Who is the lead singer of the LSP group? All LSP songs from worst to best

Death of Roma the Englishman before our eyes she created the best Belarusian group of the tens. Back in May"LSP" were an extremely successful both creatively and commercially rap group with good prospects. Now these are the Artists with whom an entire era will forever be associated in the memory of music lovers. Joy Division weren't the best band British post-punk, Nirvana neatly repeated the finds of alternative rock of the 80s; back in May, not a single LSP album was individually worthy of anything more than just praise. Oleg Savchenko, who started in the Minsk rap scene of the late 2000s and Roman Sascheko, who made even a slight semblance of a career on the Mogilev rock scene of the same time, united in 2012, they hardly expected that their joint work would be so successful and so, in essence, fleeting.

The group’s curve looks something like this: first, Savchenko’s timid solo attempts to move away from the boring post-Soviet hip-hop of the late 2000s to ironic multi-genre pop music; then the low vocal skill of Savchenko the rapper plus the amateurish and therefore monstrously inventive electro-pop of Roma the Englishman on the double album of 2014; then the self-contradictory, poisonous trap of the “Magic City” sample; and finally the period"Tragic City" , combining mature, sophisticated pop songs with mocking trap and Savchenko’s flow developed to a masterful level.

5 years for a person are the sleepy years of university, a prolonged maternity leave, the distance from one tedious job to the next. 5 years for a group is a long time and a self-sufficient era. LSP spent their 5 years at the limit of their capabilities.

To our song guide"LSP" included are officially released (that is, according to the conditions of the time, presented on streaming services) songs of the group, made either without the participation of other performers, or those where outside participants appear clearly as the second number. Therefore, there is no joint album with Pharaoh and numerous early recordings of Oleg Savchenko with Belarusian rappers and beatmakers, as well as songs where Savchenko performs on fits. The three best songs that do not fit into the strict framework of the official discography are listed in a separate mini-list. At the end of the article, all the songs are waiting for you collected in a playlist.

Due to the strange arrangement of the names of the participants -"LSP" the group is called, but LSP is also the pseudonym of Oleg Savchenko, while Roma, under the pseudonym Englishman, has a very similar surname - Sashcheko- so here it is Oleg will be written everywhere as Savchenko, and Roma as an Englishman.

(YOP, 2014)

If you have any doubts about whether the LSP song is really that bad, just ask any fan to name 50 best songs groups and guess what they will call you 72 in a row. It is still not clear what is being sung about and what relation Oleg has to this story. “Condoms and chanson, everything is for you.”

(Yop, 2014)

A ballad in which the rapper explains to a woman why she has no chance - well, he explains, rather, he boasts that he flies only first class and barely has time to fight off blowjobs. Original by rapper Future, with whom “LSP” was compared a lot and which obviously influenced Savchenko big influence, is good mainly for the excellent arrangement of Mike Will Made It and the extremely thick flow of Future himself. Savchenko, forlornly strumming his vowels under an artless piano, leaves only a pale shadow of the song.

(Magic City, 2015)

It seems that Oleg Savchenko is watching the program “Let Them Talk.” In various interviews, he mentioned the program a couple of times, and in 2015 he recorded this song. You can collect bits of information about what exactly Oleg is interested in in the image of Andrei Malakhov. It seems that this is exactly what we were supposed to find out in this song, but what happens there - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(Dreaming in Color, 2011)

An uninventive urban song with hardly any memorable hooks or arrangement moves. On the EP, “Streets” was the most “rap” track and the least interesting. Six years later, LSP have done so many interesting and important things for the Russian rap scene that trying to come up with a compliment for this song is pointless. Unless, if you listen hard enough, the main beat is amusingly reminiscent of the beat from the super hit of the 2000s “Buttons” by the girl band The Pussycat Dolls.

(Tragic City, 2017)

Standard self-deprecating yet smug song"LSP" , this time consisting entirely of distorted quotes: Soviet songs, sayings, sayings, banal facts (Balzac wrote for 30-year-old women and stuff like that), literary waste paper - everything is used. In the officially approved "LSP"» reviews the set of allusions is characterized as “setting up a serious conversation without charming antics and dreamy foolishness,” however, apart from the technique as such (referring, however, still not to some adult human poet, but rather to Oksimiron), the song has nothing to boast of. In an incomparably more successful song, Savchenko compared himself with Yesenin (“fuck girls and I read poetry to them”), but Yesenin would not have boasted of his non-existent erudition.

