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Post by Admin on Sept 10, 2019 17:48:41 GMT
A Russian rapper who describes himself as Vladimir Putin’s best friend has pulled his latest pro-Kremlin music video from YouTube after it set a new record for online unpopularity. The track, entitled Moscow, was released by Timati on the eve of Sunday’s city council elections in the Russian capital. It contained lyrics praising the city’s Kremlin-installed mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, as well as criticising protests that rocked Moscow this summer after opposition candidates were barred from the city council polls. “I don’t go on protests and I don’t talk shit,” went the lyrics to the song. It also contained a line hailing Moscow as “the city where they don’t hold gay parades”. He also rapped about “wolfing down a burger to the health of Sobyanin”. The clip for Moscow, a track featuring Timati and fellow rapper GUF, has proven so unpopular on YouTube that Timati removed it from the video-sharing platform after just two days. But not before it received over 1 million "dislikes," handing the two artists the record of largest negative rating in the history of Russian YouTube. It all came down to sycophantic lyrics and dismal timing. The clip, versions of which have been copied and uploaded after its deletion by prescient YouTube users, is a paean to Moscow, a city that has emerged from the Soviet and tsarist eras as an architectural smorgasbord and major metropolis of over 12 million inhabitants.
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