Oleg Vadimovich Savchenko is a Belarusian singer, rap performer, performing under the pseudonym LSP (abbreviation English phrase Little Stupid Pig) - was born on July 10, 1989 in Vitebsk, in a family of journalists.
The musician often plays on his pseudonym. So, in an interview on Big Russian Boss Show - April 25, 2017 episode - He said, "My favorite transcript is 'Better Ask Later.'
Oleg's passion for music came to him as a child. Oleg's father hired a piano tutor for his son. He liked the work of Andrei Gubin. Then, with the release of the Star Factory 4 project on television, Savchenko became inspired by hip-hop rhythms, and Timati became his idol. Later, in 2011, Savchenko commented on this event:
“Can you imagine what it was like for me at 14 years old?! Rap on Channel One! So it's time. So, we need to fuck.”
Listening to Bad Balance and Decl, the aspiring musician honed his skills. Parents never refused support, especially while studying at the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State Linguistic University.
Debut album “I Got It All!” Oleg Savchenko recorded it in 2007. Two years later, the artist released his second album, “No Appeals.” The recording featured fellow rap artists Deech and Maxie Flow. In 2009, Savchenko released the video “Hippie” and the album “Seeing Colorful Dreams.”
In 2012, he began collaborating with beatmaker and musician Roma Sashchenko (Roma Englishman). Their first collaboration was the song “Numbers”. The duo is actively filming videos - “Why do I need this world” and “LSP - Cocktail”.
In January 2014, LSP released the album “YOP”. In May of the same year, the album “Hangman” was released. Video clips were shot for the songs “Vinegrette” and “Lost and Not Found”. In the summer, LSP and Roma Englishman begin collaboration with Russian rap artist Miron Fedorov, performing under the pseudonym Oxxxymiron, and with the booking agency Booking Machine, which is headed by Oksimiron’s friend Ilya Mamai.
In September 2014, Oleg took part in the St. Petersburg hip-hop project Versus Battle, where his opponent was battle regular Meowizzy. The issue was released on October 19, 2014, and Oleg won the verbal duel.
At the end of November, Oleg Savchenko releases a collaboration with Oxxxymiron “I'm Bored of Life.” Another song, “Madness,” became a real hit. On February 3, 2015, the mini-album Romantic Colegtion was released, the name of which plays on the names of the performers. In 2015, the duo stopped collaborating with Booking Machine and in the summer of the same year, Oleg Savchenko released solo album Magic City. The album becomes popular in Russia.
The severance of relations with Booking Machine and Oksimiron had a great resonance in cultural environment, in other words, a big beef has begun in Russian rap. Oleg expressed doubts about the success of cooperation with the booking agency. He did this in the form of a verse for the song Imperial, which Oksimiron's Portuguese producer Porchy asked him to record. Oksimiron and his colleague mistook LSP’s words for a diss. A 40-minute justification for Oleg and a 50-minute appeal from Miron followed online, in which he accuses LSP of ingratitude.
On September 30, 2016, LSP released the mini-album “Confectionery”, recorded together with Gleb Golubin, known under the pseudonym Pharaoh. On April 28, 2017, Oleg and Roman released the album Tragic City. In May of the same year, a video clip was shot for the song “Coin”, which received more than 20 million views in a short period of time.
At the end of July 2017, Savchenko’s colleague Roma Englishchanina passed away. In memory of the late Roman, Oleg Savchenko recorded a video clip for the song “Body”. The clip was released on YouTube on October 2, 2017. The role of Roman in the film adaptation of the song was played by video blogger Dmitry Larin, who looks like the deceased rap artist.
Discography of LSP
2011 - Dreaming in Color (EP)
2014 - Gallows
2015 - Romantic Colection (EP)
2015 - Magic City
2016 - Confectionery" (together with Pharaoh)
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 were not the best British post-punk band, Nirvana carefully repeated the finds of alternative rock of the 80s, and back in May not a single LSP album was individually worthy of anything more than just praise. Oleg Savchenko, who started in the Minsk rap scene of the late 2000s and Roman Sascheko, who made even a slight semblance of a career on the Mogilev rock scene of the same time, united in 2012, they hardly expected that their joint work would be so successful and so, in essence, fleeting.
