What is the name of the singer? Roma, an Englishman from the rap group LSP, died: why, what happened, causes of death

Oleg Vadimovich Savchenko - Belarusian singer, rap performer, performing under the pseudonym LSP (an abbreviation of the English phrase Little Stupid Pig) - was born on July 10, 1989 in Vitebsk, in a family of journalists.

The musician often plays on his pseudonym. So, in an interview on the Big Russian Boss Show - episode on April 25, 2017 - he said: “My favorite transcript is “Better ask later.”

Oleg's passion for music came to him as a child. Oleg's father hired a piano tutor for his son. He liked the work of Andrei Gubin. Then, with the release of the Star Factory 4 project on television, Savchenko became inspired by hip-hop rhythms, and Timati became his idol. Later, in 2011, Savchenko commented on this event:

“Can you imagine what it was like for me at 14 years old?! Rap on Channel One! So it's time. So, we need to fuck.”

Listening to Bad Balance and Decl, the aspiring musician honed his skills. Parents never refused support, especially while studying at the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State Linguistic University.

Debut album “I Got It All!” Oleg Savchenko recorded it in 2007. Two years later, the artist released his second album, “No Appeals.” The recording featured fellow rap artists Deech and Maxie Flow. In 2009, Savchenko released the video “Hippie” and the album “Seeing Colorful Dreams.”

In 2012, he began collaborating with beatmaker and musician Roma Sashchenko (Roma Englishman). Their first collaboration was the song “Numbers”. The duo is actively filming videos - “Why do I need this world” and “LSP - Cocktail”.

In January 2014, LSP released the album “YOP”. In May of the same year, the album “Hangman” was released. Video clips were shot for the songs “Vinegrette” and “Lost and Not Found.” In the summer, LSP and Roma English begin collaboration with Russian rap artist Miron Fedorov, performing under the pseudonym Oxxxymiron, and with the booking agency Booking Machine, which is headed by Oksimiron’s friend Ilya Mamai.

In September 2014, Oleg took part in the St. Petersburg hip-hop project Versus Battle, where his opponent was battle regular Meowizzy. The issue was released on October 19, 2014, and Oleg won the verbal duel.

At the end of November, Oleg Savchenko releases a collaboration with Oxxxymiron “I'm Bored of Life.” Another song, “Madness,” became a real hit. On February 3, 2015, the mini-album Romantic Colegtion was released, the name of which plays on the names of the performers. In 2015, the duo stopped working with Booking Machine and in the summer of the same year, Oleg Savchenko released his solo album Magic City. The album becomes popular in Russia.

The break in relations with Booking Machine and Oksimiron had a great resonance in the cultural environment, in other words, a big beef began in Russian rap. Oleg expressed doubts about the success of cooperation with the booking agency. He did this in the form of a verse for the song Imperial, which Oksimiron's Portuguese producer Porchy asked him to record. Oksimiron and his colleague mistook LSP’s words for a diss. A 40-minute justification for Oleg and a 50-minute appeal from Miron followed online, in which he accuses LSP of ingratitude.

On September 30, 2016, LSP released the mini-album “Confectionery”, recorded together with Gleb Golubin, known under the pseudonym Pharaoh. On April 28, 2017, Oleg and Roman released the album Tragic City. In May of the same year, a video clip was shot for the song “Coin”, which received more than 20 million views in a short period of time.

At the end of July 2017, Savchenko’s colleague Roma Englishchanina passed away. In memory of the late Roman, Oleg Savchenko recorded a video clip for the song “Body”. The clip was released on YouTube on October 2, 2017. The role of Roman in the film adaptation of the song was played by video blogger Dmitry Larin, who looks like the deceased rap artist.

Discography of LSP

2011 - Dreaming in Color (EP)

2014 - Gallows

2015 - Romantic Colection (EP)

2015 - Magic City

2016 - Confectionery" (together with Pharaoh)

Photo: Bogdan Slovyagin

The Belarusian duet “LSP” should have achieved popularity a long time ago, but somehow it didn’t work out. Their goofy EDM rap sounded carefree at first glance, but upon closer examination it sounded gloomy and gloomy, which was what captivated us. The new album “LSP” was released this summer, and turned out to be boastful, funny, melodic and yet dark southern trap in the latest American fashion - and helped fill the halls to capacity. The change of course turned out to be partly a conscious decision, partly a matter of chance, like many things in their wild biography.

“Minsk, are you ready?” - asks from the stage a man in a white T-shirt, whose neck is hung with massive silver chains. The tightly packed hall roars, throwing up its hands. The man's name is Oleg Savchenko, he is a songwriter and the face of LSP. He is definitely ready for what is happening: two days before the concert, Oleg tells me that all 1,200 tickets have been sold, there are no more at the box office. A week earlier, their performances in St. Petersburg and Moscow were approximately equally noisy, frantic and crowded.

“We ... [broke] this summer,” says Oleg, who for a long time lived in the status of hope of Russian-language music and risked never living up to it. The audience, reacting to the very first notes of each subsequent song and flying up to the ceiling on the drops, confirms his words. The bottle of alcohol with which Oleg and his partner Roma English came on stage manages to be empty long before the end of the performance. “You are young and don’t understand that now we are making history here,” Oleg suddenly says. And then he corrects himself: “More precisely, you are the one doing it. We're just drinking."

But it was not always so.

Video filmed at the performance in Minsk discussed in this text

“What are we, clowns?” - the group members resolutely reject the proposal to shoot for a magazine near the circus building, one of the architectural highlights of Minsk. A piercing wind is blowing, they are cold, and their clothes for filming were left in the apartment where they invite us to go. But within half a minute Oleg and Roma are posing against the backdrop of visual propaganda calling for the election of the President of Belarus. And half a minute later, with unexpected enthusiasm, they run to the circus tantamaresque with images of the trainer and animals. "I am a lion?" - Oleg clarifies, sticking his head into the hole. Then he bares his teeth, pretending to growl.

