Bear returned

“Have you heard this story? Two neighbors played chess. One won, and the second was upset. He went home, took a double -barreled man and failed his neighbor, ”says a short -haired child in a black T -shirt with a lovely Olympic Bear on his chest. Large -font in the entire powerful back of the kids is drawn by Vakulenko 1980. Vakulenko is the last name of Basta, the main Russian rapper of the moment (also known under the pseudonyms of Noggano, Nint3ndo and under the youthful chase bast of the dick that his fellow countrymen from Rostov-on-Don remember). 1980 - the year of his birth. But in the shabby make-up artist of the “Olympic” 35-year-old man in a black T-shirt, in massive boilers, rings and bracelets, looking very seriously, if not-frighteningly, they are affectionately called Vasya, not forgetting to triumph of the proper degree of respect and respect. Here, among his own, it is felt that Vasya Vakulenko is simultaneously busy with two important (and sometimes mutually exclusive) roles - the souls of society and the head of the family.

Basta is nervous, although it hides anxiety, continuously balagury. The entire environment is also nervous, which mainly consists of the same hefty men in black t-shirts, decorated with a totem of cloudless childhood for everyone who was born in the 1980s. Vasya and his team are similar to the American football team before an important match. The nervousness growing with every second is given by a conversation, which, although pretending to be relaxed, jumps on unexpected topics and breaks off at a glance. Because people with urgent problems burst into the dressing room every minute, for the solution of which you need to call the owner of the Olympic, and persistent requests for an autograph and a photo. Basta does not refuse anyone, jokes with everyone and with noticeable pleasure takes pictures with the children of friends. In these moments, he looks truly relaxed, although how can you be relaxed 10 minutes before going on stage before the largest audience in his life? Vasily Vakulenko is preparing to take the Celestial Height - to perform at one of the largest sites of the country, which no rapper has yet to be covered - nor Russian or foreign.

The record was set: Basta took Olympic. The stadium - the same age as the rapper was filled with people; About 16,000 people came. They were shown a technically complex show for 2.5 hours - with a rich video production, with a two -level decoration, for which the Olympic scene was pulled out from the Mosfilm and the ancient Volga, with a mass of fifty dancers, which worked as a revived background, with the appearance of “to the detshot, Moscow!” An 8-meter Olympic bear, and most importantly-with a living sound. The sound, of course, delivered the most problems - since Vasily Vakulenko, who turned in 10 years from the Rostov rapper, from whom Bogdan Titomir wanted to buy songs , in one of the most versatile Russian producers, he wanted to show everything he was capable of in his record concert. At the same time, up to several dozen musicians-escorting, string and spiritual section, back vocalist and DJs. Basta read and sang himself-his songs, well-known both the latest and the cover versions on Mikhey and Vysotsky, was a stone wall of support in duets with his Tati protege, gave a machine-gun rap for three, along with the Gazagolder label- Smoki Mo and Skriptonite, was the master of the Cabbage Party with invited guests-an indefatigable rook-Chri The “nerves” and the invariably Zhovial Lev Leshchenko, who had ripened in the “Olympic” from the FSB corporate party.

The musical tastes of the producer Vakulenko, who takes his everywhere where he sees his own-in the songs of Elena Vaengi, and at the duet of Suicide , were revealed in the entire breadth of stylistic possibilities: from a Russified state regeneration and courtyard reggae to a fiery alt-shock and an ice cracker . It is not surprising that in this case of people and events, not everything sounded smoothly and on time - sometimes the monitors turned off and microphones shot. However, this technical imperfection only added to a large -scale show of charming needlework and authenticity - no matter how paradoxical, in the ebony of the Great of the Olympic, Basta turned out a cozy apartment for 16 thousand people who sang in chorus, kept the rhythm of applause, in a single impulse - in a word, they did everything that they would not ask for a serious man in massive Boilers, defeating excitement and inevitable problems with sound. On his own initiative, the hall twice congratulated the artist on his birthday, to whom Basta annually prepares its large reporting concerts. At these moments, Balagur and a strict boss, the soul of any society and the head of the Great Family Vasily Vakulenko was genuinely embarrassed before the myriads of the eyes and the lenses of the cameras that shot the concert - and these moments of the show were the most touching.

Almost all sincere songs of Basta are about pale pink paradise apples for loved ones, about family dissolution.

The concert at the Olympic was a record not only for Basta, but for the entire Russian show business, which for some reason has developed into the structure of static, like the Politburo. Now it has been officially confirmed and documented: for the first time in many years, a new player appeared in the musical Premier League-artists who collect the “Olympic”, in Russia no more than a dozen. What is especially important: Basta went from concerts in a closed Gazagolder club to the largest open venues in the country, bypassing the dominant channels of influence -without the support of federal television and FM radio stations, without the blessing of Pugacheva, hugs with Ernst and Dobrodeev, flirting with government agencies and without embedding in any existing vertical power. Vasily Vakulenko did it himself - only with the help of friends and family. His victory should encourage not only Russian rappers who are dreaming that rap in Russian has become a mainstream, not only musicians who are lost, that songs in Russian can reach up to dozens and hundreds of thousands of hearts, but also people who are indifferent to pop music, but not indifferent to what is happening in Russia and around it.

After all, the Brutal Rostov guy Vasya Vakulenko, who loves to say “do in a part” and “relatives”, is our rap patron of the hearth, a propagandist of horizontal connections in pop culture. Almost all of his sincere songs-about pale pink paradise apples for loved ones, about dissolution in the family and that the hardest in a person’s life is to lose a family relationship. Scrolling the endless news feed about how one neighbor heaped the other from the double -barreled man, it is especially pleasant to hear how this sound voice gains power and strength and how its simple but important words echoing the crowded stadium of the young. It’s like experiencing a fabulous feeling that the Olympic Bear is returning.