Baron von der Pshik

The popular Instagram blogger Timur Yunusov, also known as the performer of Timati, was again convicted of plagiarism. The artist of the Bi-2 group David Misakyan posted a video in YouTube , which emphasizes the obvious similarities in the visual design of the Timati show of 2016 Olympus and the Twirty Thirteen round of the famous American group Nine Inch Nails 2013.

The video was repaired by the Nine Inch Nails fan community, and the person who came up with this decision responded with amazement-the art director of the Nin group Rob Sheridan. Wrote: They say, what a shamelessness. In the comments to the post, the indignant fans of Nin ask: what is the bad ( “ Twat ” ) a person did this?

We tell: Timati is the October Rap, who started on the sings of the decl (you probably will not immediately find it in the video “Party” ), a graduate of the Star Factory 4, the co -author of the track “My best friend is President Putin” , Honored Artist of the Chechen Republic, a man who, from his debut album “Black Star” made Reproduction of popular samples of American rap with its creative strategy. Compare, for example, one of the first Timati tracks with the original and one of the last hits with the original source . More examples of borrowings by Timur Yunusov can be found at least in this article . Actually, therefore, people who are truly passionate about hip-hop, do not consider Rapper Timati, despite all his futile attempts to appear “Russian Kanye West”.

They have otis - we have cliffs, they have white T -shirts - we have cumber shirts, they have a cola - we have khas, they have a Maybach - we have a tank.

However, the critic will say “plagiarism”, and the fan is “Russification” or “import substitution”. The most elegant attempt by Timati to transfer American ideas to the Russian soil was the clip of “Utesov”, where the performer drank kvass “For Russia-Mother”, danced with a bear and rode a tank near Sample from the song “Baron von Pshik”.

In this song and video, Timati entered the correspondence dialogue with his beloved American rap heroes- Jay Z and Kanye West, who shot the video “OTIS” for a song built on a sample from the ballad of the great Soul-singer Otis Redding. Evaluate the beauty of the parallels: they have otis - we have cliffs, they have white T -shirts - we have cumatic shirts, they have a cola - we have khas, they have Maybach - we have a tank: we have a tank: we have a tank: we have a tank

In his postmodern answer, Timati went so far that it is already incomprehensible: is he joking and who? His business card in Russia in Utesov recalls how Russian characters are portrayed in Hollywood films. And I recall another clip about our country where bears danced and rode on tanks , but it was definitely comic.

One could say that, shamelessly translating the American hits into Russian, Timati acts in line with a long -standing domestic tradition. The Soviet VIA, out of the best motives, Russified The Beatles songs to convey sincerely beloved music to all corners of one sixth of the land. Russian rock began with diligent copying of English and American groups. Boris Grebenshchikov and Mike Naumenko translated the songs of Bob Dylan and Mark Bolan and performed them as their own. And the song “Baron von der Pshik” was written on the melody of the Yiddish hire “Bai World Best Shane” . But this was even in the time of the Iron Curtain before the USSR joined the World Copyright Convention .

The strangest thing is that Timati, acting as if because of an iron curtain, does not want to live in isolation-he goes to New York and makes a selfie with American rappers. He would clearly not refuse equal communication with Jay Z , Kanye West and the leader of Nine Inch Nails Trent Reznor. Is it really unknown to him that in the era of global transparency to conceal, like he and his label Black Star is doing business to reproduce other people's ideas? Or does he expect to buy an international reputation on income from the sale of goods from which even a logo is borrowed?