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My name is Maxim. I'm an artist, poet, musician, and public figure
When the cloth covers all the great steppes,
And where the endless horizon hides the baking sun
Mothers with their native father bow to the Earth
We do not all pray in our corners
Not to spider webs, but to icons
Crosses on our neck
My brothers do not sit in the trench
Proud villages on the steady Don
These paintings personify my communication with the world
I communicate my thoughts through the language of paintings, music, and poetry
At the moment when the peak of artistic flair strikes
When inspiration comes, when paints are made by the dozen, you feel the line and color
At that moment, poetry and music explode and confuse
You are transported there, you forget about brushes and paints, and start to write a song
We have something to say and we don't do it for money or fame
We do it so that others get to our people, our traditions, and our way of life
We were able to do that through the prism of hip hop
It might be funny. It might not. But that's how it happened
We grow in knowledge as the years pass by
Sails are well-known to us. We sail under them
Sturgeon caviar? Kilograms of it by the sword
If there is no map, we use oars and a paddle
We set it on zero and get lucky
O, our region, dear region. Wherever you go, brother, don't you forget it
Remember the storms. The battles. The first kiss from a beautiful girl
You are Cossacks, warrior people
Nobody loves you, warrior people
Only a Cossack woman could love you...
One doesn't detract from another. To the contrary, they complement one another
For example, I found folk music through Cossack recitatives
Tradition is more important than anything else because it includes the mentality of the Cossack people
Through these traditions, we live, we find ourselves, and everything else—including Cossack rap, is a nice addition