The group’s curve looks something like this: first, Savchenko’s timid solo attempts to move away from the boring post-Soviet hip-hop of the late 2000s to ironic multi-genre pop music; then the low vocal skill of Savchenko the rapper plus the amateurish and therefore monstrously inventive electro-pop of Roma the Englishman on the double album of 2014; then the self-contradictory, poisonous trap of the “Magic City” sample; and finally the period"Tragic City" , combining mature, sophisticated pop songs with mocking trap and Savchenko’s flow developed to a masterful level.
5 years for a person are the sleepy years of university, a prolonged maternity leave, the distance from one tedious job to the next. 5 years for a group is a long time and a self-sufficient era. LSP spent their 5 years at the limit of their capabilities.
To our song guide"LSP" included are officially 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 is really that bad of a song, 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 guilty of, what the artist is accusing you of. Perhaps an expression of Oleg's frustration - in the absence of great popularity at a time when the group already had more than enough very good songs. We feel his pain.
(I Understood Everything promo, 2007)
Lo-fi rap may not be too remarkable on its own, but it is original in the context of the discography"LSP" (Savchenko will never again try to howl in the Negro manner) and explores the same themes as the best later songs of the group (loneliness and mental tossing).
(Magic City, 2015)
Inevitable for every rapper, a song about origins. Started from the bottom, now we are here. Oleg clumsily names his sources of inspiration, conventionally and incoherently lists the moments of his biography, showing his excellence. Years after the release of this song, the biographical facts are remembered, but what happens in the arrangement is difficult to remember, even when the track is played.
(Hangman, 2014)
A tiresome sex song packaged in an “up, down, smile at me” lyric scheme. This is a skill- turn everything into a dark side. To add heat to the everyday, the whole story is turned towards a certain conventional female warrior-Xena-warrior-queen-vamp. Character (as if from some computer game) walks, wins, 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 catches himself and leads to the fact that he will face bad person- an unpleasant and painful experience. The short and unimaginatively designed song “Trash” breaks out of this series: having begun with an arrogant mockery of a woman (“three merged together in her - a lady, a whore and a fool”), it ends with a smug mockery of her. So-so dramaturgy.
(single, 2016)
A charity (figuratively) single, in which Savchenko sings to the beat of a friend from his youth about hanging out with old friends and the fact that over the years it becomes more and more difficult to get bored. There's some interesting stuff starting melodically in the choruses, but overall it's not at all memorable.
(Tragic City, 2017)
An extremely lazy piece, as if composed and sung in a dream, about how easily a cancan turns into a trap, and a superficial play on words into a song. As luck would have it, Savchenko does not use any of his vocal skills at all, and the Englishman’s entertaining arrangement (some dying guitars, a saxophone emerging from behind red curtains) cannot draw attention to itself and save the situation.
(Dreaming in Color, 2011)
Even at the time of the song’s release, Oleg made excuses that he understood how “vob” is the basis- yesterday: “But the minus in “Hippie” is two and a half years old. Well, yes, this saw is so cheap there that it’s even a little embarrassing. But someone told me that this is even good. If only there was quality dubstep there- It would have been a clear attempt to fit into something. And so- It’s just some nonsense playing.” But the charisma of slacker goofing sells this track, both in 2011 and now.
(Single, 2013, EP, 2014)
An inconsistent EDM action thriller that's all about- to text. A recipe for success complete with hooks and punchlines. "I need more money - there will be more chicks, there will be more friends, there will be more jokes.” With the simplest logical conclusions: “If there is no money, that means there are no chicks, that means there are no friends, that means there are no jokes.” The text seems to be leading to the conclusion “everyone needs more money.” Entertaining mathematics. Pop music is allowed to be silly, but not boring. The thesis can be successfully illustrated by this song.
(Magic City, 2015)
Uninventive trap stylization, completely dedicated to stories that money is the most important thing. The delusional fragment where Natasha's Ninja Turtles appear seems to steer the song onto slightly more original ground, but Savchenko is not good at pop culture jokes in general, and even a greater master couldn't have pulled it off here, so then everything just fades away.
