Death of Roma the Englishman created the best in our eyes Belarusian group tens of years. 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 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 structure of the participants' names -"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 the set of allusions is characterized as “setting up a serious conversation without charming antics and dreamy foolishness,” however, apart from the technique as such (referring, however, still not to some adult human poet, but rather to Oksimiron), the song has nothing to boast of. In an incomparably more successful song, Savchenko compared himself with Yesenin (“fuck girls and I read poetry to them”), but Yesenin would not have boasted of his non-existent erudition.
(YOP, 2014)
A beef that is not aimed at anyone in particular, but at everyone at once. This 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. The character (as if from some kind of computer game) walks, wins, swings 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)
Uninventive trap stylization, completely dedicated to stories that money is the most important thing. The crazy fragment where Natasha's Ninja Turtles appear seems to take the song onto slightly more original ground, but Savchenko is not good at pop culture jokes in general, and here he is greater master would not get out, 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 view of everyday details is completely obscured by a sentimental haze; the “baby” and the “dealer” do not live in our world, but in some cruel comic book. Alas, the Englishman’s overly sketchy music does not add depth to this superficial picture.
(Tragic City, 2017)
A song about the difficulties of the life of a star who has long worked her way to the top and still remembers with pain the suffering she experienced - an old format. Savchenko composes a number of funny lines for it (“a puddle of urine, almost sober already, I honored this place”), but, in general, if it weren’t for the sophisticated vocal delivery and good arrangement, listening to it would be completely uninteresting.
(Hangman, 2014)
In one of his diss videos against Oksimiron, Savchenko boasted that he had a Balzac book at home - the highly social electro-pop “Vinaigrette” shows that he did not read it very carefully. Pictures of the narrator's cute or lively classmates, combined with caricatures of them as adults, produce the effect of crude, sentimental moralizing about God knows what. Savchenko 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 doesn't 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 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 live fan favorite who... once again in 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 fiery Daft Punk for Minsk socialites. It's not an angry song at all, as it might seem if you write down the words of the chorus on paper. Perhaps it sounds so charming because Oleg sings it exactly like a bitch. Ratchet is a queen with a defiant personality but a big heart. Take care, Christina C. And perhaps this is the most positive use of the term “bitch” not only in the discography"LSP" , but also in principle in Russian rap. Everyone wants to believe that it is obvious that behind Savchenko’s image there is a good person, but perhaps also a feminist (lol).
(Yop, 2014)
A witty exercise in the field of 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 gentle 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” 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 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 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.
LSP (Oleg Savchenko) who is this?
Real name— Oleg Savchenko
Hometown— Vitebsk, Belarus
Nickname— LSP
Activity— Rapper
Marital status— Not married
Height — 181
LSP (Oleg Savchenko) biography
Oleg Savchenko, better known as LSP, is a popular rapper of Belarusian origin.
Childhood years
In early childhood, the boy was interested in pop music. One of Oleg Savchenko’s favorite performers in those years was singer Andrei Gubin. A little later, when the Star Factory 4 project came out on television, the future musician was inspired by hip-hop motifs performed by Timati. Under the influence of a new direction in the musical world, Oleg Savchenko began to immerse himself more and more in the culture of rap music, falling in love with such performers as Bad Balance, Decl and many others. The boy's parents noticed his passion for music early and decided to support him in every possible way in his youthful hobby.
In those years, rock music became popular in Russia, represented by such bright rock bands as Zemfira, KiSh, Mumiy Troll and many others. But in the end, Oleg Savchenko understands that rap music is closer to his spirit. On his eighteenth birthday, the future Russian rap star records test singles in the style of hip-hop.
Music career
Oleg Savchenko recorded his first official mixtape in 2007. The album was called “I Got It All!”, and a little later another collection of music was recorded, called “Here We Come Again.” Two years later, rapper LSP begins his collaboration on the new album “No Appeals” with popular representatives of the hip-hop movement, Deech and Maxie Flow. In 2009, Oleg Savchenko completed work on his first video clip, for the musical work “Hippie”. In September of the same year, the young musician released a six-song EP entitled “Seeing Colorful Dreams” into the public domain.
