lsp group. Singer LSP, biography, news, photos

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 best group 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 who made even a slight semblance of a career on the Mogilev rock scene of the same time, Roman Sascheko, having united in 2012, 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 published (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 LSP's song is really that bad, just ask any fan to name the band's 50 best songs and guess what, they'll tell you 72 overall. 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. The original by rapper Future, with whom “LSP” has been compared a lot and who obviously had a great influence on Savchenko, is good mainly because of 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 a set of allusions is characterized as “setting up serious conversation without charming antics and dreamy foolishness,” however, apart from 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 to blame for, 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, brandishes a cleaver, and forces anonymous male characters to have intimacy. Oleg, show me on this doll where you were touched, this is a safe place, they won’t harm you.

(Tragic City, 2017)

In even his most misogynistic moments, Savchenko always comes to his senses and leads to the conclusion that encountering a bad person is 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 the story that money is the most important thing. The crazy fragment where Natasha's ninja turtles appear seems to steer the song onto a little 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 sarcastic voice makes it difficult to really believe in his metaphors, and his natural corrosiveness and humor almost force him to put “enjoyment in 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 part: the word “me”, which turns into Eric Cartman’s “nya-nya-nya” in Savchenko’s gooning 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 gaze to 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 fought 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 book by Balzac 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 makes 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 note the 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 cohesive, and the arrangement seems 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 away anything and anyone 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: a 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 drunk, 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 the words, and babbles, and spits out, 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 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 here 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 Savchenko is hiding behind his image good man, but maybe 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, the producers usually rewarded the audience with on the 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, is 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” of collaboration between Savchenko and the 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 general 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 the death of a best friend, embedding a cartoon about Prostokvashino, VKontakte comments and synthetic drugs into a vivid picture of 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 too 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 them to cheerful people some similar trick. 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. Roman got it for use from the owner who had left somewhere. Roman is from Mogilev, but has not lived there for three years. And in general, he doesn’t have a problem with permanent housing: he says that he has now rented an apartment in St. Petersburg with Porchi, a Portuguese musician from Oksimiron’s team, but has not appeared there for three months.

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

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

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

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

Photo: Bogdan Slovyagin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It’s easy to call the previous works of “LSP” a dark version of Max Korzh. This is also cheerful EDM with rap and vocals in the spirit of early Kid Cudi, but not about optimism and a smile with 32 teeth, but about “everything is fine with me, thank God, but I don’t care.” With “Magic City,” LSP unexpectedly leaps into new territory. 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,” recalls Oleg, “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 is a Belarusian singer, rap artist and songwriter. IN THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF LSP-GROUP, since Oleg LSP began to constantly work with a fashionable sound engineer nicknamed Roma the Englishman. Unfortunately, the LSP duet ceased to be a duet after ) presumably due to drug use.
LSP (short for Lil’ Stupid Pig)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2011–2012: Beginning of solo career[

Oleg LSP’s debut mini-album “Seeing Colorful Dreams” was released on September 16, 2011. In the subsequent period, Oleg 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On May 24, 2012, the single “Numbers” was released, 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 on rap.ru, and “Cocktail” subsequently took a place in the ranking of the best songs of the year. “Cocktail” also made it into the top 20 Russian-language songs according to the A-One channel.

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

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

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

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

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

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

On October 31, 2014, the mixtape Yung Trappa Jesse Pinkman 2 was released. Of the thirteen songs on the record, LSP participated in three - all of them were originally prepared for the joint album of the performers. Later, in February 2015, Oleg noted that Trappa “went off the radar,” and already in November he tells the story of their personal acquaintance: under what circumstances they met, how the creative process took place. LSP also says that “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 serving in a pre-trial detention center for more than a year, was given almost six years in prison.

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

2015: Romantic Colegtion and Magic City, departure from Booking Machine[edit | edit wiki text]
On February 3, 2015, LSP released a mini-album, Romantic Colegtion. Two songs - “SPVL” (“I’ll Believe in Love Again”) and “Force Field” (an excerpt of which was demonstrated back in January) - are new and produced by Roma the Englishman. The third, “Exactly like this ’15”, as the title suggests, is an updated version of the track under musical accompaniment Deech “Exactly like this” 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 mixtape King Midas and in which Oleg, according to Oksimiron, talks about what he thinks about his former booking agency. In “Imperial” what happens is, as The Flow described the song: “a whole drama, a clash between two heroes of a generation” - LSP and Oxxxymiron. Oleg himself, contrary to his colleague’s accusations, stated that he put a completely different meaning into his text and in the online broadcast of the Periscope application, in his characteristic manner, performed “auto-decoding”, from a personal position explaining the meaning of virtually every line of his, concluding that his verse is ordinary represent. “I’m sure if the track had just been released by Porchy and I, it wouldn’t have been given to anyone, and diss songs wouldn’t have been found there either. Myron himself memeified him with his appearance on the track, turning almost any of my absolutely abstract lines into an attack on him and the Booking Machine,” LSP would later say.

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

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

In July - on the 8th and 10th - LSP uploads 2 leftovers from the 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 - a 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 the Boss I.G.O.R.. BRB and LSP also collaborated within the framework of Big Russian. Boss Show, where Oleg and Roman became guests.

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

After the start of the Tragic City Tour, it became known that the new LSP concert lineup included Den Hawk and Pyotr Klyuev. Denis is known 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 a musical guest in the program “ Evening Urgant“, 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 take him for the role of the Englishman by the comments under the video clip “Coin”, which played up the external similarity of Dmitry and Roman. As the video blogger stated, Oleg was filmed separately due to the discrepancy between their schedules. The backstage from the Dope Films team that shot the video was published on October 7.

