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Russian rapper (born 1983)

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Timur Ildarovich Yunusov (; born 15 August 1983), better known by his stage name Timati (), is a Russian rapper, singer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur.

Biography

Early life

Timur Ildarovich Yunusov (, ) was born on 15 August 1983 in Moscow to an ethnically mixed family of Tatar father Ildar Vakhitovich Yunusov and Jewish mother Simona Yakovlevna Yunusova (née Chernomorskaya); he also has a younger brother, Artyom. He grew up in a wealthy industrialist family, saying "I have very wealthy parents", but "I was never spoiled."

He was raised mainly on Mira Avenue in Moscow. His current stage name "Timati" has stuck with him since he was young. Yunusov also lived in Los Angeles for 3 years. At the urgent request of his grandfather, composer and conductor Yakov Chervomorsky, Timur graduated from violin class in music school. He studied at the Higher School of Economics, and finished his third year, but left to focus on his music career. He later became associated with the YPS squad. His first single came out with Konaldo.

Career

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He became well known to the Russian community from the music reality show Star Factory 4, but before it he collaborated with Detsl. Member of the group Banda (; lit. "Gang") and co-founder of VIP 77. Former owner of B-Club nightclub, the bar Black October and the stores Ё-Life. He is the CEO of his label called "Black Star Inc". In 2006, was featured in Heat produced by Fyodor Bondarchuk. In 2008, Timati was featured in a Fat Joe song called "Put U Take It", also featuring German rapper Nox and Raul, produced by Scott Storch, referencing Jacob Arabo. In 2008 Mario Winans featured Timati in the single "Forever". In the same year, Timati appeared in the comedy film Hitler goes Kaput!. Timati, in 2009, featured Snoop Dogg in the single "Groove On".

Michael 'Mike' David is currently Timati's UK producer. He is responsible for Timati's collaborations with foreign artists, such as Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, and Mario Winans, and much of Timati's popularity in the Western world.

In summer 2011, he topped the charts in Luxembourg, Poland, and Romania with the single "Welcome to St. Tropez" vs. DJ Antoine and feat. Kalenna Harper from Diddy – Dirty Money, shortly after being nominated for the best clip in Russia's Capital Moscow with "I'm on You" feat. P Diddy. The clip was created by Timati's old friend and partner, Pavel Hoodyakov, in the U.S.

In 2016, Timati gave his biggest solo performance in the Olympic Stadium in Moscow. The concert was attended by 15,000 people and featured a 3D installation, a car on stage and other spectacular show elements.

On the night of 21 June 2018 Timati and Egor Kreed held an unauthorized mass event in Moscow on Bolshaya Dmitrovka by staging an impromptu performance right on the roof of a car, which caused a major traffic jam on the street. This action was devoted to the opening of Timati's beauty salon. The next day, lawyer Alexander Khaminsky filed an application to initiate a case on this incident in the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tver and the Moscow State Traffic Safety Inspectorate. The court was appointed on 1 August 2018.

In 2021, Timati's music video Scandal featuring Hanza and Oweek received a nomination at the Berlin Music Video Awards for Best Visual Effects. The VFX company behind the music video is HoodyFX.

Friendship with Ramzan Kadyrov

Timati calls the Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov a friend and brother. In 2017, Timati shared an Instagram post of himself posing in Kadyrov's private jet. When anti-corruption activists highlighted this, Timati removed the Instagram post.

Support for Vladimir Putin

He participated in a political video to support Vladimir Putin during the 2012 Russian presidential election. During the 2018 Russian presidential election, he endorsed and was an official supporter of Vladimir Putin.

During the repression of candidates for the election of the Moscow State Duma, police brutality was used to hold back protestors and Timati collaborated with another rapper "Guf" to make "Москва" (Moscow), a song including the chorus "my best friend is President Putin", dissing the protesters and Russian opposition movement while praising the mayor of Moscow, the Kremlin, and Vladimir Putin and the video amassed 1.48 million dislikes on YouTube, the highest amount for a Russian video on YouTube before Russian rapper MORGENSHTERN broke the record for a music video for song "Pososi". Later, Timati deleted the "Moscow" video due to a "wave of negativity".