The taxi takes us out of the center along an intricate route. On the way, Roma and Oleg tell how they recently sent two friends instead of themselves to an interview with a Belarusian website. When they ask the driver to drop them off on the way home and then pick them up somewhere else, I expect some similar trick from these cheerful people. But they return: Roman with a full bag of corn (“corn is the best thing that can happen to you in October!”), Oleg with a fresh copy of the game NBA 2K16. He also bought his fourth PlayStation just the other day.

The windows in the apartment are tightly draped, making it quite difficult to understand what time of day it is. It was given to Roman for use by his mistress who had left somewhere. Roman is from Mogilev, but has not lived there for three years. And in general, permanent housing is not working out for him: he says that he has now rented an apartment in St. Petersburg together with Porchi, a Portuguese musician from Oksimiron’s team, but has not appeared there for three months.

Oleg laughingly quotes the African-American formula for success, which gave the title to one of the episodes of the documentary series about the rap group from Atlanta - Migos: “From the Bando to the Mansion.” By bando (abandoned house used to sell drugs - Oleg gives the dictionary definition) we mean a Khrushchev building in his native Vitebsk, by a mansion - this three-room apartment in a Minsk high-rise building. In one of the rooms, a girl is sitting, closed. Two more will arrive before evening.

We are accompanied by Oleg's friend, rapper Young Bumer. Everyone knows that a BMW is called a “boomer,” but for some reason Young Bumer immediately deciphers this as “unemployed young Valera.” All three of them are fiercely “breaking” someone in Diablo, looking intently at the screen. “Helmet, 20 to intelligence - come here. Dagger - ... [not needed] - Oleg comments on what is happening on the screen. - Did you ask about preparations for the concert? She's in full swing! Sometimes they look up from the gamepads to roll (they drink vodka poured into coffee cups with tea). They have a drawn-out, melodic speech, they call Belarus Belka, and each other - “bro” or “mister”. It's Friday, but no one has to go to work.

“I haven’t worked a day!” - says Oleg, who graduated from Minsk State Linguistic University with a degree in linguist-teacher. “There were moments when I understood: you, ... [after all], are a beggar,” explains Roma and adds: “Well, as they were, they ended just a couple of months ago.”

A couple of months ago, the LSP group did not renew the contract with Booking Machine, which handled their concerts - a company directly related to Oksimiron and the Versus battle. A year of cooperation did not make either one or the other significantly richer: LSP had few concerts. And a week later, a joint video with Oksimiron, “Madness,” was released, one of the hits of this summer and, perhaps, the main reason for what is happening today at LSP concerts. The seismic outrage generated by this track was not captured by iTunes or the adult conservative media. Although clips that collect a million views on YouTube in a week would be worth noticing.

Photo: Bogdan Slovyagin

***“I always thought that I would be a rapper,” says Oleg, rocking in his chair. - Our kents smoked, went to work and said that next year they would definitely get together and write. And we lay on the couch, sucked... [laid back], thought about how bad our lives were, and recorded a couple of albums about it. I don’t need anything extra for my life. Superfood, any such topic is on the side... My family is a lousy intelligentsia, nothing supernatural. There have never been any rich Kents, mostly marginals and freaks. There was money to buy halva and sausages at the store - and that’s it. Well, when you mess with chicks, you immediately say that there is no money. “I’m a cool dude, you see, I have the goods.”

He also records his songs on modest equipment - if the word “equipment” even applies to a $50 microphone.

“It hangs on my chandelier above the sofa, right where I sleep, eat, drink and fuck,” Oleg explains how his creative process works. - I fold the sofa, get up and record on the cheapest hundred-dollar sound card. I then send these burps to Roma, who makes candy out of them.”

Initially, “LSP” (stands for little stupid pig) was Oleg. Out of habit they continue to call him that. Although the LSP group today is a union of two equally important people.

Oleg's partner, Roma the Englishman, also known as Roma the Dead, studied art photography, but quit when he realized that sitting at an easel was boring for him. For a year and a half, Roma worked as an ambulance attendant (“on a corpse truck,” he clarifies), and one day he himself woke up on a cardiologist’s table, having taken too much “medicine.” Roma made his own music, and did not immediately join LSP, but soon became an indispensable person - a music author, sound engineer, backing MC and a jack of all trades. “I can inject,” he sums up his resume and laughs darkly.

LSP & Oksimiron - “Madness”

The Englishman says that at the time he met Oleg, he was standing on the corner in Minsk and selling steroids to musclemen. It is illegal. But if you start a group on VKontakte and exercise the necessary caution, then you have a couple of months. After a positive publication about the debut mini-album “Seeing Colorful Dreams” appeared in Afisha, Roman decided that it was time to stop using steroids. And he went back to Mogilev “to the apartment of Oleg’s supposed manager,” where he planned to work on new material. But this was hampered by round-the-clock parties. “I recorded the track “Cocktail” in such an environment for the 150th time,” Roman recalls. “Then we shot a video, and the first concerts began.”

The next impetus in the career of “LSP” is associated with Max Korzh, also a native of the Belarusian rap environment. His debut album ended up on the label of the Casta group Respect Production, where Max was seen as a future stadium artist. Korzh quickly began to fill large halls with fans. In Minsk it was the Sports Palace, which could accommodate about five thousand spectators. To open the concert, he invited several Belarusian rappers, next to whom his journey began, including “LSP”.

“I’ve known Korzh since my first year at the institute,” explains Oleg. - We had a rapper gang. He invited us to perform at the Sports Palace. And Roma and I had just written “More Money” three days before. We sang it on Korzh, and after the concert in the group “VK” every tenth comment was “what kind of guy sang about money at the opening act?”, and our group “VK” doubled the number of subscribers. Then we released the “Cocktail” video, it was picked up by A-One, and Korzh asked me: “What kind of guy is the muzlo writing to you?” This is how the Englishman ended up on the team that produced and recorded Korzh’s most successful album, “Living in a Bliss.”