(Hangman, 2014)
How many rap stars have you seen with seascape-themed songs? What about the completely unironic EDM action films about a stern captain leading a ship through a terrible storm? The Englishman's beat has rarely been less appropriate than in "Overboard", but one cannot condemn him - and what, in essence, did he even have to play with such and such text? If we believe that art should raise questions, then the song can compete for the title of the most highly artistic from LSP. However, it is impossible to listen to her seriously. So you see Savchenko at his grandmother’s bookcase, turning in his hands a book worn out by generations of schoolchildren and reading “Captain Blood” from the cover under his breath like “captain, fuck!”
(Yop, 2014)
Played according to the notes, but for some reason still not an incendiary emo ballad. There is the dichotomy “angel - devil” in the very first line, and the black castle, and digging graves, and Romeo and Juliet, and Bonnie and Clyde, and the keys howling like a wolf in the ashes, and witch-house things that were relevant at the time the song was written - but all in vain. Savchenko’s boyish and unintentionally sardonic voice does not allow one to really believe in his metaphors, and his natural corrosiveness and humor almost force him to put “enjoyment of the process” as a rhyme to the “pale princess.” It seemed like he should have just fallen off the rope, but he still didn’t fall the right 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 view of everyday details is completely obscured by a sentimental haze; the “baby” and the “dealer” do not live in our world, but in some cruel comic book. Alas, the Englishman’s overly sketchy music does not add depth to this superficial picture.
(Tragic City, 2017)
A song about the difficulties of the life of a star who has long made her way to the top and still remembers with pain the suffering she experienced - an old format. Savchenko composes a number of funny lines for it (“a puddle of urine, almost sober already, I honored this place”), but, in general, if it weren’t for the sophisticated vocal delivery and good arrangement, listening to it would be completely uninteresting.
(Hangman, 2014)
In one of his diss videos against Oksimiron, Savchenko boasted that he had a Balzac book at home - the highly social electro-pop “Vinaigrette” shows that he did not read it very carefully. Pictures of the narrator's cute or lively classmates, combined with caricatures of them as adults, produce the effect of crude, sentimental moralizing about God knows what. Savchenko draws from his rhetorical exercise the law of the universe - “eat what you give”, but, generally speaking, no conclusion other than “it happens” does not follow from it. The Englishman's music is caustic, but also does not make any special impression.
Yop, 2014
A boring song in which the boring rapper Galat and Savchenko, who has not yet learned to draw out uninteresting lyrics with his voice, say something confusing to the off-screen girl. If the lyrics are almost completely worthless (however, Savchenko also has a charming “You are guilty without guilt, only / That the wolf wants to eat / Your tender nipples / And your small ears”), then the music is surprisingly good in certain moments. Englishman's Beat - seems to be the closest thing to Clams Casino-style cloud rap that he did for"LSP" . On the chorus, where Savchenko's auto-tuned oblivion is superimposed on flickering neon synths, the song even seems good.
(Single, 2012, EP, 2014)
"LSP" sometimes the texts fell into teenage dramas. Most likely, because the emotions they wanted to express did not yet have enough experience five years ago. It’s after a few albums that these same intentions will emerge"LSP" among the main punks in the country, but in 2012, although effective, “Numbers” sounded like a frowning group “Zveri” in a dubstep remix or an interesting version of the group “Amatori”. But if you listen carefully in 2017, “Numbers” is probably much closer to “Black Siemens.” “In a pair of trendy sneakers, listening to exclusive tech house, inhaling super-light Kent, checked all accounts, no messages” (SOOOOO 2012) - this is a talkative guy “in dead Nikes, in a white T-shirt.” Only if Pharaoh sent us to the future, “Numbers” got lost somewhere in the school past.
(Tragic City, 2017)
A well-known trope in rap is self-righteous bragging about chicks. If the text can hardly be called original, then you can mark general atmosphere. Oleg acts as a kind of pimp-fakir, who has blondes, brunettes, brown-haired women and halves in his hat. We also learn about the artist’s code of honor (“I take two, although I could have six”). Everything sounds 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 anything and anyone away from Oleg, but he will still remain fully equipped. Moreover, it is very pleasant to hear the matured echoes of intonations"LSP" , which were on “Seeing Colorful Dreams.” Oleg, who can fool around charismatically and likably (“in general, I would like to cum into eternity”).