(YOP, 2014)

A beef that is not aimed at anyone in particular, but at everyone at once. That is the problem. A dangerous, effortlessly made beat makes you doubt when listening to what you are actually guilty of, what the artist is accusing you of. Perhaps an expression of Oleg's frustration - in the absence of great popularity at a time when the group already had more than enough very good songs. We feel his pain.

(I Understood Everything promo, 2007)

Lo-fi rap may not be too remarkable on its own, but it is original in the context of the discography"LSP" (Savchenko will never again try to howl in the Negro manner) and explores the same themes as the best later songs of the group (loneliness and mental tossing).

(Magic City, 2015)

Inevitable for every rapper, a song about origins. Started from the bottom, now we are here. Oleg clumsily names his sources of inspiration, conventionally and incoherently lists the moments of his biography, showing his excellence. Years after the release of this song, the biographical facts are remembered, but what happens in the arrangement is difficult to remember, even when the track is played.

(Hangman, 2014)

A tiresome sex song packaged in an “up, down, smile at me” lyric scheme. This is a skill- turn everything into a dark side. To add heat to the everyday, the whole story is turned towards a certain conventional female warrior-Xena-warrior-queen-vamp. Character (as if from some computer game) walks, wins, swings a cleaver, forces anonymous male characters to intimacy. Oleg, show me on this doll where you were touched, this safe place, they won't harm you anymore.

(Tragic City, 2017)

In even his most misogynistic moments, Savchenko always catches himself and leads to the fact that he will face bad person- an unpleasant and painful experience. The short and unimaginatively designed song “Trash” breaks out of this series: having begun with an arrogant mockery of a woman (“three merged together in her - a lady, a whore and a fool”), it ends with a smug mockery of her. So-so dramaturgy.

(single, 2016)

A charity (figuratively) single, in which Savchenko sings to the beat of a friend from his youth about hanging out with old friends and the fact that over the years it becomes more and more difficult to get bored. There's some interesting stuff starting melodically in the choruses, but overall it's not at all memorable.

(Tragic City, 2017)

An extremely lazy piece, as if composed and sung in a dream, about how easily a cancan turns into a trap, and a superficial play on words into a song. As luck would have it, Savchenko does not use any of his vocal skills at all, and the Englishman’s entertaining arrangement (some dying guitars, a saxophone emerging from behind red curtains) cannot draw attention to itself and save the situation.

(Dreaming in Color, 2011)

Even at the time of the song’s release, Oleg made excuses that he understood how “vob” is the basis- yesterday: “But the minus in “Hippie” is two and a half years old. Well, yes, this saw is so cheap there that it’s even a little embarrassing. But someone told me that this is even good. If only there was quality dubstep there- it would have been a clear attempt to fit into something. And so- It’s just some nonsense playing.” But the charisma of slacker goofing sells this track, both in 2011 and now.

(Single, 2013, EP, 2014)

An inconsistent EDM action thriller that's all about- to text. A recipe for success complete with hooks and punchlines. "I need more money - there will be more chicks, there will be more friends, there will be more jokes.” With the simplest logical conclusions: “If there is no money, that means there are no chicks, that means there are no friends, that means there are no jokes.” The text seems to be leading to the conclusion “everyone needs more money.” Entertaining mathematics. Pop music is allowed to be silly, but not boring. The thesis can be successfully illustrated by this song.

(Magic City, 2015)

An uninventive trap stylization entirely dedicated to telling the story that money is the most important thing. The delusional fragment where Natasha's Ninja Turtles appear seems to steer the song onto slightly more original ground, but Savchenko is not good at pop culture jokes in general, and even a greater master couldn't have pulled it off here, so then everything just fades away.