“Everything was like in the West,” Oleg recalls. - We rented a studio in Minsk for a month, gathered three different sound artists: Roma and two others. They did this for a month - and the result was “Live in High”, Korzh’s highest quality and most complete album. At that time, we performed once every 3-4 months, for 300 bucks. And Roma began to constantly travel with Max, gaining experience. And then the day happened when we had some kind of crap rap festival for 400 bucks, and Korzh had a normal concert. But Roman said: I don’t abandon my people, sorry, I’ll be with Oleg.” A year later, the Englishman went on tour with Oksimiron.

The sound of early LSP includes dubstep, popular in those years, and the influence of American rapper Kid Cudi

“Our first concert in Moscow was organized by Kolya Redkin, for which we thank him,” says Oleg. Nikolai Redkin, editor of the website The Flow and a big fan of LSP, clarifies that he is responsible for the ticketed concert, and at the first performance he was just a spectator. “It was in a bar at Red October, just me and four of my friends stood in front of the stage,” says Nikolai.

The first solo concert of “LSP”, organized by Redkin, took place at the “16 tons” club. It was summer, Thursday, 140 spectators came with tickets, the artists earned their thousand dollars, the organizer lost a little money. Then something like an urban legend begins. A representative of the “Casta” label Respect Production was present at the concert. He was noticed by one of the people close to Oksimiron and Booking Machine, and told his friends that, apparently, “LSP” is now also on “Respect”. A week later, Oksimiron himself asked Oleg if he had a contract. And having learned that he was free from obligations, he offered to work with his booking agency.

An undoubted advantage of this collaboration was the appearance of two songs together with Oksimiron - “I’m bored of living” and “Madness”. A new audience learned about the LSP project, which had existed for almost five years. The Englishman, in the role of sound engineer, went on tour with Oksimiron. Oleg sat at home without money and composed a new album “Magic City”.

It’s easy to call the previous works of “LSP” a dark version of Max Korzh. This is also cheerful EDM with rap and vocals in the spirit of early Kid Cudi, but not about optimism and a smile with 32 teeth, but about “everything is fine with me, thank God, but I don’t care.” With “Magic City,” LSP unexpectedly leaps into new territory. It doesn't take much to notice how much the sound of LSP's latest album is influenced by Atlanta's extremely prolific regional rap scene. But this shouldn’t be surprising.

“I’ve been listening to the southern rap scene since the eighth grade, starting in Texas, when the American south was just rising, with Bun B and Pimp C,” Oleg recalls. - Then I got bored. I decided to make indie stuff so that Afisha would write, and it worked out. Then Roma brought the sound to full shine on the releases “Yop” and “Hangman”. Moreover, it was already my own sound: I read, sing and recite melodies, mixing drum and bass, dubstep and hip-hop. But then Roma began to go on tours, and I began to sit at home and delve into my own shit. And back into the whole rap movement. And now I’m rummaging through all these dark topics again.” That's why his new tracks feature pumping trap bass, chirping 808 percussion and auto-tune-hidden vocals - just like in Atlanta.

Over the past year or two, Oleg has managed to build bridges with other figures in the local trap scene. Among them Yung Trappa- a very young rap eccentric from St. Petersburg, who this summer was arrested under Article 228. “A guy at 16 wrote this - super cool and super stupid at the same time! - Oleg admires. - I came to him in St. Petersburg at full random, without money. I hung out with him for four days, went to the studio, wrote, had a blast. I thought about telling him something that they didn’t tell me when it was necessary. He politely accepted all this, but, as it turned out, this stuff was falling out of his back door in bags. And he always wanted to stir up some kind of hustle. They say he's destined for seven."

Another typical representative of Russian trap with whom Oleg began recording is Magnitogorsk rapper Sil-A, who released mixtapes under the names “Spice Boy” and “Spiceology”, and at the same time launched a spice trading network in Moscow. By the time drug control caught up with her, Sil-A managed to leave the country. “When I was composing the track “Bankroll,” I thought, with whom should I make a track about money? - says Oleg. “Of course, with the Great Power.” When asked if anything is known about Sil-A's whereabouts now, he immediately replies: "I'm not a witness."

The hit “Madness” is also the fruit of a collaboration, but it’s already completely incredible. Breezey Muzik wrote the instrumental for his mixtape - and asked Oleg to add a chorus.

“And I had such a period in my life,” Oleg recalls, “chicks, hanging out, drinking, recording songs from my side project Piggy Bang. And I got some booze, came home, got drunk and did this chorus. Breezey answers me: “Why did you take away the entire album for me with one hook?” Oleg offered to write a verse, but Sil-A had already written the verses for the song. The idea arose to make a remix - this is what rappers call songs that have become hits, to which new verses are added. The original went unnoticed, the remix took off.

“I sent the track to Romka and Miron,” Oleg continues. - Romka said: “I’ve been listening for the second day in a row.” Myron wrote: “You know, I think I’ll jump here, I like it.” After this song people began to recognize me.” But what’s more important, apparently, is that now every weekend at “LSP” is scheduled for tours.

“No one expected that we would come and do everyone on this site, but we came and did all the rap,” Oleg sums up. “If anyone is willing to challenge that, I’d be interested in seeing it.”

“I wouldn’t give a damn,” Roman says gloomily.

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LSP (short for Lil’ Stupid Pig)

Oleg Vadimovich Savchenko (born July 10, 1989, Vitebsk), better known by his stage name LSP, is a Belarusian singer, rapper and songwriter from Minsk. He began his solo career in 2007, and has since released three mini-albums and four studio albums. He worked in close collaboration with Mogilev producer Roman Sascheko (aka Roma the Englishman; April 27, 1988 - July 30, 2017) as the duo of the same name “LSP”.

Even in childhood LSP began studying music when his father hired a piano tutor for him. After some time, LSP quits classes and begins to write his first poems for the table.

