Kuruvi - Happy New Year Lyrics - Yogi B, MC Jesz, Dr.Burn Ft Sunidhi Chauhan

I've been wanting to post these lyrics for a long time. As you can see, I'm quite a fan of hip hop and rap, especially when fused with tamil mainstream music. Throughout this blog, you'll find tons of tamil song rap lyrics. I won't waste much time shameless plugging my blog. My guess is you got here from Google, so welcome.

This is one of the best hip hop kuthu tracks of all time. Yuvan Shankar Raja needs like multiple platinum plaques for all that he has done for rap in tamil music. That said, Yogi B & Natchatra comprising of Dr.Burn and MC Jesz are already legends of tamil rap/hip hop. This is a feel good song about the time Trisha tries finding out who Vijay really is. It was pretty hot video, but the rappers kinda were depicted clowning around. I don't know what this to their cred, but listening to this song on repeat doesn't tire you.This song's lyrics has been sitting for a long time on my hard disk. I'd like to get rid of it and put it up on the blog so that I can always visit it often without having to open up Word again!

Without much delay, I bring you the lyrics to the song Happy New Year from the movie Kuruvi. I reserve some rights to publish this version of the lyrics, as it took some hard work decoding the rap. I won't say I'm spot on, but I've done my best. Judging by the Google results I got for the lyrics of this song, this blog will be first to be putting it up to my knowledge. I saw an incomplete version over here, that was the closest I got.  This could also be close, but he's got the parts of the rap wrong. So, the swag-jackers and the haters better watch before they bootleg it from here. Creative commons big brother is watching you.

Kuruvi - Happy New Year - Yogi B, MC Jesz, Dr.Burn Ft Sunidhi Chauhan

Yogi B : Are y'all ready for the countdown?
Mc Jesz : Ladies and gentleman
Dr.Burn : Playas and hustlers

Chorus:
5 4 3 2 1
Happy New Year

Sunidhi Chauhan:
Sooonnnn

Intro :(Yogi B & Dr.Burn)
Denga Denga La charita si
gade sdicha ganya dicha risini
Mukanya chomey padanya degga
swada-danmata nya di hati

Yogi B:
Avan thedi thedi alayaran oorukulle
Desperado girl hunting her maappilai
Rendu kangalai mattum nee parthu puttae
Nadai paar vedikkai vadivael annae

Chorus:
Ey vaa ey vaaa ey vaa ey vaaaaaa

Sunidhi Chauhan:
Thanaane thandaa naane thandaa naane thandaanaa
Thanane thandaa naane thanaa naane thanne naaaa
x2

Sunidhi Chauhan:
Ketta payyan ketta payyan (MC Jesz: Who dere??)
Gun nu polae vantha payyan (oh no)
Yen manasa suttu puttaan
U know u know u know u knowwww
Romba romba ketta payyan (MC Jesz: Hustler)
Round adikka vitta payyan (MC Jesz: Rudeboy)
Kandipidi yenga irrukaan
U know u know u knowwww

MC Jesz:
Yea yeah unghhh (Yogi B: blaaawww)
Thala sutthi okka thabba thatton thatoon
Athu kanavula dhane vanthu muttoon muttoon
Rudeboy yedhakku ithu puthaandu
Vaa gully gully ma solla gaana paatu
Ava kangala paathaen korala kettan
Asathi vecha un manasa thechava
Singakutty suttha thanga katti
Solla poanaa ilaya thalapathy yearrghh

Sunidhi Chauhan:
Thanaane thandaa naane thandaa naane thandaanaa
Thanane thandaa naane thanaa naane thanne naaaa

Yogi B:
Pretty gal searching for her boy killa killa crazzy
Will she ever find? We will never know, love ain't so easy

Sunidhi Chauhan:
Andakka kasam kasam abukka hukum hukum
Manthiratha potta party
U know u know u know u knowwwww
Seasame thorakka villa
Singam kadaikavilla (Yogi B: yo yo arghhh)
Yaar avan yenge irrukkan
U know u know u knowwwww

