Far from Moscow: Making Hip-Hop Russian
На американском ресурсе Far from Moscow опубликовали статью "Making Hip-Hop Russian", посвящённую лейблу 2-99 Records.
Russian hip-hop has undergone several evolutionary stages already seen in its American progenitor; perhaps not surprisingly, they have been dictated primarily by market pressures.
Mainstream material tends, for obvious reasons, to avoid overtly political or misogynistic extremes, but nonetheless leaves sufficient room for male posturing to flourish in a fairly irritating manner: less songs about prison - and more about puberty...