In the first half of 2012, rapper LSP began a fruitful collaboration with beatmaker and musician Roma Sashchenko. Their first collaboration was the song “Numbers”. Somewhat later, a video was also shot for a piece of music called “Why do I need this world.”
Literally a year after the start of collaboration between two gifted representatives of the Russian rap stage in one team, a new music video for the song “ LSP – Cocktail" A number of critics stated that this film adaptation of the song was the best in Russia in 2013.
LSP – Cocktail In January 2014, LSP released an album called “YOP”. The recording of the song “Loop” featured a rap artist from St. Petersburg, Galat. In April of the same year, Oleg Savchenko and Roma Sashchenko, in collaboration with Yung Trappa recording the track "MLD". In May 2014, fans of the rap team LSP learned about the release of their first studio album, “Hangman.” Video clips were shot a little later for the musical works “Vinegrette” and “Lost and Not Found.”
Producer of almost all subsequent releases LSP groups becomes Roman Englishman, aka Roma Sashchenko.
At some point, the young rappers are noticed by an authoritative representative of the Russian rap stage, Miron Yanovich, performing under the pseudonym Oxxxymiron. Under his strict leadership, the guys from LSP managed to conclude a lucrative contract with the Booking Machine concert agency.
In September 2014, on the advice of the same Miron Yanovich, Oleg Savchenko decides to take part in the rap competition ““. And although LSP was able to take first place, beating the performer Meowizzy in the final, the young man himself still does not understand, as he admits, why he spent so much nerves participating in the event.
At the end of November, Oleg Savchenko releases a collaboration with Oxxxymiron, entitled “I'm Bored of Life.” It was this piece of music that became the best at the end of 2014, according to The Flow.
In the middle of the first quarter of 2015, the mini-album “Romantic Collegtion” was released. In the summer of the same year, LSP recorded and released a solo album "Magic City". It was after the appearance of this work that Oleg Savchenko and Roman Sashchenko became known to rap fans from Russia.
On the wave of fame, the LSP group decides to end its cooperation with the Booking Machine agency, accusing the concert organizers of the fact that, under the leadership of the company, there were too few live performances.
LSP – Magic city At the end of September 2016, Oleg Savchenko once again delighted his fans by releasing a six-track album called “Confectionery”. The rap group LSP worked on the recording of the collection together with the rap artist, aka.
and LSP At the end of April 2017, Oleg Savchenko decides to remind himself by presenting to the public another collection of music, called Tragic City, consisting of 13 compositions. In May of the same year, a video clip was shot for the song “Coin”, which received more than 20 million views in a short period of time.
Personal life
Oleg Savchenko tries not to talk about his personal life. Therefore, journalists from various music publications know nothing about the girls young musician. The rapper himself has repeatedly said that he does not have children or a wife. And he has no problems with the female half of humanity.
LSP now
Death of Roma the Englishman
At the end of July 2017, the Russian rap community was shocked by the news about death of Roma the Englishman (Sashchenko), who at the age of 29 became a full member of the group. Immediately, rumors spread in the media field that Oleg Savchenko’s closest friend and ally had died due to problems with alcohol and drugs. After several weeks of mourning, Oleg said that the group’s plans are not changing and the “Tragic City” tour will definitely take place.
In memory of the late Roman, Oleg Savchenko recorded a video clip for the musical work “ LSP - Body" The clip appeared on YouTube video hosting on October 2, 2017. The role of Roman in the film adaptation of the song was played by a video blogger who looks very much like the deceased rap artist. On the same day, on the set of the “Evening Urgant” program, LPS sang the song “Labyrinth of Reflections.”
in the LSP video Oleg LSP’s debut mini-album “Seeing Colorful Dreams” was released on September 16, 2011. In the subsequent period, Oleg met and joined forces in working on new music with Roma the Englishman, the first fruit of cooperation with whom was the single “Numbers”. The release of “YOP,” an album that included 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, July 19, 2015, Oleg released his solo album- license plate Magic City.
