Basta's childhood
Vasily was born on April 20, 1980 in the family of a serviceman from Rostov-on-Don. When Vasily was born, his mother, student Anna Razdaibed, was only 19. At the same time, Basta has an older brother, who is now a railway engineer. 
Basta spent his childhood in the care of his grandparents, as his mother studied (she had two higher educations, later worked as an economist at a defense plant), and her father served. “I didn’t feel any special connection with them,” the rapper said.
With his father, Mikhail Vakulenko, Vasily first met at the age of seven and never really got along. Subsequently, Basta's father, Mikhail Vakulenko, got into a car accident, almost died, received a disability. The man loved classic rock like Deep Purple and Queen. Basta himself was not a great connoisseur of the genre, but he treated these groups with respect. He himself in those years of the group listened to rapcore - Biohazard, Rage Against the Machine and Papa Roach.
In addition to secondary school No. 32, the future rapper also graduated from the music school (piano and accordion class), on his grandmother's initiative. “Be patient, granddaughter, then it will come in handy for you,” she urged. The grandfather of the boy, who played hockey in his youth, forced his grandson to skate. In addition, the guy was engaged in judo. In general, for a rapper, a grandfather is almost a sacred personality. A native of a Cossack family, who worked at the mine, he himself realized the need for higher education, graduated from a military school and the capital's academy of civil defense.
Vasily was not a notorious hooligan, but he could not stand an encroachment on freedom. In an interview, Basta said that if he were offered to return to childhood, he would not agree. Any restrictions on his ideas and movements by his parents caused him irritation bordering on rage.
“I climbed garages, jumped into the water on a dare and didn’t listen to anyone,” the rapper recalled. He is with early years was an adventurer. This is an integral feature of his character, without which there would be no Basta.
Surprisingly, at the same time, the future rapper sang in the church choir as a child and was a sexton. 
At the age of 15, he, inspired by the work of Onyx, Wu-Tang Clan, Ol "Dirty Bastards and Basta Rhimes, tried to rap for the first time. The debut turned out to be successful, and he decided to move on in this direction. Grandmother very opportunely gave him a Yamaha synthesizer. At that time, it was something incredible - as if today a schoolboy was presented with a Lamborghini. If not for her and not for his passion for music, Vasily would most likely have gone down an inclined path.
At the end of the 9th grade, Vasily entered the music school as a conductor, but left after the first course, realizing that the classes did not carry any practical value.
Carier start
In 1997, 17-year-old Vasily, who took the pseudonym Basta Khryu, joined the Psycholyric rap group, which, on his initiative, was soon renamed Cast. With his participation in 1997, the album "First Strike" was recorded (tracks "City", "First Strike" and "Just Jump Higher"). However, in 1998, the paths of "Casta" and Basta diverged. Although Vlady still speaks well of his former colleague, calling him the soul of the company. 
At this time, drugs appeared in the life of a novice rapper. He honestly, without concealment, speaks about this chapter of his life: “At first he just drank, smoked, at 17 he injected himself for the first time. It wasn't scary at all." According to Basta, on the one hand, he felt like an absolutely adult independent person, on the other hand, a loser, over and over again losing all chances for self-realization.
At the age of 18, "Basta" wrote his first hit - the song "My Game", which the author still considers one of the most important stages of his creative career. Rostovites were the first to hear the new composition at Basta's performance at the local sports palace. Soon, his work was heard by the inhabitants of the Black Sea region and the Krasnodar Territory.