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

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

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

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

Childhood and youth

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

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

Music

LSP means "little stupid pig"

LSP - Hippie

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

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

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

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

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

LSP about the track “Imperial”

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

In October, Savchenko published a video for the song “Body,” dedicated to a deceased friend, and also became a musical guest in the “Evening Urgant” show. 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

Oleg LSP appeared on our radar three years ago. But it all really started only in 2014: two albums were released at once - the winter "YOP" and the recent "Hangman", which we really liked. The Flow walked with Oleg and his colleague Roma around Moscow and went to their concert.

Oleg and Roma the Englishman are sitting on a park bench and are getting ready to go to VDNKh to play basketball. They laugh, reminisce about their recent interviews (each trashier than the next), and with the recorder in my hand, I feel a little foolish. Nothing comes to mind smarter than the question: “So you are a group now?” “A group,” they agree.

“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)”.

Oleg graduated from the Faculty of Philology, Roma studied postmodern philosophy. At the same time, he played in the electropunk band GreenChe; at one of the concerts, Lekha Nikonov from the Last Tanks in Paris noticed her and invited her to perform at the legendary St. Petersburg club “Griboedov.” The group, however, did not last long. “A side effect of punk is that you are tightly you stick out. It really interferes with work.”

After that, Roma was engaged in studio work, one day he was asked to mix the album of “one dude from Vitebsk.” “I said that it was too positive, “bananas” there, “ice cream”! Well, he refused - some other guy mixed it - no effect. I say: “Introduce me to this guy, I have a few existential minuses for him.”

The “existential” minuses came at just the right time. If on the first release of LSP “Seeing Colorful Dreams” everything was, albeit sad, but very bright (“as if Kid Cudi hung out with Mitya Fomin” - I once recommended him to my friends) , then in 2014 he recorded two albums of songs about how disgusting everything is. I must clarify: beautiful songs about how disgusting everything is.

“Roma is not a hip-hop person, but now he has gradually become more tolerant. He can turn on Drake, he likes “No New Friends.” Oleg and I quote songs from the group Legal Bizne$$ to each other; for him, their record became almost the first rap album. And he started writing rap after he watched Timati on TV in the “Star Factory.” “I saw the guy come out - and the topic that my mother was watching exploded with hip-hop. ..... (amazing) in general , I decided to quit the rap guy too.”

As a person who graduated from the philology department, Oleg uses his words very carefully. In his songs, as in a youth comedy, everything is simple and not confusing. The heroine loves the drug dealer because he is “stylish and brave.” After a night at the club, the hero turns to his companion: “It sucks, you’re not even a girl, you’re rotten meat!” (literally). The guy hits on the girl with the phrase “You are better than the Internet.” Everything is as it happens in life.

“We are adherents of the discourse of post-gopnichestvo” (emphasis on I), Roma jokes. Or maybe he’s not joking. What I really like about LSP is this combination of children and adults: these are the songs of a child who suddenly one day discovered that all his peers have matured, but he hasn’t. That’s why there’s a funny little thing standing nearby. about Pikachu and a track about how a person jumps from the roof; failed love, drugs, lack of money - all this is in his songs.

What they don’t have is an evil, approaching provincialism; for this, Oleg and Roma are very educated, open-minded and, excuse me, ideological. To my surprise, I learn that the title of their latest album, “Hangman,” is taken from a song by the St. Petersburg alternative group “Chimera.”

The school of electropunk was not in vain - Roma cranks up Skrillex's "wob-wob", Davidgett's synthesizers and Baauer's 808 drums to the maximum. Therefore, everything sounds loud, assertive, desperate. And maybe a little more teenage than required - but this is already your personal problems.

“Cocktail” is LSP’s main song today; it is usually played last at concerts.

“LSP is pure literature, there are no emotions, personal experience. It is clear that there is love, pain, existential suffering, but it is not clear that it is Oleg LSP who suffers. Every Russian rapper is a hostage to himself: many rappers like to turn their lives into a reality show. But we don’t have that. Oleg can then call himself whatever he wants - and it will be ruined."

There is one more nuance: for all Oleg’s extraordinary charm, his music is equally masculine and feminine. “I constantly read on VKontakte that we write songs for chicks. And I was always amazed, what normal guy would write songs for boys?! I feel sorry for people like that.” Oleg’s fellow countryman Max Korzh works in much the same way: if you come to his concerts, you can easily see that there are approximately equal numbers of visitors of both sexes.

Comparisons with Korzh don’t irritate you? “Yes, I recently read on the contrary that it was Korzh who took everything from us. Well, we stewed together in the same..... (garbage), hung out in the same studio." Roma, among other things, participated in the recording of Korzh’s second album, “Life in High.” But he and Oleg are reluctant to talk about Korzh; Instead, we pack up and go to VDNH. On the way, we discuss Yanix’s new mixtape - then, when we meet in person, Oleg will surprise him by knowing the words to all the tracks by heart.

A day later, I watch how at an LSP concert, right in front of the stage, a hundred people start jumping madly from the very first track. Oleg carries all the time funny nonsense, raises toasts to Moscow and is so charmingly rude to the audience that no one can even think of being offended by him. And suddenly it dawns on me how to explain in a nutshell to myself, to you, and to anyone else what is so special about him.

It's simple. He is stylish and bold.