Dr.Burn:
Thamizh pennae nee thaikka panjum sutthum
Kuruvi kotthum aruvi patta poochi pola parakkum
Atha nenachu jodi kedachae kanalkattiko vaikasi
Vedi vedicha sivakasi tirupaachi
Theeradha vilayattu pillai avan- adum kannampoochi
Thangamme thangam thangamme thangam kelae kelu

Sunidhi Chauhan:
Thanaane thandaa naane thandaa naane thandaanaa
Thanane thandaa naane thanaa naane thanne naaaa

(Dr.Burn, Yogi B & MC Jesz talking in Malay)
MC Jesz: Seriyana loosu polae
(talking in malay)
Ippo pooruvon, poorae poorae poorae

Yogi B:
Dance for me, tamila dance for me
Tharikidathom dance for me
I'm gonna make more
Taking it down
Kutthu (?Kuruvi?) dance for me
All dance floor
Party start
All come dance for me
One more time
Attam poodu

Yogi B:
Yogi Yogi (Go Go Go Go)
Don't stop (Go Go Go Go)
Can't wait (Go Go Go Go)

Sunidhi Chauhan:
Athiri Pudhiri aachu laa
Yen gavanam sedhari poachu laa
Avana pathu adutha nimisham
Ninnu poachu moochu laa

(MC Jesz & Yogi B) Sunidhi Chauhan:
(Ooru) Kekkala
(Seriya) Paakala
Sozhatti potta sozhi pola sozhandu ninnaen laaa

Yogi B:
Phenomenon turn on Phenomenon turn on right
Sing kurivigal now you jump and
Swing when minsara payanna we go
Kaiyya vecha thee parakkum
Volcano fire laa
Tornaado puyalu laa
Unthan mudi sudi maraindha kadhalan evano
Who dat? You back, here we go!

Sunidhi Chauhan:
Thanaane thandaa naane thandaa naane thandaanaa
Thanane thandaa naane thanaa naane thanne naaaa
x2

Outro:
Are you feelin alrighhhtt?

P. S: I've got many more songs lined up for posting lyrics. Watch this space for more.

The Paradox of 'my' NRIness

The spark for this post was when I saw this topic by 'Lady Pineapple' in a forum. Also, Anjali'swas another of the recent posts. 'The NRI', a rather interesting name, had this to say. Reading through all these posts, something struck me. Its been eating my head ever since. Where do I fit in?

Of Indian Bloggers and Stat-Ran-KING!

So, I came across this nice enclave of Indian Bloggers, an attempt to form an ecosystem of IndiBloggers. Digging through the site, I found many great blogs that I've missed out on during so many years of my hibernation. What was also nice to see was so many amateur bloggers giving this old 'fad' a go. In the age of Twits, FB and Buzzes, I say 'Well done me lads!' and the female equivalent of that. In terms of blog years, I'm a geezer. Through the IndiBloggers, I found out the standards for jumping into a higher ranking are pretty huge for an old man like me. Oh wait, I'm gonna turn 25 in two months? Dang, I'm getting old.

I see a steady rise in the hits on this page. I know you came here to read my tamil song raps decoded into understandable 'suttha' English. I know you probably came here by clicking 'Next Blog' on the blogspot toolbar. I know you came here because you are my minion in blogger and are bound to follow me whatever shite I may write. Henceforth, I welcome the prying eyes of the IndiBlogger nation or junta or whatever clique name you liked to be referred to as. They needed me to introduce myself and write a few words about why my site must be reviewed. I'm not sure this post qualifies as an answer, but I'm sure its in my pocket. Somewhere. Where is it? *As I frantically open both my pockets, I find a hamburger. Hamburggaarrr*. Again, I digress.