(Hangman, 2014)
Arrangement of “Faust” for the 2010s: the young rake (judging by Savchenko’s amazing line “My heart is becoming more and more capricious / My hero is getting older,” he tells the story, although not observing the Onegin stanza, but with an eye on it) tries year after year sell your soul to the devil, but somehow the devil still won’t appear. If Savchenko’s text really reeks of “The King and the Fool,” then the Englishman’s music makes me think of Crystal Castles. The sum turns out to be surprisingly effective: together with an even better cover of “The Fool and the Lightning,” the song makes you seriously regret that “LSP” didn’t really go into the territory of theatrical Russian rock for drunken entrances and unwashed robes - their techniques work brilliantly there .
(Romantic Colection, 2015)
A remake of the short 2009 lo-fi audiobook about love, murder and the killing of love. The wavy ephemeral electronics of Savchenko’s old friend, Minsk producer Deech, promised something all decade, but never grew into anything serious, but as a photo wallpaper for a story in the spirit of Dostoevsky, it is remarkably good.
(Magic City, 2015)
The most successful of the trap songs “LSP”, completely built on puns: the stripper Savchenko liked in it turns out to be a cricket who thoroughly knows his sixth (as a trained listener can easily guess, in the last verse it will be the rapper’s penis). The reasons for this are quite banal: 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 drunken, lopsided, but surprisingly charming R’n’B number about the fact that Oleg Savchenko was already rapping “f**k” at the age of 18 (in fact, not). It starts with the magical line “Hello everyone, here I am - one very cunning pig,” which, of course, will eventually make its way into pinned posts on fan Twitter.
(Tragic City, 2017)
The song is about how Savchenko was wooed and married by a girl, only to find out right after the wedding that, after drinking a little, he begins to rave about the girl from the joint song with Oksimiron. The closest and riskiest approach"LSP" to the format not even of radio, but straight from kebab houses: a clearly and in detail told story from Latin American TV series from the time of the musicians’ childhood, an excellent sweet arrangement by the Englishman, where even the saxophone has a place. In moments like the lines “You think these are dreams? / Why then do I give you flowers / And a ring with a stone?” The shadow of the early “Lyapis Trubetskoy” hangs over the group, also balancing on the brink between parody and sincere idiocy.
(Magic City, 2015
In 2015, not all fans of the genre understood that Pharaoh would turn into a huge dead-dynasty phenomenon, and the reaction to this collaboration at first was rather mocking. It's good that the songs"LSP" their fans don't. An effective trap banger and a concert fan favorite, which is once again in the discography"LSP" showed that Oleg knows and understands better. And also that Oleg has a funny poetic self-perception (“I’m like the new Yesenin - I fuck girls and I read poetry to them”).
(Magic City, 2015)
Chilling auto-tuned soul, more like a philosophical VKontakte post than a song. In order to somehow brighten up the obviously boring material, Savchenko uses all the vocal techniques he knows: he mutters words, and babbles, and spits, and sings, and so intensely and successfully that he squeezes the maximum out of the song. If you are interested in the experiences of an intelligent high school student who happens to become a rap star, then don’t pass by.
(Single, 2013, EP, 2014)
A hangover action movie and one of the main Russian-language diamonds in the popular youth genre “brostep” in 2013. Five years later, brostep in pop songs has become a tired cliche, but “Cocktail” still sounds fresh. Not only thanks to the memorable hooks (“bartender, dear”), but also to the unexpected replacement of the climactic drop with an acoustic guitar. Acoustic guitar. Bold and unforgettable songwriting. 17
(Hangman, 2014)
Rustic but incendiary Daft Punk for Minsk socialites. It's not an angry song at all, as it might seem if you write down the words of the chorus on paper. Perhaps it sounds so charming because Oleg sings it exactly like a bitch. Ratchet is a queen with a defiant personality but a big heart. Take care, Christina C. And perhaps this is the most positive use of the term “bitch” not only in the discography"LSP" , but also in principle in Russian rap. Everyone wants to believe that it is obvious that 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, producers usually rewarded the audience with on choruses (how many people in 2017 know what a “drop” is?), here is moved to the verse, and the chorus, on the contrary, is made into an affectionate techno part. It all ends with a drum and bass coda, which sounds like an answer to the question posed by the song: why bother messing around with music, of course.
