And while someone on the stage forgets the text, blushes and suffocates, others without a shadow of shame read to the plus, others act more professionally and find backing vocalists, choosing, as a rule, from a close and less well-known environment. We present you the top 5 most famous backing vocalists in the country, without which the performances of your idols would be even worse than they are now.

5th place - OHRA

The backing vocalist, who was hiding under a grimace and once causing a flurry of questions, begins our top. Starting with inept cries at the end of phrases, after a few concerts, Okhra became an indispensable character in Mironov's performances. A smile from ear to ear blurred under a black hood, cries like “FINALLY RUSSIAN RAP IS RECOGNIZED” were now under the overdrive effect from the pedal, and the Internet was torn with versions of who this mysterious guy was: Lupercal, a relative of Miron, grown up ... there was a version that it's actually a girl. Those who called Okhra the Orebreaker, half of the photo-video duet, turned out to be right. When Okhra’s face is not made up, he arranges photosets, takes off the versus, goes with Jubilee to geek festivals…

In addition to the average lousy verse on “More Ben”, Ocher has a verse on “City Under the Sole” and an equally unreleased solo track. This is where his merits in rap end.

4th place - QP

When Basta could not yet afford a pet Smokey as a backing vocalist, this role was perfectly performed by his Rostov friends - Bankok and Coupe. The presence of talent or a close place with the star, but the latter managed to more or less light up in Russian rap not only as a companion of Basta: he also participated in the Battle for Respect, and fit with Tsao-Gazo characters, but only the description in the group is all the same how ba hints :
“KRP next to Basta since Rostov times, participated in the recording of those tracks with which Vasya came to“ conquer Moscow ”, traveled the country with concerts ...” directly right hand Basty. And his well-deserved fourth place.

3rd place - TAHDEM Foundation

Some of the most talented guys backing vocals for one of the most famous ms. We are talking about Tandem Fundation and Guf, respectively. Starting as a very promising group, winning various festivals, giving concerts, being listed at the Central Administrative District in 2009, the group becomes Guf's constant companion at all his concerts. Pluses - the guys have not weakly improved the skill of live performances and traveled all over the CIS and far abroad countries. Cons - for all this time, the participants maximum appeared as guest verses on other people's tracks, while both hip-hop ru users and other viewers and commentators were waiting with tears in their eyes for both Mafon's solo album and the entire Tandem album.

Miracles happen and most recently the band released their first album in 12 years of existence. I would have released the same material six years earlier - maybe I wouldn’t have to put all sorts of burry backs. And today the material is just right for a group of the level of “backing vocalists of one famous rapper”

2nd place - MC DONI

Hold your anal heat, viewer! Where did you see the back-ms turned into a full-fledged mainstream person? Starting with sing-alongs for the black lord Timati, on this moment Doni came to the fact that he had one, his solo concerts and two, a beard, which provided him with the themes for two hits already. And if it seems unrealistic for you to go to performances with two tracks in your repertoire, then ask Doni how to do it: read other people's tracks! The main thing is that people like it. It’s impossible to imagine a better takeoff.

20.12.2014

Combination of the incongruous by Oxxxymiron

On December 14, Oxxxymiron's concert took place at the GlavClub. We visited the performance of a British rap artist with Jewish roots and an Oxford diploma, tried to consider the oxymoron in his work and everything unknown that is hidden behind the three "X" in his pseudonym.

Perhaps, at this performance, the mysterious Mr. and Mrs. X are invited guests, among whom were very interesting performers.

Beneath the Chronz is Julia Norton, a young grime artist from London. She performed with the song "XXX SHOP". In general, a girl in hip-hop is an infrequent phenomenon, but I must say that in terms of speed of performance, she is practically not inferior to Eminem.

Markul and Damany- Britons of Russian origin, veterans of the London community of Russian-speaking performers "Green Park". They appeared on the stage with the track "Dry from the Water".

LSP group. In 2011, the LSP group released their first EP "Seeing Colored Dreams". Belarusians Roma and Oleg skillfully combine melodious hip-hop with romantic electronica. At the concert, they performed a joint track with Oxxxymiron - "I'm bored with life."