Basta - "My game" (ft Guf)
Then, for some time, the performer left the stage, returning only in 2002, when his close friend Yuri Volos aka Zhora offered to make a home recording studio. But after a long break, none of the producers wanted to collaborate with young rappers, and in search of a label that would take them under its wing, Vasily and Yuri decided to move to Moscow. Later, about this time, Basta spoke like this: "Dumb labels, no chance."
gas holder
Basta's demo disc (at that time he began to call himself Basta Bastilio) fell to Bogdan Titomir, who became the producer of the guy under the auspices of the Gas Holder. It was on this label that Basta's first album, Basta 1, was released, which included 19 solo tracks by the rapper, only two of which were recorded together with the KRP. The composition of the disc included "My game", which has become legendary - according to tradition, Basta performs it at every concert. In the same year, Basta released the first clip "Autumn", which got into wide TV rotation. The success inspired the rapper to soon release the video "Once and For All".Basta - "Autumn"
2007 was, without exaggeration, a turning point for Basta. Firstly, his second album "Basta 2" was released, and with it a number of bright video works: "Our Summer", "So Spring Cries", "Inner Fighter". The 50,000th edition of the disc was sold out in 90 days. Listeners were waiting for 17 songs, including a duet with Guf ("My Game") by singer Maxim ("Our Summer").
Secondly, foreign developers of computer games from Rockstar became interested in the performer, and in the Grand Theft Auto IV, released in April 2008, Basta's song "Mama" sounded.
Basta: interesting facts
Thirdly, Basta became a co-owner of the Gazgolder label, and then opened a new page of creativity under the new pseudonym Noggano. Unlike Basta's deeply lyrical tracks, Noggano delighted listeners with a tougher, bolder and nihilistic hip-hop.
Under the new pseudonym, Vasily released the following three albums: "First" in 2008, "Warm" in 2009, "Unreleased" in 2010.
In 2008, the video filmed for the song "City of Roads" received the MTV Russia Music Awards. In addition to changing his pseudonym, in the same 2008, the rap artist tried himself in different genres: screenwriter, director, producer and actor. It happened during the filming of his own film - "The Tea Drinker".
Vasily liked writing the script, so he began work, which the audience soon saw under the name "Tales for Adults." In 2008, the video filmed for the song "City of Roads" received the MTV Russia Music Awards. In 2011, already under the new pseudonym "Nintendo", Vasily again surprised everyone by releasing a new album - "Nintendo", which was performed in an unusual style for all admirers of creativity and the artist himself - "Cyber-geng".
To date, Bast's creative experience in the "cinema" genre has a fairly solid list, namely acting roles in six films, the most popular of which is "Heat", 4 scripts for films, director and producer simultaneously in two projects.
In the fall of 2015, the rap artist Basta became one of the judges and mentor of the world famous Voice project, and Polina Gagarina, Alexander Gradsky and Grigory Leps became his colleagues.
In April 2017, Basta presented a new video - "Sansara". The song itself was dedicated to family values, and rock musicians Diana Arbenina, Alexander Sklyar, Sergey Bobunets, Andrey Zaporozhets (SunSay) took part in its recording. The clip used real photos of little Basta and his friends.
Basta - "Sansara" (2017)
In 2018, the rapper, following the fashion on a YouTube show with detailed interviews with famous people, launched by Yuri Dud, created his own YouTube channel Gazlive. The first guest of the show symbolically became Yuri Dud himself. Earlier, Basta himself visited Dudya and spoke about his views on the modern rap scene and his income.
"vdud": Basta
However, after 16 episodes of Basta's show, it was blocked by the YouTube administration due to the fact that the sponsors of the project were banned due to the new policy of the service.
In the fall of 2018, Basta and the Restaurateur, the organizer of the Versus battle, became the jury in the new project of the Friday! - Reality show "Voice of the streets". The concept of the project was similar to the show "Young Blood" from the Black Star label. Young rappers from remote corners of the country were given a chance to make themselves known throughout Russia. The winner of the show was promised 3 million rubles and a contract with Gazgolder. The first place went to a Petersburger under the pseudonym Sapa 13. However, apparently, the paths of the rapper and the label diverged, since now his name is not listed in the artists of the Gasholder.
Basta's conflict with Nemagia
In November 2016, two bloggers from the Nemagia YouTube channel crossed Basta's road. Mikhail and Aleksey, the hosts of the show, became famous thanks to satirical reviews and parodies of famous personalities.Bloggers took a photo of a certain actress from adult films and photoshopped her face to a joint photo of Vasily and his mother, and then made a few greasy jokes about the woman.
