KRSNA Height, Age, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About KRSNA

• KRSNA was raised by his parents in a Kashmiri Pandit family.
  

  KRSNA’s childhood photo

• Soon after his birth, he moved to London with his parents and that’s where he completed his schooling and spent about 4 years.

• KRSNA was a car enthusiast as a child and used to draw BMW logos on the back of his books.

• During his time in London, he used to witness the rap culture which was popular in London. KRSNA started getting interested in it and started doing rap as a hobby.

• KRSNA turned his hobby of rap into passion when he was just 14 years old and that’s when he started professionally writing rap as well.

• He faced a rough time during his school days in London because the school that he used to study was comprised of 80% black students. KRSN used to witness brutal fights where rival gangs often used weapons to fight each other which created a challenging environment for non-affiliated students like him.

• In order to stay protected from racism, KRSNA wanted to blend in with his other schoolmates so that they wouldn’t bully him and that’s why he started taking an interest in their interests and connecting with the culture and people of South London. His interest in rapping grew leading him to participate in rap battles competitively.

• The first ever rap song that KRSNA learnt was Snoop Dogg’s song titled “Who Am I? (What’s My Name?).”

• He was 18 years old when he recorded himself for the first time.

• In 2006, KRSNA released a remix version of the American rapper Eminem’s song titled ‘Bitch Please II.’ KRSNA did his feature in the song as well.

• After completing his schooling, he came back to Delhi to pursue his graduation and after completion, KRSNA moved to Mumbai for his post-graduation.

• When he reached Mumbai in 2007-2008, he had prepared 4-5 demo songs with the goal of selling those songs to a big music label. He went to one of the music labels and was told by an executive of that company that his songs sounded “too international” for India. KRSNA then applied and started working as an intern at the same music label in order to learn the difference between his writing of rap and Indian rap.

• During his internship days, the same executive that rejected KRSNA’s songs was leaving the company and before leaving he gave KRSNA back his own CD of songs that he handed over to the executive and that’s when KRSNA got to know that his songs were never opened and heard by the company or the executive and they were just rejected based on assumptions of being “too international.”

• In 2009, he released his song titled ‘Yellow Taxi’ which featured other artists as well including Rabbit Sack C, Big T, and Slim Neil.

• In 2010, KRSNA uploaded a song titled “Kaisa Mera Desh” on his YouTube channel and after uploading he went to sleep. The next morning when he woke up, he was surprised to see the reaction to his song. It became the first Indian hip-hop song on YouTube and earned a #2 ranking as one of the most-watched music videos in India overnight following its release.
  

  KRSNA on the poster of his song titled ‘Kaisa Mera Desh’ (2010)

• KRSNA termed his song “Kaisa Mera Desh” as the ‘Unofficial Anthem of the Commonwealth Games’ as it was released during the time when India was hosting the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

• In 2013, KRSNA released a song titled “Vijay” in collaboration with the UK-based non-governmental organization named ‘Save The Children.’
  

  The poster of KRSNA’s song titled ‘Vijay’ (2013)

• In the same year, he signed a record deal with the Dutch–American multinational music corporation.

• In 2013, KRSNA collaborated with the Indian DJ named ‘Lost Stories’ and released a song titled ‘How You Like Me Now.’
  

  The poster of the song titled ‘How You Like Me Now’ (2013)

• In 2014, when KRSNA released his debut album titled ‘Sellout,’ its lead single titled “Last Night” was ranked at #5 on the Vh1 Music Charts in India.

• He became the first hip-hop artist in India to do a five-city album tour with a band.

• In 2016, KRSNA produced, wrote, and released his song titled ‘Tere Buss Ki Na Hai’ followed by another song titled ‘Dekh Kaun Aaya Wapas.’
  

