Scandals and showdowns have long become one of the obligatory components of Russian rap culture. Famous domestic rappers make a name for themselves on this. For example, LSP and Oksimiron. The conflict between them arose in 2015. As often happens with rap artists, their fans witnessed the showdown between the musicians, as the details of these tensions were described in songs, videos and video messages.
Rapper Oksimiron
Let's first take a closer look at who LSP and Oksimiron are, the conflict between whom has become so famous and popular.
Oksimiron's real name is Miron Yanovich Fedorov. He was born in Leningrad in 1985. Currently, he is a popular rap artist, as well as the executive director of the booking agency Booking Machine.
At the age of 9, he emigrated to Germany with his parents. The family settled in Essen, where Miron studied at the Maria Wechtler gymnasium. The tense relationships he developed with his classmates were later reflected in his work. For example, in the song "Last Call".
At the age of 13, he makes his first attempts to rap. He performs under the pseudonym Myth, which was obtained by shortening his first and last names.
At the age of 15, he moved with his parents to the town of Slough in the UK, where he intensively took up his studies. In 2004, he entered Oxford University to study English Language and Literature.
In 2006, he was temporarily expelled from the university after doctors diagnosed him with manic-depressive psychosis. But he managed to recover at the university and in 2008 became the owner of a diploma in the specialty “Medieval English Literature.”
After graduating from university, he settled in east London. But he couldn’t find a job according to his qualifications. For some time he worked as a translator, loader, cashier, tutor, entertainer, and guide. Among his acquaintances there were many Russian-speaking migrants, who encouraged him to return to hip-hop. He took the pseudonym Oxxxymiron, which appeared after the merger of his name with the literary term "oxymoron". The triple "x" means a large amount of profanity in the texts.
Oksimiron's creativity
He first gained popularity in 2008 after the release of the track “London Against Everyone”. In 2009, he reached the semifinals in the XIV independent battle Hip-Hop.ru. And at the end of the year he became the winner in the “Best Battle MC” category. Was recognized as the discovery of the year.
In 2010, he went on a concert tour throughout the CIS countries, and by the fall of next year, with several colleagues, he created a label under which he released his album “The Eternal Jew.”
In 2012-2013, Oksimiron’s famous confrontation with another rapper named Krip-A-Krip took place, which ended in the victory of one of the heroes of our article. After that, he won a number of more victories in popular battles.
In 2015, Miron released the studio album "Gorgorod", which he posted on the Internet for free downloading.
The rapper headed the Booking Machine booking agency, with which he has collaborated since 2012, in 2017.
Rapper LSP
The real name of the rapper LSP is Oleg Vadimovich Savchenko. He was born in Vitebsk in 1989. His parents were journalists. He began to study music since childhood, and wrote his first poems during his school years.
Interest in hip-hop culture appears after he sees Timati perform at Star Factory 4. Before this, LSP’s favorite performer was Andrey Gubin. During the same period, Oleg became very interested in Russian rock.
In the end he comes to the conclusion that sound is no less important than meaning. His understanding of American hip-hop leads him to such thoughts. Like Oksimiron, he received a philological education. He has a diploma as a linguist teacher
Creativity LSP
The singer begins his solo career in 2007. Since then he has released four studio albums. He worked closely with producer from Mogilev Roman Sashcheko, better known as Roma the Englishman. Together they created the LSP duet.
In 2011, they released their debut album entitled “Seeing Colorful Dreams.” We collaborated with Oksimiron's booking agency for a year - from August 2014. This is where the conflict between Oksimiron and LSP began. Numerous fans watched him with interest.
Causes of the conflict
Some publications compared the relationship between LSP and Oksimiron to a clash between two heroes of a generation. The conflict began after the Belarusians ceased cooperation with the booking agency. They explained their departure by saying that after signing the cooperation agreement, the number of concerts, which had been few before, almost completely disappeared. They expected a different effect - an increase in their popularity and income.
Relations between LSP and Oxymoron have worsened. The conflict did not enter an active stage immediately, but only after the release of the song “Imperial,” which was immediately planned to be included in the tracklist of LSP performances. In it, Oleg Savchenko talks in detail about what happened, and also does not mince words about the booking agency.
It is noteworthy that the song itself is suddenly interrupted at the chorus, which is performed by Savchenko, and after him the added guest abruptly enters. He becomes the second hero of our article. He gives his version of why the conflict arose. Oksimiron and LSP never reached an agreement then.