Where was I? Oh yeah, to introduce myself, I'm a nice guy who was born in Chennai to parents who were Malayali. That made me a proud malayali who had mostly tamil friends growing up. Although my home was in Besant Nagar, the Elliots beach was my second home. I went to school in one of the most beautiful places you can imagine. I worked as a techie in of the best companies there is. I then came to the US of A to do my Masters. Yeah, yeah, same ol' story right? WRONG! As Eric Cartman's reincarnation in a narrow sense (pun intended), I roam the streets of the Capital of California as Navin Two-Face. MS Graduate body to those back in India, another H1B guy to those in the US. Caught in the middle of such situations, is this lovely life of mine.

I started blogging back in 2004. However, I had to delete this blog due to my own foolishness and horrible horrible things I did in the guise of 'Hey, I'm just writing what I want!'. Anyways, that bitter experience later, I restarted in 2006, I was posting only lyrics of Tamil songs which had rap and stuff. Did I mention I was a rapper? During the good ol' days of Chennai's rap scene, our breed was rare. Gangsta rappers roaming around in loose fit jerseys with bling all around. We looked like clowns but once we rhymed, we were one of a kind. I'm still mainly into Computers, Technology and Rap music. I've worn many hats, but one of my favorite ones was that of 'the blogger'. "What magic hat is that?" you may ask. Its a hat that has great power. And with great power comes great current bills responsibility.

Being a blogger, it heartens me to see the passion and the enthusiasm a place like IndiBlogger generates. Sifting through the different pages, I found some interesting pieces of writing. I'm not very Shakespearean in explaining this, but I call a spade a spade. The art of blogging is something that improves with time. Most blogs I see on the network are rank amateurs, but hey, even Roger Federer was once an amateur. I'm not a big fan of sophisticated oohh-look-at-him-he's-so-condescending type of writing. I'm a big fan of 2-fart-jokes-make-laugh-and-spiderman-will-save-me type of writing. I am a techie, so you must be knowing I use statcounter, feedburner and google's webmaster tools to promote this piece of turd art that I call "my blog".

So much for the introduction post. Now, IndiBlogger! Do your magic mantra or whatever algorithm you chew to get my ranking. Come on, give your chappa of approval for a dying old blog like mine. Give me the life, give me the reason to survive. Aaaah, Sister, Brother, Come together to help one another. *Starts tearing apart his hair*

P.S: The last paragraph was NOT lifted from a Vijay movie.

Goa Lyrics - Go Enbathu a.k.a Goa Title Song a.k.a Goa (Club-Mix)

This is the lyrics to the song from the tamil movie Goa directed by Venkat Prabhu starring Jai, Vaibhav and Premji Amaren. The music is by Yuvan Shankar Raja. This particular song is sung by Krish, Ranjith, Tanvi, Suchitra (Mirchi Suchi), Chynk Showtyme, Pav Bundy. Chynk Showtyme is the rapper who was on Kannai Vittu in Pattiyal. Illpath is their label I think. You can find that they've posted a video to this song in their website.

I searched all over the intertubes for the lyrics to this particular song. As far as I saw, they were nowhere to be found. So, chances are you have reached here from Google or some other search engine. I retain the creative commons license (restricted) for other websites, blogs to publish these lyrics although they are by some other artist (90% spot-on I think, might have misheard a few words). I have nothing to do with this song except I've spent 20 mins to decode the rap. But as you can see from the RSS feed of the site, I do have a creative commons rights reserved . If you're Chynk Showtyme or IllPath, hope you can correct me if the lyrics are wrong (and don't sue me for posting this, I'm broke anyways). OTOH, anyone stealing this hard (yeah right!) work of mine without giving credit, shame on you.

This is quite an OK rap, brooklyn - east coast flow with some cliched lyrics. Its purely commercial stuff you see out here in the US, flauntin n stuntin. Anyways, big respect to Chynk Showtyme & crew. Looking forward to see more from these guys in the mainstream rap industry.

Off-topic:Why do music directors from the South Indian industry use what we call 'underground' talent from the US rather than use some of the good rappers back in Chennai and elsewhere. One search on myspace, soundclick and you can find tons of these young cats all over Chennai, Bangalore. I personally like some of the stuff MWA - Machas with Attitude do. Check out this hilarious song from them.

