Meet the Russian rapper so dangerous, Putin labeled him a 'foreign agent.'
forced him to scrap much of a Russian autumn tour last year. The rapper found himself increasingly in a state of limbo not unlike the title character of“I have no sense of humor, otherwise I’d have laughed long ago about the life situation I got in,” he riffs as the lead in thevideo, playing a character facing KGB persecution for his comedy. “There’s no rope? Then choke me with a tie.”
FACE has actively cultivated a fandom across the Russian-speaking world. Pre-war concerts in Ukraine contrasted sharply with his sets in Russia and Belarus that were almost as likely to be banned as allowed. In post-Maidan Ukraine, however, FACE found a vibrant post-Soviet democracy with greater personal freedoms that could serve as a beacon for his generation in Russia.
It’s this young generation that helps FACE remain optimistic, and one that he believes may eventually upend the more hardline ways of thinking he says are currently en vogue.
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