On 18 March 2022, Timati sang at Vladimir Putin's Moscow rally, celebrating the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation from Ukraine and justifying the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

AliExpress Scandal

On Timati's merchandise store, Black Star Wear, Timati collaborated with the Russian Army with military-style clothes but users found nearly identical clothing being sold on Chinese online marketplace AliExpress being rebranded and price gouged on Black Star Wear. Similarly, the wireless earphones also sold on Black Star Wear that were branded as "unique" also were traced back to near identical AliExpress counterparts. Timati then did a brand deal with AliExpress, making a short rap video promoting AliExpress, praising AliExpress for delivery speed and good deals on the website.

Books

2008 – "The Moor" – producer books
2009 – "Audio of Audi. History of the brand" – Executive audiobooks
2010 – "Tatar folk tales" – Executive audiobooks
2012 – "A boy of twelve. Tatar folk tale" – Executive audiobooks
2012 − "A white serpent. Tatar folk tales" − Executive audiobooks
2012 − "Kamyr-Batyr. Tatar folk tales" − Executive audiobooks

Business

Timati has several successful businesses including:

"Black Star Wear" - clothing line.
"Black Star Burger" - restaurant opened in 2016 in Moscow, it later became a franchise with several locations such as Los Angeles and Chelyabinsk. The burger restaurant is popular among the youths in Russia.
"13 by Black Star" - barber shop and a tattoo shop in Moscow.
"Stars Coffee", taking over the former Starbucks coffees in Russia after the company withdrew due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Concert tours

2009–2010 – The Boss Tour
2011 – Carrera Tour 2011 [30]
2015 – GTO (with L'One)
2016 – Olimp tour

Discography

Studio albums

Black Star (2006)
The Boss (2009)
SWAGG (2012)
13 (2013)
RELOAD (2013)
Audiokapsula (2014)
G.T.O. (With L'One) (2015)
Olimp (2016)
Tranzit (2020)
Шипы и Розы (2021)
Banger Mixtape (2021)

Collaboration albums

Noviye Lyudi (New People) (2004) – with Banda
The Album (2006) – with VIP77

Singles

As lead artist

::data[format=table title="List of singles as lead artist, with selected chart positions and certifications, showing year released and album name"] | Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | AUT | BEL | FRA | GER | NED | SPA | SWI | "Groove On" (featuring Snoop Dogg) | "Welcome to St. Tropez" (featuring Blue Marine) | "Welcome to St. Tropez" (DJ Antoine vs. Timati featuring Kalenna) | "I'm on You" (featuring P. Diddy, Dirty Money and DJ Antoine) | "Not All About The Money" (with La La Land featuring Timbaland and Grooya) | "Sex in the Bathroom" (featuring Craig David) | "London" (with DJ Antoine featuring Grigory Leps) | "El Problemá" (with Morgenshtern) | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 2009 | – | 21 | – | 62 | 88 | — | — | | The Boss | | | | | | | | | | | | 2010 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 45 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2011 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 2 | | 2011 | | | | | | | | | | | | 2012 | – | – | – | 50 | – | – | 62 | | SWAGG | | | | | | | | | | | | 32 | – | – | 29 | – | – | 7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | – | — | — | — | — | — | — | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2016 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2020 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | | | | | | | | | | | | | ::

;Others

Forever
Love You
Money in the Bank
Top of the World
Not All About The Money
Gucci (feat. Egor Kreed)
Khavchik (feat. GeeGun & Danya Milokhin)
Rolls Royce (feat. GeeGun & Egor Kreed)

As featured artist

::data[format=table title="List of singles as featured artist, with selected chart positions and certifications, showing year released and album name"] | Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Album | UK | US | "Lazerboy" (Sergey Lazarev featuring Timati) | "Фокусы" (DJ Smash featuring Timati) | "Moscow to California" (DJ M.E.G. featuring Sergey Lazarev and Timati) | "8 Days a Week" (Jean-Roch featuring Timati) | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 2008 | – | — | Electric Touch | | | | | | | | 2011 | – | — | Twenty Three | | | | | | | | 2012 | – | — | Lazarev. | | | | | | | | – | — | Music Saved My Life | | | | | | | | | "—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. | | | | | | | | | | ::