On April 1, 2016, as The Flow writes, “a whole drama begins, a clash between two heroes of a generation,” when representatives of Booking Machine publish the song “Imperial” with the participation of LSP and Oxxxymiron, in which the latter performs a diss on his former colleague. Over the next week, Oleg and Miron exchange video messages, presenting their vision of the current situation, after which they cut off any contact with each other. On September 30, 2016, LSP will release a joint mini-album “Confectionery” with Pharaoh. On April 28, 2017, Oleg and Roman released the numbered album Tragic City, which is a continuation of the year before last Magic City.
On July 30, 2017, Roma Englishman, a participant in the LSP project, died. On August 5, Oleg announced that the project would not be closed, but the tour in support of Tragic City would still take place. After the tour started, it became known that Oleg’s new concert group included Den Hawk (Piggy Bang bandmate) and Pyotr Klyuev.
Life and career
Oleg Savchenko was born on July 10, 1989 in Vitebsk into a family of journalists. He began studying music as a child when his father hired a piano tutor for him. After some time, he quits classes and begins to write his first poems for the table.The first performer whose songs Oleg consciously liked was Andrey Gubin. At the age of 14 he sees the television program “Star Factory 4”, in which Timati performs. Surprised by the presence of rap on Channel One, he decides to delve deeper into hip-hop culture, becoming a listener of Decl and Bad Balance. Later he gets acquainted with Russian rock and the work of such musicians of the corresponding genre as Zemfira, Nike Borzov, “MultFilms”, “Mumiy Troll” and “The King and the Jester”. However, after some time he returns to rap, starting to listen to American hip-hop, from the experience of listening to which he concludes that “the sound is as important as the meaning, and sometimes even, perhaps, more important.”
He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State Linguistic University with a degree in linguist-teacher: as Oleg himself recalls, at that time there were financial difficulties. However, his parents always supported both him and his musical endeavors.
2007-2009: Early recordings and participation in hip-hop battles
In 2007, when Oleg turned 18, several LSP demo recordings were released, including the solo mixtape “I Got Everything!” and the collection Here We Come Again.In 2007-2008, LSP participated in the 6th team battle of hip-hop.ru as part of the ShRec Pro team that reached the 2nd round, where Max Korzh was also listed, as well as in the 8th official battle of hip-hop .ru, where Oleg reached the 4th round.
In the same year, he began writing and recording songs that would later be included in the mini-album “Seeing Colorful Dreams.” The first were such compositions as “Magician” and “Streets”. Having heard Kanye West's album 808s & Heartbreak, Oleg, impressed by this work, records the first version of the song “Lambada”; the album version of the song was re-recorded and shortened in length.
On July 14, 2009, a joint mini-album “Without Appeals” was released with Deech and Maxie Flow, which included three songs, three backing tracks of the same songs and a bonus track.
2011-2013: “Seeing colorful dreams”, beginning of work with Sascheko
On July 1, 2011, the video clip for the song “Hippie” was released. On September 16, the debut solo mini-album “Seeing Colorful Dreams” was released, consisting of 5 songs and 1 bonus remix. The album was produced by Aes Genius, 614, Paul Pain, as well as LSP himself. Although at that time he was not personally acquainted with Roman the Englishman, he was responsible for the general control of the release's mixing.On May 24, 2012, the single “Numbers” was released, which began LSP’s 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"The King and the Jester." Earlier, on March 7, 2013, a video was released in which LSP also performed a cover of the song “Truth Gonna Hurt You” by American rapper Future. On October 25, 2013, the song “City” was released, on December 20, 2013, “Lost and Not Found” was released, and on December 25, “Pikachu”.
2014: “YOP” and “Hangman”, signing on Booking Machine
On January 3, 2014, LSP publishes a remix of “Soft Lips and Tattoos” by Yung Trappa. January 7 - joint song with Galat “Living Loop”.On January 8, 2014, the compilation album “YOP” was released, which included 10 songs and 2 bonus tracks - a tribute to the leader of the “King and the Jester” group Mikhail Gorshenev and a cover version of the song “Truth Gonna Hurt You” by Future. If we do not take into account “Live Loop” published a day earlier, then there was only one completely new song on the release - and this is the opening album “Rope”. The material for “YOP” was collected over 2.5 years.
