyas Sagvekar, part of the millions-streamed, globally-pumped jam “Taambdi Chaamdi,” still believes in the power of starting small.

He's been hosting Shreyas' Living Room listening sessions with fansfirst in 2021 in Pune at his own home and then in studio spaces in 2024 in Pune and Mumbai-which resumed once again in February and April this year.

He says, “The whole setting revolves around what it would be like if I invited you over to my house: we'd just sit around, chill and talk random shit. That's the base. I do that because it helps me connect with my fans on a very close level. I play a lot of unreleased songs, talk to people who are coming for the first time and might be new to Living Room.” It's intimacy and exclusivity in one go, with the multilingual artist sometimes playing newly written hooks and giving fans insights into how an artist's mind functions.

Shreyas also gets a chance to play his older English rap from 2016 onwards, considering a lot of his fan base only grew in the last two years after he teamed up with DJ-producer Kratex to drop the Marathi house-meets-rap banger “Taambdi Chaamdi” in 2024 He says, “I want to tell fans that the Shreyas they know right now is a very confident person, who hustles and gets shit done, but I want people to know where it comes from.”