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IQ (rapper)
Oleg Verov (), better known by his stage name AIKU (formerly IQ), is a Russian rapper. He is known for his fusion of reggae and rap. Career Oleg was born in Moscow in the Otradnoye district. He began rapping in the late 1990s, recording his first track in 1998. In 2001, together with Leo Dee, he founded the White Shadows group. The musicians made all the recordings on their own, distributed them on cassettes and disks. In 2003, the album "White Shadows" was released, but later the team broke up. In 2010, IQ began working on his solo album O-Street. As conceived by the rapper, it had to be “only classic pumping hip-hop." Soon the first video clips for the singles from the album appeared: "O-Street", "Consciousness" and "Secret". In 2011-12, the artist appeared at various concerts: at the MIR festival, in Moscow clubs Izvestia Hall and , in Hamburg at the Hip Hop Academy. As a result, "O-Street" was released on May 28, 2013. It included 19 tracks, the work on the album laste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow
Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents within the city limits, over 19.1 million residents in the urban area, and over 21.5 million residents in Moscow metropolitan area, its metropolitan area. The city covers an area of , while the urban area covers , and the metropolitan area covers over . Moscow is among the world's List of largest cities, largest cities, being the List of European cities by population within city limits, most populous city entirely in Europe, the largest List of urban areas in Europe, urban and List of metropolitan areas in Europe, metropolitan area in Europe, and the largest city by land area on the European continent. First documented in 1147, Moscow became the capital of the Grand Principality of Moscow, which led the unification of the Russian lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otradnoye District
Otradnoye District () is an administrative district (raion) of North-Eastern Administrative Okrug, and one of the 125 raions of Moscow, Russia. The area of the district is . History The territory of the modern Otradnoye District was once home to several settlements, the largest of which was the village of Vladykino. To the north of Vladykino lay the village of Slobodka, and to the east of Slobodka was the village of Kozeyevo. Otradnoye is mentioned in the first comprehensive reconstruction plan for Moscow, approved on July 10, 1935, by Decree No. 1435 of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR "On the General Plan for the Reconstruction of the City of Moscow" (architects V. N. Semyonov and S. E. Chernyshev) The plan envisioned the inclusion of Otradnoye within Moscow's boundaries. However, the area that would become Otradnoye was officially incorporated into Moscow only after the construction of the Moscow Ring Road (M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Husky (rapper)
Dmitry Nikolayevich Kuznetsov (; born February 10, 1993), better known by his stage name Husky (Russian: Хаски), is a Russian rapper from Ulan-Ude. His music is known for its use of somber and evocative lyricism, complex rhyming schemes, and musical techniques like assonance and alliteration. His provocative songs are known for being poetically contradictory to his gopnik image, his aptitude for coalescing philosophical existentialism, biblical condemnations, and sophisticated references to Russian and European literature seemingly antithetical with his more obscene, anti-humanist characteristics. Early life Dmitry Nikolayevich Kuznetsov was born on February 10, 1993, in Irkutsk, Siberia. He moved to Buryatia when he was three months old. At the age of three, he was taught to read using Russian classical literature and at four years old, he was formally baptized, although his mother frequented both Christian churches and Buddhist datsan. When he started going to school, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxxxymiron
Miron Yanovich Fyodorov (; born 31 January 1985), known by the stage name Oxxxymiron, is a Russian rapper and former CEO of the Booking Machine Talent agent, booking agency, as well as a co-founder and former member of the record Record label, label Vagabund. He is one of the most influential and prominent hip-hop performers in Russia, and his albums ''The Wandering Jew'' and ''Gorgorod'' are considered by the community as the most important releases of Russian rap. Biography Miron Yanovich Fyodorov was born in 1985 in Leningrad, in a family of History of the Jews in Russia, Russian Jews. His father is a Theoretical physics, theoretical physicist of the Boris Konstantinov, Konstantinov Institute of Nuclear Physics in St. Petersburg and his mother is a librarian. In St. Peterburg Miron attended secondary school No. 185. When Fyodorov was 9 years old, his family emigrated to Essen, Germany. During his studies in Maria Wächtler School, Miron had a 'tense relationship' with his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk; , is the administrative center and largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, seventh-largest city in Russia, with a population of over 1.1 million people, and the second-largest city in the Ural Federal District, after Yekaterinburg. Chelyabinsk is located to the east behind the south part of the Ural Mountains and runs along the Miass (river), Miass River. The area of Chelyabinsk contained the ancient settlement of Arkaim, which belonged to the Sintashta culture. In 1736, a fortress by the name of Chelyaba was founded on the site of a Bashkirs, Bashkir village. Chelyabinsk was granted town status by 1787. Chelyabinsk began to grow rapidly by the early 20th century as a result of the construction of railway links from the European Russia, Russian core to Siberia, including the Trans-Siberian Railway. Its population reached 70,000 by 1917. Under the Soviet Union, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazan
