The fact that Eljay is now hype can be seen even by a blind person. Some might have the impression that he came out of nowhere and instantly conquered the charts - but this, of course, is not the case. The hits “Pink Wine”, “Ripped Jeans” and others that have not left the top for six months now Apple Music and VKontakte, were preceded by years of experiments and searches - somewhere more successful, somewhere a little secondary.
Below we have collected the most representative songs of Alexey Uzenyuk, released over the past 5 years. They will help trace how the sound of the artist with whites instead of eyes changed, and record the amazing transformation from the raw style of the entrance to music for heated dance floors.
“Catacombs”
Where it all began
An underground hip-hop track with a sample from Zemfira was recorded in 2013, and then re-released on a release of the same name as “Catacombs 2”. If you read in the comments under the new clips “Bring back the old Eljay!”, then their authors want the return of this particular period in Alexei’s work.
“The Last Fit” (feat. 4atty aka Tilla)
The fit was far from the last, but indicative
2014, Chatti has not yet sung “My Jacket Fits So Well”, Eljay has not yet switched to house beats. A fit of two rappers - a connection between Siberian and Kyiv underground rap, a fairly typical song about joints, respect and fake rappers selling guest verses for money. As they say, you won't believe what happened next!
“The heads are smoking”
The first hit of the boys' public pages.
“And while the heads are being unwound, your Alyosha is thinking about good things.” Guf is not reading this. Eldzhey’s first solo album was exactly like this - “watery” and “not fashionable” rhymed there, there were 90bpm beats, boom-bap and chants a la Vadyar Blues. In 2014 there was a lot of rap like this, and it cannot be said that these songs, similar to all of them at once (OU74, Tipsy Tip, the same Vadyaru) stood out much among the others.
“Kukuruku”
The style is changing, but not dramatically yet.
Eljay’s second album “Cannon” was released in 2015. The theme of most of the songs remained the same (“I love to smoke, she loves to smoke to the ceiling”), but the music has already changed - Eljay switches to trap beats. I must say that they suit him very well.
“Nowhere to run”
From the entrance to the clubs
Recorded together with Moscow rapper Oleg Smith, the song is no longer about smoke and heads, but about completely different substances (see the cover of the single, where there is a stamp on the tongue). Autotune, a bunch of drug references (“two roads there, two roads back”), gold cards and a “Mercedes S-Class” - Eljay’s rap is increasingly difficult to call approachable. There was also a dance remix of this track.
“Music” (feat. Miyagi & Endgame)
Three hitmakers on one track
The Novosibirsk rapper and Caucasian duo wrote their biggest hits in 2017, but began to make waves a year earlier. A song with them was released on the album “Catacombs,” which was released in February 2016 and became Eldzhey’s farewell to true rap - literally in six months his style would change beyond recognition. Therefore, the line “I will shuffle bare formulas in decks / the masses are wretched, but we must try” seems like a creative motto. As for one, so for others.
“Disconnect”
First - and successful - entry onto the dance floors
“Discos, alcohol, marijuana” - the three pillars on which the first single from the 2016 album “Sayonara Boy” rested. It became Eljay's first big experiment in crossing boyish hip-hop and dance beat. At the same time, the rapper’s style is changing: he inserts colored lenses into his eyes and takes the first steps towards looking like a character from the anime “Naruto”. All this yielded results: the video “Disconnect” (released in 2017) received 15 million views at the time of publication. But there was more to come.
“What's wrong with my eyes?”
A song that asks a question that worries everyone (but doesn’t find the answer)
“Where can I buy the same lenses as Lekha’s?” Eljay’s public page was flooded with such questions after new photos. Apparently, having read the comments, at the beginning of 2017 the rapper released a new single, where he sounds like the phlegmatic Travi$ Scott. Or like Scriptonite.
“Ripped jeans”
Disco of the century!