The first performer whose songs Oleg LSP consciously liked, says Andrey Gubin. At 14 years old LSP sees the TV program “Star Factory 4”, in which he performs

LSP
Birth name: Oleg Vadimovich Savchenko
Date of birth July 10, 1989
Place of birth: Vitebsk, BSSR, USSR
Years active 2004 – present
Country Belarus
Profession: singer, rapper, songwriter
Genres: hip-hop dub indie pop electronic music grime drum and bass brostep
Nicknames Oleg 500 Sava Lance
Collectives “BPK” (2004–2007) “ШRec Pro” (2007–2009) TO “Shovel” (2009–present) Piggy Bang (2013–present)
Collaboration - Roma Englishman, Aes Genius, Yung Trappa, Oxxxymiron, Pharaoh

Later, LSP gets acquainted with Russian rock and the work of such musicians of the corresponding genre as Zemfira, Nike Borzov, “MultFilms”, “Mumiy Troll” and “The King and the Jester”. However, after some time he returns to rap, starting to listen to American hip-hop, from the experience of listening to which he concludes that “the sound is as important as the meaning, and sometimes even, perhaps, more important.”

LSP graduated from the Faculty of Philology, although, as he recalls LSP, was not without financial difficulties.

Several demo recordings were released in 2007 Oleg LSP, including the solo mixtape “I Got It” and the compilation album Here We Come Again. In 2008, he participated in the 6th team battle of hip-hop.ru as part of the team “ShRec Pro”, which reached the 2nd round, where Max Korzh was also listed, as well as in the 8th official battle of hip-hop.ru, where Oleg reached the 4th round.
In the same year, he began writing and recording songs that would later be included in the mini-album “Seeing Colorful Dreams.” The first were such compositions as “Magician” and “Streets”. Having heard Kanye West's album 808s & Heartbreak, Oleg, impressed by this work, records the first version of the song “Lambada”; the album version of the song was re-recorded and shortened in length.

2011–2012: Beginning of solo career[

Oleg LSP’s debut mini-album “Seeing Colorful Dreams” was released on September 16, 2011. In the subsequent period, Oleg met and joined forces in working on new music with Roma the Englishman, the first fruit of collaboration with whom was the single “Numbers”. The release of “YOP,” an album that included songs released between 2012 and 2014, took place on January 8, 2014. Soon after this, on May 24, 2014, Oleg and Roman unexpectedly released another album - the numbered “Hangman”. In August of the same year, it became known that LSP and the Englishman began cooperation with the booking agency Booking Machine. On February 3, 2015, the mini-album “LSP” Romantic Colegtion was released, the name of which plays on the names of its creators. In the summer of 2015, the duo left Booking Machine, which was decided not to be advertised immediately. This same summer, on July 19, 2015, Oleg released his solo album - the numbered Magic City.

On April 1, 2016, as The Flow writes, “a whole drama begins, a clash between two heroes of a generation,” when representatives of Booking Machine publish the song “Imperial” with the participation of LSP and Oxxxymiron, in which the latter performs a diss on his former colleague. Over the next week, Oleg and Miron exchange video messages, presenting their vision of the current situation, after which they cut off any contact with each other. On September 30, 2016, LSP will release a joint mini-album “Confectionery” with Pharaoh. On April 28, 2017, Oleg and Roman released the numbered album Tragic City, which is a continuation of the year before last Magic City.

On July 30, 2017, Roma Englishman, a participant in the LSP project, died. On August 5, Oleg announced that the project would not be closed, but the tour in support of Tragic City would still take place. After the tour started, it became known that Oleg’s new concert group included Den Hawk (Piggy Bang bandmate) and Pyotr Klyuev.

Contents [hide]
1 Life and career
1.1 2007-2009: Early recordings and participation in hip-hop battles
1.2 2011-2013: “Seeing colorful dreams”, beginning of work with Sascheko
1.3 2014: “YOP” and “Hangman”, signed on Booking Machine
1.4 2015: Romantic Colegtion and Magic City, leaving Booking Machine
1.5 2016-2017: “Confectionery”, Tragic City, departure of the Englishman
1.6 2017 - present: Tragic City Tour
2 Abbreviation (decoding)
3 Artistry
4 Discography
5 Concert tours
6 Notes
6.1 Sources
6.2 Video sources
7 Links
Life and career[edit | edit wiki text]
Oleg Savchenko was born on July 10, 1989 in Vitebsk into a family of journalists. He began studying music as a child when his father hired a piano tutor for him. After some time, he quits classes and begins to write his first poems for the table.

The first performer whose songs Oleg consciously liked was Andrey Gubin. At the age of 14 he sees the television program “Star Factory 4”, in which Timati performs. Surprised by the presence of rap on Channel One, he decides to delve deeper into hip-hop culture, becoming a listener of Decl and Bad Balance. Later he gets acquainted with Russian rock and the work of such musicians of the corresponding genre as Zemfira, Nike Borzov, “MultFilms”, “Mumiy Troll” and “The King and the Jester”. However, after some time he returns to rap, starting to listen to American hip-hop, from the experience of listening to which he concludes that “the sound is as important as the meaning, and sometimes even, perhaps, more important.”

He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State Linguistic University with a degree in linguist-teacher: as Oleg himself recalls, at that time there were financial difficulties. However, his parents always supported both him and his musical endeavors.

2007-2009: Early recordings and participation in hip-hop battles[edit | edit wiki text]
In 2007, when Oleg turned 18, several LSP demo recordings were released, including the solo mixtape “I Got Everything!” and the collection Here We Come Again.

In 2007-2008, LSP participated in the 6th team battle of hip-hop.ru as part of the ShRec Pro team that reached the 2nd round, where Max Korzh was also listed, as well as in the 8th official battle of hip-hop .ru, where Oleg reached the 4th round.

In the same year, he began writing and recording songs that would later be included in the mini-album “Seeing Colorful Dreams.” The first were such compositions as “Magician” and “Streets”. Having heard Kanye West's album 808s & Heartbreak, Oleg, impressed by this work, records the first version of the song “Lambada”; the album version of the song was re-recorded and shortened in length.

On July 14, 2009, a joint mini-album “Without Appeals” was released with Deech and Maxie Flow, which included three songs, three backing tracks of the same songs and a bonus track.

