Skriptonite: "I don't like it when they say that I am making Russian rap"

Skripononite, he is Adil Zhilov, the Kazakhstan rapper, who moved from Pavlodar to Moscow, released the album “House with Normal Phenomena” last year-to our taste, the best in the Russian rapper for 2015-and led the charts of the Russian iTunes on the move. Now the scriptitis is preparing the second.

- You have a presentation of the album in Moscow; How do you evaluate her?

- They could do much better. At some rehearsals, we laid out more strongly. It is necessary to change the track list, in my behavior on the stage I noted some things that need to be adjusted.

- At the same time, the songs sound different at the concert. Sometimes there is no gloomy, viscous atmosphere of the album.

- I just want to make good music. In the album there was a goal - to stand the mood. At the concert, we also have a single sound, not gloomy, we redoed a lot-say, the song “Paper” play a completely different way.

- Not many rappers in Russia play live.

- I communicate with these boys, we spontaneously decided to try, at rehearsals we began to understand that the songs sound different, more interesting. I can show the songs in a different form. Moreover, they can be recorded and uploaded. People have more choice, and may like what I did not like in the original version.

Skriptonite - "Proton"

- Why did you start?

-The old computer appeared in 2005. I found all kinds of software, worked for HIP-Hop EJAY , in 2006 I came across Fruity Looks , I still write everything in it.

- What were the texts about?

- Oh, about children's problems, about school. The funniest time, of course. Then there was a period of rap about rap, thank God, it did not last long. About four years ago he came to the current topics. Songs for the album were written one and a half to two years. In general, an album is a set of some facts from the last eight years. But they are braided as if I had lived in one summer. And much-over the summer of 2014. Then a lot was shoveled, I think it was a turning point in my life. Something, of course, is embellished, like in a movie.

Then there was a period of rap about rap, thank God, it did not last long.

- Have you been in Moscow for a long time? How can you?

- Six months here. You can find people on any interests who know, informed. Friends and like -minded people remained in Pavlodar. In general, it doesn’t matter to me where to be, it is important - with whom.

- That is, you clearly position yourself as a rapper from Pavlodar?

- Of course, undoubtedly. I am from Kazakhstan. This is a Kazakhstan rap. I don't like it when they say that I am a Russian performer, I am making a Russian rap.

- How much does your native culture influence you ?

- She is very cool. I am grateful that I was born in this place. In Pavlodar, the symbiosis of cultures is felt, and we took the best of it.

- There is a lot of alcohol in the album texts. Is this real experience?

- There is a dexterity. Now I can miss a couple of glasses of whiskey in the evening to relax.

- Your environment has changed?

- From Gaza (Gaza Creative Association - a studio and a label, where Basta, Smokey Mo and others are recorded. - Ed. ) The guys appeared, often communicate with Toshik, a drummer from Nerves. My old friends are with me too. Some moved, we will be transported others soon, we will get up here apart. I try not to break away from my own, to pull them with me.

- There is such an opinion: it is often not clear that the scripts reads, it is only clear that this is cool. We have to go to Genius.com , to understand.

- Sometimes the texts are simply terribly deciphered. Some words are replaced by the wrong ones. I stumbled upon a couple of times on this, it was very dumb to read it. It seems to me that the audience is used to something more complex. Some things are incomprehensible for the reason that it says that no one cannot understand: this is about personal things, on personal jargon for a narrow circle, it is said very simply. And accustomed to a more complex people replace them with consonant words, and some kind of psychedelic whitewash is obtained. I have this principle: I do not change words in places for the sake of rhyme, for the sake of a poetic form, on the contrary, I write as I would say in life. And it is in such places that people often replace words, they take them to a poetic form, because they are used to the fact that in the Russian rap just there are so many. That is, it is made easier so that people can understand, but the opposite occurs.

I have this principle: I do not change words in places for the sake of rhyme, for the sake of a poetic form.

- On Channel One recently (and unexpectedly), Oximiron, another bright young rapper, performed. Are you ready for such compromises?

“I don't think about such things.” Everything usually falls on me. But I know what it will be. You like to ride - love and carry sledges. This is work. I never do music if it is not a buzz. But all sorts of <fkidons> on the part of the listeners, conversations with someone, the appearance there-well, this must be done, there is no getting away from this. There is no something good or bad in this.

- What did you feel when your album led the charts on iTunes ?

- Nothing. Well, yes, it was cool. Nice. But I do not know how much he sagged in the first place, where now. I myself do not buy anything. Popularity is not to count with sales. There are people who are not bought on iTunes , but they listen much more.

- Judging by the tracks, you make the impression of a person with whom it is better not to communicate. But in fact?

- I do not like annoying, obsessive people. But at the same time I try to be friendly, friendly with adequate. I am an emotional, impulsive person, so I can openly talk about my dissatisfaction. But this does not mean that I am constantly in straining.

- Do you finish the second album?

- I thought I had time to release one day with the first. But there were not enough two verses. We make a sound, make it, and they are still not enough. I want to write them in good faith. Now there is only one verse in the same track. Of course, it would be cool to release two debut at once, only because of this I wanted to do this.