Many journalists then called what happened a real drama that is unfolding right before our eyes.
Responsiveness
The conflict between Oksimiron and LSP, the reasons for which we have already studied, continued. Soon, Miron himself recorded an appeal in which he talked about how he helped the LSP duo, persuaded the employees of the concert agency to sign an agreement with them, and tolerated their antics.
After LSP’s break with the agency, Miron asked them not to advertise this fact, but soon Roma Englishman and Savchenko raised this topic when communicating with the media. At the same time, they spoke extremely negatively about their former agency.
After this story, Oksimiron and LSP, the reasons for the conflict are now obvious, came into the center of public attention. The barrage of video messages continued. Miron, in order to teach the offenders a lesson, even recorded the third verse of the song, in which he accused them of throwing words to the wind. No one knows the outcome of this story yet. What will happen next - we will hear or see.
“The first big beef in a long time has begun in Russian rap: Oxxxymiron entered into an open confrontation with LSP, his own protégé. LSP tried to push a diss (a specially written critical song or verse) against Oxxxymiron into the track of producer Oksimiron. As a result, he responded with an angry rebuke in the same track “Medusa” talks about the main scandal of Russian rap in a way that everyone can understand.Oxxxymiron (Miron Fedorov) is now the main Russian rapper. His latest video has nearly 10 million views on YouTube; the rap battle with his participation - 18 million; For his concert in Moscow on April 17, all tickets to the Stadium Live club, which seats eight thousand people, were sold out. For comparison, at the farewell concert of the Centr group with Guf that just took place there, half as many people gathered. At the end of 2015, Oksimiron’s first album in four years, “Gorgorod”, was released - a conceptual record with a cross-cutting plot - against the background of which other rappers looked faded (maybe with the exception of the opening of the same year - Scryptonite).
On April 1, Oksimiron’s Portuguese producer Porchy (Dario Vieira) posted his track Imperial, on which the parts were performed by Oleg Savchenko (LSP) and Oksimiron. If you don't know the background, you might not notice anything unusual in this song, but in fact there is a long conflict hidden behind it. Here is this track; the LSP part starts at the 2:13 mark.
LSP, the author of simple songs with auto-tune, has been collaborating with the Booking Machine concert agency, which is headed by Oksimiron’s friend Ilya Mamai, since the summer of 2014. Miron personally participated in the promotion of LSP: he recorded two joint songs with him, one of which - “Madness” - became a real hit; performed with him at concerts and endlessly promoted the group on social networks. Therefore, when Oleg Savchenko refused to cooperate with Booking Machine in the summer of 2015, and then spoke negatively about this company, Oksimiron reacted sharply: “As Young Thug said, guys in skirts don’t know what gratitude is” (rapper Young Thug is known for his manner of dressing in women’s clothes; the reference to him can also be read as an allusion to LSP’s thin voice, which is created through Auto-Tune).
Porchy - probably even before this story with criticism of Booking Machine - invited LSP to record a part for one of the tracks of his King Midas mixtape. At the beginning of 2016, LSP sent him his verse. The text allegorically indicated that the people with Booking Machine promised a lot, but in reality they turned out to be “a cockerel, a bastard and a rat.” In addition, LSP in the verse clearly made a reference to Oksimiron’s track “More Ben”. In that track, the rapper read: “Let Thomas whine from disbelief. ***** I want your labels: we are building an empire from scratch and for centuries.” LSP, quoting this track, sang: “I don’t trust anyone like ****** Thomas, because this bunch of crippled beggars cannot build an empire, *****!”
Probably, LSP was counting on the inattention of Porchy, who speaks almost no Russian. If he managed to push a diss track onto the mixtape of Porchy, a close friend of Oksimiron, it would be a success. But the Portuguese, before inserting a verse into the chorus, decided to find out what was being sung there, and asked a Russian-speaking friend to translate the text. Oksimiron said that after this Porchy called him and asked: “Is this a diss on us?”
As a result, they decided that the track Imperial would not be released on the mixtape. Instead, after LSP’s verse, they added Oksimiron’s part, in which he, from the position of “rap patriarch” and “godfather of all battle rap in Russian” (as he called himself in “Drake Strait” and in the battle against Johnyboy), put up LSP “ son" (this is a quote).