2011-2013: “Seeing colorful dreams”, beginning of work with Sascheko[edit | edit wiki text]

LSP logo
On July 1, 2011, the video clip for the song “Hippie” was released. On September 16, the debut solo mini-album “Seeing Colorful Dreams” was released, consisting of 5 songs and 1 bonus remix. The album was produced by Aes Genius, 614, Paul Pain, as well as LSP himself. Although at that time he was not personally acquainted with Roman the Englishman, he was responsible for the general control of the release's mixing.

On May 24, 2012, the single “Numbers” was released, which began LSP’s close and fruitful collaboration with producer Roman Nikolaevich Sascheko, better known under the stage name Roma the Englishman.

On June 25, 2012, the song “Drip-Drip” was released from TO “Shovel”, of which LSP is a member. The video clip for the LSP song “Why do I need this world,” like the single itself, was released on September 26, 2012.

At the end of 2012, Oleg participated in A-One Hiphop Battle. As he later explained his weak creative activity during that period of time, throughout 2012 he “reflected, set priorities, engaged in self-education and self-improvement, was sick, and wasted material.”

On March 6, 2013, LSP released the song “More Money.” On April 17, 2013, the single “Lilvane” was released, dedicated to Russian hip-hop culture. On May 13, 2013, both the video clip for the song “Cocktail” and the song itself were released. All three songs were included in the summary charts of the best Russian-language songs for the month on rap.ru, and “Cocktail” subsequently took a place in the ranking of the best songs of the year. “Cocktail” also made it into the top 20 Russian-language songs according to the A-One channel.

On July 28, 2013, Oleg released a cover version of the song “Fool and Lightning” by the Russian group “Korol i Shut”. Earlier, on March 7, 2013, a video was released in which LSP also performed a cover of the song “Truth Gonna Hurt You” by American rapper Future. On October 25, 2013, the song “City” was released, on December 20, 2013, “Lost and Not Found” was released, and on December 25, “Pikachu”.

2014: “YOP” and “Hangman”, signing on Booking Machine[edit | edit wiki text]
On January 3, 2014, LSP publishes a remix of “Soft Lips and Tattoos” by Yung Trappa. January 7 - joint song with Galat “Living Loop”.

On January 8, 2014, the compilation album “YOP” was released, which included 10 songs and 2 bonus tracks - a tribute to the leader of the “King and the Jester” group Mikhail Gorshenev and a cover version of the song “Truth Gonna Hurt You” by Future. If we do not take into account “Live Loop” published a day earlier, then there was only one completely new song on the release - and this is the opening album “Rope”. The material for “YOP” was collected over 2.5 years.

On February 4, LSP releases the song “Overboard.” March 2 - a remix of “Everything at once” by Yanix, and March 14 - “Better than the Internet”. On April 13, the joint composition of LSP and Yung Trappa “MLD” (“Baby Loves the Dealer”) will be released. On May 23, two songs are released at once: “Meteor Shower”, as well as a remix of “MLD” - now this is LSP’s solo song.

On May 24, 2014, the album “Gallows” was released (the name was taken from the song of the group “Chimera”), which included 8 songs. The music on both albums was largely produced by Roma the Englishman. It is noteworthy that in both albums each song had its own cover. The Flow included “Hangman” both in the top three Russian-language albums of 2014 and in the list of the 20 best recordings of the 2010s.

“Generally speaking, it was electronic pop. Another thing is that instead of the required meaningless plots, Oleg told rather hopeless stories, inside of which there was despair, hopelessness and emptiness.
The Flow about "Hangman" »
On August 4, LSP releases a remix of the song “Samurai” by Basta and Guf. On August 20, 2014, it became known that LSP began cooperation with the booking agency Booking Machine. On August 20, a video clip for the song “Vinaigret” was released. In September, he took part in the St. Petersburg hip-hop project Versus Battle - LSP's opponent was battle regular Meowizzy. The issue itself was released on October 19, 2014, and Oleg won the verbal duel. Oxxxymiron advised Oleg to go to the event, and LSP himself would later describe his attitude towards the battle as follows: “I still can’t imagine why I spent time on this.”

On October 31, 2014, the mixtape Yung Trappa Jesse Pinkman 2 was released. Of the thirteen songs on the record, LSP participated in three - all of them were originally prepared for the joint album of the performers. Later, in February 2015, Oleg noted that Trappa “went off the radar,” and already in November he tells the story of their personal acquaintance: under what circumstances they met, how the creative process took place. LSP also says that he “thought to tell him something that they didn’t tell me,” but, as it turned out later, the advice Trappa accepted was not applied. On October 31, 2016, it became known that the rapper, convicted under Article 228 and having served in a pre-trial detention center for more than a year, was given almost six years in prison.

On November 27, 2014, LSP released a song together with Oksimiron, which was called “I’m Bored of Life.” At the end of the year, The Flow included the songs “MLD” and “I’m Bored to Live” in the list of the 50 best Russian-language recordings for the entire 2014.

2015: Romantic Colegtion and Magic City, departure from Booking Machine[edit | edit wiki text]
On February 3, 2015, LSP released a mini-album, Romantic Colegtion. Two songs - “SPVL” (“I’ll Believe in Love Again”) and “Force Field” (an excerpt of which was demonstrated back in January) - are new and produced by Roma the Englishman. The third, “Exactly That ’15,” as the title suggests, is an updated version of the track with musical accompaniment by Deech “Exactly That” from the 2009 mini-album “Without Appeals,” which was recorded together with the above-mentioned Deech, as well as with Maxie Flow.

The editors of The Flow included “Force Field” in the list of the best Russian-language songs for 2015. Oleg himself singled out this song in an interview for 34mag.net, where he called the text of “Force Field” one of his best creations.

On July 19, 2015, the album Magic City was released. Unlike the two previous studio albums, in Magic City Roma the Englishman limited himself to writing musical accompaniment for only five songs, while the rest was handled, in his own words, by “the fathers of trap music in Russia.” However, responsibility for all production and post-production of the album remains on the shoulders of the Englishman. Guest verses by Pharaoh, Oxxxymiron and Sil-A.