(Tragic City, 2017)
A romantic pop number about how unexpected Armageddon will at least allow lovers to die on the same day. All his strength returns to Savchenko: the successful poetry of everyday life (“we were woken up in the morning by my battered mobile phone” - in the “battered” one you can hear the tinkling and trill of the bell), gentle, brittle singing and the ability to show love, not smeared with cheap cynicism, not ideal, but reliable a refuge from the melancholy and despair of life. The Englishman gives another lesson in paradoxical and extremely effective montage of styles: an acoustic ballad turns into R’n’B, then turns into a juke and quietly fades out in the form of an ambient sketch. It turns out that Leonid Agutin’s song may be too much, but are there many pop songs in Russian that are better than those by Leonid Agutin?
(Hangman, 2014)
The opening song is the first one made completely consciously and precisely as an “album” collaboration Savchenko and Englishman. The Englishman creates an instrumental in the middle between dancehall, Rustie and just stadium EDM - the result is a piece that, perhaps, too clearly reveals the year of its composition, but is eye-rolling and furious. Savchenko performs the vocal part in the chorus as if it were pop-punk, and, of course, if every era should have its own pop-punk format, then in the mid-10s above " Meteor shower"There was no way to jump.
(Yop, 2014)
An erotic ballad about how much people born in 1989 were plowed by the Pokemon series. It was with “Pikachu” that Savchenko began his generally disastrous practice of equipping his songs with strings of silly cultural allusions and puns: the story of a girl who, secretly from her boyfriend, sometimes has sex with a man who doesn’t want to know anything about her, is completely told in the space of children’s concepts cartoon. Another indirect triumph of Savchenko is that Pokemon Go was still three years away at the time the song was written.
(Romantic Colection, 2015)
A small pop-funk masterpiece, made, of course, on the wave of universal admiration by Daft Punk and Pharell Williams, but no less effective for that. If the guitar work is not even close to imitating Nile Rodgers, then the original, seemingly truncated bass will be remembered even by connoisseurs of the genre. Saving words and energy, Savchenko tells the story of the rent at the club extremely effectively (“You just can’t be too touchy: it’s funny and nothing comes of it”) and, like in his best pop moments, turns into the most accurate translation of Drake into Russian.
(Yop, 2014)
Electro-reggae about death best friend, embedding a cartoon about “Prostokvashino”, comments on VKontakte and synthetic drugs V a bright picture loneliness and loss. The song is greatly benefited by the fact that it has few words, few feints and tinsel, on which Savchenko began to rely more and more over the years. A well-composed gloomy pop does not need to pick out the details: if the feeling is true, reality will not be lazy to add to the canvas those colors that the artist forgot about at one time. In the summer of 2017, the song “Lost and Not Found” gained its full weight three years ago by leaps and bounds.
"LSP" - famous youth musical group, performing hip-hop music with electronic elements. Over the 10 years of its existence, the group has released 7 albums, and since 2013, “LSP” has become a real idol among the younger generation of listeners.
"LSP": photos of participants
For the most part, the name “LSP” refers to rapper Oleg Savchenko. But in last years“LSP” nevertheless became a group, since in addition to Oleg, Roma the Englishman, who had recently passed away, also worked on creating songs. However, out of habit, only Oleg is called by the pseudonym “LSP” or they say Oleg LSP.
Biography of Oleg Savchenko
Oleg was born in the Belarusian city of Vitebsk into a family of journalists. He showed an interest in music from an early age, and the boy’s parents fully supported his hobbies. His father even bought little Oleg a piano. But it was not possible to turn the boy into a serious pianist in a classical suit. Oleg found himself in a completely different genre.