Awards

Berlin Music Video Awards

Best Visual Effect Scandal - 2021 (nominated)

[[MTV Russia Music Awards|MTV Russian Music Awards]]

Best Hip-Hop Artist – 2007 (nominated)
Best Hip-Hop Artist – 2008 (nominated)
Best Artist – 2008 (nominated)
Best Male Act – 2008 (nominated)

[[Muz-TV|MUZ-TV]] Awards

Best Hip-Hop Artist – 2009 (nominated)
Best Hip-Hop Artist – 2010 (won)
Best Album "The Boss" – 2010 (won)
Best Video "Love You" – 2010 (won)
Best Video "I'm on You" – 2011 (won)

[[MTV Europe Music Award]]s

Best Russian Act – 2009 (nominated)
Best Russian Act – 2010 (nominated)
Best Russian Act – 2011 (nominated)

[[Golden Gramophone Award]]

Award winner for the "I love you..." song – 2008
Award winner for the "Moscow Never Sleeps..." song − 2009
Award winner for the "London" song (together with Grigory Leps) − 2013

Night Life Awards

Best club hit – 2003
Best club figure of the year − 2007

World Fashion Awards

Best R'n'B artist – 2007
Fashion R'n'B project − 2008

Other awards

2008 − MTV RMA Award (Best club project for the Black Star Club)
2009 − In Da Awards (Best album according to Indarnb.ru)
2010 − Love Radio Awards (Best artist according to Love Radio)
2010 − "Trud" newspaper award - (Best-looking man)
2014 − World Music Awards (Best Russian Artist and Best RnB Artist of Russia)

Other achievements

His 2019 pro-Kremlin and anti-gay music video "Moscow" became the most disliked Russian video on YouTube, with 1.48 million dislikes before it was removed from YouTube.

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, he argued in favor of the Russian attack.

Filmography

2004 − Countdown
2006 − Heat
2008 − Albania!
2008 − Monday Twist
2008 − Daddy's Daughters
2008 − Hitler Goes Kaput!
2009 − Little Red Riding Hood
2010 − How the Cossacks...
2012 − My path to success (a videoseminar)
2013 − Odnoklassniki.ru
2014 - Capsule
2015 − Zero
2016 − Russian Hip Hop Beef
2019 − Hot!
2019 − Mafia
2020 − Mafia 2

Translation dubbing:

2006 − Arthur and the Invisibles
2007 − Surf's Up
2009 − District 13: Ultimatum
2009 − Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard
2014 − Brick Mansions

Personal life

Timati was in a relationship with Alexa – his colleague from the “Fabrika Zvyozd” – a popular Russian television talent show. The pair split up in 2007.

He was also in a relationship with model Alena Shishkova. They share a daughter named Alisa (born 19 March 2014).

Since 2015, Timati has been dating Russian model Anastasia Reshetova. On 16 October 2019 the couple had a son, named Ratmir.

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(20 December 2018). "Путин - о Тимати".
(2019-09-10). "Pro-Putin rapper sets record for unpopularity on Russian YouTube".
(6 October 2015). "Саша Чест feat. Тимати - Лучший друг (Премьера клипа, 2015)".
"Timati - Лучший друг (Lučšij drug) lyrics + English translation".
(2019-09-13). "Pro-Putin Rapper Pulls YouTube Video After Backlash".
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(2019-09-09). "Pro-Government Rap Video Smashes Russian YouTube Record With 1M Dislikes".
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(18 March 2022). "По приколу пошли, не всерьез". Meduza.
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(March 22, 2019). "Пользователи Сети уличили Тимати в подделке наушников с AliExpress".
(March 21, 2019). "Тимати выпустил наушники за 7000 рублей. На AliExpress такие стоят 2000".
"Тимати уличили в подделке наушников с AliExpress и продаже втрое дороже".
(September 1, 2008). "Тимати сыграет в кино Мавра".
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