Russian hip hop

Music of Russia
Genres
Classical Pop Rock Jazz Bard VIA Chanson Hip hop Psytrance
Specific forms
Religious music	Bell ringing Liturgical Znamenny
Traditional music	Ethnic Russian music Dumka
Media and performance
Music awards	Pesnya Goda MTV RMA RAMP Golden Gramophone Ovation Silver Galosh
Music charts	Zvukovaya Dorozhka MK Chart Dozen
Music festivals	Grushinsky Nashestvie Afisha Picnic Empty Hills more...
Music media	Nashe Maximum NRJ MTV Russia Muz TV A-One
National anthem	Anthem of Russia
Regional music
Local forms	Adygea Altai Astrakhan Bashkortostan Buryatia Chechnya Chukotka Chuvashia Dagestan Evenkia Ingushetia Irkutsk Kaliningrad Kalmykia Kamchatka Karelia Khakassia Khantia-Mansia Komi Republic Krasnodar Mari El Mordovia Nenetsia Ossetia Rostov Ethnic Russian Sakha Sakhalin Tatarstan Tuva Udmurtia
Related areas	Ukraine Belarus Soviet music

Russian hip hop is hip hop music produced in Russia or in the Russian language in other countries, including former Soviet states as Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Summary

General summary

The pioneers of Russian rap was a group called Malchishnik (Мальчи́шник, Russian for "bachelor party"), but the recognition of the rap genre came with the rise of Bad Balance and their album Naletchiki Bad B. released in 1994. Russian hip hop, just like Canadian hip hop is inspired by Rastafari music, which hit an up-swing during the fall of the Soviet Union.

Only a few Russian rap artists have achieved commercial success: Detsl, Bad Balance, Kasta, Belarusian artist Seryoga, who combined original rap with the native Russian satiric song genre chastushka which some critics consider a new branch in the rap genre: rap-chastushka. Although some rap fans^{[citation needed]} believe he does not belong to the Russian rap scene, the musician won the nomination for best Russian rap in 2005 on the MTV Russia Music Awards. Mainly Timati, who received great success in 2006 after releasing his first album Black Star.

In 2007 CENTR became increasingly popular, partially due to aggressive promotion on the internet.

In 2008 on Russian musical channel Muz-TV started a hip-hop show Battle for Respect, which led the winner Ant (Zasada Production) to become highly popular.

List of performers

• ГРОТ (Russian)
• 25/17 (Russian)
• Basta (Noggano) (Russian)
• CENTR (Russian)
• Detsl
• Dolphin (Russian)
• Guf (Russian)
• Karandash (Russian)
• Kasta
• Krec (Russian)
• Krovostok (Russian)
• Ligalize
• Mnogotochie (Russian)
• Noize MC (Russian)
• Rabi Lampi (Russian)
• Seryoga
• Smoky Mo (Russian)
• AK-47 (Russian)
• Triagrutrika (Russian)

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