The turning point in his life was, oddly enough, “Star Factory - 4”: Oleg’s eyes lit up when he saw the rappers for the first time on Channel One. The boy dreamed of becoming that guy from the screen, like Decl or Timati... And he became. At a more conscious age, the future rapper admired the work of rock musicians: Zemfira, Mumiy Troll, The King and the Jester. And, of course, the appearance of American “gansta rappers” on television also added to the teenager’s tangle of impressions. Then he did not even suspect that “LSP” - the group in which he would be the main character - would become so popular.
Oleg graduated from the Faculty of Philology and could have become a teacher, but, thank God, the musician’s fate turned out differently. That is why the songs of “LSP” are written with a special style and taste, even though they contain a lot of obscene language. Poems in a beautiful musical wrapper - that's what the group creates.
Oleg's early work
After entering the university, the guy had his first successes in musical career. In 2007, Oleg recorded his first track “I understood everything”, and in the same year he tried himself on the hip-hop.ru site, where he completed 4 rounds. At the same time, such compositions as “Magician” and “Streets” appeared, included in Oleg’s first mini-album “Seeing Colorful Dreams” (July 1, 2011).
“The crazy hippie became my father, the metalhead in torn jeans became my mother,” and the atmospheric song “Hippie.” And on July 1, the country saw a video for this composition, amateur, strange, but the melody of the song won out over the not very professional picture.
Meeting Roma, first successes
At one of the parties, Oleg met Roma, the guys immediately realized that they had a lot in common. After some time, the result of joint creativity appeared - the song “Numbers”, which raised the group to a new level. From that moment on, Roma and Oleg began to work together with special diligence on each track. Result: the solo project turned into the duet "LSP". A group whose composition and songs won the hearts of rap lovers.
The group's next hit was the track "Cocktail", released in 2013. It was already different from previous compositions, since during this period “LSP” experimented with genres.
2014 was a very fruitful year for the group. They released two whole albums: “YOB” and “Hangman”. The guys' division of labor worked like a charm here too: Roma wrote the music, and Oleg wrote the lyrics. From that moment on, LSP albums began to be built on heroes, on their destinies and stories. From melodic hipster hop, the guys move on to more aggressive lyrics. The public and critics greeted both albums with a bang, and “LSP” gained even greater authority among hip-hop culture. The new image of the LSP group, in which Roma appeared, attracted more and more attention.
Conflict with Booking Machine
In 2014, the guys signed a contract with the famous booking agency Booking Machine. The group was advised to the head of the agency Ilya Mamai by the famous rapper Oxxymiron. He vouched for the guys, while Mamai did not see anything special in them. After signing a contract, together with Miron, LSP recorded the track “I'm Bored of Life,” which The Flow website included in the list of the best 50 songs of 2014.
A year later, the guys break their contract with the agency. In 2015, LSP had very few concerts, and they blamed Booking Machine for this. Oxxymiron asked the group not to advertise their departure, but the guys, on the contrary, began to trumpet this to everyone, and in a particularly critical manner. On April 1, 2016, LSP presented their new track Imperial, recorded with rapper Porchy. It was a diss (a trend in hip-hop) on Oxxymiron, thanks to which “LSP” became known to a wide audience. But the song is unique in that it also contains Miron’s diss to the guys. The first diss in history, which reflected, according to The Flow, “the clash of two heroes of a generation.” The whole country watched this conflict with awe, and Oxxymiron even posted an hour-long video on his Youtube channel, where he explained his vision of this clash.
Magic City
On July 19, the album Magic City was released, in the creation of which Oleg participated for the most part as the main soloist of the LSP group, but Roma was still involved in the production, and he also produced. The strip club was called the magical city "LSP", and it is depicted on the cover of the album. However, critics had mixed reactions to the new release. In their opinion, the album lacked the integrity of the plot, and there was too much oppressive melancholy and melancholy in it. Magic City definitely appealed to LSP fans, but it failed to surpass the success of past albums.
Confectionery
Together with cloud rapper Pharaoh "LSP" they released the mini-album "Confectionery" on September 30, 2016. This project has become a real joy for fans of these talented musicians. Beginner's cloud rap rapper Pharaoh along with complex texts and the group's unusual music "blew up" the audience. Later the guys went on a joint Cake Factory tour.