(Hangman, 2014)

How many rap stars have you seen with seascape-themed songs? What about the completely unironic EDM action films about a stern captain leading a ship through a terrible storm? The Englishman's beat has rarely been less appropriate than in "Overboard", but one cannot condemn him - and what, in essence, did he even have to play with such and such text? If we believe that art should raise questions, then the song can compete for the title of the most highly artistic from LSP. However, it is impossible to listen to her seriously. So you see Savchenko at his grandmother’s bookcase, turning in his hands a book worn out by generations of schoolchildren and reading “Captain Blood” from the cover under his breath like “captain, fuck!”

(Yop, 2014)

Played according to the notes, but for some reason still not an incendiary emo ballad. There is the dichotomy “angel - devil” in the very first line, and the black castle, and digging graves, and Romeo and Juliet, and Bonnie and Clyde, and the keys howling like a wolf in the ashes, and witch-house things that were relevant at the time the song was written - but all in vain. Savchenko’s boyish and unintentionally sardonic voice does not allow one to really believe in his metaphors, and his natural corrosiveness and humor almost force him to put “enjoyment of the process” as a rhyme to the “pale princess.” It seemed like he should have just fallen off the rope, but he still fell the wrong way.

(Magic City, 2015)

This song sounds like Future is doing a remix of Igor Talkov. Savchenko’s only advantage is that he has an understanding of Russian lyrical melodicism, while Future does not.

(single, 2017)

A lazy song about how no matter how bad things are, everything will be fine in time. Formally, everything is done as it should: in two and a half minutes, Savchenko goes through several styles of reading and singing, the Englishman changes the tempo several times, uses a guitar, a sample with a woman gasping in the distance - but for some reason it is not possible not only to lift the colossus into the air, but also just to relieve boredom. The best place: the word “me”, turning into Eric Cartman’s “nya-nya-nya” in Savchenko’s booming performance.

(Magic City, 2015)

A boring trap ballad, in which Savchenko, in order to somehow entertain himself, does nothing but clown around and make puns (the trick from the title is both the magic of his music and the concentration of his gaze on the fame and skill of the artist). Among the puns there are obscene diamonds like “and I invite you to the promenade in my hanging garden,” but, in general, this is a frankly passable thing.

(Magic City, 2015)

Another uninventive trap ballad from “Magic City,” with puns and jokes describing the nervous exhaustion of a partygoer as a free and self-sufficient life. “Captain Obvious is your dad / Your mom is Anarchy / And you yourself are nobody” and many other sophisticated insults can be useful to humanitarian-minded and physically weak schoolchildren, and the chorus “Everything is okay with me / Among my friends” - give a reason to their less cultured classmates shout in chorus on the street, but it will be difficult to achieve any other meaning from the song.

(Tragic City, 2017)

Very soon, a couple of years after "More Money","LSP" changed their simple opinion about money to the opposite simple one. Dividing the song into two parts, unfortunately, gives reason to say that the first part is bad. Simply because the lyrical Oleg defeats the arrogant. But Savchenko’s charisma can still sell anything.

(Hangman, 2014)

Chronologically the first moralizing song"LSP" : A drug dealer discovers that his girlfriend is mainly attracted to free drugs. Savchenko’s skeptical and sensitive view of everyday details is completely obscured by a sentimental haze; the “baby” and the “dealer” do not live in our world, but in some cruel comic book. Alas, the Englishman’s overly sketchy music does not add depth to this superficial picture.

(Tragic City, 2017)

A song about the difficulties of the life of a star who has long worked her way to the top and still remembers with pain the suffering she experienced - an old format. Savchenko composes a number of funny lines for it (“a puddle of urine, almost sober already, I honored this place”), but, in general, if it weren’t for the sophisticated vocal delivery and good arrangement, listening to it would be completely uninteresting.

(Hangman, 2014)

In one of his diss videos against Oksimiron, Savchenko boasted that he had a Balzac book at home - the highly social electro-pop “Vinaigrette” shows that he did not read it very carefully. Pictures of the narrator's cute or lively classmates, combined with caricatures of them as adults, produce the effect of crude, sentimental moralizing about God knows what. Savchenko draws from his rhetorical exercise the law of the universe - “eat what you give”, but, generally speaking, no conclusion other than “it happens” does not follow from it. The Englishman's music is caustic, but also does not make any special impression.