  The poster of KRSNA’s song titled ‘Dekh Kaun Aaya Wapas’ (2016)

• He took a break for 2 years before releasing his Hindi song in 2016 titled ‘Vyanjan’ after the success of which he signed to the artist management agency DNH Artists (now Kalamkaar) in 2017, and became a partner in 2018 with another Indian rapper Raftaar.

• The quality of KRSNA’s writing in his song ‘Vyanjan’ was that each line of the song was rhymed with all the alphabets of the Hindi language and that is what made the song successful globally.

• In 2017, he collaborated with the rapper Emiway Bantai and released a song titled ‘Mumbai Se Delhi Tak.’

• In 2019, KRSNA released a song titled ‘Seedha Makeover’ which was a diss track aimed at Emiway Bantai after his track ‘Seedha Takeover.’
  

  The poster of KRSNA’s song titled ‘Seedha Makeover’ (2019)

• In the same year, KRSNA released a diss track titled ‘Maharani’ which was aimed at the Delhi-based rapper named Muhfaad followed by a second diss track titled ‘Makasam.’

• In the same year, KRSNA was cast in the Hindi musical drama film titled ‘Gully Boy’ which was based on the life of Indian street rappers. KRSNA played the character of himself in the film.
  

  KRSNA (right) with actor Siddhant Chaturvedi on the sets of the Hindi film titled ‘Gully Boy’ (2019)

• In 2020, KRSNA did a song titled ‘Hundred’ for the Hindi action comedy Hotstar special TV series titled ‘Hundred.’ The song also featured actor Karan Wahi and rapper Raftaar.
  

  KRSNA (left) and Raftaar on the poster of the song titled ‘Hundred’ (2020)

• In January 2021, KRSNA was featured on American rapper Hi-Rez’s song titled “Crossroads” along with the American rapper named Royce da 5’9″.
  

  KRSNA )extreme right) on the poster of the English song titled ‘Crossroads’ (2021)

• In the same year, his other collaboration with Hi-Rez was released titled “Playground” which also featured a former Slaughterhouse member named KXNG Crooked.

• In the same year, KRSNA released his second album titled ‘Still Here’ which consisted of 9 songs. The album featured many Indian artists and some of them are Badshah, Ikka, Raftaar, and Rashmeet Kaur.
  

  KRSNA on the poster of his second album titled ‘Still Here’ (2021)

• In 2022, he featured on Karan Aujla‘s Punjabi song titled “Ykwim” (You Know What I Mean).
  

  KRSNA (right) with Karan Aujla in a still from the Punjabi song titled ‘Ykwim’ (2022)

• In 2023, KRSNA released a song titled ‘Paisa On My Mind’ which also featured artist Deep Kalsi.

• In the same year, he released his EP (a mini-album that consists of 3-4 songs) titled ‘Far From Over’ which consisted of five songs.

• In 2024, KRSNA sampled the iconic Bollywood song titled ‘Mera Joota Hai Japani’ from the film ‘Shree 420’ (1955) by the playback singer Mukesh. KRSNA titled this song as ‘Joota Japani.’

• In the same year, he collaborated with Badshah on the song titled ‘Hola At Your Boy’ which was featured in Badshah’s album titled ‘Ek Tha Raja.’

• Initially, KRSNA used to rap in Hindi and all his writing was about socio-political matters when his stage name was ‘Prozpekt.’ Eventually, he started rapping in English and decided to use his real name ‘Krishna’ which he wrote as ‘KRSNA’ because the name did not go well with ‘rap’ and that created a mystery in his audience’s minds.

• KRSNA has released many songs until now and some of them include ‘Poocho na Yaar Kya Hua – Remix’ (2011), ‘Aakhir Tumhe Aana Hai’ (2018), ‘Voice of the Streets Ep.04 – KR$NA’ (2019), ‘Taazi Saans, Taazi Soch’ (2021), and ‘Zero After Zero’ (2023).

• KRSNA performs globally at live concerts.
  

  KRSNA during one of his live shows in Pune

• He consumes alcohol.
  

  KRSNA drinking alcohol