ඩී ටැප්ස්
3 songs performed
D-Tap (also written D Taps or D’Tap, ඩී ටැප්) is a Sri Lankan music group known for blending Sinhala melodies with rap and contemporary pop, best remembered for the hits “Neth Konin” and “Oya Atha Gena”. The act broke through in the mid-2000s and became one of the early names associated with Sinhala hip hop and youth pop.
D-Tap began in 2005 among students at Rahula College, starting as a crew of friends rather than a polished studio project. The lineup shifted over the years, but the core came to centre on Dayan Aravinda (lead vocals, rap, lyrics) and Tharindu Roshan (vocals, composition, production), with earlier members including Pramudith Thenabadu and Dimuthu Nagoda. The group reached the local mainstream quickly, placing singles inside the Y FM top ten in 2006 and putting music videos high on the television hit charts across 2006 and 2007.
The song that gave the group its identity was “Neth Konin”, a track whose lyrics helped define the early D-Tap sound. It remains the work most listeners associate with the name, and Lyrics-lk hosts the version Neth Konin 2. The romantic single “Oya Atha Gena” (ඔය අත ගෙන), drawn from the 2012 album Landu, is another of their most played recordings, available here as Oya Atha Gena Innam Ma.
D-Tap pairs sung Sinhala hooks with rap verses, an approach that placed them among the groups who carried Sinhala rap toward a wider radio and television audience in the late 2000s. As D Taps and D’Tap, the act stayed active over the following years, returning with new singles well into the 2020s. Their catalogue continues to draw listeners among Sri Lankan youth and the diaspora who grew up with the chart era the group helped shape.
Every Sinhala lyric, composition, and song credit by D Taps.