Yop, 2014

A boring song in which the boring rapper Galat and Savchenko, who has not yet learned to draw out uninteresting lyrics with his voice, say something confusing to the off-screen girl. If the lyrics are almost completely worthless (however, Savchenko also has a charming “You are guilty without guilt, only / That the wolf wants to eat / Your tender nipples / And your small ears”), then the music is surprisingly good in certain moments. Englishman's Beat - seems to be the closest thing to Clams Casino-style cloud rap that he did for"LSP" . On the chorus, where Savchenko's auto-tuned oblivion is superimposed on flickering neon synths, the song even seems good.

(Single, 2012, EP, 2014)

"LSP" sometimes the texts fell into teenage dramas. Most likely, because the emotions they wanted to express did not yet have enough experience five years ago. It’s after a few albums that these same intentions will emerge"LSP" among the main punks in the country, but in 2012, although effective, “Numbers” sounded like a frowning group “Zveri” in a dubstep remix or an interesting version of the group “Amatori”. But if you listen carefully in 2017, “Numbers” is probably much closer to “Black Siemens.” “In a pair of trendy sneakers, listening to exclusive tech house, inhaling super-light Kent, checked all accounts, no messages” (SOOOOO 2012) - this is a talkative guy “in dead Nikes, in a white T-shirt.” Only if Pharaoh sent us to the future, “Numbers” got lost somewhere in the school past.

(Tragic City, 2017)

A well-known trope in rap is self-righteous bragging about chicks. If the text can hardly be called original, then you can mark general atmosphere. Oleg acts as a kind of pimp-fakir, who has blondes, brunettes, brown-haired women and halves in his hat. We also learn about the artist’s code of honor (“I take two, although I could have six”). Everything sounds smooth, and the arrangement seems to have been lifted from a lost level in Hotline Miami. As a bonus, Roma the Englishman comes out with a full fit.

(Dreaming in Color, 2011)

Atmospheric and structured electro-pop transformer that smoothly changes as the song progresses. At the beginning, the concentrated and self-confident rhythmic march to the finale will break down, and the robot will show emotions, flooding its circuits with an eight-bit cry. Early fans"LSP" They will never forget how sweet and cozy Oleg could be, pronouncing the words “little white shorts”, “girl”, “smile”, “ice cream”, “I love everyone”, “na-na-na-na”.

(Tragic City, 2017)

Best album "LSP" ends on a positive note. Maybe not with the original arrangement, but with the lyrics and mood. Behind all the tragedy, in the end there still remains confidence. In your decisions, in your creativity, in the business that you choose. You can take anything and anyone away from Oleg, but he will still remain fully equipped. Moreover, it is very pleasant to hear the matured echoes of intonations"LSP" , which were on “Seeing Colorful Dreams.” Oleg, who can fool around charismatically and likably (“in general, I would like to cum into eternity”).

(Hangman, 2014)

Arrangement of “Faust” for the 2010s: the young rake (judging by Savchenko’s amazing line “My heart is becoming more and more capricious / My hero is getting older,” he tells the story, although not observing the Onegin stanza, but with an eye on it) tries year after year sell your soul to the devil, but somehow the devil still won’t appear. If Savchenko’s text really reeks of “The King and the Fool,” then the Englishman’s music makes me think of Crystal Castles. The sum turns out to be surprisingly effective: together with an even better cover of “The Fool and the Lightning,” the song makes you seriously regret that “LSP” didn’t really go into the territory of theatrical Russian rock for drunken entrances and unwashed robes - their techniques work brilliantly there .

(Romantic Colection, 2015)

A remake of the short 2009 lo-fi audiobook about love, murder and the killing of love. The wavy ephemeral electronics of Savchenko’s old friend, Minsk producer Deech, promised something all decade, but never grew into anything serious, but as a photo wallpaper for a story in the spirit of Dostoevsky, it is remarkably good.