Shameless plug: As you'll see my little blog here, I've decoded quite a few songs. Some of the pages which are great hit with search engines are Vettaiyadu Vilayadu - Karka Karka , Rang De Basanti - Pathshala, Yogi B Ft Mogethen, Natchatra - Kamasutra and Pattiyal - Poga Poga.

Finally, the wait is over: After reading my take on this song & some shameless plugging, I bring you the rap lyrics/tamil lyrics to the Goa title song or Goa (Club-Mix) or just Goa for the first time on the net. Haters and swag-jackers, eat dust!

Intro:
Uh uh aah ah uh (x8)
Aye
Swerve
Chynk show
IllPath
Fly like a bird

Chorus: Female (Male)
Arabic sea (Go-a)
Azhagai rasi (Go-a)
Aaha kushi (Go-a)
Always busy
Nam aasai padi (Go-go-go goa)
Vaasa(l) padi (Thottu)
Vetri kodi (Katti)
Hat-trick adi (Go-go-go goa)

Chorus (Extn):
Pala hippies ellam dum adikkira oor dhaane goa
Two piece ellam swim adikkira oor dhaane goa
Holy church vaan idikkira oor dhaane goa
Pelican birds meen pidikkira oor dhaane goa

Bridge: Male Chorus
Potta thitangal kai koodum naal vandhathu (Oye oooye)
Ketta poo malai thozhaa num thozh(l) vandhathu (Oye oooye)

Chorus: Female (Male)
Arabic sea (Go-a)
Azhagai rasi (Go-a)
Aaha kushi (Go-a)
Always busy
Nam aasai padi (Go-go-go goa)
Vaasapadi (Thottu)
Vetri kodi (Katti)
Hat-trick adi (Go-go-go goa)

Bridge music:
Uh uh aah ah uh (x8)

Pav Bundy (Rap):
Fly like a butterfly sting like a bee
I leave first class to go wh-ere I be
Everybody starin at me
while Im cuttin through the line
they lookin like "Aah gee"
I'm feeling so international
So I gotta grab my cash 'n go
Gotta pack my bags fast n' go, go ther(e)
I be so hot in that plane
When I touchdown I jump right in that range
Three quarter *blues* people thinking I'm strange
Gotta body full of tats (tatoos)
but I'm getting that change
I'm here! Huh!
Relax on the beach
Mommy gotta a little fed here
I'm attacking the beach
Enjoyin that breeze from the palm trees
Beach chair overlooking them calm seas

Bridge: Female Chorus
TADA-vum POTA-vum, nam dhikkukul nirkadhada
Uh uh aah ah uh
Kanaavum Vinaavum nam kan vittu pogadhada
Uh uh aah ah uh

Chorus: Female (Male)
Go enbathu mun varthai dhaan (Goa)
Vaa enbathu pin varthai dhaan (Goa)
Go endrathu thunbangalai (Goa)
Vaa endrathu inbangalai (Goa)

Arabic sea (Go-a) Aye
Azhagai rasi (Go-a)
Aaha kushi (Go-a) Swerve
Always busy Chynk Show
Nam aasai padi (Go-go-go goa) Ill Path
Vaasapadi (Thottu)
Vetri kodi (Katti) Fly like a bird
Hat-trick adi (Go-go-go goa) Aye swerve

Chynk Showtyme (Rap):
When it come to dough, I'm a get that up
Bacardi we party, we twist that Dutch
Lil' freaks all around me, its
Chynk Showtyme, my mind on getting chicks
Look at her got her eyes on her wrists
So there can be (???) on that old school whip
I roll up, swag there I stroll up
Groupies they come at me loosely,
they go nuts!
I'm swerving baby know it
Now I'm on top, it feel crazy don't it
Never feel threatened by another opponent
Mommy on me, I gotta jump on it
She borne it, freaked by the surfers
Big money here and we out to purchase