A potential hit was discovered on the album “Sayonara Boy ろ” (to avoid confusion: at the end there is not a number 3, but a syllable of the Japanese alphabet), released in the most suitable season - in the summer. “Arrogant teenage songs that mix everything that is not allowed, but if you really want to,” we wrote about it at the time of its release.
“Torn Jeans” immediately hit the top of the most popular songs on VK, and after the video, where Eljay looks illegitimate son Keith Flint, finally went to the people. This is a hit at school discos and 2017, whether you like it or not.
"Rose wine"
Here the numbers will tell everything: almost 400 thousand plays on soundcloud, 55 million views for a song uploaded to YouTube, 36 million for a video released three months later. Or this detail: for last year The song was listened to on VKontakte 200 million times. And then its authors, Feduk and Eldzhey, could not figure out whose contribution to the song was greater - and the Cold War began. Although “Wine” gave both artists a huge boost: Eldzhey started playing on the radio and greatly increased his popularity, Feduk finally got rid of the label “football rap” and became the new hero of dance rap.
"Hey Guys"
Demonstration of achievements for the year - and they are impressive
“There’s a lot of money on the balance sheet, my life has been so kind to me,” this track begins. There is no reason to doubt: Eljay’s tour is already scheduled until May (and then it is planned new album and a new concert format), his fee (as some promoters claim) is a million rubles, last year almost all concerts were held with soldiers. He really has everything nice - the disco continues!
Since its appearance in former USSR in the early nineties, Russian hip-hop began to quickly gain popularity among young people and is not going to lose ground.
Bold and talented performers write and produce high-quality, interesting music. Among them, a guy named Eljay stands out, who is now very popular among schoolchildren and students.
Official biography
- Where and when was born - Novosibirsk, 1994, July 9;
- Real name: Alexey Uzenyuk;
- Stage name – Allj, Eldzhey;
- Education – secondary, incomplete medical;
- Height and weight – 176 cm, 76+ kg;
- Performance style: Russian hip-hop (Russian rap);
- Family – single, has a girlfriend; brother Danil.
Lekha Eldzhey's childhood and school years
In elementary and middle school, Alexey was a calm “average student,” not upsetting his parents with bad grades and hooligan behavior. As a child, he even visited a music studio and tried to study vocals, but (according to him) ordinary singing “didn’t catch me.” The boy’s mother and father then probably had no idea what kind of career they were preparing for their son’s life!
Alexey decided not to finish high school, went to medical school after the ninth grade, and began working part-time while studying. And then he suddenly quit - rap music, it turns out, had been calling him to it for several years. While still a teenage schoolboy, he went to the Novosibirsk battle site for the first time and tried his hand there. “This is mine!” – he thought and first began visiting live venues, then tried to perform in battles on the Internet. He was only thirteen years old then.
The photo shows Alexey Uzenyuk in his youth.
He is truly “sick” with hip-hop, writes his own lyrics and takes part in verbal battles. Internet battles have “dispersed” his popularity: fans are starting to post clips of his compositions, in social networks he's dialing large number likes. His popularity is growing, but Eljay again, as he once did with his studies at college, abruptly says to himself “stop.” He later explained this action: he realized that he needed to stop with battles and start composing his own tracks.
The beginning of success
Lekha-Eldzhey set up a home studio in 2009 and wrote the first tracks there, posting them online. His style of that time is called by fans as “angry and daring lyrics of entrances.” Another characteristic (in his own words) of his performance style is “subtle, but dirty and dense,” and these words will later appear in the lyrics of his hit.
For five years, Alexey, as they say, “without raising his head,” has been working and polishing his rap skills; there are already a lot of clips from his tracks on YouTube. Finally, to the delight of fans, in 2014 a large official album called “Boski Smoking” was released. "BOSHKI DIMATSYA LYRICS" was a serious success among the underground youth audience, although it was criticized for its extraordinary style.
Two years later it appears new collection with the name “Catacombs”, which brought Eljay even more popularity, many cover versions of songs from this album appeared.
