Honey Singh, popularly known as Yo Yo Honey Singh, is a Punjabi rapper and is supposedly the highest paid Indian musical artist. He has been roped in for the rap portions for a song in the upcoming movie Ethir Neechal along with Hip Hop Tamizha. After the Delhi gang rape incident, Honey Singh has been in the eye of a controversy for demeaning women in some of his songs. The songs depict violence against women and rape in a positive light. An FIR has been lodged against him for his offensive lyrics, while a group of activists filed an online petition demanding cancellation of his New Year performance in a hotel in Delhi, following which the show was cancelled.

Honey Singh denies writing or singing the songs which have got him into this controversy. He has requested Youtube to notify the users who have wrongly used his name in the offensive songs. He added that he is from a small village where women are respected.