Nonmagic: a review on Basta's mother
“Basta's mother is a metaphor for Basta's off-scale CHSV. It is this mother that we take with all our might, and no other, ”the bloggers justified. But the rapper saw the video and was expectedly offended. Basta promised to find the parents of the pranksters and "talk" to them. Then he called on all the residents of Kemerovo, where the guys from Nemagiya live, to find scandalous bloggers and record an “extreme” video with them.
The addresses of YouTubers were calculated quite quickly, but there was no lynching. It all ended with the “Nemagi” apologizing to Basta, and then releasing a revealing video about the Tinkoff bank, provoking a much bigger wave of hype.
Basta's conflict with Decl
In 2016, Basta grappled (virtually and then in court) with Kirill Tolmatsky, better known as Decl. The reason was Decl's tweet complaining about noisy music from the Gazgolder club. Kirill's apartment was next to the establishment, and he could not sleep. In response, Basta wrote: "Decl - shaggy h ** -2." For the first time, Basta called Decl a shaggy h*** when he stated in some interview that he did not like the representatives of the Gas Holder because of his long hair.Offended, Cyril filed a million-dollar lawsuit for insult. Linguistic examination recognized Basta's remark as offensive, and as a result, the court forced Vakulenko to pay the plaintiff 50 thousand rubles.
Basta trolls Decl in court
But what is 50 thousand rubles for Basta? He soon tweeted a series of photographs illustrating his previous statement. He posted a photo of a young Decl with dreadlocks and a photo with a donkey whose hair was tangled into dreadlocks. The publication was accompanied by the comment "noble wool." Following Basta, he wondered whether Decl was hermaphrodite or not.
Decl responded with a new lawsuit, this time for 4 million rubles. And again, the court sided with the plaintiff, however, reducing the amount of compensation to 350 thousand rubles. Decl sent money to charity.
Bast did not make new attacks in the direction of Decl, but there was no talk of reconciliation either. When Kirill Tolmatsky died suddenly in February 2019, Basta offered condolences to his loved ones, emphasizing that, despite the conflict between them, he was sorry that such a talented person left so early.
Basta's personal life
In the rapper's personal life, everything is fine and smooth. Basta met his current wife at the initiative of the girl herself. A lover of rap culture, Lena Pinskaya, has long admired Basta's work. They met when Basta was just starting his journey to the status of one of the most influential figures on the Russian rap scene. She liked the songs that the rapper released under the pseudonym Noggano, however, she did not know that Noggano and Basta were the same person. Once she was having dinner with a friend at a restaurant and heard a voice that seemed familiar. Vasily sat at the next table. He was with a companion, so Elena did not approach, but after all she stopped him on the street and said that she really liked his work. They talked and exchanged phone numbers. And six months later they came together and since then they have parted only when Vasily leaves on tour. 
In 2009, Vasily Vakulenko and Elena Pinskaya, the daughter of the famous journalist Tatyana Pinskaya, legalized their relationship.
On December 4, 2009, Vasily and Elena had their first daughter, Maria. 4 years later, on January 21, 2013, another daughter, Vasilisa, was born.
Basta considers the birth of babies the most important achievement, and their upbringing is the main mission.
Vasily is monogamous. “I have a mistress – my music studio,” he jokes. Despite the huge number of fans, he cannot even think about cheating on Elena. In their family life there were difficult moments, but any relationship requires work, and Basta and his soulmate understand this perfectly.
Basta now
An impressive experience in television brought Basta in September of the same year a proposal for cooperation from the Match-TV channel. He was entrusted to become the host of the special issue of the program “Not about fights”, the guest of which was kickboxer Khayal Dzhaniev.
The Basta group has taken its niche on the Russian stage. Do you know the name of her soloist? When and by whom was the team formed? If not, then the necessary information can be found in the article. We wish you happy reading!
Soloist of the Basta group: his biography and personal life
Vasily Vakulenko was born on April 20, 1980 in Rostov-on-Don. In what family was the future rap artist brought up? His father and mother are not related to show business. They both devoted many years to military service.