(Magic City, 2015)

The most successful of the trap songs “LSP”, completely built on puns: the stripper Savchenko liked in it turns out to be a cricket who thoroughly knows his sixth (as a trained listener can easily guess, in the last verse it will be the rapper’s penis). The reasons for this are quite banal: good melody, a coherent story that does not imply moral somersaults, a remarkably beautiful arrangement. The only thing that harms “Six” is the context: in 2015, as luck would have it, much more talented people came out and the song about twerking bees, and the song about attraction to a woman from the club.

(I Understood Everything promo, 2007)

Best song from the very first mini-album"LSP" - a drunken, lopsided, but surprisingly charming R’n’B number about the fact that Oleg Savchenko was already rapping “f**k” at the age of 18 (in fact, not). It starts with the magical line “Hello everyone, here I am - one very cunning pig,” which, of course, will eventually make its way into pinned posts on fan Twitter.

(Tragic City, 2017)

The song is about how Savchenko was wooed and married by a girl, only to find out right after the wedding that, after drinking a little, he begins to rave about the girl from the joint song with Oksimiron. The closest and riskiest approach"LSP" to the format not even of radio, but straight from kebab houses: a clearly and in detail told story from Latin American TV series from the time of the musicians’ childhood, an excellent sweet arrangement by the Englishman, where even the saxophone has a place. In moments like the lines “You think these are dreams? / Why then do I give you flowers / And a ring with a stone?” The shadow of the early “Lyapis Trubetskoy” hangs over the group, also balancing on the brink between parody and sincere idiocy.

(Magic City, 2015

In 2015, not all fans of the genre understood that Pharaoh would turn into a huge dead-dynasty phenomenon, and the reaction to this collaboration at first was rather mocking. It's good that the songs"LSP" their fans don't. An effective trap banger and a concert fan favorite, which is once again in the discography"LSP" showed that Oleg knows and understands better. And also that Oleg has a funny poetic self-perception (“I’m like the new Yesenin - I fuck girls and I read poetry to them”).

(Magic City, 2015)

Chilling auto-tuned soul, more like a philosophical VKontakte post than a song. In order to somehow brighten up the obviously boring material, Savchenko uses all the vocal techniques he knows: he mutters words, and babbles, and spits, and sings, and so intensely and successfully that he squeezes the maximum out of the song. If you are interested in the experiences of an intelligent high school student who happens to become a rap star, then don’t pass by.

(Single, 2013, EP, 2014)

A hangover action movie and one of the main Russian-language diamonds in the popular youth genre “brostep” in 2013. Five years later, brostep in pop songs has become a tired cliche, but “Cocktail” still sounds fresh. Not only thanks to the memorable hooks (“bartender, dear”), but also to the unexpected replacement of the climactic drop with an acoustic guitar. Acoustic guitar. Bold and unforgettable songwriting. 17

(Hangman, 2014)

Rustic but incendiary Daft Punk for Minsk socialites. It's not an angry song at all, as it might seem if you write down the words of the chorus on paper. Perhaps it sounds so charming because Oleg sings it exactly like a bitch. Ratchet is a queen with a defiant personality but a big heart. Take care, Christina C. And perhaps this is the most positive use of the term “bitch” not only in the discography"LSP" , but also in principle in Russian rap. Everyone wants to believe that it is obvious that behind Savchenko’s image there is a good person, but perhaps also a feminist (lol).

(Yop, 2014)

A witty exercise on the field dance music: the obscene brostep bass, which in the year the song was written, producers usually rewarded the audience with on choruses (how many people in 2017 know what a “drop” is?), here is moved to the verse, and the chorus, on the contrary, is made into an affectionate techno part. It all ends with a drum and bass coda, which sounds like an answer to the question posed by the song: why bother messing around with music, of course.

(Tragic City, 2017)

A romantic pop number about how unexpected Armageddon will at least allow lovers to die on the same day. All his strength returns to Savchenko: the successful poetry of everyday life (“we were woken up in the morning by my battered mobile phone” - in the “battered” one you can hear the tinkling and trill of the bell), gentle, brittle singing and the ability to show love, not smeared with cheap cynicism, not ideal, but reliable a refuge from the melancholy and despair of life. The Englishman gives another lesson in paradoxical and extremely effective montage of styles: an acoustic ballad turns into R’n’B, then turns into a juke and quietly fades out in the form of an ambient sketch. It turns out that Leonid Agutin’s song may be too much, but are there many pop songs in Russian that are better than those by Leonid Agutin?

