Pro-Putin Rapper Pulls YouTube Video After Backlash as Russian Rap Becomes Political Battleground
Pro-Kremlin rapper Timati has pulled a music video from YouTube just days after its launch last Sunday after it received a record-setting 1.48 million dislikes.
Pro-opposition rappers such as Face and Oxxxymiron joined the protests, but Timati — who had denied the Kremlin paid for his video for the song, which praised the Russian capital's pro-Putin mayor Sergei Sobyanin — is the exception to the rule. The music video's record amount of thumbs down earned it a place in the top 30 most disliked music videos worldwide."Today it's trendy to complain about the government, but I have got my own opinion," he told followers on Instagram. "Instead of going to protests, you work and improve yourselves."My Best Friend is Vladimir PutinThe Russian government has struck an adversarial stance toward local artists.
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