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On the Sunday, December 2 edition of Vesti nedeli (News of the Week), a weekly news program on Rossiya 1 television network, the program’s host, Dmitry Kiselyov, defended Russian rappers who have been facing increased harassment from authorities in recent months. Kiselyov, who also heads the government-owned international media agency Rossiya Segodnya, that includes RIA Novosti and Sputnik, said the idea that rap came to Russia via African-American culture in the 1990’s is erroneous. Russian rap’s real predecessor, he said, was the poetic tradition of the famous Soviet poet and writer, Vladimir Mayakovsky.Dmitry Kiselyov raps some verses from Soviet poet Vladimir MayakovskyKiselyov then demonstrated this by rapping some verses from Mayakovsky over a beat. While Kiselyov’s hip-hop debut is noteworthy, it’s important to remember that Mayakovsky’s poetry was not intended to be spoken over music, although in his early career Mayakovsky sought to make poetry accessible to mass audiences -- "to 'depoetize' poetry, adopting the language of the streets and using daring technical innovations," writes Encyclopaedia Britannica. More importantly, Russian hip-hop, like hip-hop in many countries worldwide, does indeed take its inspiration from African-American culture.Russian hip-hop’s origins are typically attributed to a 1984 album by the group Chas Pik (Rush Hour) entitled, appropriately, Rap." The Moscow Times
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