You went too far, son! I helped you as best I could,
Be careful not to let your navel come loose.
Who's the rat here?
I was loyal to the end, you organized a kindergarten,
but I stood up for your ass.
Ask Porchy.
You thought he and I would never understand,
What was your behind-the-scenes diss hinting at?
I am sharper
I'm the last of the Mohicans
You're just a mix of Migos, Rich Homie Quan,
Yes, our empire is from scratch, yes, trust and family are important.
Did you believe in yourself?
Your ambition is the fanabery of the villagers,
What a rare fusion - a hyena and a snake.
After the release of the track, LSP made a broadcast on Periscope, in which 40 minutes disassembled my track line by line and argued that he did not mean Oksimiron and company; He blamed Oksimiron’s self-centeredness for misinterpreting the track. In addition, he did a strange thing: he published a screenshot of correspondence with Porchy, from which it follows that he was still trying to confuse him. In this correspondence it is clear that LSP very freely translated his verse, removing from it the words about the cockerel and the bastard. The line “But in reality it’s a cockerel, a bastard and a rat, its tail has come off” was translated as “Then the business showed dey r just thrash.”
Oksimiron's response is an unprecedented thing! - published 50-minute video message, in which he told his vision of the situation. He has no doubt that the LSP track was revenge for the November conversation with him, when Oleg Savchenko had to apologize for his words about the Booking Machine. Oksimiron admitted that what personally hurt him was not even the lack of gratitude on the part of the LSP, but his belligerent ingratitude. The rapper's message received almost 300 thousand views within 24 hours - as many as other LSP clips do not receive. Oleg Savchenko
The story began with the signing of LSP on the Booking Machine, and the full assistance that Oksimiron provided to LSP. Oleg and Roma, subsequently dissatisfied with the work of the agency, left it in the early summer of 2015. In an interview for RAP.RU, in the fall of 2015, Oleg says: “The few performances that we had before signing went nowhere, and we don’t have any left.” That is, signing a contract with Booking Machine not only did not increase the number of concerts - on the contrary, there were even fewer of them. Probably, Porchy invites LSP to take part in his mixtape - Oleg writes the same verse in which he talks about what he thinks about his former label.
In the track “Imperial” itself, after LSP’s verse ends, Porchy says the following: “Quit with this %^*#. What the %^#* are you even talking about? Did you think I couldn’t get a translation of the verse, or what? Or did you think I wouldn’t see through your dirty tricks? You're dissing me and my family on my own track after everything we've done for you? Come on, bro, I should have been smarter.”
After which Miron’s very unexpected and uncompromising verse begins. As evidence that the content of this verse should not have come as a surprise to Porcha, LSP provided a screenshot of correspondence with the Portuguese. Oleg bursts out with a whole bunch of tweets on this topic:
Twitter#LSP:
"My desk is dedicated only to would-be managers who wanted %^*% me and Roma, and Big Brother-Miron just to fight. Alas, I started to fight %^*# somewhere in 2008, and building an empire involves constructive instead of negative, so from April 1st, or something.
...
And since Big Brother hates us so much for ^%#^ about the relationship with the Booking Machine, why does he himself take this story to a new turn again and again? This is incomprehensible to me for the life of me, because any of the issues could have been calmly resolved through dialogue without all this stinking circus. It would be easier to stupidly lay out all the cards, of which I have more than enough, but I respect Myron too much for everything he did for us.
...
The guys from the usual caustic representative, taking it personally (hello to egocentric thinking), decided to do Lynching and BATOL. I think the paradoxical nature of the situation gives me the right to clutter up my feed with a dozen tweets in order to conduct decoding right from the epicenter of events. Hugged everyone, more happiness in your life and less rap, amen." Further, Oleg again emphasized that he still respects Miron himself, and hoped for a "backup of good old Oksimiron", noting that he will be "appreciated and respected" even like that. At the end, LSP added the following:
“Myron, the verse is fire! Just explain, please, why another person wanted %#^* us for the money, but we turned out to be the arrogant hyena and snake? ... I still respect Miron... And I sincerely wish Porcha good luck with release because he's just a gullible cool dude who is easily swayed by the opinions of others, as in this case."
(Before the conflict, Miron and LSP were pretty good friends and even recorded several joint tracks).
