Biography
Smokey Mo - Russian Rapper, Bitmeaker and Producer. His album "Kara-TE" is already a classic of domestic rap. He managed to combine literary and artistic revisions in his work, deep sound and idea.Childhood and youth
The future Rapper was born on September 10, 1982 in the south-west of St. Petersburg. His real name is Alexander Tshkov. In childhood, Sasha had two major hobbies - music and oriental martial arts. In an interview, he repeatedly said that if he could not eventually implement in music, he would have dedicated life to sports.
Love for music guy pledged parents, but he decided to sign up for a karate section after watching the cynoboeviks popular at that time. As he admits, Jackie Chan made the greatest impression.
When Alexander was 10 years old, the family moved to Kupchino - the area that influenced the life and creativity of the future rapper.
The musician doesn't like to spread about their parents about their parents, it only says that his family was ordinary and kind. Their example allows Tskov to always stay on a positive wave.
It is noteworthy, adjacent to Smokes with the now popular Raper Assem and Crip-A-Cryp. But then it was just boys from "Tusovka", with whom Sasha did not drive friendship. On the contrary, sometimes they met on the "arrows" - they found out relations between the districts.
At the age of 15, the guy got on the rap concert of the group "Tree of Life", whose organization was engaged in familiar sachets of the guys from the Unification of the Baltic Clan. The speech of the "Tree of Life" seriously influenced the guy - he realized that he was simply obliged to do rap.
Like many of his peers, "sattented" on the rap-flow in those years, Tsykov recorded their first songs with the help of two tape recorders (which, by the way, was not easy to get) - on one instrument included, and a recaptive issued by the Contractor was recorded "On top of the bit". Smokey Mo calls it with children's fun, but they made it that he is now.
Sasha did not love school, he considered it a waste of time. But enrolling in the St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts, noted that it was much more pleasant and more interesting than school, because no one demanded extra. Tsykov received a diploma in the specialty "Manager-Producer Show Business".
Soon Sasha gathered a group called "Smok", in which, in addition to him, included two more people - Vika and Dan. They recorded several songs published later in the collection "New Names of St. Petersburg Rap. Issue No. 6, "and also conducted a number of joint speeches. The last concert of the group "Smok" was held in the city of Great Luki (Pskov region). He was accompanied by a number of incidents, which led to the collapse of the team.
In 1999, the second group was formed with the participation of Cikhov - "Wind in the head". In the same year, the first and only album was "senory". Sasha collected the next group, already being a student of the St. Petersburg State University. The team was called "Di Dynasty" - precisely under her aegid rapper and spoke at the Rap Music festival in 2001.
Music
Professionally Alexander was engaged in music after familiarizing with Fuze and Marat - guys from the Kitchen Records merger. This happened thanks to the participant of the "Casta" group. Fuze suggested Smoky, in which direction it is worth moving, and Marat helped to choose the equipment for the home studio of recording, on which the first four solo albums of Cykhov were recorded.
The first drive of "Kara-TE" was released on March 19, 2004 with the support of the Respect Production label, which previously collaborated with the "Castle" and Noize MC. And critics, and the fans of the genre warmly accepted the disk from Smoky Mo, which allowed the young artist to roll back a successful tour of the country.
Two years later, the release of the second album was held - "Planet 46", in which there were more joint work than in Kara-TE. Among the invited artists were Decl, Cryp-A-Crip, Mr. Small, Gunmakaz, Maestro A-SID and others. Nevertheless, the audience, and critics noted the heterogeneity of the tracks assembled under one cover. The album was sold worse than the previous one.
A three-year calm followed, from which Smoky pulled out DJ Nick One, a spirroined Alexander's mixture called Saint-P Penomen. Then it comes out and joint with the MS young and DJ Nick One hit the game in real life.
Inspired by the success of the mixtape, rapper is again taken for writing texts for songs. In the same year, another 200-year-old collection comes out - collaboration with the guys from the V-Style group (Vladivostok). The year later Smoky makes the third album - "exit from the dark." However, the feedback about it is even worse than "Planet 46" - even despite the presence of fits with a cloust, such a clip, as well as a FIKE & Jambazi duet. Tsykov flows into depression, which later will later tell in the next album.