In anticipation of the album's release, on July 16, 2015, a video was released for a remix of the song "Madness", the original of which appears on the Breezey Montana mini-album "Gift or Curse", in which LSP performed only the chorus. “Bullet”, with Pharaoh, will be included in The Flow’s list of the best songs of 2015 at the end of the year, and the remix of “Madness”, with Oksimiron, will top its top ten. On September 10, 2015, a video clip for another song from Magic City, “OK,” was released.

In the summer of 2015, he stopped collaborating with Booking Machine, explaining that after signing, the small number of concerts that had previously came to naught. On April 1, 2016, Porchy’s song “Imperial” was released, which was originally planned to be included in the tracklist of his mixtape King Midas and in which Oleg, according to Oksimiron, talks about what he thinks about his former booking agency. In “Imperial” what happens is, as The Flow described the song: “a whole drama, a clash between two heroes of a generation” - LSP and Oxxxymiron. Oleg himself, contrary to his colleague’s accusations, stated that he put a completely different meaning into his text and in the online broadcast of the Periscope application, in his characteristic manner, performed “auto-decoding”, from a personal position explaining the meaning of virtually every line of his, concluding that his verse is ordinary represent. “I’m sure if the track had just been released by Porchy and I, it wouldn’t have been given to anyone, and diss songs wouldn’t have been found there either. Myron himself memeified him with his appearance on the track, turning almost any of my absolutely abstract lines into an attack on him and the Booking Machine,” LSP would later say.

2016-2017: “Confectionery”, Tragic City, departure of the Englishman[edit | edit wiki text]
On March 2, 2016, LSP released the song “Spit into Eternity.” On May 9, 2016, the composition “Miracle-Parole”, jointly with Sasha Skul, was released.

On May 17, LSP uploads a remix of the remix of the song “Madness,” to which he added the second verse. As he explained, he saw a lack of integrity and logic in the song, where the second verse was performed by Oksimiron, and cited as an example that such a trick had been pulled off before - with the song “MLD”, in the original version of which Yung Trappa sang the second verse.

In July - on the 8th and 10th - LSP uploads 2 leftovers from the time of “YOP” and “Hangman”: songs called “Bonus Babe” and “In Half”. On September 8, the song “Cake” is released, performed by LSP and the Moscow performer Pharaoh.

On September 30, 2016, the mini-album “Confectionery”, a joint project of LSP and Pharaoh, was published on SoundCloud. The release took place in support of their joint Cake Factory tour. On October 3, it arrived on platforms such as the iTunes Store and Apple Music.

On February 11, 2017, the first single, called “Phoenix,” was released from LSP’s next solo album, the release of which was originally scheduled for the fall of 2017. Previously, “the first single from the upcoming album” was called “Spit into Eternity.” “Phoenix” was recorded, according to Oleg, one and a half to two years before its release.

On April 22, 2017, the second track from the future album, “Money Problem,” was released, which had previously been performed at the group’s concerts.

On April 28, 2017, the third numbered studio album “LSP” Tragic City was released. There is only one invited performer - Lyokha Nikonov (“PTVP”). There are 13 songs, including the previously released singles “Spit in Eternity” and “Money Problem”. Tragic City is a direct continuation of Magic City and, in addition, introduces images, heroes, quotes from LSP’s previous works into the story.

“When I finished “Magic City”, it seemed that nothing better could be written and that this was our magnum opus. But a little time passed, and I began to gradually imagine the vector of further movement.<…>Recently I also thought that after “Tragic City” there was nothing much to say, but literally in the last days of working on it I already began to imagine what we would do next.
LSP about further creativity »
On May 14, 2017, Oleg Savchenko was unable to attend the concert of his colleague Thomas Mraz, who joined the ranks of Booking Machine artists in February of this year, in Minsk: the organizer of the performances, Ilya Mamai, according to LSP, blacklisted him for this event.

On May 20, the “Coin” video was released, which became the most viewed LSP video in the entire history of the project.

On July 28, the Big Russian Boss song “Pimperial” is released with the musical accompaniment of Roma Englishman and Davip, in which LSP took part. The composition parodies last year’s “Imperial” - however, only at the level of the title and the presence of the meme phrase “ty pozhaleesh ob etom though”. Previously, the artists had already recorded the track “Celebration” together, which was included on the second solo album of Boss I.G.O.R.. BRB and LSP also collaborated as part of the Big Russian Boss Show, where Oleg and Roman became guests.

2017 - present: Tragic City Tour[edit | edit wiki text]
On August 5, Oleg spoke about his future plans: the tour in support of Tragic City will not be canceled, and the LSP project will continue to exist.

After the start of the Tragic City Tour, it became known that the new LSP concert lineup included Den Hawk and Pyotr Klyuev. Denis is known both for his collaboration with Oleg himself at an early stage of creativity, and for his work within the framework of Piggy Bang, and together with Petr Klyuev LSP previously performed “Coin” in an acoustic arrangement as part of 34 Music Sessions.

On October 2, 2017, a video clip for the song “Body” was published. The touching video series is dedicated to Roma the Englishman, who recently passed away, and is a kind of farewell to him. The role of Roman Sashcheko in the video was played by St. Petersburg video blogger Dmitry Larin. On the same day, Oleg became a musical guest in the Evening Urgant program, where he performed the song “Labyrinth of Reflections.” On October 4, Larin posted a behind-the-scenes vlog on his channel from the filming of a music video, in which, among other things, he noted that the music video directors were encouraged to cast him in the role of the Englishman by the comments under the video clip “Coin,” which played up the resemblance between Dmitry and Roman. As the video blogger stated, Oleg was filmed separately due to the discrepancy between their schedules. The backstage from the Dope Films team that shot the video was published on October 7.