Kazan; , IPA: Help:IPA/Tatar, [qɑzan] is the largest city and capital city, capital of Tatarstan, Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka (river), Kazanka Rivers, covering an area of , with a population of over 1.3 million residents, and up to nearly 2 million residents in the greater Kazan metropolitan area, metropolitan area. Kazan is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, fifth-largest city in Russia, being the Volga#Biggest cities on the shores of the Volga, most populous city on the Volga, as well as within the Volga Federal District. Historically, Kazan was the capital of the Khanate of Kazan, and was Siege of Kazan, conquered by Ivan the Terrible in the 16th century, at which point the city became a part of the Tsardom of Russia. The city was seized (and largely destroyed) during Pugachev's Rebellion (1773–1775), but was later rebuilt during the reign of Catherine the Great. In the following centuries, Kazan grew to become a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarkhankut Peninsula
The Tarkhankut Peninsula (; ; ) is the peninsula which constitutes the western extremity of Crimea into the Black Sea. Its northern shore is a southern coast of the Karkinit Bay. Its westernmost point is ; to the south of it is Cape Tarkhankut. The terrain of the peninsula is the Tarkhankut Highlands. Geography Cape Tarkhankut Cape Tarkhankut is a south-western cape of the Peninsula. The Tarkhankut Lighthouse is located on the cape. Tarkhankut Upland The Tarkhankut Upland or Tarkhankut Hills is an upland that constitutes the Tarkhankut Peninsula. The Tarkhankut Wind Farm is located by the Donuzlav lake on the Tarkhankut Upland. Donuzlav The Donuzlav Lake () is a salty lake that is connected to the Black Sea via a ship channel and located at the southern shores of the peninsula. History Russo-Ukrainian War During the Russo-Ukrainian War, the Russian Armed Forces stationed the 3rd Radio Engineering Regiment to the region. The area was also equipped with S-400 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sevastopol
Sevastopol ( ), sometimes written Sebastopol, is the largest city in Crimea and a major port on the Black Sea. Due to its strategic location and the navigability of the city's harbours, Sevastopol has been an important port and naval base throughout its history. Since the city's founding in 1783 it has been a major base for Russia's Black Sea Fleet. During the Cold War of the 20th century, it was a closed city. The total administrative area is and includes a significant amount of rural land. The urban population, largely concentrated around Sevastopol Bay, is 479,394, and the total population is 547,820. Sevastopol, along with the rest of Crimea, is internationally recognised as part of Ukraine, and under the Ukrainian legal framework, it is administratively one of two cities with special status (the other being Kyiv). However, it has been occupied by Russia since 27 February 2014, before Russia annexed Crimea on 18 March 2014 and gave it the status of a federal city of R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almaty
Almaty, formerly Alma-Ata, is the List of most populous cities in Kazakhstan, largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population exceeding two million residents within its metropolitan area. Located in the foothills of the Trans-Ili Alatau mountains in southern Kazakhstan, near the border with Kyrgyzstan, Almaty stands as a pivotal center of culture, commerce, finance and innovation. The city is nestled at an elevation of 700–900 metres (2,300–3,000 feet), with the Big Almaty (river), Big Almaty and Small Almaty (river), Small Almaty rivers running through it, originating from the surrounding mountains and flowing into the plains. Almaty is the second-largest city in Central Asia and the fourth-largest in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Almaty served as the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 to 1997 during the Soviet era and after independence from 1991 until the capital was relocated to Astana, Akmola (now Astana) in 1997. Despite no longer being the capital, Almaty re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadat X
Derek W. Murphy (born December 29, 1968), better known as Sadat X, is an American rapper, best known as a member of alternative hip hop group Brand Nubian. Originally known as Derek X, Sadat takes his name from former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat. Early life Sadat X was born in the Bronx, New York City. He and DJ Alamo are childhood friends who grew up together in the Bronx, where Sadat and his family lived at Concourse Village. Sadat's father and Alamo's father knew each other and grew up together in Harlem, New York City at Lincoln Projects. At age 11, he and his parents moved to New Rochelle where he met future Brand Nubian bandmates Grand Puba and Lord Jamar. He first started rapping after his father brought him a turntable to DJ. He was known as "DJ D-Rock" and "Kid Paradise". According to Jamar, Sadat's father had an extensive record collection of different genres of music to where Sadat would use for the group's discography of their albums. During his time while a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Russian Male Rappers
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Russian Hip-hop Musicians
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