In 2011, the plate "Tiger Time" comes out. The album possessed a strong energy - Smoky put into it that gamut of the feelings that overwhelmed it. And the listeners were assessed by calling it a successful return of a rap artist. Also noted the fans and the fact that the fewer fittings with other artists in the album, the stronger it turns out.
In 2011, the student of the performer with the Gazagolder is a creative association that Vasily Vaculenko leads. "Gazagolder" helped to conquer Tskov new horizons - Smoky noted several times on the first channel (first in the transfer of the "Red Star" with the "triagonitric", fulfilling "to work", and then in the "Evening Urgant" with glucose, performing "butterflies") , I recorded the new album "Jr." - this time completely on a professional studio, and also starred in the criminal militant "Gazgolder".
Later together with the cloust and tati track "Ball" became a soundtrack for the TV series "Law of Stone Jungle." In 2014, the reprint of the Debut solo album "Kara-TE 'was published. 10 years later". Old tracks have found a new sound, and also acquired guest purchases.
A year later, a new vaculenco and cikhov disk comes out, which is called "Basta / Smokey Mo". The main hits of this album were "Stone Flowers" with Elena Vaengoy, "Ice" with scriptonite, "live decent", "Vera" and "Millionaire from a slum". Basta / Smokey MO successfully "shot" and for a long time was in the top of various charts.
In addition, Tschov managed to appear on TV screens in the issues of "Battle for Respect" and the Russian adaptation of the detective series "Bones".
Like many rappers, Smokey MO has a creative "split personality", and his name is King Mozi. This "guy" loves expensive sound and more fashionable performance motifs.
Personal life
Alexander has no wife and children. Since 2013, he met with Darya Insurance. In the summer of the same year, a clip was released on the joint song atl and Juda "eyes to the sky", in the filming of which Dasha participated.
The girl sticks to a healthy lifestyle, watches the figure and helps others gain ideal forms. Up until 2016, their "Instagram" was a variegated photo. What happened in 2016 - unclear. Perhaps young people are no longer found. Or decided to adhere to the principle "happiness loves silence."
Smokey Mo now
In 2017, the Contractor issued a new album called "Three Day". However, even before the presentation of the album in the network, individual tracks have already appeared, as well as a clip for the song "Lost Paradise". In the fall of 2017, together with Kizaru, a representative of a new school rap, Smoky MO released the Just Do IT track. Kizaru also lit up in the video of Alexander Palladius.In the same year, a mixture "Armor of God-2" mixed with Zloi Negr, where the text of his colleague on stage is read on the artist bits.
"Day Three" Website Rap.ru included in the number of the best releases of 2017.
In the fall of 2017, Alexander Timarseva (restaurateur) video appeared on YouTube, in which he announced the launch of the new season of the Versus Battle Fresh Blood project. The fourth season will differ from the three previous ones. The main difference was the division of participants to the teams and the emergence of mentors in the face of Mirone Oksiron Fyodorov and Alexander Smoki Mo Zikhov.
In February 2018, the musician presented a new record - the continuation of the Album "Day Three" - "First Day". It includes 15 tracks and not a single fit. Smoky released a full-fledged solo album. The fans were pleased for Rapper, some noted that the artist did not lose interest in creativity, follows the trends and not looked at the past successes.
About the fact that Smoky Mo now is busy, the performer himself willingly divided into Twitter and Instagram. He loves to chat with fans live, responding to questions you are interested in. So once he said that he was not engaged in sports, since he had problems with his back (although it was in good shape - with an increase in 170 cm its weight is 75 kg).
Also in February 2018, he was interviewed by The Flow site, which was published on Youtube video hosting.
Discography
- 2004 - "Kara-TE"
- 2006 - "Planet 46"
- 2010- "Exit Darkness"
- 2011 - "Tiger Time"
- 2013 - "Jr."
- 2015 - "Basta / Smokey MO"
- 2017- "Day Three"
- 2018 - "First Day"