Passion for Husky

Dmitry Kuznetsov, he is a hip-hop artist Husky, at large: on Monday November 26, the court abolished his 12-day arrest. The concert organized in support of Husky gathered the entire major league of the Russian hip-hop, and several thousand tickets for it were sold in a few hours. Yuri Saprykin explains why this story concerns not only Husky, and why it is not finished yet

It's not about Husky (and not even hip-hop)

Dmitry Kuznetsov, he is a hip-hop artist Husky in court

Torn concerts in the regions, clips removed from YouTube, letters of social activists and deputies with the requirements to understand and stop - news in such a tonality regarding the most popular youth musicians has been continuously appearing for several months. It seems that the state in its various manifestations drew attention to the fact that completely new youth music appeared in the country, and they did not like this music. It is primarily about the popular hip-hop artists, but not only: the abolitions of concerts affected both the almost parody of the teenage group “Fredson”, and the Pop Punk-Collection “Pales Molly”, and even the innocent-doskey coin.

Elizaveta Girdimova, she is a coin

“The parental community of Nizhny Novgorod” (whoever hides under this pseudonym) sent a whole list of 19 performers to the relevant regional services demanding that they prevent their concerts in the region; This list is more or less coincided with the Apple Music charts over the past year - that is, with the rating of the most popular youth musicians. All these artists have achieved success and popular glory without the help of television and musical media, this generation of Yuoutube and VKontakte; At the same time, they cannot be called underground - they all perform perfectly in the “Evening Urgant” on Channel One and are increasingly becoming the main source of income for promoters and concert organizers. And they are all to one degree or another apolitical: the only open political statement in this pop-musical segment was the album of Raper Feys “The Way of the Way is inaccessible”; He also told in an interview with Oles Gerasimenko for BBC about how people who are allegedly close to the presidential administration are trying to threaten popular hip-hop artists or include them to cooperate. Soon after this, the Face Autumn Tour was canceled by the musician himself; There were no clear comments about the reasons for the cancellation.

Rapper Face

The campaign around musicians is not a confrontation between liberals and statesmen, but the classic conflict of fathers and children: the eldest (including in uniform and in offices) The language in which the next generation speaks is not clear, they feel the threat in it

It's not about politics

The prohibitions and removal of clips are practically in no way connected with whether civil and social statements are present in the songs of the musicians (spoiler: there are almost no). They are presented with moral claims: in the tracks of Elja, Gone.Fludd, Feys and others there are many mat, sex, drugs and general darkness.

Rapper Elja

Deputy Milonov demands to “conduct a comprehensive test of Eldzhey’s activity” not because Elja at least somehow threatens Milonov’s dear to Milonov-but because he embodies, from the point of view of Milonov, debauchery, immoralism and immorality. The clip of the LSP group “Coin”, remote from YouTube in late summer, is full of hints of group sex and suicide; Zakhar Prilepin, who supports Husky today, openly opposed him; By the time of deletion, the video scored 43 million views. After the arrest of Haski, many began to remember his trips to the DPR and acquaintance with Motorola; But this fact of the biography has nothing to do with the current troubles of the artist, nor even his music - in plain sight today is not his (quite implicit) political position, but the song “to decapitate, dump and burn” or recently arushed his own funeral. The campaign around the musicians is not a confrontation between liberals and statesmen, but the classic conflict of fathers and children: the eldest (including in uniform and in offices) the language in which the next generation speaks, they feel a threat in it; It seems that these artists will “teach children bad.” That is why you should not wait for these musicians at opposition rallies - and if this happens, it is unlikely that the rallies will be happy for them. The effect of this conflict is a more long -term one: this is evidence of the discrepancy and misunderstanding of generations, which will manifest itself many times and in various forms.

Bans are effective

It is possible to regard the liberation of Husky from arrest as the victory of civil society-and, probably, in part; But at a longer distance, the campaign of the fight against musicians can be unexpectedly effective. All these letters of social activists and the initiative of deputies are, of course, not at the musicians themselves - but at the organizers of the concerts. Open power shares in the elected regions plus the pressure of a specially trained “public” create an informational background, as if explaining to promoters, which musicians are better not to contact them. The authorities do not even need to resort to open strength actions-it is enough to spray in the information space the opinion that with these artists “something is wrong”. Promoters in the regions will not even delve into details; The fears that the concert of a musician can be at any time for an incomprehensible reason, is enough to not even start negotiations on his holding. Moreover, promoters always have the opportunity to justify their actions not by politics, not by fear and non -respects of morality - but by the fact that "tickets are badly sold." And concerts in the regions for this segment of artists who are not called corporate parties and private oligarchic parties are the most important source of income, and the reduction of these concerts will be extremely painful for them.

The prohibitions are ineffective

Social activists and security forces can deliver various troubles to the new generation of musicians - but they are not able to ban them. The main platforms for the spread of their music are on the network, to influence the promoters of the Krasnodar or Rostov club is quite simple, on Apple Music or even VKontakte is much more complicated. The very nature of the popularity of these artists is such that the prohibitions machine is not able to keep up with it: social activists barely have time to learn the names of the face or gone.fludd, as the most popular hip-hop in the country, the Baby Baby Tape, which is not known yesterday, will change it in a month.

Big Baby Tape rapper

The very idea that the song is able to teach someone something is also an attribute of the world of adults: the texts of the “new school” are written on a mixture of different languages ​​and jargons and are often read with such a degree of intelligibility that not a single linguistic examination will analyze. But the most important thing - all these prohibitions create a sense of community in a new generation, train solidarity: the story with a concert #Yabul -dules , organized by rappers by Oximiron and Basta in a few days and sold in a few hours - evidence that any participants of this blurry community, including artists of the federal significance and stadium level, are ready to unite when the interests of this community are reached Under the threat. It seems that this is called - "civil society."

Raper Oximiron

Rapper Basta

The next big concert of Haski will be held on December 12 at the huge Moscow platform Adrenaline Stadium. And there is no doubt that he will be held.