In 2017, together with Pavel Kravtsov (stage name - Kravts), he shot the video “Eljay & Kravts, Disconnect”, and almost immediately the collection “Sayonara Boy” was born. The presentation of the album took place on July 7 in Moscow, at the Lookin Rooms club. Here's what enthusiastic fans wrote about the songs from this album: “Down with vanilla suffering about our childhood! We have grown up and it’s too late to save us!” Another statement from one of the fans about the collection: “These are arrogant, but cool songs, in which everything that is not allowed is mixed, and even if you really want to, it is also not allowed, as our parents think.”
Just then Allj changed his performance style and appearance: He was influenced by the work of South African rave bands, specifically the Cape Town band Die Antwoord. And Eljay cannot be stopped: he quickly records six more studio albums, the latest of which is “Sayonara Boy 3”.
"Rose wine"
This track, as soon as it hit the internet in 2017, immediately took top positions on social networks: it was listened to 200 million times on VK by the end of the year! The song was recorded in collaboration with Russian hip-hop singer Feduk (real name Fedor Insarov). In November of the same year, a video of the same name was shot, and in two days it gained two million views.
Wild, simply indescribable success, and suddenly... The clip suddenly disappeared from access on YouTube! Fans are shocked, social media. networks explode with bewilderment: why, what happened? The first statement regarding the blocking was posted on the Internet by the director of the video, Alexei Rozhkov: “Soon the video will be unblocked, these are the tricks of our enemies.” The incomprehensible situation was later “resolved” by Eldzhey himself: it turns out that it was he who applied for blocking, allegedly his copyrights were violated. The reason is funny - he wanted his name to appear before Feduk. The original version looked like this – “Elzhdey & Feduk”, but since the clip was released for the first time on Feduk’s channel, he arbitrarily rearranged the names. By the way, on social media networks, fans of Allj also did not support this name and sharply spoke out against it.
Allj and Feduk. Still from the video “Rose Wine”.
A serious conflict erupted around the video. The then-famous blogger Dzharakhov on Twitter sharply criticized Eldzhey’s stage image and performance style, but this was, as Alexey countered, only his point of view and a matter of personal taste. The leader of the “Little Big” group, Ilya Prusikin, stated that “this guy was generally invited only as a performer, and the song was not his.” The information, by the way, was soon refuted by both Eldzhey and Feduk. The result of the conflict is that the true author of the song decided to “extinguish” the scandal and leave everything as it is: “I assessed the situation soberly and decided that there is no point in ruining Feduk’s career, the video will soon return to YouTube.”
Why is he not like everyone else?
According to the guy, “study and work are boring, this is for those who have not been able to prove themselves in anything else.” Yes, the point of view is controversial, but this is his own sincere opinion. If an artist is talented and creativity brings him success and satisfaction, why not?
Eljay is very self-critical, he works carefully on his tracks. Listening to the “draft” versions over and over again, he removes what he doesn’t like and adds new “highlights”. The quality of the songs has improved tremendously since the "Sayonara Boy" album, and strong voice with a hoarse voice became undeniably recognizable.
Photo Instagram sayonaraboy.
The “trick” of his stage image is milky-white lenses, which look creepy, but create an extraordinary look. He also loves getting tattoos: on his right elbow he has a tattoo in the form of a lantern, which means (according to him) the beginning of a successful period in his life. On right hand He had a tattoo of a bullet on his finger and a brass knuckle under his left eye.
You can argue as much as you like and say that this image is scary. Some artists follow the “beaten” path and blindly copy a successful “look”, others try to create something of their own, albeit controversial, but they are worth respecting for it. In any case, Eljay and his fans are not embarrassed by this “not for sensitive people” appearance.
Personal life, friends
The artist Allj is not yet thinking about his wife, and especially about children - he has no family. Despite his scandalous appearance and extraordinary behavior, he is quite secretive in his personal life.