Female Interlude:
Goa, Go-go goaa

Bridge: Male Chorus
Potta thitangal kai koodum naal vandhathu (Oye oooye)
Ketta poo malai thozhaa num thozh(l) vandhathu (Oye oooye)

Chorus: Male & Female
Arabic sea (Go-a)
Azhagai rasi (Go-a)
Aaha kushi (Go-a)
Always busy
Nam aasai padi (Go-go-go goa)
Vaasapadi (Thottu)
Vetri kodi (Katti)
Hat-trick adi (Go-go-go goa)

Outro:
Gooaaa

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Update: I found this horrible version of the lyrics on a forum. Mukkavaasi thappu!

Moozik production!

I made this using Fruity Loops and some royalty free samples. This is my first ever music production to get published on youtube. Although I did some crazy stuff back in download.com as a teenager, I consider this a first!

Anyways, this is a promo video for my buddies from apartment 127. They've not come up with many videos as yet. Watch this space for more!

P.S: The cameo at the beginning was meant for entertainment, and absolutely unintentional :)

My first Superbowl experience

So, I'm in a very ecstatic mood right now. Today was the first time I was watching a Superbowl game. I can hear my friends in India going "So what? Big deal. American Football is a game I don't get", I pity your ignorance. The 4 quarters, all the plays and the various terminologies make it a very exciting game which requires a lot of strategy.

I had no idea about the Superbowl before except that it was the "Wazzzzzup" ad of Budweiser, and a whole bunch of other great ads first came out. My knowledge of football is very limited. Mostly to movies that have come out on the subject. I've never seen any game on TV before in America, atleast the most popular forms of sport here. I'm the guy who has no business watching a football game. But, something about the New Orleans Saints drew me in.

Maybe it was Lil Wayne, or the fact that the city was struck down by Hurricane Katrina and never found its footing again. Maybe it was admiration for Ray Nagin, the mayor who whooped a$ during the Bush administration. I guess Lil Wayne was a huge factor for me. His words on Drake's Forever "If I had one guess, then I guess I'm just New Orleans". Somehow, this Superbowl was so different from the rest of 'em before. It was about a city. A city which somehow had the tenacity to come to the top from being crushed down. I'm a sucker for underdog stories. And boy was this one!

Coming back, I depended on justin.tv for the live streams. When they kept shutting down streams, there was always somebody else putting a HQ stream back on. I watched the game from the comfort of my home on about 10 different channels. I was rooting for the Saints. After a horrendous remix of the American National anthem by Queen Latifah, and a toss won by the Saints (13th in a for the NFC). The ads kept me humored all along.

The first quarter was awful for the Saints. Drew Brees looked like he was standing on flat ice and was cracking under pressure. The Indianapolis Colts were blitzing like they got the wings from Red Bull. At the end of the 1st quarter, it was 10-0 to the Colts. My face was long, excitement was gone. I was reduced to biting nails again. And then something happened. The offense of the Saints got cracking and they did two field goals with something like 23 plays compared to the Colts 4. Peyton Manning was nowhere to be seen in the 2nd quarter. It looked like the Saints were coming back, but they were just not able to break the defense lines of the Colts.

The halftime show featuring 'The Who' was pretty ok, for a bunch of old guys trying to keep up with all the pyrotechnic madness around them. The ads were a big letdown. I thought only the Bud Light and Doritos ads got their money worth. Probably Hyundai Sonata too, the one with the car being hand-built. Google's ad was a damp squib. I mean come on, you're broadcasting to the whole of the USA, and you choose France? Fail!

As the 2nd half started off, the Colts looked like they were going to improve on their 10-6 lead and they were in for a shock. There was a stunning maneuver with a touchdown for the Saints taking the score to 13-10 for the Saints. I was jumping with joy. My horse in this game was winning. The Saints didn't look back from there. They kept Manning waiting for his time for the rest of this quarter. But the time that Manning did come on, the offense managed to sneak a touchdown. It was 17-13 now for the Colts. A field goal by the Saints brought the scores to 17-16. It stayed there till the end of the 3rd quarter.

