Rap Is A Russian Art, Just Like Ballet, Says Russia´s Culture Minister
(ArtsJournal)

Vladimir Medinsky told a room full of worthies at an Aspen/Davos-type gathering in Sochi, “Soon we’ll be saying that rap is Russian art. Of course, it was born somewhere in America, but its flourishing occurred with us, of course.� Just like ballet. Then Medinsky pronounced that the very first rapper was, in fact, early Soviet […]