On February 4, LSP releases the song “Overboard.” March 2 - a remix of “Everything at once” by Yanix, and March 14 - “Better than the Internet.” On April 13, the joint composition of LSP and Yung Trappa “MLD” (“Baby Loves the Dealer”) will be released. On May 23, two songs are released at once: “Meteor Shower”, as well as a remix of “MLD” - now this is LSP’s solo song.
On May 24, 2014, the album “Gallows” was released (the name was taken from the song of the group “Chimera”), which included 8 songs. The music on both albums was largely produced by Roma the Englishman. It is noteworthy that in both albums each song had its own cover. The Flow included “Hangman” both in the top three Russian-language albums of 2014 and in the list of the 20 best recordings of the 2010s.
« Generally speaking, it was electronic pop. Another thing is that instead of the required meaningless plots, Oleg told rather hopeless stories, inside of which there was despair, hopelessness and emptiness.The Flow on "Hangman"»
On August 4, LSP releases a remix of the song “Samurai” by Basta and Guf. On August 20, 2014, it became known that LSP began cooperation with the booking agency Booking Machine. On August 20, a video clip for the song “Vinaigret” was released. In September, he took part in the St. Petersburg hip-hop project Versus Battle - LSP's opponent was battle regular Meowizzy. The issue itself was released on October 19, 2014, and 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 it happened creative process. LSP also says that “I was thinking of telling him something that they didn’t tell me,” but, as it turned out later, the advice Trappa accepted was not applied. On October 31, 2016, it became known that the rapper, convicted under Article 228 and having served in a pre-trial detention center for more than a year, was given almost six years in prison.
On November 27, 2014, LSP released a song together with Oksimiron, which was called “I’m Bored of Living.” At the end of the year, The Flow included the songs “MLD” and “I’m Bored to Live” in the list of the 50 best Russian-language recordings for the entire 2014.
2015: Romantic Colegtion and Magic City, departure from Booking Machine
On February 3, 2015, LSP released a mini-album, Romantic Colegtion. Two songs - “SPVL” (“I’ll Believe in Love Again”) and “Force Field” (an excerpt of which was demonstrated back in January) - are new and produced by Roma the Englishman. The third, “Exactly That ’15,” as the title suggests, is an updated version of the track with musical accompaniment by Deech “Exactly That” from the 2009 mini-album “Without Appeals,” which was recorded together with the above-mentioned Deech, as well as with Maxie Flow.The editors of The Flow included “Force Field” in the list of the best Russian-language songs for 2015. Oleg himself singled out this song in an interview for 34mag.net, where he called the text of “Force Field” one of his best creations.
On July 19, 2015, the album Magic City was released. Unlike the two previous studio albums, in Magic City Roma the Englishman limited himself to writing musical accompaniment for only five songs, while the rest was handled, in his own words, by “the fathers of trap music in Russia.” However, responsibility for all production and post-production of the album remains on the shoulders of the Englishman. Guest verses by Pharaoh, Oxxxymiron and Sil-A.
In anticipation of the album's release, on July 16, 2015, a video was released for a remix of the song "Madness", the original of which appears on the Breezey Montana mini-album "Gift or Curse", in which LSP performed only the chorus. At the end of the year, “Bullet” with Pharaoh will be included in The Flow’s list of the best songs of 2015, and the remix of “Madness” with Oksimiron will top its top ten. On September 10, 2015, a video clip for another song from Magic City, “OK,” was released.
In the summer of 2015, he stopped collaborating with Booking Machine, explaining that after signing, the small number of concerts that had previously came to naught. On April 1, 2016, Porchy’s song “Imperial” was released, which was originally planned to be included in the tracklist of his 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 that if the track had just been released by Porchy and I, it wouldn’t have been given to anyone, and diss songs wouldn’t have been found there either. Myron himself memeified him with his appearance on the track, turning almost any of my absolutely abstract lines into an attack on him and the Booking Machine,” LSP would later say.