Eljay’s career is developing rapidly, and it is not surprising that fans are “storming” his accounts on social media. networks asking if he has a girlfriend. He doesn’t like to talk too much about this topic, but he regularly posts joint photos with his lovely lady on Instagram. Little is known about his girlfriend: her name is Nastya, she is the same age as Alexei. Young people live together, but are not yet thinking about marriage.
In the photo Eldzhey with his girlfriend Nastya.
The star (he deserved this title) of Russian rap is friends with famous blogger Amiran Sardarov, in September 2017 he participated in his sensational program “Diary of a Khach”.
Eldzhey, unlike some representatives of modern “extreme” youth, is absolutely tolerant in terms of nationalities. Among his close friends is Ves from the Azerbaijani Russian-language group “Caspian Cargo”. Anar and Alexey have a photo together with a sincere comment: “Music and nationality may be different, but friendship is the same!”
Hip-hop and rap are probably the most popular styles of music among young people and teenagers. On at the moment the young hip-hop artist Alexey Uzenyuk gained fame with stage name Allj. Many people believe that it is impossible to become a real rap artist, you can only be born one.
Rap is special language lyrics, special poetry, music that was filled with a variety of rhythms and, of course, a special feeling of the world. All these features are fully manifested in the work of one of the youngest Russian hip-hop artists - Eldzhey. Allj- popular rapper, who is very respected by young people. This article is devoted to his biography and work.
Biography of Eljay
Alexey was born in 1994 in Novosibirsk. From the very early age he had a penchant for music, the boy attended music class, was engaged in creativity. After receiving secondary education, he entered medical college and began working at the same time, but the desire to be a musician wins out, and Eljay gives up everyday activities and devotes himself to music and music. creative activity. This is how he becomes famous and popular. Alexey began creating his first rap compositions at the age of fifteen, and that’s how it began creative biography Eljay. Even then, he felt a craving for hip-hop style and rap music. Many fans are interested in: “How old is Eljay?” On July 9, 2017, he turned twenty-three years old.
Creative path
Alexey Uzenyuk - Eldzhey - started creative path in 2010, when he recorded the first tracks and rapped in small clubs. In 2013, his first album entitled “Heads are Smoking” appeared. Allij (Eljay) gained particular popularity among young people - middle and high school students, students. Allj is one of the most unusual artists of modern hip-hop, a bright representative of the underground scene. In addition to recording singles, Eljay also organizes parties and various entertainment events. Parties and get-togethers are his strong point, where he expresses himself in full.
Early creativity
The journey of the hip-hop artist Eljay began with rap battles, creative competitions to determine who could best rap his single. Hip-hop battles were held in the city of Novosibirsk, and Alexey Uzenyuk had a chance to participate in one of them. Impressed by the event, he realized that he could rap better than the young people performing there. At thirteen years old, he even takes part in a large number of hip-hop battles, Allj (Eljay) wins many. In 2013, Allj released his first studio album together with the famous Russian rapper Mal.
The sound of the album is reminiscent of “lyrics from the entrance”, underground, that is, not at all the direction that Eljay is interested in now.
In 2014, Alexey Uzenyuk’s second album, entitled “Bosses are Smoking,” was released, which will occupy a special place in Eldzhey’s biography. The audience received this creation well; the sound was much better and the lyrics of the songs were more interesting. And the main song of this album by Eljay with the same name was heard from every car, for the sake of it they even installed special speakers to impress women. This was the rapper's first success, but far from his last.
In 2015, Allj recorded the album “Pushka”, held concerts, and toured the country with performances, thereby further increasing its audience of listeners.
In 2016, another successful solo album“Catacombs”, in which it is necessary to note the fairly popular track “Music”, which was recorded together with the hit artists Miyaji and Endgame. There is a strong sense of a completely new style of songs in it, a departure from the old direction of rap.
Popularity of Allj's creativity
A turning point in Eldzhey’s work occurred in the fall of 2016, it was then that the track “Disconnect” with the performer Kravets was released, which quickly became popular. The track took first place in all music charts and became a hit at all club parties. Eljay’s biography is filled with scandalous parties where he presented his new tracks to the public. Social networks have also added to the popularity of rapper Eljay.