(Hangman, 2014)

The opening song is the first one made completely consciously and precisely as an “album” collaboration Savchenko and Englishman. The Englishman creates an instrumental in the middle between dancehall, Rustie and just stadium EDM - the result is a piece that, perhaps, too clearly reveals the year of its composition, but is eye-rolling and furious. Savchenko performs the vocal part in the chorus as if it were pop-punk, and, of course, if every era should have its own pop-punk format, then in the mid-10s it was impossible to jump higher than “Meteor Shower”.

(Yop, 2014)

An erotic ballad about how much people born in 1989 were plowed by the Pokemon series. It was with “Pikachu” that Savchenko began his generally disastrous practice of equipping his songs with strings of silly cultural allusions and puns: the story of a girl who, secretly from her boyfriend, sometimes has sex with a man who doesn’t want to know anything about her, is completely told in the space of children’s concepts cartoon. Another indirect triumph of Savchenko is that Pokemon Go was still three years away at the time the song was written.

(Romantic Colection, 2015)

A small pop-funk masterpiece, made, of course, on the wave of universal admiration by Daft Punk and Pharell Williams, but no less effective for that. If the guitar work is not even close to imitating Nile Rodgers, then the original, seemingly truncated bass will be remembered even by connoisseurs of the genre. Saving words and energy, Savchenko tells the story of the rent at the club extremely effectively (“You just can’t be too touchy: it’s funny and nothing comes of it”) and, like in his best pop moments, turns into the most accurate translation of Drake into Russian.

(Yop, 2014)

Electro-reggae about death best friend, embedding a cartoon about “Prostokvashino”, VKontakte comments and synthetic drugs into a bright picture loneliness and loss. The song is greatly benefited by the fact that it has few words, few feints and tinsel, on which Savchenko began to rely more and more over the years. A well-composed gloomy pop does not need to pick out the details: if the feeling is true, reality will not be lazy to add to the canvas those colors that the artist forgot about at one time. In the summer of 2017, the song “Lost and Not Found” gained its full weight three years ago by leaps and bounds.

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 a performance in Minsk, about which we're talking about 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 the company that handled their concerts Booking Machine- 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, the video “Madness”, joint with Oksimiron, was released, one of the hits of this summer and, perhaps, main reason 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 was studying own music, and he 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 was released on band label“Caste” Respect Production, where they spotted a future stadium artist in Max. 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 shitty 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 Flow website and big fan“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.

First solo concert“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. You don't have to be an expert to notice how much it influenced the sound last album LSP is 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.

LSP (Oleg Savchenko) who is this?

Real name— Oleg Savchenko

Hometown— Vitebsk, Belarus

Nickname— LSP

Activity— Rapper

Family status- Not married

Height — 181

LSP (Oleg Savchenko) biography

Oleg Savchenko, better known as LSP, is popular rapper of Belarusian origin.

Childhood

IN early childhood the boy was fond of pop music. One of Oleg Savchenko’s favorite performers in those years was singer Andrei Gubin. A little later, when the Star Factory 4 project came out on television, the future musician was inspired by hip-hop motifs performed by Timati. Under the influence of a new direction in the musical world, Oleg Savchenko began to immerse himself more and more in the culture of rap pop culture, falling in love with such performers as Bad Balance, Decl and many others. The boy's parents noticed his passion for music early and decided to support him in every possible way in his youthful hobby.

In those years, rock music became popular in Russia, represented by such bright rock bands as Zemfira, KiSh, Mumiy Troll and many others. But in the end, Oleg Savchenko understands that rap music is closer to his spirit. On his eighteenth birthday, the future Russian rap star records test singles in the style of hip-hop.