2016-2017: “Confectionery”, Tragic City, departure of the Englishman
On March 2, 2016, LSP released the song “Spit into Eternity.” On May 9, 2016, the composition “Miracle-Parole”, jointly with Sasha Skul, was released.On May 17, LSP uploads a remix of the remix of the song “Madness,” to which he added the second verse. As he explained, he saw a lack of integrity and logic in the song, where the second verse was performed by Oksimiron, and cited as an example that such a trick had been pulled off before - with the song “MLD”, in the original version of which Yung Trappa sang the second verse.
In July - on the 8th and 10th - LSP uploads 2 leftovers from the time of “YOP” and “Hangman”: songs called “Bonus Babe” and “In 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”, a joint project of LSP and Pharaoh, was published on SoundCloud. 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 numbered studio album “LSP” Tragic City was released. 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.
The song Big is released on July 28 Russian Boss“Pimperial” to the musical accompaniment of Roma the Englishman and Davip, in which LSP took part. The composition parodies last year’s “Imperial” - however, only at the level of the title and the presence of the meme phrase “ty pozhaleesh ob etom though”. Previously, the artists had already recorded the track “Celebration” together, which was included on the second solo album of Boss I.G.O.R.. BRB and LSP also collaborated as part of the Big Russian Boss Show, where Oleg and Roman became guests.
2017–present: Tragic City Tour
On August 5, Oleg spoke about his future plans: the tour in support of Tragic City will not be canceled, and the LSP project will continue to exist.After the start of the Tragic City Tour, it became known that the new LSP concert lineup included Den Hawk and Pyotr Klyuev. Denis is known both for his collaboration with Oleg himself at an early stage of creativity, and for his work within the framework of Piggy Bang, and 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 Evening Urgant program, where he performed the song “Labyrinth of Reflections.” On October 4, Larin posted a behind-the-scenes vlog on his channel from the filming of a music video, in which, among other things, he noted that the music video directors were encouraged to cast him in the role of the Englishman by the comments under the video clip “Coin,” which played up the resemblance between Dmitry and Roman. As the video blogger stated, Oleg was filmed separately due to the discrepancy between their schedules. The backstage from the Dope Films team that shot the video was published on October 7.
Abbreviation (decoding)
As Oleg stated in an interview with the program “On Blaze’s Sofa” in response to one of the most frequently asked questions - “Where did the name come from and what does it mean?” - the musician has plenty of options for how to answer, and the question itself is already perceived as white noise. So, in different interviews the answer to this question looked different:In an interview with NUC magazine (April 10, 2014): “Once about 10 years in a row I looked out the window, this was when I was still at school. In general, I was looking out the window at the sun and began to feel like a holy Baptist in myself when the sun spoke to me. Although I didn’t understand any of what it said, and I never became a Baptist, the sunny symbolism of these wonderful words settled in my heart - A ray is stronger than a bullet. I don’t know where they would come from, but I liked the abbreviation.”
In an interview with The Flow website (June 17, 2014): “Usually when they interview us, they immediately ask about the name. Recently they asked - is it true that this means “A ray is stronger than a bullet”? Well, we say, no, it means “Lick yourself... [vagina].”
In an interview with “Blaze on the Sofa” (July 29, 2014): “[The option that’s closer to me now is] “A boy’s loving heart.” In Belarus we have a group called “Broken Sir Boy”. Well, sort of, it’s clear. But we recently realized that LSP is probably “A Boy’s Loving Heart.” Not “Broken” yet.”
At Versus Battle against Meowizzy (October 19, 2014), Oleg played with LSP’s decoding like this: “You are LSP, but not Oleg - you just lick your penis.”
In an interview on the Big Russian Boss Show (April 25, 2017): “My favorite transcript is “Better ask later.”
The decoding of LSP is found in several of the artist’s tracks: “LSP - lies, passions and vices” (“Magic City”, Magic City), “LSP, better sing a song about love, the most truthful” (“Money problem”, Tragic City).