Vasya grew up as an active and inquisitive boy. He attended two schools - regular and musical. At the age of 15, the guy began to write rap. But he managed to achieve progress in this direction only after 2-3 years. Vakulenko entered the school at the conductor's department. However, due to poor academic performance, the guy was expelled.
In 1997, Vasya was accepted into the Psycholyric group. Later, the team was renamed "Kastu". It was during this period that our hero got a nickname - Basta Khryu. From under his pen came the track "City".
In the early 2000s, Vasily left the team. For some time the guy did not go on stage at all. He cut off contact with former bandmates. But soon the talented rap artist returned with a new project called Basta.
How is the personal life of Vasily Vakulenko developing today? For several years now he has been legally married to his beloved woman, Elena Pinskaya. In December 2009, the couple had their first child - daughter Mashenka. The young father helped his wife take care of the baby. In January 2013, another replenishment took place in the Vakulenko family. The second was born, called the beautiful Russian name Vasilisa.
The history of the creation of the Basta group
In 2002 Vasya was visited by his old friend Yuri Volos. He suggested that Vakulenko equip a home studio and work on recording tracks. Our hero agreed. Through joint efforts, friends purchased a computer and sound equipment. Basta managed to restore his old songs. But the material turned out to be unsuitable for the project.
Yuri and Vasily went to Moscow to start collaborating with some record label. Almost everywhere, friends were denied. The only one who helped the Rostov rappers was Bogdan Titomir. He studied the demodisks provided by Basta. The material seemed interesting to him. As a result, Bogdan Titomir invited Vasya and his colleagues to the creative association Gazgolder.
In 2006, the Basta group released their first album. The entire circulation of records was sold out in a couple of weeks. The guys did not expect such a success. In the same year, Basta's video for the song "Autumn" was launched on the country's music TV channels. After that, the group was literally inundated with offers of cooperation. The musicians went on tour. They performed at large venues and in trendy clubs. Everywhere people greeted them with a bang.
In 2008, Basta's video for the song "City of Roads" was awarded the MTV Russia Music Awards. This award gave Vasily Vakulenko and his friends an incentive for further creative development.
Achievements
Over the entire history of its existence, the Basta group has released 9 albums, shot dozens of videos and gave hundreds of concerts throughout Russia. Vasily Vakulenko and his musicians are respected and listened to with pleasure by millions of our compatriots.
New heights
In 2015, our hero took part in the Voice show as a professional mentor. Basta's group showed itself with dignity throughout all stages. And the ward of Vasily Vakulenko, the oriental beauty Era Cannes, entered the top four best performers project. It was a good result.
Finally
Now you know what path to fame the Basta group has taken. The biography and personal life of the soloist of the group were also considered by us. We wish these wonderful guys more hits and loyal fans!
Vasily Mikhailovich Vakulenko - he is Basta, he is Basta Khryu, he is Noggano, he is N1NT3ND0, he is also a popular rapper and mentor in the show “Voice. Reboot"
Date of Birth: April 20, 1980
Place of Birth: Rostov-on-Don, USSR
Zodiac sign: Aries
“I strive to write poetry, I love to write them. I have a few poems that I don't sing, but they are very, very weak. I know what good poetry is that one can talk about, so it's hard for me to call myself a poet. Still, I consider myself a musician.”
Biography of Basta
Vasya was born in the outskirts of the Rabochiy Gorodok district of Rostov-on-Don. All the men in the family - dad, grandfathers, uncles - were military men. By coincidence, Vasya saw his father, Mikhail Vakulenko, for the first time only at the age of 7. He was raised by his grandparents.
Mom, an economist by education, in order to somehow feed her family, in the 1990s was forced to sell yogurts in the market.
My father almost died after being hit by a car. He got out, but remained disabled.
Vasily also has an older brother (only 11 months older). He is an indisputable authority for the younger and a person Vasya is proud of.
When Vasily grew up and went to a comprehensive school, a caring grandmother took him to a musical school from the age of 6, they say, "this will come in handy in life." And she was right!
