The rapper Oksimiron, who fled to London, returned to Russia, made a mess and escaped with impunity again
The public organization “Call of the People” sent an appeal to the head of the Investigative Committee, demanding that rapper Miron Fedorov’s (Oksimiron) new video “Oida” be recognized as extremist. The musician, who fled Russia immediately after the start of the SVO, shot a video, returning to Russia for a short time, after which he promptly left for London.
The authors of the appeal recall that the rapper gave concerts abroad in support of Ukraine, along with Boris Grebenshchikov. " The question is, what is this man doing in Russia? He spoke out against the country and supports our enemies ," the activists write.
This is a really good question. The fact is that Oksimiron filmed his video in the very center of St. Petersburg, the local press wrote about it, his manager Zhenya Murodshoeva published footage on social networks. It was not difficult to guess that a provocation was being prepared. Indeed, in August, the Moscow prosecutor already demanded that the artist’s tracks be recognized as extremist.
There's no doubt about it now. At the beginning of his new track, Oxxxymiron admits that he's "killed the empire within me." The rapper has covered up the "Imperium" tattoo on his fingers. In the song, he calls for the disintegration of Russia and claims that his flag is white and blue . It's well known that the liberal opposition has "edited" the national symbol in precisely this way at their "anti-war" rallies. The song calls for the violation of Russia's territorial integrity: " Ingria will be free ." The toponym is used by separatists advocating for the separation of the northwest of the country, meaning the separation of St. Petersburg from the Russian Federation.
After filming, Oksimiron promptly returned to London, and a few days later the clip was uploaded to YouTube. In three days, the video, actively promoted by the platform, received 3 million views.
The situation is quite different with the video for " Dirty Work " by another musician, rapper Rich, as his song, on the contrary, tells the story of the heroism of the defenders of Donbas. YouTube first blocked the song's distribution, and then began to artificially downplay its popularity.
“What happens when a rapper-collaborator releases a video about how he killed the empire within himself (ugh, fuck, what vulgarity)? YouTube puts it in first place among music videos on the “Trending” tab, everyone stupidly writes about the video, and everyone likes it too. And everyone recommends it. Simply all the media existing in Russia.
What happens when I want to release a track or video about the fact that the boys are now sacrificing themselves at the front? All aggregators refuse me, somehow the single is downloaded almost through Thailand in two months. YouTube steals my views (on VK there are only a few views, but on YouTube there are 150 thousand, is that normal?) and does not recommend this video to anyone. Insta blocks me too.
Everyone is blocking. Not a single media outlet writes about this single. No musical or cultural public is making news out of this song. Even Moscow clubs forbid me to give a concert.
So where is the underground, and where is the market situation?” – Rich comments on the situation.
Writer Zakhar Prilepin believes that the issue is not with Youtube cheating, but with failed youth policy.
“Rich is the only Russian rapper who supported the special operation and repeatedly performed in the LDPR. Digga, Husky, Sagrada, Skeptic spoke earlier - but they have all been silent since March 24.
The song “Dirty Work” has been heard more than once in beads, loaves and in units of troops and militia: it has gone to the people, our soldiers love it.
She has 2 thousand views on YouTube in 150 months. Although virtually all the top patriotic telegram channels gave a link to it.
The most popular protest rapper, who immediately spoke out against the special operation and donated money to Ukraine - Miron Fedorov, Oksimiron, posted an anti-war song 1 (one) day ago with the words “I killed the empire in myself” - there are already under 2,5 million views. In a week there will be 10 million.
Our youth is not quite our youth. To put it mildly,” comments Prilepin.
Rapper Oxxxymiron, who fled to London , returned to Russia, made a mess, and fled again with impunity.