Why are they looking for something purulent? Chechen censorship: conflict between a battle rapper and the Chechens

The rapper, whose real name is Slava Karelin, has several other nicknames: Buter Brodsky, Sonya Marmeladova and Slava KPSS. But in the world of rap battles, he is known as Purulent. And the nasty nickname quite accurately characterizes the nature of his couplets. First, Gnoyny became the champion of the Slovo SPB battle league, which some consider to be the second highest level after Versus. Then he held several more performances - the most revealing was the battle against one of the top representatives of the Versus series, Ernesto Shut Up.

The battle between Gnoyny and Ernesto Shut Up that took place this summer collected 3.5 million views and became the reason why Oksimiron called him to “Versus”. In addition, this fight is notable as the first case of self-censorship on the Russian battle scene: jokes about Patriarch Kirill and Kadyrov were censored in the Internet version of the battle.

But real fame overtook Slava suddenly and with a minimum of effort on his part. The hype around Gnoyny was raised by the owners of VKontakte accounts with Caucasian surnames, grouped around the public of Chechen youth. Some of them dug up two years ago from Gnoyny’s performance at the “Slovo” battle - he informed his opponent that he had sex with Chinese, Armenian, and Chechen women and did not discriminate.

Grozny residents felt that it was worth making distinctions, and published a call to find the rapper so that he would “answer for his festering mouth” (the post has now been deleted). In the comments there were ideas to come to the St. Petersburg bar “1703”, where those same “Versus” battles take place. Gnoyny deleted his VKontakte account with a farewell note: “Forgive me, dear girls of Ichkeria.” Nevertheless, screenshots of VK correspondence with him surfaced online, where he allegedly apologized.

This situation immediately ignited a fire in Russian rap. After all, battle rap with its constant jokes about mothers has not only become boring, but the previous reaction “Oh, outrageous!” no longer calls. Suddenly an audience was found that was not ready to put up with the existence of this kind of art. In, organized by the website The Flow, hopes were expressed that one day humanity will learn to resolve disputes without assault, but for now that’s it; the question was raised about what the value of such freedom of speech was in general with the conclusion: “They didn’t want to set moral boundaries for themselves, so they’ll set them for you”; they even recalled Raikin’s speech about censorship, but with the caveats that permissiveness is also not very good and an internal censor is needed.

And right before the weekend, when the conflict began to fizzle out, the main character Gnoiny made comments for the first time. He released a minute and a half video in which he actually apologized. But as if wholesale - to Chinese, Armenian, and Chechen women at once, as if trying not to lose face.

Gnoyny's only reaction to the events unfolding around him is a minute and a half video

But this does not necessarily mean that the conflict is over. So the organizers of the “Versus” battle, where Gnoyny had a fight scheduled for last Sunday with another local headliner Rickey F, played it safe and moved it to an unknown date. Instead of them, other people were making noise at the 1703 club over the weekend - including Dima Malikov.

As for Gnoyny, without making almost any effort (and finding himself in an extremely uncomfortable situation), he caught completely unimaginable hype. And since he is far from an untalented rapper, one should not be surprised if in the foreseeable future the Internet hype around him materializes into a sold-out in a large Moscow club. Especially if Slava avoids meeting with Chechen listeners before the battle with Oksimiron planned for 2017.

The rap artist, known under the pseudonym Gnoyny, published a video with an apology to Chechen girls. The artist kept his promise to MMA fighter Magomed Raisov and publicly apologized to Chechen, Chinese and Armenian girls for the “bad joke.”

As the site learned, in a video published on the SlovoSPB Production channel, Vyacheslav Karelin apologized “for the unfortunate joke he allowed himself” during the battle as part of Slovfest V against Nongratta. The rapper timed his apology to coincide with National Unity Day, which is celebrated in Russia on November 4. He emphasized that he “did not want to offend any nations” and treats representatives of all nationalities with equal respect. At the end of his video message, entitled “Explaining the situation,” he called for a peaceful resolution to the conflict.

People from the Chechen Republic drew attention to the rapper’s statements from 2 years ago. In the public pages of the social network VKontakte, they demanded that Karelin be found and punished for his remark. Soon, the rapper began to receive threats online, after which MMA fighter Magomed Raisov contacted him. After a conversation with the artist, he called for an end to the hunt, since Gnoyny “realizes the full depth of his mistake and promises not to do this in the future,” publishing a fragment of personal correspondence.

Next, Karelin deleted his page from the social network with the words “Forgive me, dear girls of Ichkeria.” According to the site, in the video, the rapper noted that he does not plan to return to VKontakte in the near future, since the technical support of the social network “showed an absolutely disregardful attitude” towards his safety.

Interesting continuation.