From childhood, the boy did not want to be either a pilot, or a fireman, or a military man, but only a musician. Vasya graduated music school accordion class. Then he even entered the music school at the conductor's department. True, he quickly got bored with his studies, and Vasya quit this business.
Carier start
Young Vasily, already at the age of 17, tries to compose rap, in 1997 he participates in the hip-hop group "Psycholyric", which in 1999 was renamed "Casta". At this time, he composes his first song "City". The song “My Game”, which he wrote at the age of 18, brings him even more popularity.
But soon Vasily drops out of the life of show business for several years. And in 2002, at the suggestion of a friend, Yuri Volos, the rapper begins a solo career, equips a studio at home and records songs in it.
The rapper continued to record new tracks, the producers would continue to refuse him if the demo disc did not fall into the hands of Bogdan Titomir. So Basta and his friends get into the Gazgolder production center.
Basta's life in the capital
From that moment on, Vakulenko begins to work seriously and productively, releasing an album a year: "Basta 1" (2006), "Basta 2" (2007), "First" (2008), "Warm" (2009), "Basta 3" (2010) and so on.
At the same time, Vasily is acting in films: “Ghetto”, “Tea Drunkard” (and in this film he is also a screenwriter, director and producer), “Moats”, “Prukha”, “13 District: Ultimatum”. By the way, Vasily Vakulenko has written music for only three films so far: the documentary “Spring in Florence” and two feature films: “Gasholder: Film” and “Gasholder. Klubara.
“I consider myself a rapper. Rap is a comfortable language for me. I live, adhering to the original concept of rap - this is a certain protest, a cry. This is a living genre. And it's cool too!"
Personal life
Vasily Vakulenko is married to Elena - "a girl from high society”, daughter of businessman Dmitry Pinsky, co-founder of the wine brand DP-Trad. And Elena's mother is Tatyana, a journalist.
Elena was already married, but unsuccessfully. In marriage with Vasily, two daughters were born: Maria (2009) and Vasilisa (2013).
Basta's song "Mama" sounds in the coolest to date three-dimensional computer game GTA IV.
Scandals
1. Several scandals are associated with the name of rapper Basta:
In 2014, Vasily began a long-term conflict with Kemerovo video bloggers from the Nemagia YouTube channel: Alexei Pskovitin and Mikhail Pechersky. The guys ridiculed the rapper's work, in particular his film "Gazgolder". The rapper reacted negatively to such criticism.
2. And in 2016, the guys from Nemagia in the video, again making fun of Basta, compared his mother with a porn actress. This comparison, of course, offended Vasily, and he promised to meet the parents of video bloggers.
Presenter on NEXT FM radio, also director of several films on gazgolder.com. Together with Coupe, he leads Hip Hop TV on the Gas Tank. Vasily founded the Gazgolder label in 2007 and is its owner. The song "My game", written under the pseudonym Basta Khryu in 1998, was the beginning of his solo career as a hip-hop artist. As of February 2012, 7 albums were released: 3 numbered under the pseudonym "Basta" (plus a joint album with rapper Guf), 2 - from "Noggano", 1 - from "Nintendo" ("N1NT3ND0").
Vasily Vakulenko was born on April 20, 1980 in Rostov-on-Don, in a military family. He studied at secondary school No. 32, also attended a music school. Later he studied at the music school at the conductor's department. While studying music, Basta became seriously interested in hip-hop. Since the age of 15, he has been writing and reading rap. On June 11, 2009 he married and on June 12, 2009 he married Elena Pinskaya. On December 4, 2009, their daughter Masha was born. On January 21, 2013, the second daughter Vasilisa was born.
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At the age of 16-17 I listened to a lot different music, he tried to read and at the age of 17 he recorded his first track, - “City”. From that moment, the movement in music began. After the release of the song "My Game", Vasya began to use drugs because of the feeling that no one needed him. However, he was able to get out of the drug "pit", vowing that he would never fall on this rake again.
Basta Oink
Since 1997, he participated in the group "Psycholyric" (this was the original composition of the "Caste"). At the age of 17, he was known in the group as Basta Khryu and wrote the song “City” for her, which was included in the album of the Psycholyric group - “First Strike”.
