Pharaoh (ft. The Chemodan Clan) – Problems
A Russian problem is a проблема. The plural is проблемы – problems usually don’t come alone. Pharaoh (or Фараон, meaning pharaoh) and The Chemodan Clan are dealing with them too.
Бабки несут проблемы
Суки несут проблемы
Все, что несет проблемы
Делает меня зверем
Money or Grandmas
That word бабки can be misunderstood (as Google Translate used to or – update – did) as grandmas, derived from бабушки. But it’s actually a slang term for money. Fedor (Be Fluent in Russian) explains it in What’s ‘Бабки’ in Russian Language (2019, 5 min).
Money causes problems, suki (b*tches) cause problems, and everything that causes problems turns me into a beast. Even more проблемы (problems) ahead.
From the album
Pink Phloyd (2017).
Text (explicit lyrics).
More about Pharaoh on
VK and
Wikipedia (RU);
bio (RU).
More about The Chemodan Clan (Чемодан клан) on
Facebook and
VK.
Most of the music here is also in an
R1 playlist on YouTube (in order of release).
See also
Best Russian Music and
Russian Song Lyrics.
More
Music
Anyone who wants to present Russian music cannot ignore Zemfira. Popular and mainstream – millions of records sold – but also distinctly idiosyncratic. The music is usually accessible (we categorize it under Pop), but the attitude is rock.
Raw Anti-Putin punk from
Nizhny Novgorod /
Нижний Новгород. Loosely based on ‘Maggie’ by The Exploited.
From the green city of
Zelenograd /
Зеленоград. Dreamy indie-folk with a melancholic undertone. Created by
Mikhail Rodionov (1992).
The alarm blares (Ревёт тревога), the road awaits (ждёт дорога). They are many (Их немало), we are few (нас немного). We are in an unjust world (Мы в несправедливом мире) tin wolves in the shooting range (Жестяные волки в тире).
The word offret is Swedish and means ‘sacrifice’; the band Offret is Russian and makes heavy music. The link between the word and the band: a
1986 film in Swedish by the Russian Andrei Tarkovsky.
A band from Saint Petersburg that makes a kind of post-punk/indie-pop. Not for long yet, so not much material yet. However, they already have a few very successful tracks with original music videos. До свиданья, дорогая is the
Russian title for the film
The Goodbye Girl (1977), but it has nothing to do with it.
