Who is in the LSP group? “YOP” and “Hangman”, signing on Booking Machine

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 wasn't always like this.

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. "Am I 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 come back: 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, 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 it works creative process. - 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. This 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 just three days before wrote “ More money" 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 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. It doesn't take much to notice how much the sound of LSP's latest album is influenced by Atlanta's wildly 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.

Typically, a person performing on stage and not wanting to “shine” his own name chooses a beautiful, sonorous pseudonym that allows him to stand out from the crowd. This approach is also used by adherents of rap: Purulent, Scryptonite, Ptah - such names are difficult not to remember. But few people would dare to be called a “little stupid pig”. But, nevertheless, such a comrade was found: the abbreviation for the English Lil’ Stupid Pig - LSP - was chosen for the creative pseudonym by the Belarusian rapper Oleg Savchenko.

Childhood and youth

Oleg was born in July 1989 in Vitebsk into a family of journalists. WITH early years the boy became interested in pop music, his parents encouraged his hobby and even hired a piano teacher. With age, Oleg's interests shifted to the rock stage. Even later, when the young man heard Timati’s tracks, Savchenko realized that only rap reflected his inner mood.

When he came of age, Oleg presented himself with a gift in the form of an official mixtape called “I Got Everything!”, from the very first lines he stated without embarrassment:

“Hello everyone, here I am – one very cunning pig.”

The album was called lopsided, the performer’s vocal abilities were called weak, but the composition “And I rap” was called the best. At the same time, a new name appeared - LSP. Over time, in an interview, the musician voiced various interpretations of the pseudonym: “a ray is stronger than a bullet”, “a loving heart of a boy”, “lies, passion and vices”; he called the “better ask later” version his favorite.

Despite the fact that Savchenko devoted himself entirely to music, the future rap star managed to get a higher education at the Minsk State Linguistic University. But the diploma as a linguist teacher went on the shelf.

Music

Following the debut album, the collection “Here We Come Again” was released. Two years later, the result of joint work with hip-hoppers Deech and Maxie Flow was released - the mini-album “No Appeals”.

LSP has collaborated to one degree or another with Aes Genius Yung Trappa Oxxxymiron Pharaoh Yanix, Big Russian Boss. It is customary to count the beginning from 2011 solo career LSP. Then I saw the light solo album“Seeing Colorful Dreams,” songs from which the musician had previously posted on the Internet. In the same year, the video for the single “Hippie” was released.

In 2012, LSP became a duo: Oleg was joined by beatmaker Roma Sashchenko, known as Roma the Englishman. Roman was responsible for mixing the release of Oleg’s debut solo album; in addition to composing, he essentially took the place of producer in the team. Almost immediately after joining forces, the musicians released the singles “Numbers” and “Why do I need this world” with a video for it.

A year later, the talented duo presented the singles “More Money”, “Lilvane”, “Cocktail” to the audience. All songs hit the charts best compositions for a month, and the latter was called a diamond in the brostep genre and awarded third place in the top of the best for 2013.

In 2014, two albums were released at once - “YOP” and “Hangman”. The rapper Galat participated in the recording of the first one. The album brought together both new and already published songs: “Rope”, “Pikachu”, “City”, “Numbers”. Fans called the composition “Why do I need this world” witty exercise on the field dance music. The songs “Vinaigret” and “Lost and Not Found” were later embodied in videos.

The album "Gallows" includes 8 songs. The name was borrowed from the St. Petersburg punk band Chimera, famous in the nineties. The album was in the top three for 2014 and in the top 20 of the first ten years of the new century. Critics noted that in his songs Oleg, unlike other rappers, successfully acted as a storyteller. On some Belarusian rap sites, the composition “Better than the Internet” was put in first place out of everything that the musician has published to date.

In 2014, LSP took custody executive director booking agency Booking Machine Miron Fedorov, also known as rap artist Oksimiron. Together with him, LSP released the song “I’m Bored of Living,” which in the same year was recognized as the best according to The Flow, as well as a collaboration with Yung Trappa called “MLD.”

Oleg himself considers the song “Force Field” from the album “Romantic Colegtion”, released at the beginning of 2015, to be one of the best. Listeners praised the pop-funk composition “SPVL”.