It was Basta Khryu who came up with the idea of renaming "Psycholyric" to "Caste". His friend Vladi, the leader of the group, warmly accepted this idea. The group re-recorded the song "First Strike" by making this song calling card groups. In 1998, Basta Khryu wrote a solo song "My Game".
Basta
Basta did not stay at the school at the conductor's department. By that time, and it was 1996, he had already written the first song "My City" and assembled a group called "Street Sounds" - Street sound. Vasily was listed in its composition under the name Basta Khryu. “Since childhood, they called me Piggy, because I scattered everything in an incomprehensible place,” Basta explains.
Around the same time, the famous Rostov rap movement was born, which in the next decade became the leader in the country. Basta was a direct participant in the process. And he even participated with the track "First Strike" in a large and noisy association of young rappers - the Rostov Caste, which later became the Caste group.
Then Basta moved in his own, more lyrical direction. The track "My game" became one of the main ones in his biography. Vasya Vakulenko became famous throughout Rostov. "Star fever? No, it didn't. There were drugs and older friends, real hooligans,” recalls Vasya. “I can definitely say that this song saved me more than once. Sometimes they wanted to take my life, and when they found out that it was me, they left me alone.
All this hard and full of misfortunes life has become a story that is now rhymed in his albums. “In 2002, my friend Zhora extorted money from his mother and we bought a computer. Vadik QP reduced the first demo to the future album. These very tracks accidentally got to Bogdan Titomir and he suggested that the guys go to Moscow. It was 2004. And 2 years later, the album "Basta 1" was released and the clip "Autumn" began to be played on TV. Basta's Moscow life is inextricably linked with the Gas Holder. At that time, the club had just opened and had the status of the most closed institution in Moscow. But Basta stayed away from the local rap party. The first new acquaintance - her representative - was Smokey Mo, and later Vasya recognized Guf. “Once I approached Guf at a concert, he remembered “My Game”, we decided to make a cover version that was released on the album “Basta 2,” says Vasya. But the real explosion happened immediately after that, when Basta took part in clip of the Centr group “City of Roads.” After that, Basta's fame went far beyond the borders of his native Rostov and Moscow.
Rained down nominations, prizes, awards and statuses. The second album "Basta 2" was released in 2007 and became a bestseller. It sounded older and more varied. Having released two releases between them under the pseudonym Noggano, Basta wrote the third disc already in the status of one of the country's leading rap artists. The new material is designed for a wider audience, and a selection of hits "Urban", "Rostov", "The Sun is not visible" and "California" is not the first time testing the strength of the largest venues in Moscow.
In October 2012, Basta recorded several cover versions of Mikhey's songs, in particular the track "Mama", for which a video clip was shot. Vasily also performed at a big concert dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the memory of Micah, which took place on November 1 at the Arena Moscow site.
At the end of 2012, he starred in a video aimed at drawing attention to discrimination against people with HIV infection.
Basta, whose biography will be presented in this article, is a Russian rapper, singer, actor and composer. Real name - Vakulenko Vasily Mikhailovich. His second creative pseudonym is Noganno. Former member"United Caste" group. Directed a number of paintings on the "Gazgolder".
First steps in turnip
Basta, whose biography is known to all his fans, was born in Rostov-on-Don in 1980. The boy's mother and father were military personnel. Although the parents were far from music, they noticed the creative impulses of their son and sent him to a music school. Vasily wrote his first composition in the style of rap when he was 15 years old.
Basta is a soloist whose biography is intricate, and the path to musical fame was rather thorny. Studying at the conductor's department at the school seemed very boring to Vasily. Therefore, he decided to leave there and came to grips with hip-hop. For a sample, the boy took the tracks of foreign rap artists. In addition, Basta listened to music of other genres and tried to create his own compositions. At seventeen, he wrote the track "City", and a year later - the hit "My Game", which instantly won the hearts of listeners from all over the south of Russia. According to Internet polls, "My Game" is still one of the ten most popular rap songs.
