Oxxxymiron

After university, Fyodorov moved to the East End where he restarted his musical career under the name Oxxxymiron. The name is derived from his first name Miron, rhetorical device oxymoron and triple X, representing the large amount of profanity in his lyrics. He was not able to find a job because of his perceived overqualification and had to work as a cashier, a translator, a loader, a guide, a stallman, a tutor, an MC and an office clerk. Fyodorov's life in London formed the basis of the script of the Russian 2015 TV series Londongrad.^[9]

Optik Russia (2008–2010)

In 2008, after a seven-year break, Oxxxymiron published a new track London Against All (Russian: Лондон против всех). In the same year he joined a German label Optik Russia where he met Dimitri Hinter (Russian: Дмитрий Хинтер), known by his stage name Schokk [ru].

In 2009 Oxxxymiron participated in the 14th independent battle on Hip-Hop.ru and reached the semi-finals. One of the main intrigues of the battle was the correspondence confrontation of Oxxxymiron and underground anonymous rapper Babangida [ru], which was expressed in mutual disses against each other in the tracks of both performers. However, due to the departure of Miron after the 8th round, the face-to-face confrontation between them never took place.

On 26 and 31 July of the same year, Miron's first concerts took place in Kyiv and Odesa.

Vagabund (2011)

In autumn 2010 Oxxxymiron and Schokk toured countries of CIS. In a year, Oxxxymiron, Schokk and manager Ivan Karoy aka Vanya Lenin founded an independent label Vagabund (Vagabond in German). On 15 September 2011, Vagabund published Fyodorov's first album The Wandering Jew [ru] (Russian: Вечный жид), which received a lot of positive reviews. On 30 October 2011 Vagabund gave their last concert. On 1 November 2011 Oxxxymiron left Vagabund due to conflict between the members of the label and Moscow rapper Roma Zhigan.

miXXXtape (2012–2014)

On 12 March 2012 Oxxxymiron published miXXXtape I which includes the best tracks recorded from 2008 to 2011. On 18 October 2013 miXXXtape II: Long way home (Russian: miXXXtape II: Долгий путь домой) was published. It included the best tracks of 2012-2013 and remixed Oxxxymiron's bars from his battle against Krip-a-Krip in Versus Battle league.

Gorgorod (2015–2016)

On 25 August 2015 the music video Londongrad (Russian: Лондонград) was published as a teaser trailer for TV series Londongrad based on Miron's life in London before restarting his rapper career.

On 28 June 2016 Oxxxymiron became the first ambassador of Reebok Classic in Russia.^[10]

2017–present

On 28 September 2017 it was announced that Oxxxymiron will star in the film adaptation of Victor Pelevin’s novel Empire V. The film's director is Victor Ginzburg, famous for the screen version of the novel Generation "П".^[11]

In September 2019, Oxxxymiron unexpectedly took part in the 17th Independent Battle on Hip-Hop.ru and passed the track for the first qualifying round. After that, a certain wave of excitement began around the event, and many famous hip-hop artists also participated (Egor Kreed, Noize MC, L'One, ST1M, Yury Khovansky, etc.).

On 1 November 2021 Oxxxymiron published a ten-minute-long music video Who killed Mark?. On 12 November Fyodorov's third mixtape, miXXXtape III: Time of Troubles, was released. It included 36 songs from 2014 to 2021 and two new tracks among them. The nine-minute single Who killed Mark?, which preceded the release of the mixtape, was not included in the playlist of the record.

In reaction to the

Oxxxymiron is the most viewed battle rapper in the world. Amount of views of his rap battles exceed 120 million on YouTube.^[16]

Oxxxymiron participated in the Russian battle rap league Versus Battle five times and won the first four of them.^{[citation needed]}

• 2013 – Oxxxymiron vs. Krip-a-Krip (3:0)^{[citation needed]}
• 2014 – Oxxxymiron vs. Dunya (won by vote of crowd)^{[citation needed]}
• 2015 – Oxxxymiron vs. Johnyboy (5:0).^[17] This battle was watched 1 million times during one day and became the most popular battle in the world.^{[citation needed]} Oxxxymiron and Versus Battle league attracted the King of the Dot host Organik's and Dizaster's attention.
• 2016 – Oxxxymiron vs. ST (3:0). This battle was watched 4 million times during one day.^{[citation needed]}
• 2017 – Oxxxymiron vs. Slava KPSS (Versus Battle x #SLOVOSPB) (0:5).^[18] This battle was watched over 9 million times during the first day and has become one of the most watched battles in the world.^{[citation needed]}

Also Oxxxymiron performed at the Canadian rap battle league King of the Dot:

• 2017 – Oxxxymiron vs. Dizaster is scheduled as a Main Event for King of the Dot's World Domination 7 event (without judges).^[19] This battle became highest viewed on YouTube channel King of the Dot.^[20] Oxxxymiron after the battle with Dizaster thanked Slava KPSS for an opportunity to work on the mistakes. According to him, if not for that rap-battle in August, there would not have been such a historical rap-battle in October against Dizaster.^{[citation needed]}

Discography

Filmography

Concert tours

• 2009 – Unnamed feat. Schokk
• 2010 – October Events feat. Schokk (Октябрьские события)
• 2011 – Vagabund Tour feat. Schokk
• 2012 – Unnamed
• 2013 – Roly-poly toy VS Mordor (Неваляшка VS Мордор Tour)
• 2013 – Long Way Home (Долгий путь домой)
• 2014 – arXXXeology (арХХХеология Tour)
• 2015 – City under Sole (Город под подошвой Tour)
• 2016 – Takeover Tour
• 2016 – Back to Europe
• 2016 – Takeover Tour 2
• 2017 – IMPERIVM (stadium tour)
• 2022 – Russians Against War
• 2023 - WORLD TOUR

Book editions

• Караулов, Игорь (15 May 2022). Трудный возраст века (in Russian). Litres.
  ISBN 978-5-04-275970-3
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References

External links

• Oxxxymiron