A member of the Moscow bands DDT and RXYZYXR, a virtuoso drummer turned the heat, forcing you to pay attention to the left edge of the stage more and more often. On the opposite side - in charge of the minuses - the London beatmaker, MC and singer Dario Vieira. This restless Portuguese managed to follow the laptop and read into the microphone. Incidentally, the aforementioned Chronz is his wife.
Porchy is currently working on Oxxxymiron's second album, for which he has already produced a number of extremely successful singles ("Tumbler", "Lie Detector").

Among all this party, the most unusual character of this event with a luminous mouth and teeth stood out - a backing vocalist! Miron admitted that Moscow for the first time lost to Peter in the quality and promised to return to the capital in the fall of 2015 with a new album!
Here is what Oxy wrote on his Twitter:

“I played the most difficult of all my concerts. I died there yesterday on the stage of Glavklab and rose again, and this is not a pathetic exaggeration - only those who stood behind the scenes will understand, and it doesn’t matter. The main thing is that we did it, individually and together. Thanks to everyone who came yesterday, a deep bow to my team led by Ilyukha Mamai and all the guests from Markul to Chronz. See you next year. And I still seem to be made of something very durable.”

Still, the main style of Oxxxymiron's songs is "grime", although in recent times he began to experiment a lot. We were able to hear all the fruits of the search that day thanks to the invited performers. At the end, Miron shared his thoughts that until everything is perfect, the way he wants, he will not release the album. And I think that real fans will definitely wait, no matter how long he writes it!

Oksimiron (Oxxxymiron, real name Miron Fedorov) is a well-known and revered rapper in Russia and abroad, who emigrated to Germany at a young age. He became famous for his extraordinary polysyllabic rhymes, rather witty metaphors and high vocabulary. Considered an innovator of the grime genre in Russia.

Childhood of Miron Fedorov. Education and first creativity

Miron was born in one of the Leningrad maternity hospitals on January 31, 1985. The now famous rapper comes from the usual intelligent family: Myron's father was a professor of physics, and his mother was a librarian. The first 4 years he studied at the Leningrad school No. 185, after which his father was offered a place in one of the universities in Germany, and the family moved to the German town of Ruttenscheid.

Caught in a foreign environment without knowledge German language Miron was difficult. In the prestigious school named after Maria Wechtler, where he studied, he was humiliated by classmates who came from wealthy families. He later spoke about his attitude to this difficult period in the song “ Last call". It was rap that became the anchor of salvation, which helped the 13-year-old teenager overcome ridicule and bullying. He composed his first works under the pseudonym MC Mif.

MC Myth - "Al Ogon" (2000)

At the age of 15, the guy changed his place of residence again - he moved to the English city of Slough, which at that time was firmly entrenched in the glory of one of the drug trafficking centers in Britain. According to Miron’s memoirs, there were many “chavs”, drug addicts and outcasts among the local children, but about the local school, young man only fond memories remain.

It was the teacher who taught history there who noticed the guy's potential and insisted that he apply to Oxford. At that time, the most prestigious university in the country seemed to Miron something mythically inaccessible; among the other applicants in 2004, despite his good erudition and a worthy certificate, he seemed to himself an "uncouth peasant." Imperfect knowledge of the language, a German accent, and the absence of any social and sporting achievements affected. Apparently, due to innate stubbornness, Miron chose the faculty of English literature, specializing in "literature of the Middle Ages", and nevertheless entered - on the course he was surrounded by native Englishmen from the "top of society".

In 2006, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, as a result of which Miron was expelled from the university. However, he recovered and eventually graduated from Oxford, but the grades in the diploma were the lowest possible.

After graduating, Myron rented an apartment on the outskirts of London - this period of life is also often mentioned in his works - and tried to get a job, but it quickly became clear that without the right connections it is not easy even for an Oxford graduate, especially with such an unclaimed specialty and low grades. As a result, he got a job at a construction site - this decision was not easy, but he needed money to support his family and realize his creative ambitions. Subsequently, he changed many professions - he worked as a tutor, guide, entertainer, worked in the office, unloaded trucks, and even for some time was a "literary black".

The beginning of Oksimiron's musical career

Miron "appeared" on the radar of the general public around 2008 - at this time he began to post his demos on the Internet. By this time, he had adopted the pseudonym Oxxxymiron, which was a reference, firstly, to his real name, secondly, to the literary term "oxymoron", and the triple "x" referred to the generous use of obscene language in his tracks.

