The Chemodan – Our Hip-Hop (Наш Хип-Хоп)
Marijuana and mushrooms with a mind-altering effect are the spices in Наш Хип-Хоп (Our Hip-Hop), and not everyone can handle them well. Someone once said you shouldn’t take one on an empty stomach, but the other might just work. Our hip-hop today always fits in, especially with the bass not too low.
By The Chemodan (
Facebook,
VK).
Featuring Эфди Вадим (Efdi/fd Vadim,
VK) and ОУ74 (
24smi,
VK).
Video featuring
Denis Sladkov (Denis Sladkov).
Directed by Лёша Ломов (Lesja Lomov,
Instagram,
YouTube).
From
Абсурд и аллегория (2015).
Lyrics
More
- Круги под глазами (2014)
- Запах Урбана (with Brick Bazuka) (2014)
- Выживший выкидыш (2014)
Read The Chemodan: “I’m like a football fan. I have family and work, but on the side, I wave my fists” (The Flow, 2016).
Most of the music here is also available in an
R1 playlist on YouTube (in the order of posting).
Also see
Best Russian Music and
Russian Song Lyrics.
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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.