After 4 months, the release of the next album, “Magic City,” was announced. Oksimiron, Pharaoh, Stepan Karma and Sil-A participated in the recording. Thanks to this work, Roman Sashchenko and Oleg Savchenko acquired an army of fans in the Russian rap space. Videos were shot for the songs “Madness” and “OK”.

Creative biography of LSP made sharp turn in the summer of 2015: the musicians refused to cooperate with Booking Machine, considering that the scope of the contract limited their performances, although it was at this time that LSP began active touring. Moreover, both sides reinforced the conflict with mutual video messages on pages on social networks, without choosing expressions, they outlined their vision of the situation. At this point, contacts stopped altogether.

In September 2016, LSP presented a joint project with Pharaoh, “Confectionery” - an album of six tracks. In support of the collaboration, the musicians announced a tour called “Cake Factory”. Also this year, LSP released “Spit into Eternity,” “Miracle-Parole,” and a remix of “Madness.”

In the spring of 2017, the continuation of “Magic City” was released - “Tragic City”, a collection of 13 songs. The first video for the album was a video for the composition “Coin”, in which the only time Roman Englishman appeared. The video set a record for views - more than 25 million.

In the same year, fans heard a collaboration with Big Russian Boss - “Pimperial”, the single “Money is not a problem”.

In the summer of 2017, the collaboration between Sashchenko and Savchenko was interrupted by the death of the Englishman. The artist’s family did not report the cause of death. Oleg made a video for the song “Body”, which he dedicated to his departed friend. The role of Roman was played by blogger Dmitry Larin, who resembles the rapper. The clip took first place on the Russian MTV chart.

Personal life

Oleg does not talk about his personal life and claims that there are no problems with the opposite sex. It is known that the musician is not married.

LSP now

After Roman’s death, Oleg said that he would continue to develop solo project, and the performance schedule will be followed. On his social network page, Oleg wrote that the work of a large team remained behind the scenes, and above all, Roman himself would not have allowed the work to be stopped and the listeners to be left without music.

In September 2017, LSP went on tour in support of “Tragic City,” during which he gave 38 concerts in five countries. On the tour, Savchenko was joined by a member of the Piggy Bang band, Den Hawk, who had previously starred in the “Vinaigret” video, and Petr Klyuev, a Belarusian musician who participated in the recording of the acoustic version of “Coins.”

At the end of 2017, Oleg released another song - “ The Little Prince" - in combination with an unusual hand-drawn video, together with the Moscow punk group "Pasosh" - new version their songs "Party". A Hell And Back Tour is planned for 2018.

Discography

2007 - “I understand everything!”

2009 - “No Appeals”

2011 - “Seeing colorful dreams”

2012 - “Why do I need this world”

Oleg LSP’s debut mini-album “Seeing Colorful Dreams” was released on September 16, 2011. In the subsequent period, Oleg gets acquainted and joins efforts in working on new music with Roma the Englishman, the first fruit of collaboration with whom is the single “Numbers”. The release of “YOP”, an album containing 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.

Life and career

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

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

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, from which LSP began a 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 rap.ru, and “Cocktail” subsequently took a place in the ranking best songs per year. “Cocktail” also made it into the top 20 Russian-language songs according to the A-One channel.

On July 28, 2013, Oleg releases a cover version of the song “Fool and Lightning” Russian group"The King and the Jester." 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

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 on "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 the victory in verbal duel Oleg won. 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 “I was thinking of telling 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 Living.” 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

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. At the end of the year, “Bullet” with Pharaoh will be included in The Flow’s list of the best songs of 2015, 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 King Midas mixtape 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

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 times of “YOP” and “Hangman”: songs called “Bonus Babe” and “Half and 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” was published on SoundCloud - joint project LSP and Pharaoh. 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 issue was released studio album"LSP" Tragic City. 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

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 for his collaboration with Oleg himself on early stage creative work, and work within the framework of Piggy Bang, 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 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 from the filming on his channel music video, in which, among other things, he noted that the video makers were encouraged to cast him in the role of the Englishman by the comments under the video clip “Coin”, which played on external resemblance 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)

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 Sofa” (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 LSP’s 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

Autotune is used in LSP songs. At the time of the release of “Seeing Colorful 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

2011 - “Seeing colorful dreams”
2014 - “YOP”
2014 - “Hangman”
2015 - Romantic Colection
2015 - Magic City
2016 - “Confectionery” (together with Pharaoh)
2017 - Tragic City

Concert tours

2015 - big autumn tour
2016 - Never Over Tour (big spring tour)
2016 - Cake Factory (with Pharaoh)
2017 - Tragic City Tour Advertising

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.