Artistry
Autotune is used in LSP songs. At the time of the release of “Seeing Colorful Dreams,” indie sound predominated in his music, and for the “YOP” and “Hangman” released in 2014, as Oleg himself notes, his partner Roma had already created “his own sound”: “ <…>I read, sing and recite, mixing drum and bass, dubstep and hip-hop" In the work of 2015, trap sounds prevailed.Andrey Nedashkovsky from The Flow, in a review of the album “Hangman,” noted the “monotoneity” of LSP’s vocals, and also described his music as follows: “ <…>if you want flow, wordplay and other rap tricks, you won't find it here<…>. [But] Oleg dilutes the serious verses with funny turns of phrase, memorable phrases and choruses. And he simply knows how to entertain the listener.”. On the website Disgustingmen.com, Nikolai Chumakov described the leitmotif of LSP as follows: “Behind the melodic beat and sweet-voiced vocals lies the main advantage of Oleg’s work - his loud desire to declare his lost life».
Discography
2011 - “Seeing colorful dreams”2014 - “YOP”
2014 - “Hangman”
2015 - Romantic Colection
2015 - Magic City
2016 - “Confectionery” (together with Pharaoh)
2017 - Tragic City
Concert tours
2015 - big autumn tour2016 - Never Over Tour (big spring tour)
2016 - Cake Factory (with Pharaoh)
2017 - Tragic City Tour
"LSP" - famous youth music 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 recent 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 university, the guy had his first successes in his 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, compositions such 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. Both albums were received with enthusiasm by the public and critics, 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. He advised the group to the head of the agency Ilya Mamaia 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 together 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. Cloud rap by aspiring rapper Pharaoh along with complex lyrics and unusual music the bands 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 Sashcheko (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 the ordinary words from the song “Coin” sounded like prophetic, and the image of the death of the last album became not an image, but a real event The cause of Roma's death is still unknown, but the Englishman consumed large quantities of alcohol and drugs, many fans see this as the cause of the tragedy.
No matter how much they guess, the fact remains that the talented and bright member of the LSP group will no longer 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.”
Usually a person performing on stage and not wanting to “shine” given name, chooses a beautiful, sonorous nickname that allows you to stand out from the crowd. This approach is also used by adherents of rap: Purulent, Scryptonite, Ptah - such names are difficult not to remember. But few people would dare to be called a “little stupid pig”. But, nevertheless, such a comrade was found: the abbreviation for the English Lil’ Stupid Pig - LSP - was chosen for the creative pseudonym by the Belarusian rapper Oleg Savchenko.
Childhood and youth
Oleg was born in July 1989 in Vitebsk into a family of journalists. WITH early years the boy became interested in pop music, his parents encouraged his hobby and even hired a piano teacher. With age, Oleg's interests shifted to the rock stage. Even later, when the young man heard Timati’s tracks, Savchenko realized that only rap reflected his inner mood.
When he came of age, Oleg presented himself with a gift in the form of an official mixtape called “I Got Everything!”, from the very first lines he stated without embarrassment:
“Hello everyone, here I am – one very cunning pig.”
The album was called lopsided, the performer’s vocal abilities were called weak, but the composition “And I rap” was called the best. At the same time, a new name appeared - LSP. Over time, in an interview, the musician voiced various interpretations of the pseudonym: “a ray is stronger than a bullet”, “a loving heart of a boy”, “lies, passion and vices”; he called the “better ask later” version his favorite.
Despite the fact that Savchenko devoted himself entirely to music, the future rap star managed to get a higher education at the Minsk State Linguistic University. But the diploma as a linguist teacher went on the shelf.
Music
Following the debut album, the collection “Here We Come Again” was released. Two years later, the result of joint work with hip-hoppers Deech and Maxie Flow was released - the mini-album “No Appeals”.
LSP has collaborated to one degree or another with Aes Genius Yung Trappa Oxxxymiron Pharaoh Yanix, Big Russian Boss. Since 2011, it is customary to count the beginning of LSP’s solo career. Then the solo album “Seeing Colorful Dreams” was released, songs from which the musician had previously posted on the Internet. In the same year, the video for the single “Hippie” was released.
In 2012, LSP became a duo: Oleg was joined by beatmaker Roma Sashchenko, known as Roma the Englishman. Roman was responsible for mixing the release of Oleg’s debut solo album; in addition to composing, he essentially took the place of producer in the team. Almost immediately after joining forces, the musicians released the singles “Numbers” and “Why do I need this world” with a video for it.
