India, April 15 -- He never intended to invent "wedding rap." It happened quite by accident. Turns out Siddharth Sood popularly known as MC Sid was making a living doing gigs when somebody asked him if he could perform at a sangeet and engage with the guests who were attending it. "I told him I could even rap in the bathroom, if he wanted," he laughs, recalling the day he took up the challenge and how his livewire act in a grand Mumbai hotel gave him legitimacy as a wedding performer with a difference.

Siddharth feels that rap is the epitome of pop culture and as a genre is globally the biggest. He has been in the rap scene for the last 15 years and when he had started, people told him that this was just a phase, which would disappear on...