Abbreviation (decoding)[edit | edit wiki text]
As Oleg stated in an interview with the program “On Blaze’s Sofa” in response to one of the most frequently asked questions - “Where did the name come from and what does it mean?” - the musician has plenty of options for how to answer, and the question itself is already perceived as white noise. So, in different interviews the answer to this question looked different:

In an interview with NUC magazine (April 10, 2014): “Once about 10 years in a row I looked out the window, this was when I was still at school. In general, I was looking out the window at the sun and began to feel like a holy Baptist in myself when the sun spoke to me. Although I didn’t understand any of what it said, and I never became a Baptist, the sunny symbolism of these wonderful words settled in my heart - A ray is stronger than a bullet. I don’t know where they would come from, but I liked the abbreviation.”
In an interview with The Flow website (June 17, 2014): “Usually when they interview us, they immediately ask about the name. Recently they asked - is it true that this means “A ray is stronger than a bullet”? Well, we say, no, it means “Lick yourself... [vagina].”
In an interview with “Blaze on the couch” (July 29, 2014): “[The option that’s closer to me now is] “A boy’s loving heart.” In Belarus we have a group called “Broken Sir Boy”. Well, sort of, it’s clear. But we recently realized that LSP is probably “A Boy’s Loving Heart.” Not “Broken” yet.”
At Versus Battle against Meowizzy (October 19, 2014), Oleg played with the LSP decoding like this: “You are LSP, but not Oleg - you just lick your penis.”
In an interview on the Big Russian Boss Show (April 25, 2017): “My favorite transcript is “Better ask later.”
The decoding of LSP is found in several of the artist’s tracks: “LSP - lies, passions and vices” (“Magic City”, Magic City), “LSP, better sing a song about love, the most truthful” (“Money problem”, Tragic City).
Artistry[edit | edit wiki text]
Autotune is used in LSP songs. At the time of the release of “Seeing Colored Dreams,” indie sound predominated in his music, and for the “YOP” and “Hangman” released in 2014, as Oleg himself notes, his partner Roma had already created “his own sound”: “<…>I read, sing and recite, mixing drum and bass, dubstep and hip-hop.” In the work of 2015, trap sounds prevailed.

Andrey Nedashkovsky from The Flow, in a review of the album “Hangman,” noted the “monotoneity” of LSP’s vocals, and also described his music as follows: “<…>if you want flow, wordplay and other rap tricks, you won't find it here<…>. [But] Oleg dilutes the serious verses with funny turns of phrase, memorable phrases and choruses. And he simply knows how to entertain the listener.” On the website Disgustingmen.com, Nikolai Chumakov described the leitmotif of LSP as follows: “Behind the melodic beat and sweet-voiced vocals lies the main advantage of Oleg’s work - his loud desire to declare his lost life.”

Discography[edit | edit wiki text]
Main article: LSP discography
2011 - “Seeing colorful dreams”
2014 - “YOP”
2014 - “Hangman”
2015 - Romantic Colection
2015 - Magic City
2016 - “Confectionery” (together with Pharaoh)
2017 - Tragic City
Concert tours[edit | edit wiki text]
2015 - tour of Belarus
2015 - big autumn tour
2016 - Never Over Tour (big spring tour)
2016 - Cake Factory (with Pharaoh)
2017 - Tragic City Tour

Childhood and youth

Oleg calls Andrey Gubin his first idol. In high school, the guy became interested in rap and the work of Timati, whom he saw at the Star Factory, Decl, the group Bad Balance and American hip-hop musicians.

After graduating from school, Savchenko entered the Minsk State Linguistic University and received a diploma in the specialty “linguist teacher”. His student years were marked by financial problems; he lived on $100-150 a month, but did not give up his passion for music.

Music

LSP means "little stupid pig"

LSP - Hippie

In the middle of the next year, Savchenko began close collaboration with producer Roman Sascheko, known under the pseudonym Roma the Englishman, who had previously performed in the punk band GreenChe, and at that time was engaged in studio activities. The musicians founded the duo LSP: Oleg composed the lyrics, and Roman made the “existential” beat. The first result of their collaboration was the track “Numbers”.

In the period from 2014 to 2017, the duo released four albums - “YOP”, “Hangman” (a reference to the song of the St. Petersburg punk band “Chimera”), “Magic City”, “TragicCity”, as well as the mini-albums “Romantic Collection” and “Confectionery” (with cloud rapper Pharaoh). LSP albums included several remixes and cover versions of songs by famous domestic and foreign rappers. And not only rappers - for example, in 2013, a cover of the song “Fool and Lightning” by the group “The King and the Jester” was released.

The guys collaborated with such musicians as Yung Trappa, Oksimiron, Sil-A, Sasha Skul, Big Russian Boss, Davip, etc. Several compositions became leaders in the top Russian-language songs according to various influential channels. The musician’s creative work also includes participation in the hip-hop battle “Versus Battle” against battle regular Meowizzy. Oksimiron advised me to go to the LSP battle; Oleg later noted that he himself did not understand why he was wasting his time there.

In 2014, Oleg began collaborating with the Booking machine agency, whose director was Oksimiron, and later recorded the song “I’m Bored of Living” with him. In the summer of 2015, cooperation stopped due to dissatisfaction with the agency’s work - after signing the contract, there were fewer concerts, Savchenko stated in an interview.

In the spring of 2016, the track Imperial was released, in one of the verses of which LSP shared his vision of the situation with the Book machine. Hearing him, Oksimiron added his own vision of the situation to the song, and came to the agency’s defense.

LSP about the track “Imperial”

In July 2017, Roman died - the circumstances of his death were not disclosed, but there were speculations in the media that the musician died due to drug problems. After the musician’s death, the LSP for the “Tragic City Tour” concert tour included Den Hawk and Pyotr Klyuev, with whom Oleg had worked several times before.

"LSP" is a famous youth music group performing hip-hop music with electronic elements. Over the 10 years of its existence, the group has released 7 albums, and since 2013, “LSP” has become a real idol among the younger generation of listeners.

"LSP": photos of participants

For the most part, the name “LSP” refers to rapper Oleg Savchenko. But in recent years, “LSP” nevertheless became a group, since, in addition to Oleg, Roma the Englishman, who recently passed away, also worked on creating songs. However, out of habit, only Oleg is called by the pseudonym “LSP” or they say Oleg LSP.

