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June 16, 2007
Russian Rapper of the Day: Timati

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Several songs from "Black Star" were featured in the soundtrack for Fedor Bondarchuk's recent hit romantic comedy Zhara


Timati/Ratmir: Moi Put (My Way)
Тимати/Ратмир: Мой Путь

This music video is a tribute by Russian rap star Timati to a friend who was killed in a car wreck. The M's the rappers make with their fingers stands for Moscow. This video features the actress Anastasia Kochetkova, who played the photographer in the movie Zhara. Timati and several business partners recently opened a hip-hop night club in Moscow by the same name.

Click here to read Russia Blog's previous post about Timati. Click on the extended post to watch another music video from Timati's 2006 album, Black Star...


Timati: Dozdis (Waiting)
Тимати: Дождись

Here is the twelfth track from this album, titled "Dozdis" (dazh-deese) or "Wait".


Тимати/Xzibit

Timati making a music video with the American rapper Xzibit.


Тимати/Алекса: Плачут Небеса
Timati/Alexa: Plachut Nebesa

An older music video, featuring Timati and his ex-girlfriend, Alexa.



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I like the music, singing, most of the images. They still look like gangster punks, but I see the universal humanness in them, and the grief at a friends' passing.

Wish they would figure out that looking like American hip-hop punks isn't all that great.
Maybe for a brief moment in their generation.....

But the class and intelligence and true Russian greatness comes through in people who carry themselves and their talent with the presentation of grace, intelligence, and being the best they can be; always striving for excellence and beauty.

Those are the enduring qualities that define greatness.

Miss u alot hope that ppl remember u as a loved 1

I think you could find in Russian culture more valuable figures than vulgare golden babies playing American gangsters.

"Russian" rapper?? That's a laugh!! Just because this mudman babbles in Russian (and resides there), does NOT make HIM a bona fide Russian!!! REAL Russians are Causcasians, i.e. White people...and it's PAINFULLY OBVIOUS this mudman is NOT!!!

J.S.

To J.S.
Mudman?
I could think of several derogatory words to name you right now. What talents have YOU brought to the table?. He is doing something he enjoys, he is well-liked and he is handsome. People such yourself, whose only purpose for living is to denegrate others, are to be pitied. I find you pathetic...and irrelevant. DR.

to dagnel
this guy is obviously ignorant and a poser and influances little kids to alter their cultures in a negative way. maybe he will help russia have more crack towns in the future like the US. his talets consist of molding young innocent mind into young adults who act like his image

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