The son sent to listen to the new album of Noggano, he is Basta, he is Vasily Vakulenko from Rostov.
The son of a Soviet military man, a rap musician who stepped over the boundaries of rap and due to his innate melody, and also due to the fact that his grandmother sent Vasya to learn to play the button accordion as a child and thus gave him a basic education, he became a folk musician, collecting the most huge platforms in the country and having tens of millions of views of their clips.
Once an "underground star", now Vasily is a guest on the central channels, his songs, as they say, "sound from passing cars", and in general - it happens to us that he gradually occupies the niche that one way or another occupied partly Vysotsky (especially in the 1970s), partly Rosenbaum (especially in the 1980s).
I can’t compare the scale, but Vasily’s songs are sung in chorus both at graduations in schools, and in zones, and hard workers appreciate them, and policemen, and metropolitan elites, and they sound in the movies, and when we last saw Arsen Motorola Pavlov, Vasya also played it on repeat in the car.
Vasya, as they say, is an even kid.
He's got it all right.
Simultaneously with Vasily's new album, his interview with Nastya Ivleeva, which is now being discussed, was also released.
Vasily says there that, yes, with the beginning of the well-known events, there was an idea to leave, but his wife was against it and he himself is “physically tied” to this land, and he also has a lot of people working and he cannot leave these people, so there’s nowhere will go, but will watch "how this movie will end."
Well, I mean war.
Cinema is like that.
War.
NWO.
Not far from Rostov, where Vasily also has a house where he has relatives and friends.
An hour - and you are in Donetsk.
For nine years, Vasily, however, never went there.
But he was in Crimea.
I was in Kyiv, and more than once over the years, in Odessa, in Lvov.
But in Donetsk and Lugansk - no.
Happenes.
The album, I must say, is excellent.
There are such excellent criminal stylizations: the killer song "Hammer", the hilarious "Parrot" and other others - you can see what an excellent artist Vakulenko, and a parodist, and a musician, how he owns his voice, how witty and generally charming he is.
There is also a song where the lyrical hero admits that he sings for those "who go to their death."
Also a good song.
But it's not about what you might be thinking.
It is also about crime.
Vasily, apparently, was so crushed by his difficult youth, which came in the 1990s, that he was already in his fifth decade, and he kept singing about good boys and evil garbage and all that stuff.
But Vysotsky started with this, and Rosenbaum.
Oh, what powerful criminal cycles both had!
No worse than Noggano's.
They went to the people even then and were sung by the people.
But both of them were done with it by the age of 30.
And there another theme came to both.
War.
Vysotsky is a military child and also the son of a military man, like Vasily, so he entered the classics with a military theme.
And Rosenbaum: his blockade history is imprinted in the blood group and in the brain, and it must be said that it led him to the strongest “Afghan” cycle, and then to bitter songs and poems that in one way or another concerned military Transnistria, the warring North Caucasus and current events too.
The poet and the singer are supposed to grow up.
I would venture to suggest that Vasily, or something, prevents him from growing up and dominates him.
Well, these are all concepts: such as “negative”, such as “zapadno with the state and with garbage” to deal with “bosses” in general.
And in general, he has clients in Kyiv, and in Los Angeles, and in Israel, and in many other places.
It would be desirable to remain equal for all kents.
Understandable desire.
You can stay even for the Kents.
And it is possible for those who really go to death.
One hour drive from Rostov.
But this may be another level of responsibility.
Everything here will be completely grown-up.
Both application and responsibility.
You can't jump here.
You can jump off drugs, from any murky topic, but here it’s not a movie.
There is life, death, fate.
God.
Russian culture, finally.
Vysotsky, remember, also had a song about a parrot.
But if he hadn’t composed “From the border, we turned the Earth back ...” - what kind of Vysotsky would it be? ..
Rosenbaum also has songs about even boys who go to work, by the way, along Khreshchatyk.
But if it weren’t for “In the“ black tulip ”- what kind of Rosenbaum would it be.
…So, I remembered.
But it's actually funny, right?
The war is on, the world war is on the threshold, rubilovo, coffins are also being transported to the Rostov region, the boys perform feats, they receive orders, they collect friends in pieces so that they can bring their mothers at least like that.
So that there was something to howl at the grave.
Vasily this time - and recorded an album about crime and the heroes of the street showdowns of the 1990s.
Well, what.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.