Biography of Oleg Savchenko

Oleg was born in the Belarusian city of Vitebsk into a family of journalists. He showed an interest in music from an early age, and the boy’s parents fully supported his hobbies. His father even bought little Oleg a piano. But it was not possible to turn the boy into a serious pianist in a classical suit. Oleg found himself in a completely different genre.

The turning point in his life was, oddly enough, “Star Factory - 4”: Oleg’s eyes lit up when he saw the rappers for the first time on Channel One. The boy dreamed of becoming that guy from the screen, like Decl or Timati... And he became. At a more conscious age, the future rapper admired the work of rock musicians: Zemfira, Mumiy Troll, The King and the Jester. And, of course, the appearance of American “gansta rappers” on television also added to the teenager’s tangle of impressions. Then he did not even suspect that “LSP” - the group in which he would be the main character - would become so popular.

Oleg graduated from the Faculty of Philology and could have become a teacher, but, thank God, the musician’s fate turned out differently. That is why the songs of “LSP” are written with a special style and taste, even though they contain a lot of obscene language. Poems in a beautiful musical wrapper - that's what the group creates.

Oleg's early work

After entering university, the guy had his first successes in his musical career. In 2007, Oleg recorded his first track “I understood everything”, and in the same year he tried himself on the hip-hop.ru site, where he completed 4 rounds. At the same time, compositions such as “Magician” and “Streets” appeared, included in Oleg’s first mini-album “Seeing Colorful Dreams” (July 1, 2011).

“The crazy hippie became my father, the metalhead in torn jeans became my mother,” and the atmospheric song “Hippie.” And on July 1, the country saw a video for this composition, amateur, strange, but the melody of the song won out over the not very professional picture.

Meeting Roma, first successes

At one of the parties, Oleg met Roma, the guys immediately realized that they had a lot in common. After some time, the result of joint creativity appeared - the song “Numbers”, which raised the group to a new level. From that moment on, Roma and Oleg began to work together with special diligence on each track. Result: the solo project turned into the duet "LSP". A group whose composition and songs won the hearts of rap lovers.

The group's next hit was the track "Cocktail", released in 2013. It was already different from previous compositions, since during this period “LSP” experimented with genres.

2014 was a very fruitful year for the group. They released two whole albums: “YOB” and “Hangman”. The guys' division of labor worked like a charm here too: Roma wrote the music, and Oleg wrote the lyrics. From that moment on, LSP albums began to be built on heroes, on their destinies and stories. From melodic hipster hop, the guys move on to more aggressive lyrics. The public and critics greeted both albums with a bang, and “LSP” gained even greater authority among hip-hop culture. The new image of the LSP group, in which Roma appeared, attracted more and more attention.

Conflict with Booking Machine

In 2014, the guys signed a contract with the famous booking agency Booking Machine. The group was advised to the head of the agency Ilya Mamai by the famous rapper Oxxymiron. He vouched for the guys, while Mamai did not see anything special in them. After signing a contract, together with Miron, LSP recorded the track “I'm Bored of Life,” which The Flow website included in the list of the best 50 songs of 2014.

A year later, the guys break their contract with the agency. In 2015, LSP had very few concerts, and they blamed Booking Machine for this. Oxxymiron asked the group not to advertise their departure, but the guys, on the contrary, began to trumpet this to everyone, and in a particularly critical manner. On April 1, 2016, LSP presented their new track Imperial, recorded together with rapper Porchy. It was a diss (a trend in hip-hop) on Oxxymiron, thanks to which “LSP” became known to a wide audience. But the song is unique in that it also contains Miron’s diss to the guys. The first diss in history, which reflected, according to The Flow, “the clash of two heroes of a generation.” The whole country watched this conflict with awe, and Oxxymiron even posted an hour-long video on his Youtube channel, where he explained his vision of this clash.

Magic City

On July 19, the album Magic City was released, in the creation of which Oleg participated for the most part as the main soloist of the LSP group, but Roma was still involved in the production, and he also produced. The strip club was called the magical city "LSP", and it is depicted on the cover of the album. However, critics had mixed reactions to the new release. In their opinion, the album lacked the integrity of the plot, and there was too much oppressive melancholy and melancholy in it. Magic City definitely appealed to LSP fans, but it failed to surpass the success of past albums.

Confectionery

Together with cloud rapper Pharaoh "LSP" they released the mini-album "Confectionery" on September 30, 2016. This project has become a real joy for fans of these talented musicians. The cloud rap of the beginning rapper Pharaoh, along with the complex lyrics and unusual music of the group, “blew up” the audience. Later the guys went on a joint Cake Factory tour.

Tragic City

The album, released on April 28, 2017, continues the Magic City concept. The hero of the album, as usual, is a poet tired of life, with real emotional storms going on inside him. There is a lot of smell of death, melancholy, hopelessness, and after listening to all the tracks on the album, it is simply impossible to get rid of sad thoughts. But there is also a positive side - the experiences from the songs result in catharsis, that is, mental cleansing through suffering. Therefore, if hip-hop fans have accumulated negativity, let them safely listen to this album, just be careful.

Roma Englishman from the group "LSP"

Photo of Roma Englishman below. Roman Sashcheko (real name) put a lot of effort into “LSP” - a group in which he was able to realize himself. Perhaps without him she would not have achieved such success. Roma starred in just one video, “Coin,” the views of which have already exceeded 10 million.

On July 30, terrible headlines thundered in the media: “A member of the LSP group has passed away.” This event shocked the fans. And now the ordinary words from the song “Coin” sounded like prophetic, and the image of the death of the last album became not an image, but a real event The cause of Roma's death is still unknown, but the Englishman consumed large quantities of alcohol and drugs, many fans see this as the cause of the tragedy.

No matter how much they guess, the fact remains that the talented and bright member of the LSP group will no longer be able to create, but his contribution will not remain forgotten. On August 5, Oleg said: “Roma has become a huge part of me, for the sake of which I will move on with redoubled strength. A part of me that will never die. And the show, as you know, must go on.”