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About MD&C Pavlov
- Alexey Vladimirovich Pavlov (Russian: ??????´? ?????´??????? ??´????, born 8 February 1968), best known under his stage name MD&C Pavlov, is a Russian hip hop performer and one of the first MC's in the Soviet Union.
- He is cited as being "the godfather of Russian funk" and one of the pioneers of Russian rap. While he was originally a drummer for a Soviet rock band Zvuki Mu, Pavlov heard rap music from bootlegged tapes in possession of a Cuban student at a Russian university in 1984.
- He then heard more hip-hop when touring the United States in 1989 with his rock band and immediately was infatuated with the genre and culture.
- When he returned to the USSR, he began rapping in Moscow clubs and discos.
- His raps were mostly in English with Russian, Sanskrit and nonsense syllables, based on jazz scat syllables, all mixed together.
- He used an American hip-hop style and would only perform with black dancers and performers, because he believed the genre was a black genre.
- He also avoided political topics and emphasized the sound of words over their meaning.
- Because of this, government officials did not perceive him as a threat and did not seriously attempt to censor him.
- Although he succeeded in spreading rap further throughout the USSR and was one of the first rappers in Russia, Pavlov's popularity decreased as during the decline of the USSR.
- He now claims he has been forgotten as a Russian rap icon, while other American and Russian groups from the same era, like Bad Balance, are given more credit for spreading and sparking the genre.
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