Actually i don’t like hip-hop, but i know one good band Кровосток. Try to listen albums “Река крови” и “Сквозное”.
All themes about crime and something like that
“Биография” is a most popular song from them. It is about a generalized character of the crime of the Russian 90s
And i remember another one band - Kunteynir with an good experimental album “Вес”. It is the most popular experimental hip-hop band from Russia i think. Themes of lyrics…mostly about drugs or another weird stuff, they made lyrics by freestyle, so it might be senselessly, but…a lot of my friends like them for it
It’s an older project of mine and definitely experimental minded music, but the vocalist I worked with on this was definitely just talking about his life as a crazy bike courier in Chicago. This is kinda old school at this point, but worth sharing. Check out the track ‘disappointed’
This is so dope. I’ve never listened to Russian rap. no idea what they’re saying and I’ll get to it later but growing up where I did, there’s just something so different here for me that it kind of blows my mind. i’ll need to explore it further. thanks for sharing @Disgmus