In Russia, they continue to cancel the performances of musicians. It's time to listen to their songs

On November 30, it became known that two concerts of the rapper Gone.Fludd in Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude were transferred-the musician associated this with the pressure of “all kinds of organs”. This is far from the first such precedent - in recent weeks, under various pretexts in different cities, the concerts of Eljay, IC3PEAK and FREDZONA groups have been canceled; Raper Husky in Krasnodar, after a torn concert, was detained and sentenced to administrative arrest (but then they were still released). Concerts can be canceled, but the songs themselves can be canceled, fortunately, more difficult. "Medusa" offers to listen to them.

Husky

A native of Ulan-Ude Dmitry Kuznetsov, a former student of the journalism faculty of Moscow State University, the most poetically gifted of the young Russian rappers-and the most politically contradictory: on the one hand, wrote down an acute-social song for Putin's birthday; On the other hand, he went to the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic and turned the poems of the field commander of Motorola into rap. (However, in the songs for which the Husky really love, politics is just another aspect of the general htonic horror of Russian life.)

IC3PEAK

The best group, emerging from the cruel rave of the cattle-boom, which were popular in Moscow in the mid-2010s. The duet of Nastya and Nikolai Kostylev makes an evil, sharp and powerful electronics - there is a lot of bass, many high frequencies and a lot of energy. At first they sang in English (and acquired a decent number of foreign listeners); Last year, we switched to Russian, in this - they wrote several songs about the Russian reality surrounding them. It was then that IC3PEAK had adventures with concerts.

Elja

Perhaps the most popular Russian rapper from the young now-however, in the case of Elja Hip-Hop, it is already successfully turning into a modern stage: glossy huus sound, texts about the wrapper and the accompanying behavior, adhesive chorus and further on the list. You definitely heard his song “Pink Wine” (this year for some reason it is terribly popular in Poland), but public dissatisfaction, which, apparently, led to the abolition of Elgei's concerts, caused other works. For example, around the song “Ecstasy”, the Novosibirsk blogger Alexander Bessonov built a whole story about a teenager and drugs, from beginning to end.

"Fredson"

Caricature, but effective pop music for high school students-and on their behalf. The languid duet of the boy and girls, fighting guitars, hip-hop pears: the songs “Fredsons” are clearly specially invented for a specific target audience, and this is heard, but well invented. And, apparently, they definitely reflect the life of adolescents - so much so that the parent committees and activists did not like it.

Egor Creed

Cavers on the “Million Scarlet Roses”, a duet with Philip Kirkorov, harmless songs about love-it is even strange that under censorship sanctions fell and Creed, a typical Russian pop singer, just younger. Perhaps it was affected that technically Creed is still a rapper and is registered on Timati Black Star label. One way or another, in October, his concert was canceled in Dagestan after the singer began to threaten (perhaps the critic of Khabib Nurmagomedov played a role), and the November concert in Surgut was transferred due to security, however, according to police officers, the case was in the shortage of organizers.

Gone.Fludd

The 24-year-old native of Murmansk follows all the canons of the so-called new school of Russian rap-fast bit, heavy bass, refrain, a lot of sex and muttering-but adds something to this: for example, Gone.Fludd has important terms like “Superchits” (as called the last album of the musician, and this means approximately “very good”). On November 30, the rapper moved concerts in Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude, which were supposed to take place in early December, in the spring-supposedly due to “pressure from all kinds of organs”, which demanded to change the age category of performances by 18+ (which, if followed by the letter of the law, would be logical).

Alexander Gorbachev