“The big bosses will send to the slaughterhouse,” Morgenshtern raps, in a likely nod to the already high casualty rates Russian forces are suffering in Ukraine. It could suggest that others may soon follow suit, and a handful of luminaries have already begun. ![]() For the Dubai-based Morgenshtern, who was Spotify’s top artist in Russia in 2021, it is a serious broadside in what has been a slow but steady increasing frustration with the Kremlin. “12,” named in honor of the rapper’s younger brother’s birthday, is the first serious missive from a normally apolitical Russian rapper against the war. Putin’s media clampdown means she will not be heard on Russian airwaves any time soon - she may be the Ukrainian voice most widely encountered by Morgenshtern’s millions of die-hard Russian fans on YouTube. It’s the voice of a Ukrainian woman, the mother of rap producer and longtime Morgenshtern collaborator Palagin, who endured Russian strikes in Odesa. “Right now we are sitting in the cellar, we have prepared a bomb shelter.” “My dear son, well yes, here, right here, in the morning the roof was almost blown away,” she says with a calm urgency. In fact, the surprise release of “12,” from Russian rapper Morgenshtern, is revolutionary.Īs the song wraps, a woman’s voice rises above the fray, an angry mob surrounding the rapper, hands banging on the Bentley. This might look like just another hip-hop video. Suddenly, blood spatters the car’s glossy yellow contour as the victims are dispatched offscreen. ![]() As the rapper, who would look comfortably at home on a Tekashi 69 set, spits bars about Cartier and riches from behind the wheel, a woman and her son are held at gunpoint. The burnt-out husk of a bullet-riddled car.
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