Tragic City
The album, released on April 28, 2017, continues the Magic City concept. The hero of the album, as usual, is a poet tired of life, with real emotional storms going on inside him. There is a lot of smell of death, melancholy, hopelessness, and after listening to all the tracks on the album, it is simply impossible to get rid of sad thoughts. But there is also a positive side - the experiences from the songs result in catharsis, that is, mental cleansing through suffering. Therefore, if hip-hop fans have accumulated negativity, let them safely listen to this album, just be careful.
Roma Englishman from the group "LSP"
Photo of Roma Englishman below. Roman Sascheko (real name) put a lot of effort into “LSP” - a group in which he was able to realize himself. Perhaps without him she would not have achieved such success. Roma starred in just one video, “Coin,” the views of which have already exceeded 10 million.
On July 30, terrible headlines thundered in the media: “A member of the LSP group has passed away.” This event shocked the fans. And now ordinary words from the song "Coin" sounded like prophetic, and the image of death last album became not an image, but real event. The cause of Roma's death is still unknown, but the Englishman used large quantities alcohol and drugs, many fans see this as the cause of the tragedy.
No matter how much they guess, the fact remains that the more talented and bright participant group "LSP" will not be able to create, but his contribution will not remain forgotten. On August 5, Oleg said: “Roma has become a huge part of me, for the sake of which I will move on with redoubled strength. A part of me that will never die. And the show, as you know, must go on.”
Popular performer gave frank interview about a friend whose life was tragically cut short last year. Oleg Savchenko from “LSP” became the new guest of the “vDud” show. During the episode, Oleg talked a lot about his career, plans for the future and, of course, about Roma the Englishman.
In the new episode of the show “vDud” the guest was Oleg Savchenko, the frontman of the group “LSP”. The performer invited Yuri Dud to visit him and talked very openly with him about the past and future. As usual, during the conversation there was a lot of swearing, talking about sex, illegal substances and big plans.
As part of the issue, Oleg talked about topics that concern fans and gave answers to questions that for a long time avoided. Let us recall that last year, under tragic circumstances, the composer and producer of the LSP group, Roman Sashchenko, better known under the pseudonym Roma the Englishman, passed away. They tried to hide the causes of death, but everyone understood that a drug overdose was to blame. And now, after a long time, Oleg spoke quite openly about this topic for the first time.
Oleg “LSP” invited Yuri Dud to visit him for a frank conversation
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First, Oleg remembered how he met Roma and at what point they decided to create a group. Savchenko admitted that he quickly became close to the Englishman and even began to consider him the brother he never had.
“I had an episode - “Seeing Colorful Dreams”, it was brought together by a guy from Mogilev. Cool, smart dude. He helped mix the release, and it turned out that he had a friend who helped him in all aspects - Roma. The two of them wanted to do something in the style of “ Major Lazer" or "Diplo". The two of them were doing such a project at that time. Roma listened to what he did for me, joked around and somehow ended up at our party in Mogilev. (...) And we are like that with him<заболтались>. Everyone had already started to go home, and we then stayed in the kitchen and talked. I gave him an enthusiastic<фигню>, <понтовался>and spoke smart words. And he agreed. We caught the wave. I realized what it is cool dude, and we agreed to catch up in Minsk,” Oleg recalled.
Last year Roma the Englishman died, an overdose was to blame
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The very next day Oleg sent Roma a text that he really wanted to make music for and asked the Englishman to work on the arrangement. Almost immediately the composer sent him a minus track, which perfectly matched the words.
“I turn it on, sing it and everything goes away,” recalls Oleg. - You know, it’s like “that same” guy with a guitar in the yard - no matter what you ask, he knows everything. And he plays to one tune like “Battery,” and everything falls on it, roughly speaking.”
Then the Englishman used dubstep in the arrangement. This was already fashionable in the world, but in Minsk, where Roman is from, it had not yet taken root. At first, the musicians worked on business terms, and then they became related and became the LSP group.
Oleg was silent for a long time about what happened that day when his close friend died
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It’s hard for Oleg to talk about the prohibited substances that “took” the life of his close friend. According to him, these are Roma’s secrets that he would like to hide from prying eyes.
