Russian rapper Pharaoh is an extraordinary and bright personality who won love and recognition among fans of trap, cloud rap and trillwave music throughout the post-Soviet space. The musician chose to perform under a nickname. In this regard, many fans are interested in the name of the rapper Pharaoh. This article provides not only the personal data of the artist, but also information about his life.
Life path
Pharaoh is a Russian rapper, whose biography is interesting and very rich in events. Golubin Gleb Gennadievich - this is his real name. He was born on January 30 in 1996 in Moscow (Izmailovo). My father worked in a managerial position in one of the companies specializing in sports marketing. Gleb Golubin became the firstborn in the family. Later, mother Elena in 2003 gave birth to a second child - a boy, Herman.
Gleb has been playing football since he was six years old. The father was very proud that his son was involved in sports and wanted the boy to have an appropriate career. The young man trained hard several times a week and dreamed about the future of an outstanding football player. In his free time, the boy loved to play on the console. Gleb himself could not even think at that time that in ten years he would become known as the Russian rapper Pharaoh.
Not so long ago, our hero gave a detailed interview to the online edition of Snob. Pharaoh is a Russian rapper who told the general public that he had been listening to Kid Cudi since school. This is a popular hip-hop artist in the West at that time. He also said that other artists who influenced him in childhood and youth were Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50-cent and some others.
Gleb went to gymnasium No. 1409 from 2002 to 2013. During this period, the passion for football reached its apotheosis - a talented young man was invited to play for the teams of CSKA, Dynamo, Lokomotiv. But, unfortunately for the trainers, the parents insisted on stopping the classes. Father really wanted Gleb to become a football player, but after the young man almost got seriously injured in one of the matches (he was lucky and got off with scratches), dad decided that the sport should be abandoned.
Debut
Gleb was very worried about this. Fortunately, the father allowed the boy to act as an arbiter (judge) for children's teams. Thus, Gleb was allowed to somehow continue to engage in his favorite sport. At the age of 15, our hero first appeared on television - he performed in a film dedicated to football referees on the NTV Plus TV channel. At this moment, the young man had more free time. He not only begins to devote himself to study, but also with a vengeance is interested in hip-hop. It was at this moment that the future Russian rapper Pharaoh recorded his first track. At the time of this work, he was 16 years old. In the same year, Gleb goes to the USA and lives there alone for 6 months. The young man is especially imbued with American hip-hop underground culture.
Style
Pharaoh is a Russian rapper who in his interviews admitted that he had the idea to read cloud rap during the next session of marijuana use with his girlfriend. They listened to the recordings of Raider Klan and noticed that the style of recitation is very reminiscent of “sounds from the underworld”. Then to Pharaoh this manner of performance seemed truly revolutionary and very curious.
In 2013, Gleb managed to enter the faculty of journalism at Moscow State University. At the same time, he began his collaboration with the hip-hop band Grindhouse and gained fame for the song "They want something from me." At the very end of the year, the Russian rapper Pharaoh was invited to the studio of his friends, where he recorded an interesting Cadillac track for a general mixtape called “Wadget”, which was released in 2014. The team created video clips for many singles.
Phlora
The real sensation was made by the composition "Nothing has changed." Fans of cloud rap positively noted the unusual style of the clip for this song. It was performed in an aesthetic very similar to the Californian artist Bones. The Russian rapper Pharaoh himself denied rumors that he was inspired by the work of a Western musician, although he admitted that in his youth he listened to his album Th @ Kid. So it is not known whether it was just a coincidence or if our hero really adopted some of the "chips" from the American. In the summer of 2014, Pharaoh released another mixtape - Phlora. He received average ratings from critics, but he fell in love with the fans.
Sker Sker Sker
The Black Siemens video released in February 2015 brought immense fame to Pharaoh. In the video, Gleb, dressed in a hoodie from Tommy Hilfiger, reads out rap with a very funny chorus in the snowy vacant lot, in which there was an imitation of Sker-Sker-Sker. This all happens against the backdrop of the Lincoln car, which the performer rented specifically for this clip. The clip itself and the sounds of “sker” from the chorus quickly became Internet memes. The video scored several million views. In the summer of that year, Pharaoh released his third mixtape - Dolor (translated from Latin - “pain”). On July 22, a clip was shot for this track.
Atmosphere
In April 2016, a video clip for the song “Phosphorus” is released, where the Russian rapper Pharaoh decides to apply a new extravagant technique of performance - screaming. In May, the hip-hop artist once again delights his fans with a new music video for the track “Let's Stay Home”. Both tracks were included in the Phosphor album. He saw the light in mid-July.
Gleb collaborates with such influential rappers as JEEMBO, Scryptonite, Thomas Mraz, LSP and many others. Pharaoh won the love of rap connoisseurs and critics, thanks to the unique image, interesting manner of performance and the atmosphere of burnt nihilism, which is characteristic of his texts. Note that our hero is involved in the unification of YungRussia. In 2016, a video was created for the song “Let's Stay Home”.