In 2009, he took part in the 14th independent hip-hop battle from the HipHop.ru project, where he made a splash - his tracks in the rounds "In the Land of Women", "No Connection" and "Magician's Box" were recognized as the best among the performed within the battle of compositions. He also won in the nominations "Best Sparring", "Battle Breakthrough" and "Best Battle MC". Oxxxymiron reached the semi-finals of the hip-hop tournament, where he met with the rapper Chest. The latter won, which aroused the indignation of many listeners, who considered Oksimiron a much more worthy opponent.

After winning the battle, Oksimiron was noticed by representatives of the Russian-language recording label Optik Records from Germany. This is how Oxxxymiron and Schokk (Dmitry Hinter) met, which resulted in a fruitful but short-lived creative union.

First solo album by Oxxxymiron. Vagabund

In the summer of 2010, Oksimiron broke off relations with OptikRash due to personal contradictions. Together with Schokk and another artist known under the pseudonym Vanya Lenin, Miron created his own label "Vagabund" (translated as "tramp", "wanderer"). As part of this working alliance, he released his first album - "The Eternal Jew", which gained wild popularity among the Russian-speaking audience and the "Discovery of the Year" nomination from GQ magazine.

Oxxxymiron - "Tumbler"

Together with Shock, Oksimiron went on a long tour of the CIS countries, but soon there was a discord in the team due to a skirmish with rapper Roma Zhigan. After a quarrel, Shock left for Germany, and Oksimiron gave a free solo concert in Moscow, after which he went to London.

For some time he "went underground", but in 2012 he presented his first mixtape "miXXXtape I" to fans, a year later the next one was released - "miXXXtape II: Long Way Home".

During this period, he also actively collaborated with a number of prominent Western artists, including the Canadian rapper Madchild and the Germans Automatikk.

Oksimiron participated several times in the promising domestic project Versus - a hip-hop battle, where participants read their "disses" on the enemy without a beat, and the text of the speeches was prepared in advance and read out in three rounds. Rappers Dunya, Krip-a-Krip, Johnnyboy became his opponents, and each time he won an unconditional victory, as the audience responded, “flawless victory”.

Versus: Oxxxymiron VS Johnnyboy

The release of Oksimiron's second solo album has been delayed since 2012 and finally took place in November 2015. The disc called "Gorgorod" was a complete conceptual work telling the story of a writer named Mark, and therefore recommended for listening in strict order of compositions, of which there were 11 tracks in the album.

In 2016, Oxxxymiron held two big tours: "Takeover tour" and "Back to Europe Tour", and also participated in the recording of three joint compositions with rapper Porchy.

In June 2016, Versus Oxxxymiron vs. The video of their battle was posted on Youtube on June 19, and just three days later, the number of views exceeded 5 million.

Versus: Oxxxymiron VS ST

Oksimiron's personal life

Oksimiron does not like to comment on his personal life in the press. It is known that he was married, but divorced. In 2014, fans attributed to him a relationship with a girl named Sonya Grese, as a lot of joint photo indicating a close relationship between them. Subsequently (during the battle with Purulent), he denied this information. The question of whether Oksimiron has a girlfriend is still of great interest to the many fans of the rapper.

Oksimiron now

To date, Oxxxymiron is deservedly considered a "Russian grime sensation" and the first Russian-speaking rapper to successfully perform in this genre.

In August 2017, the long-awaited rap battle between Oksimiron and battle MC Purulent took place. Following the results of three rounds, all five judges voted for Purulent.

Versus X SlovoSPB. Oksimiron VS Purulent

A month later, the rapper broke the year and a half silence and presented the new track "Bipolarochka", which he wrote and recorded in one night.

On October 15, Oksimiron clashed with his colleague from the USA, the famous battle MC Dizaster (real name is Bashir Yagami). The verbal duel took place in Los Angeles. Opponents read on English language, for Russian viewers the text was dubbed with subtitles. It is noteworthy that Disaster was the first to show interest in the Russian rapper, impressed by the multimillion-dollar number of views that the battle of Oksimiron and Johnnyboy collected.

Oksimiron opened his first round with the words from Alexei Balabanov’s film “Brother-2”: “Tell me, American, what is the strength?” Later, he went over the Lebanese origin of Disaster, accusing him of performing under the American flag, while the Americans are killing his compatriots. Oksimiron succinctly described his impressions of the battle on his Twitter: "I drop the West, y." Another entry appeared on Disaster's twitter: “Oksimiron, you were great!”.