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Rap culture in the modern domestic musical space covers a huge number of fans. Many hip-hop artists are the idols of an entire generation. They set the fashion and style that aspiring rappers try to emulate, and continue to gather stadiums of fans at their concerts.
Here are the top 10 most popular rap artists for 2019.
10 L’One (Levan Gorozia)
Levan Gorozia is a popular Russian rapper who, for his creative biography, managed to play KVN and found his own group. He recorded several solo albums and collaborated with the most famous music studios.
Seriously get involved in rap singer began in his youth. Together with his friend Nel, he created “Marselle”. For the most part, Levan was writing lyrics for the songs, and his friend was overlaying a beat on them.
In 2008, the album “Mars” saw the light of day with their most popular track “Moscow”, which was included in all the prestigious music charts of the country for many weeks.
9. Pharaoh (Gleb Golubin)
Gleb began composing his first singles back in 2014, being a member of the Grindhouse group. However, despite his creative spirituality, his songs were not very popular until a video was shot for his single “Black Siemens”.
Last year, Gleb announced a big musical tour of Europe. At the same time, the rapper shot a video clip that quickly became famous for the song “Smart”.
8. Guf (Alexey Dolmatov)
Alexey Dolmatov, better known to the public as rapper Guf, at the beginning of the XNUMXs gained wide popularity not only in our country but throughout the post-Soviet space.
In 2004, Guf, together with his friend Nikolai Nikulin, created the CENTR group. The turning point in the creative biography of this rap artist was 2006, when the song “Gossip” immediately became very famous, they began to play it on the radio and order it at corporate events.
At the same time, a video was shot for the song “New Year’s” and “My Game”. After the singer begins to call himself simply Guf. In 2009, on the very wave of popularity, the rapper leaves the group without explaining any reasons.
At the moment, the rapper is actively touring and continues to delight fans with new compositions.
7. Face (Ivan Dremin)
Face from childhood dreamed of devoting his life to musical creativity. For the first time they started talking about him after the video for the song “Gosha Rubchinsky”. Popularity in youth circles performer after the release of the albums “Revenge” and “HateLove”.
6. Jah Khalib (Bakhtiyar Mammadov)
Jah Khalib is a Kazakh rap artist. His real name is Bakhtiyar Mammadov. This singer is of Azerbaijani origin. Jah Khalib currently lives in Almaty. In addition to making music, Bakhtiyar is a beatmaker and hip-hop producer.
The most famous songs of this artist at the moment can be called “Leila”, “Constellation of an angel”, “Your sleepy eyes”, “Medina”.
5. Noize MC (Ivan Alekseev)
Ivan Alekseev is a Russian rap artist, better known to the public under the stage name Noize MC. His most famous works are the songs: “St. Petersburg Roofs”, “Nails”, “Acid Rain”. In 2017, a cover version of Viktor Tsoi’s famous hit “The Last Hero” was released.
At the moment, Noize MC is engaged in active creative work and continues to create new singles that fall into the country’s leading charts.
4. T-fest (Kirill Nezboretsky)
Kirill Nezboretsky is a Ukrainian rap artist. After graduating from high school, the guy did not study anywhere, but completely devoted himself to creativity.
The alias T-fest means “you are a holiday.” Kirill himself explains the choice of this unusual creative pseudonym as follows: “I chose this pseudonym because I think that each of my appearances to the public is a holiday for me, a new achievement.”
Kirill recorded his first track at the age of 17. Quietly moving towards his dream, in 2017 Kirill creates the album “0372”, its name is nothing but the telephone code of his hometown – Chernivtsi.
3. Eldzhey (Alexey Uzenyuk)
Everyone knows Alexey Uzenyuk as the popular hip-hop artist Eldzhey. The musician began his career at the age of 13: once one of his friends took him to a rap battle. What he saw impressed the future star of the Russian scene, and he decided to try his hand at this field.
After some time, the guy began to participate in battles on his own, along with experienced rappers, and became the winner several times. Then he decided to engage in his promotion on the network, and performed in virtual battles three times. After several victories, Alexei finally decided to devote his life to music.
In 2016, Eldzhey’s solo concert was released, which was called “Catacombs”. It included 8 audio recordings. A little later, another rapper’s album was released, called “Sayonara Boy”, which for a long time led the tops in “ITuner”. It included 8 songs, among which the most popular are: “Sayonara”, “Disconnect”, “Valentina”, etc.
2. Oxxxymiron (Miron Fedorov)
This is one of the most popular rappers in our country. He is also known outside of Russia. His texts contain polysyllabic rhymes, original metaphors. Oxxxymiron performs his tracks in an unusual manner – with a very sharp intonation.
This artist is considered one of the main representatives of the grime and freestyle genre in the entire post-Soviet space. In addition, Miron is the executive director of the Booking Machine booking agency and the founder of the Vagabund label.
1. Basta (Vasily Vakulenko)
Vasily Vakulenko is a famous Russian rapper and songwriter, better known to the general public as Basta. He is also a TV and radio host, actor, screenwriter, director and producer.
His creative path began in 2004 – it was then that Vasily left for Moscow, where he met rappers Smokey Mo and Guf. With the latter, they recorded a cover version of the single “My Game”, which Basta wrote back in 1998 and which he himself calls one of the main songs in his creative biography.
In 2005, Vasily Vakulenko, together with his like-minded people, founded the creative association Gazgolder, which is a music record label, production center and management agency.
Basta also periodically becomes a member of the jury of the famous talent show “Voice”, which has been on Channel One for several years.