Glory
Thanks to the success that fell on his head, Bast (photo, biography of the artist are posted below) went on a concert tour of the cities of the North Caucasus and Russia. But after the speeches, his enthusiasm faded. Vasily decided to give up concerts. Music still interested him, but the young man was not sure that people needed and were interested in it.
A close friend of Vasily Yuri helped him organize a home studio. In 2002, the singer Basta, whose biography is often the subject of discussion in the yellow press, returned to songwriting. When the records were ready, the question arose before the young man: “How to release them now?” So that the fans do not forget the work of the rapper, Vasily resumed his concerts. It was not possible to release the records, so Basta, together with a friend, went to try his luck in the capital. Moscow received young people unfriendly. They had to wander and seek access to reputable recording studios. But all attempts were in vain. Remembering those hard times, Vasily even wrote a song about "lack of chances" and "dumb labels".
Debut album
But in the end, luck turned to face the rapper. His demos accidentally ended up with Bogdan Titomir. He supported the talented performer and helped him get into the creative association "Gazgolder". So the rapper was able to do what he loves. In addition to Vasily, the recording of the debut album "Basta 1" was attended by: producer Yuri Volos, DJ Beka and backing vocalist Rasta. The release took place in 2006 and caused disappointment among experienced turnip connoisseurs. But the broad masses accepted Basta's tracks with enthusiasm. According to Vasily himself, everyone recognized himself in his compositions. And then Basta and the team shot clips for several tracks and distributed them online. The album itself continued to sell successfully.
Second record
The success of the rapper attracted the attention of the Monolit company, which offered to record a second disc. The album "Basta 2" was perceived quite differently. The musical style has become more diverse, and the themes are much richer. But, despite the different design, the essence of the tracks has not changed. The album went on sale in August 2007. Moreover, there were no previous rotations on the radio and clips. In a couple of months, 50,000 copies were sold. Soon the third album of the group was released. His tracks were designed for a fairly wide audience. "Basta-3" included such hits as "Urban", "California", "The sun is not visible" and "Rostov".
The album "Dreams", which appeared in 2009, received warm recognition not only from rap fans. Basta also successfully collaborated with performers of other musical genres - the singer Maxim and the City 312 group.
At the end of 2012, Vasily recorded several covers of Mikhey's songs. Of particular note is the track "Mama", for which a video was shot. The rapper also took part in a concert dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the memory of Jumanji.
Aliases. Basta Oink
In 1997, Vasily joined the Psycholyric group. It was the very first cast. The hero of this article took the pseudonym Basta Khryu and wrote the track "City". This composition was included in the band's debut album called "First Strike".
Then Vasily suggested renaming the group. The new name "Casta" was liked by the leader of the team Vladi and was approved. The song "First Strike" was re-recorded and became the hallmark of the band.
In addition to Caste, Vasily had his own group - "Street Sounds". For her, the young rapper wrote his first composition "My City". Vasily's pseudonym was the same as in Caste - Basta Khryu. The young man explains his origin as follows: “Since childhood, I scattered things everywhere, which is why they called me Piggy.”
Basta
In 1998, Basta, whose biography is now known to the entire Russian rap community, wrote the track "My Game". It started with him Solo career Vasily. Basta became very popular in his city. But he did not have star disease. Bullies, older friends and drugs appeared. Vasya recalls: “This song saved my life many times. It used to be that they wanted to kill, and when they found out that I was Basta, they left me alone.
This difficult and full of misfortunes life was rhymed by the rapper in his albums. In 2002, a friend of Vasily named Zhora bought a computer with his mother's money. On it, the guys made tracks for the first album. These compositions accidentally came to Bogdan Titomir, who suggested that the young rappers move to Moscow. Two years later, the album "Basta-1" appeared, and the clip "Autumn" was often played on TV. The Moscow life of the artist was closely connected with the "Gazgolder". Then this club was one of the most closed places in the capital. Yes, and Basta himself did not seek to join the local rap party. The first acquaintance of the rapper was Smokey Mo. And then Vasily crossed paths with Guf and recorded a cover version of "My Game" with him. Soon the singer received an offer from the Center group to star in their video City of Roads. The team was famous, which gave a chance to increase the popularity of the rapper. Basta took advantage of this chance. Biography, personal life of the artist has changed dramatically after the premiere of the video. The rapper has become popular not only in Russia, but also in the West.
