Zhigan's case

On Thursday, news sites reported that the rap artist Roman Chumakov, known as Roma Zhigan in the circle of his fans, was detained on suspicion of robbery. Threatening with a knife, Roman forced his PR manager to return 100,000 rubles under the pretext of poorly completed work-and besides, he took the tablet from him and received PR throughout the country after that. Colta.ru tells why there is nothing surprising in this news and what is still known to the main gangste-rapper of the country, which has furnished all competitors in the number of scandalous episodes of his career.

The novel was born in 1984 and grew up in the outskirts of the Moscow district of Bratevo. “Among my peers, among those with whom I grew up in Bratev, a bunch of people in prison,” Zhigan subsequently explained in an interview with Rap.ru. “And if I wanted to go there again, I would have been there for a long time.” I don’t strive there, but I'm not afraid of it. ”

The rapper romance began under the name of the plague. In 2001, he became a member of the BIM teenage rap groups. That was the young and romantic era of the Russian hip-hop, who left the advertisement “Pepsi, Pager, MTV ” and the song “Party at the house”. The BIM group was called the Anti-Dodl Project. If everyone knew about decl that he was the son of an influential producer who bought him a place in hip-hop, then BIM participants were presented as real street. This was a certain cunning, because the group was built around the 14-year-old Timur-the son of singer Raisa Sad Shah and musician Alexander Barykin. Now, by the way, Timur is well known as the Check rapper and writes a bright regga-REP.

However, the lack of “streetness” in the group could compensate for the rum of the plague, because already in 2002 he ended up in a strict regime colony. Different sources appear in different reasons, the two most popular are the robbery and theft of the car. “I was innocent, my judge knew about this, / but for nothing he gave a teenager for four years,” the novel in a song, which he would call, writes - “I am innocent”.

From the colony, Roman returned with firm concepts and priorities. “For me, a prison is a sanatorium,” he explained later. “I can call, I can communicate with people, and I will have everything there.” The stars flaunted on his collarbone, and his name was now a zheigan.

In the system of values ​​of the Brotherian rapper, patriotism, Orthodoxy, nationalism, family traditions and prison concepts go through a comma.

Roman did not forget about Rap, and although he did not come to the first roles in the genre, but constantly reminded of himself. Zhigan was in the G-77 group, wrote a lot of joint tracks-for example, the Iron Sky with the participation of GUF who was gaining at that time. Even then, Roma demonstrated that he knows how to find an approach to very unlike people. Say, at that time (the second half of the zero), almost all the “street” rappers belonged to the recent participant in Timati's “Star Factory” extremely negatively. Everything, but not Zhigan. “I have known Timan for a very long time,” he will tell later. -Maybe now the rap community will boil, but I openly respect this kid. Moreover, after the prison he helped me a lot. ”

The most famous song of Zhigan of those times, in addition to “I am innocent”, was apparently the track “I am against the refrain“ We are against AIDS, drugs and P*Dorsov ”.

The system of values ​​of the Bratevsky rapper has just begun to draw in it, in which patriotism, Orthodoxy, nationalism, family traditions and prison concepts go through a comma. Another thing is that at first there was no demand for this set. As it turned out, it was only a matter of time.

The turning point in Zhigan’s career was the TV show “Battle for respect”. His first two seasons went to Muz-TV with unexpectedly high ratings, which no one expected from the project in the rap genre. In the fall of 2009, the third season started, which had one important difference. If previously the sponsors of the show were commercial brands, then the new series of programs was shot with state money under the auspices of the promotion of a healthy lifestyle.

The third season was held under the motto “For a healthy image of rap”, which caused only a smile. The participants of the show at that time were relatively known inside the genre - and not one of them was able to suspect a sincere addiction to the hen.

But the state status of the transfer led to the fact that the chairman of the government Putin came to the shooting of the final unexpectedly for everyone. He congratulated the winner and said a few words about how important it is not to use any muck. “I am glad that I won the battle for respect, / but it would be cool to record a joint track with Putin,” said Zhigan, looking at the prime minister from the stage.

Having defeated Muz-TV, Zhigan received a clip for the song “Russia” as a prize-a patriotic action movie that is better to see once: Cossacks, horses, pole-field.

Zhigan got into the pools of artists who went to the Vancouver Olympics. And in general, he added great in media. What the case in Samara helped.

In September 2010, a video from the surveillance camera appeared on YouTube , which shows how the participants in the Smotra Site Auto Player with obscenities and insults instill in the Samara hotel. One of them, who is certified in the video as a “celebrity of the Russian level”, among other things, promises the administrator of the hotel to piss. The celebrity is Zhigan. The case receives a serious resonance. The video posts the blogger Navalny, and the deputy Zhirinovsky writes a statement to the prosecutor's office. Suddenly, the fact of Zhigan’s victory in the “Battle of the Respect” makes the press stubbornly apply the cliche “Putin's beloved”, although there is no evidence that GDP listened to at least one Zhigan's track.

In the fall of 2011, another incident with the participation of Zhigan took place-less famous, but no less amazing. Together with a group of armed people in masks, Zhigan came to the apartment, which was rented by the Russian tour of the Oxxxymiron and Schokk . The last novel made him kneel and apologize, and also gave him a “bream” (slap in the face). What was happening was fixed on the camera, fragments of the recording were published on the Internet.

The essence of the conflict may be impenetrable for understanding people far from Russian rap. But let's try to figure it out. Oxxxymiron and Schokk are emigrant rappers. Battle-rapped on the Western Batl-Rap, where curses were easily rhyme, these artists did not consider it unusual for the sake of an easy shock to insert insulting colleagues or for some reason their mothers. But the fact that the German is good, raised in prison ethics, Raper from Brateev seems unforgivable. “Let him remember how he said all nonsense about that mother, about this mother in her songs. This is a boomerang - you launched it, he returned and struck twice as much, ”Gigan commented on his action of intimidation.

"Write to the Hague, Dolbo*b ..."

On people who insulted him personally and his idea of ​​what to do normal and what not, Zhigan came as a result of a multi -way operation. Under the pretext of organizing the concert, the people of the novel contacted Schokk 'Ohm and offered to meet to transfer the prepayment. So they learned the address of the apartment. The man who depicted the organizer of the concert came to their house, asked to use the toilet - and he went out of there with a gun in his hands. He also let the rest of the “punitive detachment” into the apartment. A group of about 10 people just in case went into the porch with two bouquets of roses - for the vigilant concierge they had a legend “We are going for a birthday”. What happened next, you can find out from the video, wide apart on the network.

A little time after the incident, a message appeared on the page of Zhigan VKontakte: “The guys, Roma Zhigan was accepted the day before yesterday. So far, there is no accurate information, but as something will be clear, I will write it off right away. ” The very next day, the status was updated: “Zhiga at large! They didn’t even arouse the matter ... Shokira, write to the Hague, Dolbo*b ... ”In other words, the action of intimidation passed for Zhigan without consequences.

A recent Zhigan trip to the reality show NTV “Island” was left without consequences. There, Prokhor Chaliapin (whom he forced to apologize to Oleg Taktarov), Katya Gordon (whom he tried to drop on a concrete slab) and Gleb drimby (whom he tried to hit) were injured there.

The real rapper from Brateev turned out to be more dangerous for compatriots more than exotic reptiles and insects. When he was driven out of the program, Zhigan said on Twitter: “In general, of course, I am very glad that I left this viper!”