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It’s Husky’s “gopnik” image – his shaven head and stereotypically Slavic penchant for Adidas tracksuits – that has led many to write him off as just another rapper, but the unassuming facade hides a wit and honesty unparalleled in the Russian rap scene. This is, after all, a man who trained as a journalist at Moscow State University, who has confessed his love for classic Russian poetry and the films of Ingmar Bergman, and who litters his tracks with references to the Bible. His lyrics are literary, dense and often difficult to decipher in between his slurred flow and oppressive beats.

This literary streak has won Husky universal critical acclaim and even comparisons with legendary poet Sergei Yesenin, famed for coming from a sleepy provincial Russian town and opening the eyes of Moscow elite to the sometimes shocking realities of life beyond the capital. Yet it would be banal to say that Husky’s 2017 album The Favourite Songs of (Imagined) People examines some gritty reality of life in modern Russia, which is on the whole a pretty pleasant place to be.

But while many Russian rappers are all too happy to just ape their American counterparts, what Husky does is take a historically American genre and inject it with a bleakness and melancholy that has defined Russia’s literature since the days of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. The result is something very unique and very Russian.

Since his album’s release, Husky hasn’t exactly shied away from the limelight. He’s written and then publicly deleted a whole second album – following a precedent set by iconic Russian novelist Nikolai Gogol, who burned the second part of his epic Dead Souls (although admittedly he didn’t do it live on Instagram, unlike Husky) – staged his own suicide by hanging a mannequin out of the window of a hotel on Red Square and, at the “funeral” that followed, marked the “death of the rapper Husky” by lying in a coffin for a bit before announcing his reincarnation as a punk. Obviously.

Russia’s more conservative politicians … apparently unaware of the concept of a metaphor, accuse them of corrupting Russia’s youth through references to an array of horrors including sex, drugs and even cannibalism.

It’s perhaps not a massive surprise, then, that Husky’s antics have been met with a cool reception from some of Russia’s more conservative politicians. The 2018 campaign against him seems to have been the initiative of Saint Petersburg politician Vladimir Petrov, who criticised the rapper as promoting “suicide and drugs” and called for rap music as a whole to be monitored by the government “until normality is restored among young people”.

https://www.kollektivmsk.com/features/...an-rapper-husky-controversy/  

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