Statuses, awards, prizes and nominations rained down on Vasily. The album "Basta-2", released in 2007, became the leader in sales. It sounded more varied and mature than the previous one. The artist recorded the third disc, already being the country's leading rapper. And in the interval between the albums, Vasily released two releases in the Noganno project.
Noganno
It is a hooligan project. Noganno is a bastard, a womanizer and a foul-mouthed man. "Immoral and asocial type" - this is how Vasily characterizes his hero.
Basta, whose biography is considered a role model for many rappers, came up with this project in 2007. At that time, Vasily was already reading both romantic and lyrical tracks. He only did it under the pseudonym Basta. After the release of the second album, the singer began to compose compositions for Noganno. He made him his alter ego. Vakulenko got inspiration, and the rapper wrote a lot of material. Noganno's tracks were distributed free of charge on the Internet. Then two albums were released: "Noganno Warm" and "Noganno First".
Nintendo
In 2008, the rapper Basta, whose biography periodically flashes in the media, came up with a minimalist project. Vasily himself characterizes it as a "cyber gang". This is brutal rap story line which is woven into the space of a video game (the scene of action is Rostov-on-Don in the 90s). Nintendo songs are distinguished by serious themes and a special style of performance. The musical component of the compositions is a synthesis of electronic samples, techno, break-beat and the southern direction of hip-hop. The name "Nintendo" was chosen because Vasily liked the translation of this word from Japanese - "We do quality work and are waiting for results." In October 2011, the first album was released.
Brothers Stereo
Since 2011, the performer Basta, whose biography is known to many foreign benchmarks, began work on a new project - Stereo Brothers. In addition to Vakulenko, many other musicians of various genres participate there. Together they play a mix of rock, hip-hop, techno, minimal, dub-step, house and other styles. In October 2013, iTunes premiered the band's first track, Supa Life. And on December 29, the debut album of the Stereo Brothers group was posted on the Gasholder website for free.
Personal life
Vasily met his future wife Elena Pinskaya in Moscow. This happened by accident. The rapper came with his girlfriend to a restaurant where Elena and her friend were sitting at the next table.
Pinskaya immediately recognized the artist, as she had long been interested in his work. Elena decided to take the initiative, and when Basta went outside to talk on the phone, the girl followed him to make a compliment. It was not an easy act, but it had rather pleasant consequences for Pinskaya.
From that moment, Elena firmly entered the life of Vasily. The girl was from a wealthy family. Her father is the head of a company selling elite wines, and her mother is a well-known journalist.
In 2009, the lovers got married. A few months later, Elena gave birth to a daughter, Maria, to the rapper. And four years later, the couple had a second daughter - Vasilisa. Basta has repeatedly said in an interview that the family is the greatest value for him. It is the daughters and the wife that motivate the artist to create new hits. Elena's mother considers her son-in-law to be very talented and sometimes offers him to write soundtracks for her documentaries.
Participation in foreign projects
In 2007, Basta (biography, personal life of the rapper are presented above) learned about the interest of Rockstar Games in his tracks. A year later, in the fourth part of the Grand Auto game, his composition “Mom” appeared.
- In some Russian cities, the rapper's performances were banned due to the content of the texts.
- The lead singer of the Basta group, whose biography is reviewed in the article, made his first tattoo at the age of 25. It was an inscription in Spanish "Follow with God."
- Vasily considers the elections a waste of time.
- Basta (wife, biography of the singer is always at the center of the gossip of the Moscow rep party) is not against sexual minorities. But he believes that they should not flaunt their own relationship.
- Vasily has a brother who has two higher educations. Now he designs railroads.
- Reper believes that the president of Russia should be a person with a humanitarian mindset.
