Bandana I


Bandana I  is a collaborative studio album by Russian rappers Big Baby Tape & Kizaru. It was released on 22 October 2021 through the label Sony Music Russia.

History

Big Baby Tape flew to Kizaru to Barcelona in mid June 2021. They built a home studio there, where they recorded the album.
The release name was announced on 17 July 2021 in the video of the same on the YouTube-channel of the creative association Haunted Family.

Listens

The album garnered a million listens on the service VK in 15 minutes & three million listens an hour after the release. A day later, the number of listens increased to 18 million, but did not break the record of 21 million listens set by Russian rapper Morgenshtern with his album Million Dollar: Happiness.

Reception

Meduza praised the album, noting it followed a "nostalgic" trend in Russian hip-hop, offering throwbacks to 1990s rap stars such as Three 6 Mafia and Snoop Dogg. The album was named by The Flow as the #4 album of 2021 in their top-50 list.

Personnel

This list of recording members is taken from Genius.
Producers
  • Big Baby Tape 
  • Waves B 
  • Culoso Beats
  • Flory
  • Vickyferribeats
  • Soulm8
  • Deyjan Beats
  • YG Woods
  • Montana
  • Evince Beats
  • Call Me G
  • JunioR Beats