The two teams were head-to-head and I was having the time of my life. Drew Brees equaled the record for most number of completions. The Saints were looking dangerous. Just as I thought the Saints were coming up with something, there was an amazing touchdown, which made it 22-17 to the Saints. They took something called a second call I guess, and they got 2 more points for a field goal. It was 24-17 now. The Saints were running away with it. A controversial call came up for the next touchdown and the Saints got it by review of the decision. They were up 30-17 now, and got it to 31-17 with another field goal from nearby. I'm not sure how the rules worked, but I was enjoying the Saints coming back from 0-10 to 31-17. And it stayed there till the end.

Peyton Manning tried his best to break the defense of the Saints, but too many incomplete passes and a last quarter choke by the Colts gave the New Orleans a historic win. I was now on my feet, jumping, yelling "wooohooo" and frantically posting facebook and twitter updates. Victory was mine. The first game I chose to watch, and the first team I chose to root for, had just won the biggest game night in America. I'm still reeling from the excitement. It was like watching the IPL finals and watching your favorite team win.

American Football is a revelation to me. Till this day, I do not understand the various rules in the game. All the desi folks read on. The rest of you can skip to the next paragraph. Did you know that they had 2 teams within the same team? One for offense, one for defense. The captain equivalent is called the 'Quarterback'? Yup, he's the guy who calls the 'plays', a mix of strategy and thinking on how the game is going to be played in the next 10-20 seconds. Sacking, Line of scrimmage, passes, incomplete passes, field goal, 2 minute warning and yard lines are some of the vocabulary I learnt today.

Like I said, I thoroughly enjoyed watching the game today. I plan to watch every Superbowl from now on, and maybe watch the playoffs too if the jerks at justin.tv or websites like that don't keep shutting me off. Its a boon to guys like me who cannot afford cable or even less, a TV!

As a tribute, I leave you with this song 'Who dat?', the sort of anthem of the New Orleans Saints. Its got one of the ballsiest and catchy chants for any team in any sort of game. Enjoy!

SEO

Its been a while since I posted anything. I've been doing some SEO (search engine optimization) on this blog. I've noticed Google has some cool tools which I didn't know existed. Feedburner was taken over by Google a while back, and I never bothered to check out the new feedburner. I was amazed at all the tools available now to optimize the hits that come to my blog.

I've also got my school website up. Embedding Picasa and Youtube channels was so easy, I feel that a whole bunch of new web designers would hardly bother to learn the code behind the embedding. I guess that is the idea, that any body can design websites. Throw in some CSS and a bunch of 'Embedded' code, make a couple of banners and you have a dashing website. Sadly, I feel like I'm getting old in the 'game'.

I think its something everybody goes through. You see technology moving so fast that you gotta start keeping up with it. 10 years back, when I had some sites up or 6 years back when I started blogging, I learnt everything the tough way. Nowdays, there are tons of websites to make your life easier. Its a welcome change, but I feel it dumbs down 'self-taught' web designers. To really master the technology behind great websites or web services, it has become essential to learn it in school. Back in 2003, when blogger was just bought by Google, the phenomenon that was AJAX was in its infancy. Now, its all over blogger.

Interesting how time flies. In a couple of months, I'll turn 25. The shades of grey haven't set in as yet, but in terms of 'tech years', its frightening to keep abreast of all the things happening online. My statcounter shows a steady increase in my hits in the last 4 months. Most of them through the 'Next blog' feature on blogger. My guess is that blogging, tweeting and the general reach of computers, mobile phones and internet tv are just starting to go mainstream. In many ways, I see a link in the 'anybody can build a website' analogy to 'anybody can blog' meme. Which is a good thing. The more, the merrier.

P.S: Feedburner is a great place to learn a bunch of stuff on SEO for your blog / website.