Eljay’s album “Sayonara Boy” has a completely new sound and a new musical direction.
In 2017, Eljay released another solo album, Sayonara Boy. Thanks to him, a unique personal style is created, namely appearance, a large number of tattoos, and, of course, everyone’s recognizable glowing eyes.
Hit "Rose Wine"
The peak of popularity, in the opinion of many fans of his talent, is August 2017. It was then that a jointly recorded track with performer Feduk and Allj (Eldzhey) was released - “Pink Wine”, which became the main hip-hop hit of the summer of 2017. The song is dedicated to the guy’s love interest beautiful girl. The chorus is sung by singer Feduk, and Eldzhey raps in the verses. The song was popular with both boys and girls. Many listeners of the song noted Feduk’s beautiful lyrics and excellent vocal abilities.
What's wrong with Eljay's eyes?
Eljay is doing great with his eyes and vision, there are no diseases or abnormalities. And he wears white luminous lenses, like tattoos and provocative clothes, only to attract attention and create a unique image that will be remembered by listeners and people attending his concerts. Due to constant questions about his white lenses, he even has a track called "What's Wrong with My Eyes?" So this is just a way to attract mass audience and shock her.
Eljay's personal life
In an interview, Aljay stated that his parents are proud of the creative and commercial success of his compositions and public performances. It is known that Alexey Uzenyuk has a younger brother who also lives in Novosibirsk. At the moment, the rapper lives with his girlfriend and often posts photos of them together on social networks. Her name is From the photo you can see that the couple is happy. From her photos on social networks, you can understand that she too creative personality. Alexey does not like to talk about his personal life and relationships with the opposite sex, which is why there is so little information about him on the Internet. From Eljay’s interview it is known that he values fidelity between a man and a woman and does not accept betrayal.
List of Eljay's albums
Initially, Alexey simply posted his tracks on VKontakte, where he received the first comments from visitors to his page. Over time, having become popular and gained commercial success, he records official studio albums. Let's do it short essay his studio work.
- In 2013, Eljay recorded his first album with the performer Mal under the specific name “Gundezh”. The album enjoyed some success.
- In 2014, he published his second album, “Bosses Are Smoking,” and then Uzenyuk gained real popularity.
- In 2015, the album “Pushka” was recorded, which contains nine tracks. During this period, he begins to give his first performances in Russian cities.
- In December 2015, the next album, “Catacombs,” was created, and “Sayonara Boy” was also recorded.
- In 2016, Eljay recorded the album “Library”. And in mid-2016, he decided to stop using the standard rapper style and begins to make calm dance compositions, using club sounds. His track “Rose Wine” speaks about this.
We hope that Eljay’s biography will be replenished with new popular songs and successful albums.
Eldzhey (Allj) is a Russian hip-hop artist, whose popularity was brought by his duet with rapper Feduk “Pink Wine”, songs “Torn Jeans”, “Minimal”, etc.Childhood and youth
Eldzhey (real name - Alexey Konstantinovich Uzenyuk) was born on July 9, 1994 in Novosibirsk. Alexey has a younger brother, Danil.At the end of the year, Uzenyuk appeared in an episode of Amiran Sardarov’s YouTube show “Khach’s Diary”, in which he spoke about the opening of his own label, which at that time included the group “Black Cinema”. The singer also became the face of the Yves perfume series. Saint Laurent"La Nuit De L'homme Intense."
Eljay's personal life
In 2018, it became known that Alexey was dating a girl named Anastasia Drozdova. Not much is known about the singer’s chosen one, except that she has known Eldzhey for a long time (she also once lived in Novosibirsk and, according to rumors, the romance of the young people began even then) and is his same age.