A year later, the talented duo presented the singles “More Money”, “Lilvane”, “Cocktail” to the audience. All songs hit the charts best compositions for a month, and the latter was called a diamond in the brostep genre and was awarded third place in the top of the best for 2013.
In 2014, two albums were released at once - “YOP” and “Hangman”. The rapper Galat participated in the recording of the first one. The album brought together both new and already published songs: “Rope”, “Pikachu”, “City”, “Numbers”. Fans called the composition “Why do I need this world” witty exercise in the field of dance music. The songs “Vinaigret” and “Lost and Not Found” were later embodied in videos.
The album "Gallows" includes 8 songs. The name was borrowed from the St. Petersburg punk band Chimera, famous in the nineties. The album was in the top three for 2014 and in the top 20 of the first ten years of the new century. Critics noted that in his songs Oleg, unlike other rappers, successfully acted as a storyteller. On some Belarusian rap sites, the composition “Better than the Internet” was put in first place out of everything that the musician has published to date.
In 2014, LSP was taken under the wing of the executive director of the booking agency Booking Machine, Miron Fedorov, also known as rap artist Oksimiron. Together with him, LSP released the song “I’m Bored of Living,” which in the same year was recognized as the best according to The Flow, as well as a collaboration with Yung Trappa called “MLD.”
Oleg himself considers the song “Force Field” from the album “Romantic Colegtion”, released at the beginning of 2015, to be one of the best. Listeners praised the pop-funk composition “SPVL”.
After 4 months, the release of the next album, “Magic City,” was announced. Oksimiron, Pharaoh, Stepan Karma and Sil-A participated in the recording. Thanks to this work, Roman Sashchenko and Oleg Savchenko acquired an army of fans in the Russian rap space. Videos were shot for the songs “Madness” and “OK”.
LSP’s creative biography took a sharp turn in the summer of 2015: the musicians refused to cooperate with Booking Machine, considering that the scope of the contract limited their performances, although it was at this time that LSP began active touring. Moreover, both sides reinforced the conflict with mutual video messages on pages on social networks, without choosing expressions, they outlined their vision of the situation. At this point, contacts stopped altogether.
In September 2016, LSP presented a joint project with Pharaoh, “Confectionery” - an album of six tracks. In support of the collaboration, the musicians announced a tour called “Cake Factory”. Also this year, LSP released “Spit into Eternity,” “Miracle-Parole,” and a remix of “Madness.”
In the spring of 2017, the continuation of “Magic City” was released - “Tragic City”, a collection of 13 songs. The first video for the album was the video for the song “Coin”, in which Roman the Englishman appeared for the only time. The video set a record for views - more than 25 million.
In the same year, fans heard a collaboration with Big Russian Boss - “Pimperial”, the single “Money is not a problem”.
In the summer of 2017, the collaboration between Sashchenko and Savchenko was interrupted by the death of the Englishman. The artist’s family did not report the cause of death. Oleg made a video for the song “Body”, which he dedicated to his departed friend. The role of Roman was played by blogger Dmitry Larin, who resembles the rapper. The clip took first place on the Russian MTV chart.
Personal life
Oleg does not talk about his personal life and claims that there are no problems with the opposite sex. It is known that the musician is not married.
LSP now
After Roman’s death, Oleg said that he would continue to develop his solo project, and the performance schedule would be respected. On his social network page, Oleg wrote that the work of a large team remained behind the scenes, and above all, Roman himself would not have allowed the work to be stopped and the listeners to be left without music.
In September 2017, LSP went on tour in support of “Tragic City,” during which he gave 38 concerts in five countries. On the tour, Savchenko was joined by a member of the Piggy Bang band, Den Hawk, who had previously starred in the “Vinaigret” video, and Petr Klyuev, a Belarusian musician who participated in the recording of the acoustic version of “Coins.”
At the end of 2017, Oleg released another song - “ The Little Prince" - combined with an unusual hand-drawn video, together with the Moscow punk band "Pasosh" - a new version of their song "Party". A Hell And Back Tour is planned for 2018.
Discography
2007 - “I understand everything!”
2009 - “No Appeals”
2011 - “Seeing colorful dreams”
2012 - “Why do I need this world”