Music career

Oleg Savchenko recorded his first official mixtape in 2007. The album was called “I Got It All!”, a little later another one was recorded music collection, entitled "Here We Come Again". Two years later, rapper LSP begins his collaboration on the new album “No Appeals” with popular representatives of the hip-hop movement, Deech and Maxie Flow. In 2009, Oleg Savchenko finished work on his first video clip, on musical composition"Hippie". In September of the same year, the young musician released a six-song EP entitled “Seeing Colorful Dreams” into the public domain.

In the first half of 2012, rapper LSP began a fruitful collaboration with beatmaker and musician Roma Sashchenko. Their first collaboration was the song “Numbers”. Somewhat later, a video was also shot for a piece of music called “Why do I need this world.”

Literally a year after the start of cooperation between two gifted representatives of the Russian rap stage in one team, a new Music clip, for the song " LSP – Cocktail" A number of critics stated that this film adaptation of the song was the best in Russia in 2013.

In January 2014, LSP released an album called “YOP”. The recording of the song “Loop” featured a rap artist from St. Petersburg, Galat. In April of the same year, Oleg Savchenko and Roma Sashchenko, in collaboration with Yung Trappa recording the track "MLD". In May 2014, fans of the rap team LSP learned about the release of their first studio album, “Hangman.” Video clips were shot a little later for the musical works “Vinegrette” and “Lost and Not Found.”

The producer of almost all subsequent releases of the LSP group becomes Roman Englishman, aka Roma Sashchenko.

At some point, the young rappers are noticed by an authoritative representative of the Russian rap stage, Miron Yanovich, performing under the pseudonym Oxxxymiron. Under his strict leadership, the guys from LSP managed to conclude a lucrative contract with the Booking Machine concert agency.

In September 2014, on the advice of the same Miron Yanovich, Oleg Savchenko decides to take part in the rap competition ““. And although LSP was able to take first place, beating the performer Meowizzy in the final, the young man himself still does not understand, as he admits, why he spent so much nerves participating in the event.

At the end of November, Oleg Savchenko releases a collaboration with Oxxxymiron, entitled “I'm Bored of Life.” It was this piece of music that became the best at the end of 2014, according to The Flow.

In the middle of the first quarter of 2015, the mini-album “Romantic Collegtion” was released. In the summer of the same year, LSP recorded and released a solo album "Magic City". It was after the appearance of this work that Oleg Savchenko and Roman Sashchenko became known to rap fans from Russia.

On the wave of fame, the LSP group decides to end its cooperation with the Booking Machine agency, accusing the concert organizers of the fact that, under the leadership of the company, there were too few live performances.

At the end of September 2016, Oleg Savchenko once again delighted his fans by releasing a six-track album called “Confectionery”. Above the collection entry rap group LSP worked together with the rap artist, aka.

At the end of April 2017, Oleg Savchenko decides to remind himself by presenting to the public another collection of music, called Tragic City, consisting of 13 compositions. 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.

Personal life

Oleg Savchenko tries not to talk about his personal life. Therefore, journalists from various music publications know nothing about the girls young musician. The rapper himself has repeatedly said that he does not have children or a wife. And problems with female half humanity does not exist for him.

LSP now

Death of Roma the Englishman

At the end of July 2017, the Russian rap community was shocked by the news about death of Roma the Englishman (Sashchenko), who at the age of 29 became a full member of the group. Immediately, rumors spread in the media field that Oleg Savchenko’s closest friend and ally had died due to problems with alcohol and drugs. After several weeks of mourning, Oleg said that the group’s plans are not changing and the “Tragic City” tour will definitely take place.

In memory of the late Roman, Oleg Savchenko recorded a video clip for the musical work “ LSP - Body" On video hosting YouTube clip appeared on October 2, 2017. The role of Roman in the film adaptation of the song was played by a video blogger who looks very much like the deceased rap artist. On the same day, on the set of the “Evening Urgant” program, LPS sang the song “Labyrinth of Reflections.”

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 Bad Balance group 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. Also in the musician’s creative treasury is participation in a hip-hop fight “ 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.

In October, Savchenko published a video for the song “Body,” dedicated to a deceased friend, and also became musical guest in the show "Evening Urgant". Soon the musician started selling products with LSP symbols - T-shirts, sweatshirts, caps with the musician’s logo, etc. appeared on sale. In December 2017, the artist released the song “ A little prince", the melody for which was written during the Englishman’s lifetime.

