They met where all good stories start — in a park, with bars

Deer Park. Hauz Khas Village. Delhi. Spit Dope Inc. — an underground battle rap cypher organized by MC Kode and a kid named Abhijay Negi who went by Encore ABJ. The year was 2015. Into this circle walked Siddhant Sharma, a quiet kid from Nainital. His friends called him Calm. He choked at first. Then he freestyled. And Encore couldn't look away.

They started bunking college. Hanging at Calm's place. Discovering that despite coming from different corners of Uttarakhand — Calm from the lakes of Nainital, Encore from the hills of Pauri Garhwal — they heard the same things in hip-hop. They wanted to build something that fused Hindi and English, underground grit and mainstream reach, personal confession and political fire.

Then came Sez on the Beat. Delhi's production prodigy. The architect of their sound. Together, the three of them built something that didn't exist before — hip-hop that was unmistakably Delhi, unmistakably Indian, and unmistakably world-class.

They signed with Azadi Records in 2017. Dropped Bayaan in 2018 — a debut album so complete, so raw, so necessary that it redefined what Indian hip-hop could be. Calm switched from English to Hindi for it. That switch was a revolution.

Then came न, Nayaab, Lunch Break. Each one pushing further. Each one refusing to repeat. Calm started producing. They built a fanbase — #SeedheMautNation — that didn't just listen, they moshed, they screamed every word, they made every show feel like a protest and a celebration at once.

In 2024, they left Azadi Records and founded DL91 Era — their own label, their own rules. Named after Delhi's dialling code. They released Shakti and Kshama — twin EPs inspired by Ramdhari Singh Dinkar's poem about the duality of power and forgiveness.

Ten years in, they're doing a global tour. 10 countries. Sold-out shows. The boys from the hills are everywhere now. But the hunger? That hasn't changed. Not one bit.