"It was evening, there was nothing."
There are a lot of letters that break the mentality of the Chechens.
I have known about such a battle MC as Slava Karelin for a long time. I’m not from the crowd that became fans of Gnoyny/Slava CPSU/Sonya Marmeladova after the fight with “Ernesto, shut up!” And I couldn’t help but notice that my idol deleted the page, but initially there were thoughts that Rickey F was to blame, although not a word more about this battle. So, let's get to the point, otherwise there is too much water. Having read the news that the “Chechen brotherhood” had taken up arms against Slava, I initially thought it was a hoax. However, after I sent a link to a petition in support of Slava to his own group (the first and last time I signed such a thing.), one individual, a native of that society, a beast and a mutant, boiling blood, wrote to me in a PM. There is no point in writing a backstory about a fake page, but this page is fake and that’s a fact. The person mentioned earlier (it’s hard to call a person) began the dialogue by promising to send me a video of Slava, where he is on his knees with a bloody face asking for forgiveness from the Chechen girls whom he “insulted.” In my attempts to resolve the conflict peacefully, I apparently gave this individual reason to think that I was Slava’s acquaintance, and maybe even more (!). And then everything went like clockwork. I asked to leave the whole situation alone, to which our friend with mental disabilities offered me sex (the profile stated that I was 17, he was definitely an adult. Short-sighted entity). This proposal was rejected, after which I was asked to take a nude photo with the inscription “I only fucked her, but didn’t touch Chechen girls” and the signature: Slava Karelin. And, it seems, someone was again in for disappointment, because his highly intellectual proposal was rejected. Then he decided to sell. Guess how much? It will be hard to believe, but 100 rubles transferred from my number to his was practically enough for him. (practically, because he needed further conversations with me) In general, it’s over here too. Later, he offered to record an audio recording in which I apologize to their girls! And then he said that in general this would not help Slava anyway, or would help partially, or again would not help, and during the conversation he generally forgave him, then again he was offended and made threats. And at me! At the beginning of the dialogue, he told me that they want to live peacefully with us, although the attached photographs may prove otherwise. Is not it? Light trolling was evident throughout the entire dialogue, but then, simply unable to tolerate this intellectual mediocrity, I simply lost my temper. The further dialogue was short and uninteresting. But you will follow this thing: they undertake to protect their girls, without even suspecting what they really are, but they throw mud and crave violence against Russian girls! Isn't it a paradox? The relevance of the issue will last forever, perhaps. And in the end, you can only say this: do you want to change the world, change the essence of a person, change the attitude towards you? Start with yourself!

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The conflict between St. Petersburg rap musician Gnoin and the Chechen diaspora ended today with reconciliation: the rapper promised to make a public apology for his lyrics, which, in the opinion of representatives of this people, affected the honor of Chechen girls and the entire people as a whole. And the administrators of the public Chechen Fighters, who posted correspondence with the rapper’s requests for forgiveness, called on the audience to “close the hunt” for the musician after the video of the apology appears on YouTube: “Understand and forgive! Regarding what the “rotten” said at the battle to Chechen girls - We talked, and he realizes the depth of his mistake and promises not to do this in the future. We’re waiting for the video, and I think the hunt for him can be closed.”

This story began just two days ago, on October 29. St. Petersburg resident Vyacheslav Karelin, known as the rapper Gnoyny, unexpectedly found himself under the close attention of representatives of the Chechen diaspora. The reason was a video of his participation in the Slovospb rap battle, which appeared in a popular Chechen public. The words spoken by the rapper at this event seemed extremely offensive to the natives of the Chechen Republic.

The battle itself took place three years ago, but the video became available to a wide audience only last Saturday. On the recording are rappers Gnoyny and Nongrata compete in the art of improvisation and Karelina gets a little carried away. He says a few words to the Chechen girls. It was this part of the texts that offended the representatives of the diaspora. P According to the Chechens, Gnoyny insulted not his opponent personally, but all Chechen girls and the nation as a whole.

The community administrator who posted the video of the battle called for the St. Petersburg MC to be found and punished. The post began to collect many “clones” in similar public pages related to the traditions and hobbies of the Chechen diaspora, as well as many dozens and hundreds of comments.

Most commentators agreed that MC Gnoyny should apologize on camera. In addition, the musician, according to those who were offended, had to be physically punished.
In the end, the harassed rapper had to delete his page on VKontakte with the words: “Forgive me, dear girls of Ichkeria.”

The activity that arose in Chechen public pages regarding the rapper was noticed by members of the “Rhymes and Punch” community. They promptly took a number of screenshots with threats against Karelin. After a short period of time, posts calling for the musician to be punished were deleted.

Thus, the administrator of the Chechen Fighters public deleted his post - it was this post with a video recording of the “historic” battle that became the first in this history. Instead of the deleted message, another one appeared first. It read: “The administrator of this community in no way encourages you, participants and non-participants, to resort to any violence, extremism or other illegal actions.”

And then a post appeared with the following content: “All the fanatics of the “purulent” or whatever it is that came running into our group, unsubscribe, you signed up for the wrong group.”
Posts calling to “find and punish” Gnoyny disappeared a day later. It is possible that the walls of public pages and communities were cleared by the administrators themselves; it is also possible that the posts were deleted by the VKontakte support service as “calling for violence and extremism.”

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MC Gnoyny is the winner of the first season of the Slovospb rap battle and a permanent judge of the project. In 2017, a high-profile battle between the rapper and Miron Fedorov, also known as Oxxxymiron, is expected.