LSP - Body

Personal life of LSP

Childhood and adolescence Greetings to guests and regular readers of the site website. So, rap artist Oleg Savchenko, better known under the pseudonym LSP, was first released on July 10, 1989. Our hero was born and grew up in Vitebsk, in the north-east of Belarus, in a family of journalists. This is where the biography of Oleg LSP begins. As a child, the boy was inspired by the songs of pop musician Andrei Gubin. Later, after television program"Star Factory 4", learned about and became an avid listener of hip-hop (I became interested in the work of Bad Balance, etc.). Parents, noticing their son’s musical passion, began to support his endeavors in every possible way. Having become acquainted with the well-known rock performers of that period (KiSh, Mumiy Troll and others), Oleg realizes that he likes rap much more. When he came of age, the guy released several test records in the hip-hop genre.

Music career

In the spring of 2012, LSP began close collaboration with beatmaker and musician Roma Englishman (real name Sascheko). The first one general work became the song "Numbers". And at the end of September, a video for the composition “Why do I need this world” was released.

On May 13, 2013, a film adaptation of the track “Cocktail” was released, which, according to Russian rap publications, became one of best works of the year.

At the beginning of January 2014, Oleg expanded his discography with the album “YOP”; a St. Petersburg performer took part in the recording of the track “Loop”. In April, LSP collaborated with, releasing the song “MLD” (Baby Loves the Dealer) with him, and the next month the first, full-fledged studio album"Hangman", which included 8 solo tracks. Video works were shot for the works "Vinaigrette" and "Lost and Not Found".

The music producer of most of the compositions in this and subsequent releases was Roman Englishman. At one point, the team is accidentally noticed by the authoritative rap artist Miron Yanovich, known as, under whose auspices the guys signed a contract with “Booking Machine”, an agency that deals with concert activities. In September, on Oksimiron’s advice, Oleg took part in the “Versus Battle” rap competition. Even though LSP won against , Savchenko still doesn’t understand why he wasted his nerves on this.

On November 27, a joint composition by Miron and Oleg entitled “I'm Bored of Life” was released, which was included in the “The Flow” rating as one of the best songs of 2014. In February 2015, the mini-album “Romantic Collegtion” was released, and in the second half of July the solo album “Magic City” went on sale. It was after this work that LSP became widely known among the Russian-speaking audience. The fit with the then gaining popularity, as well as the film adaptation of the summer banger “Madness” became a kind of catalyst for the musician’s success.

In the wake of the “hype,” Savchenko stops collaborating with the “Booking Machine” organization, citing the fact that, due to their management, the group’s concerts have become unbearably small. In April 2016, the sensational song “Imperial” was released, in which LSP, according to one version, shares his dissatisfaction with his former agency. Initially it was planned that this would be a joint composition of only Oleg and London rapper Porchy (who does not understand Russian). However, when Savchenko heard Oxxxymiron’s verse, he defended the organization, adding his own verse to the track, in which he expressed everything he thought about his former colleague, and later recorded an almost hour-long conversational video about this situation. LSP himself claims that the song was not a diss and Miron interpreted everything incorrectly.

Stills from Miron’s video and LSP broadcast during the conflict (2016)

On September 30, the premiere of the 6-track release “Confectionery” took place, recorded together with Pharaoh (Gleb Golubin). After the success of the mini-album, the guys gave a joint “Cake Factory” tour throughout the CIS cities. In the spring, Oleg and Roma visited the comedy show and, with which the guys had already collaborated several times. At the end of April 2017, LSP decided to remind of himself with the album "Tragic City", which is a continuation of "Magic City". The solo album contains 13 compositions. In May, a video was released for the song “Coin”, which received more than 20 million views in six months.

LSP - Coin (2017)

Personal life

Oleg LSP now

On the same day, Oleg appeared on a TV program, performing the song “Labyrinth of Reflections.” LSP is a bright, prominent character in Russian hip-hop music; his work captivates the listener with its spontaneity, as well as features of dissimilarity and individuality.

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