Oleg LSP and his girlfriend Vlada: what is known about the singer?

LSP is a rap artist, singer, songwriter. LSP stands for Little stupid pig.

As a child, I was inspired by the work of Andrei Gubin, and later learned about the hip-hop direction.

In 2014, he released the collection “YOP” and the full-length studio album “Hangman,” after which he acquired many new listeners.

Full name: Oleg Vadimovich Savchenko

Nickname: LSP (LSP)

Age: 28 years old

Place of birth: Vitebsk, Belarus

Place of residence: Minsk, Belarus

Zodiac sign: Cancer

Height: 181 cm |

Marital status: not married.
Rap artist Oleg Savchenko, better known under the pseudonym LSP, was born on July 10, 1989 in a family of journalists.

As a child, the boy was inspired by the songs of pop musician Andrei Gubin. Later, after television program"Star Factory 4", learned about Timati and became an avid listener of hip-hop (I became interested in the work of Bad Balance, Decl, 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 (Zemfira, KiSh, Mumiy Troll and others), Oleg realized that he liked rap much more. When he came of age, the guy released several test recordings in the hip-hop genre.

In 2007, Oleg’s debut mixtape entitled “I Got It All!” was released, and a little later, a collection of songs “Here We Come Again”.

2009 was marked by the release of Savchenko’s collaboration with Deech and Maxie Flow entitled “No Appeals”.

Two years later, LSP’s debut music video for the song “Hippie” premiered, and in September the 6-track EP “Seeing Colorful Dreams” was released into the public domain.

In the spring of 2012, LSP began close collaboration with beatmaker and musician Roma Englishman (real name Sashchenko).

The first one general work became the song “Numbers”, in 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 year.

At the beginning of January 2014, Oleg expanded his discography with the album “YOP”; St. Petersburg performer Galat took part in the recording of the track “Loop”.

In April, LSP collaborated with Yung Trappa, releasing the song “MLD” (Baby Loves a Dealer) with him, and the next month the first, full-length studio album “Hangman” was presented, 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.

Together with Miron Yanovich, known as Oxxxymiron, 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 Meowizzy, Savchenko still doesn’t understand why he spent his nerves on this.

In the wake of the “hype,” Savchenko stopped collaborating with the “Booking Machine” organization, citing the fact that, due to their management, the group’s concerts had become unbearably small.

In April 2016, the sensational song “Imperial” was released, in which LSP, according to one version, shared his dissatisfaction with his former agency.

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.

Oleg LSP and his girlfriend Vlada: about personal things

The hero of the new, 18th edition of the show “vDud” was the Belarusian rapper LSP (real name – Oleg Savchenko). In a conversation with video blogger Yuri Dudem, he spoke about the protracted conflict with rapper Oksimiron (Miron Fedorov), sexual preferences, and also named the most beautiful girl in Belarus.

The interview lasted more than an hour. The rapper spoke about his collaboration with Roma Englishman, who died in the summer of 2017, about the violent potency of Pyotr Klyuev, who replaced him in LSP, about loyalty to a girl and about how he fell in love with “Miss Belarus” Olga Nevdakh as a child.

Oleg Savchenko tries not to talk about his personal life, so journalists from various music publications nothing is known about the girls young musician. The rapper himself has repeatedly said that he has no children and wife, just as he has no problems with the female half of humanity...

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LSP (Oleg Savchenko) who is this?

Real name— Oleg Savchenko

Hometown— Vitebsk, Belarus

Nickname— LSP

Activity— Rapper

Marital status— Not married

Height — 181

LSP (Oleg Savchenko) biography

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

Childhood years

In early childhood, the boy was interested in 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, 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 piece of music"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 collaboration between two gifted representatives of the Russian rap stage in one team, a new music video for the song “ LSP – Cocktail" A number of critics stated that this film adaptation of the song was the best in Russia in 2013.

LSP – Cocktail

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 concert agency Booking Machine.

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.

LSP – Magic city

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

and LSP

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 of the young musician. The rapper himself has repeatedly said that he does not have children or a wife. And he has no problems with the female half of humanity.

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" The clip appeared on YouTube video hosting 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.”

in the LSP video