Taking the rap. How Russian rappers found themselves at the cutting edge of protest during the war in Ukraine
2289 SOCIETY Mikhail Oger May 16, 2022 Contents 1. Emigrees 2. Those who stayed 3. Husky and Morgenstern Even before the war, popular Russian rappers, who had been garnering stadiums of fans and millions of views online, warned their audiences of the impending disaster. After February 24, many of them took an uncompromising anti-war stance, went abroad, or ended up on the lists of politically unreliable persons, including the ambivalent Morgenstern.