“Roma is part of my family. I very quickly began to treat him as brother and accepted it wholeheartedly<фигней>like a brother. I consider his parents to be my parents, and they also consider me a son. Everything that concerns Roma and his parents, you<волновать>It shouldn’t,” Savchenko responded emotionally.
The only way Oleg spoke on this topic was to draw a parallel between the Englishman and Gorshok from the KiSh group, who died under similar circumstances. Savchenko believes that they have similar destinies. Both had a lifestyle in which many were surprised that death had not overtaken them even earlier.
After Roma’s death, Oleg decided not to close the LSP group and began performing with a new team
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It is still difficult for a performer to remember the day when a close friend passed away. Interestingly, Savchenko feels relieved. Shortly before the death of the Englishman, the friends did not see each other for a couple of weeks, which, as Oleg now claims, subsequently helped him accept what happened relatively calmly.
“Denya Astapov called me and said: “Everything has happened.” And I understood everything,” Oleg shares his memories. - This is not easy news, I received these<тумаков>informational. When I went through all this, I began to think about what to do next.”
Dud clarified whether close people, in particular Oleg, tried to fight Roma’s addiction. And if not forcibly put in the hospital, then at least just talk, explain the whole situation, outwit...
Next year Oleg plans to gather about 15 thousand people for the band’s concert.
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“We made attempts,” admits Savchenko. - Until a person wants something himself, it will not happen. If he sincerely wants it, he achieves it. I answered your question, even if you think that - no (...) Roma was the most cunning dude I know. No one could outwit Roma, and in some way Roma outwitted himself.”
Yuri Dud: “So he sincerely wanted to die?”
“You can interpret it that way,” replied the band’s frontman
LSP is a well-known rap artist throughout Belarus and Russia. The singer was born on July 10 (according to the horoscope, Cancer) 1988 in Vitebsk (Belarusian SSR). Real name: Oleg Savchenko. Oleg himself was born into an ordinary family. His parents were journalists and supported their son in everything.
From the early childhood Oleg notices a strong craving for music, it is for this reason that his father hires a teacher who begins to personally teach Oleg how to play the piano. But, despite all the interest, the boy decides to quit this activity and start writing poetry on his own.
The first person who discovered rap for him was none other than Timati, who at that time participated in the TV show “Star Factory”. Since then, the boy decides to delve deeper into hip-hop culture. He begins to listen to both foreign and Russian rap artists.
Around 2007, when Oleg turns 18, he begins to release his own tracks. In addition, he becomes a frequent guest at various rap battles, where the guy has repeatedly shown his unique talent.
Later, Roman the Englishman, who was also a producer, met him. Having gotten to know each other well, the guys decide to found the group “LSP”, which over time gained enormous popularity not only in Russia, but also in the native Belarus of both performers. 
Incredible success
After some time, they release such hits as: “Numbers”, “Cocktail”, “Why do I need this world”, “City” and “Pikachu”. But 2012 was completely unproductive, since at that time Oleg wanted to reflect on his life and set priorities for the future.
But it was in 2013 that many different hits were released, as well as cover songs, which undoubtedly appealed to many fans of the group. This is also followed by such singles as: “Soft lips and tattoos”, “YOP”, “Hangman”, “I'm bored of living”, “SPVL”, “Force Field”, etc. 
Unexpected death
No matter how sad it may sound, on July 30, 2017, the lead singer of the LSP group, Roma Englishman, died. The cause of death still remains unknown. Many assume that Roman died of cardiac arrest, since the singer had problems with the cardiovascular system. Others claim that the young guy died from a drug overdose. Both versions cannot be denied, since Roman really abused drugs and alcohol.
Of course, such news shocked not only Oleg, but also all fans. Loyal fans still cannot believe this incident and continue to believe that this is just a joke between the guys.
A little about personal
If we talk about the singer’s personal life, then we can count many fleeting romances. The rap artist has practically no permanent relationships. The guy is always partying and working. Most likely, Oleg has not yet met a girl who could truly interest the guy. But we will hope that he will still find his happiness.