On July 9, one of the most shocking Russian rappers celebrates his birthday. Now Eljay practically does not give interviews and very rarely leaves his elaborate stage image. However, this was not always the case. We remembered the archival interview with Alexey, which he gave to TNT MUSIC when he was recording the album “Sayonara Boy”.
Eljay
Photo: Instagram
Eljay turned 24 on Monday. The performer of the hits “Pink Wine”, “Torn Jeans” and “Minimal” is one of the most popular Russian rappers. The provocative image of the artist performing in white lenses without pupils evokes a polar reaction from the audience. Some people think that Eljay is a style icon and a typical bad boy, while others think that the guy is too overrated. We found out who the young man was before he became famous.
Eldzhey's real name is Alexey Uzenyuk. He was born in 1994 in Novosibirsk. There is so little information about Eljay that his fans can only guess how true this or that rumor is.
The artist himself is extremely reluctant to talk about himself and gives interviews even less often. It’s quite difficult to see Eljay without his famous lenses - he even appears in this image during interviews, and in ordinary life hides her eyes under the most stylish sunglasses. However, Uzenyuk once made an exception for the FUNBOX program on TNT MUSIC. In 2016, an aspiring performer performing under named Allj, met with host Gleb Bolelov and talked about himself and his album “Sayonara Boy”. Then he had just moved to Moscow and was gradually settling down in the capital.
In the recording made two years ago, Lesha looks very calm and modest. He spoke very little about himself and more than once gave the floor to his colleagues. It was clear that Allj was very serious and could not imagine his life without music. Few could have imagined that a novice performer would go so far.
Alexey began to study rap music, feeling that he could compete with many representatives of this genre. One day a childhood friend brought future star for the battle. At that time, Lesha was about 13 years old.
“The guys read from the stage, people liked it all, but I didn’t really like it. I thought: “Why am I worse?” A month later he came to the party and won the battle. And so it went. This is an isolated incident when I was very small. I also remember how I caused a stir in Internet battles,” said the artist.
Eldzhey and presenter Gleb Bolelov
Photo: frame from the FUNBOX program
Alexey advised aspiring artists to think about such events. “If you have nothing to say, you can take part in rap battles. At least they'll give you a topic. There will be something to talk about,” said the performer.
To start playing music, Lesha studied iron himself and acquired the skills that a beginning musician needs.
“Nobody wanted to help me, it took a lot of time. When it became an independent entity, it began releasing tracks and posting them online. It all happened somehow quickly. After three tracks the statistics went up. I thought: “Cool.” People started flocking to my page and contacting me,” the rapper shared.
Eljay moved to Moscow in 2016
Photo: frame from the FUNBOX program
Few people know that since 2013, Allj has presented four albums. In 2016, Alexey graduated from the institute.
“School, university, work - it’s, of course, fun. I tried it all. Those who cannot find themselves definitely need to do this. I found myself as a child, and I had something to strive for. I still see the path to which I need to go,” said Uzenyuk.
Two years ago, the rapper recorded tracks and performed with Kravets, MiyaGi and Endshpil. “Disconnect” didn’t take long to create. The guy sent me some music, I turned it on and stuck around the table and started writing lyrics. I forgot about everything and quickly threw it in,” said Allj.
Eljay once gave interviews without white lenses
Photo: frame from the FUNBOX program
Alexey talked about how he listens to a lot of music - not only beats, but also the work of other artists for himself. According to the rapper, the main thing is originality. “When there is something that I haven’t heard. I can be inspired by anything, even unknown [bullshit],” he shared.
The album "Sayonara Boy" was a turning point in his career young artist. After the release of this record, Lesha significantly increased his audience. Translated from Japanese, "sayonara" means "goodbye."
“On this release I say goodbye to many moments and periods in my life. The second meaning is that "Sayonara Boy" is a guy who has no boundaries. I didn’t choose, it all came to me on its own. I remember this moment, then I again laid something under the cue ball. Bang, it flies out, I understand the meaning of this word and realize: this is what I need,” explained Eljay.