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“Rap is the same virus! This is such an infection. He will devour everything, ”exclaims a bearded man in a cobalt -colored sneakers and begins to emotionally explain that rap can adapt any sound and any musical style to his needs, so it is eternal. In the uncomfortable dressing room of the Olympic stadium, a discussion suddenly flared up about what kind of music the young people will choose in the future and whether the rock will be able to discourage the lost heights. The name of the RAP is Vasily Vakulenko, or simply Bast , and it is difficult not to reckon with his opinion. After 15 minutes, the most popular rapper of the country will go to the center of the Olympic arena to give a concert “360 degrees”, for which 35 thousand tickets were sold (according to the press service of the Basta Liber Basta). To accommodate such a number of people, all the stands of the “Olympic” were opened - usually during concerts, only half of the stadium, which accommodates 18 thousand people, was involved during concerts. For a Russian musician, 35 thousand spectators for one concert is a record. Previously, it was possible to see the completely open “Olympic” only on the show of the largest foreign rock stars Metallica and Muse . A couple of years and a couple of hits of the scale of “graduation”-and Basta will collect more spectators than Philip Kirkorov, who in his 50th anniversary gives 10 concerts in Moscow in the State Kremlin Palace, which contains six thousand people.
"Outlet"
Today, no one will argue that the Russian rap is a new mainstream, although noticeable professionals of domestic show business laughed at this assumption 10 years ago. Now the stadium concert of the Russian rapper is not news. Following Bast, who was the first to appear in the Olympic in 2015 , Timati and Oxxxymiron should appear on this site. However, the ability to musical assimilation, which, according to Vasily Vakulenko, will provide rap in the XXII century, is not a strategy of the genre as a whole, this is a unique property of one artist. In the Russian rapper there are no others so versatile producers as Basta, in whose musical vocabulary, yard folklore is mixed up, a fink, a Cossack chant, alternative rock of the 90s, reggae, “Kalinov bridge”, disco, blues and Alexander Galich and who at the same time make sure that his barrel sounds like now fashionable. Probably, it is this versatility and omnivorousness that allows Rap Bates to be viral - it clings to both young and adults who sang choir last Saturday in the Olympic.
"Sansara"
(The performance of this Basty songs, released specially with her daughter Masha, Diana Arbenina and the Children's Chorus, became the final of the show in Olympic)
Another strong side of the songs of Basta: from the very beginning of his career, the artist is not shy about singing “all good”, causing empathy in the listener - about love, fraternity, family. The most common in the texts of the Baste of the word - “mother” and “love”, for which his rap is ironically called “sincere”. When you turn to the basic concepts laid down in every person, it is easy to focus, but Vasily Vakulenko chooses accurate intonation. He became a singer of family values not by calculation, but by nature. He has such an energy and charisma that thousands of people who came to his concert “360 degrees” felt themselves in the close range of an artist, although from the upper stands he could only be seen on the screen.
- Yes, where are you going!
Despite all the involved light and sound machinery, tiers of multi -storey video projections and a couple of dozen musicians on stage, the Basta concert in the Olympic was built deliberately simply. There were no circus special effects with which the pop shows are associated on large arenas: neither moving stage structures, nor pyrotechnic fountains, nor corps de ballets dressing in each song-this is all with Philip Kirkorov. The main triggers of the Basta concert are the charm of an artist, touching that he is scared to look into the hall, the absolute confidence of the public, ready to endure unfamiliar radical arrangements, and a special atmosphere arising at the junction and trust. A two -hour performance that was not related to the pathos of a grand event was a home concert on the occasion of his birthday. Or weddings-in the Olympic Basta again played the role of the blessing union of the pastor, at some point providing his scene and microphone to the guy from the hall. “He was released for one day from the army to make an offer to his girlfriend,” the rapper said, and the stadium buzzed approvingly. The future groom said in a broken voice that his girlfriend was the most faithful, shouted “Wait for the guys from the army, girls!”, Asked “Will you marry me?” And, without waiting for an answer from the chosen one, he happily concluded at the end: “Yes, where are you going!”
While the viral rap Basta strengthens the demographic indicators of the country, we can’t get away from it anywhere. So we will live together. Long and happily.