Slava KPSS
Vyacheslav Valeryevich Mashnov, best known by his stage name Slava KPSS is a Russian hip-hop artist and streamer.
Biography
Vyacheslav was born on 9 May 1990 in Khabarovsk and studied at the Khabarovsk Institute of Infocommunications. Before the start of his musical career, Mashnov listened to rappers Noize MC, Kasta, Mnogotochie, as well as rock musicians: Yegor Letov, Boris Grebenshchikov, DDT, Zvuki Mu, Alisa, Agatha Christie and others.In 2016, Mashnov, under the pseudonym Gnoyny, became a member of the creative rap association Antihype.
Attention to Vyacheslav grew after the battle against Ernesto Zatknites in July 2016, where he criticized Oxxxymiron, accusing him of hypocrisy and calling him "a hype-hungry pig". The next day, Miron Fedorov challenged Gnoyny to a battle in 2017.
The rap battle with Oxxxymiron, which became the most anticipated in Russia, took place within the 2nd season of Versus x #SlovoSPB on 6 August and was published on 13 August. Slava KPSS defeated Oxxxymiron with a score of 5:0. The video became resonant and gained about 10 million views in the first day after publication. After the battle he gave an interview to Yuri Dud for the Internet show "vDud".
Stage names
- Sulla MC was the first stage name used in 2009–2010.
- Slava KPSS is the main stage name. It is a wordplay, the term slava can be used as glory to, but Slava is also a shortening of the name Vyacheslav. Rapper's father came up with such stage name.
- Gnoyny is used for rap battles.
- Ptichiy Pepel is the alternative name for battles.
- Sonya Marmeladova is used for BPM battles and grime songs. It is a reference to the character from Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment.
- Valentin Dyadka is used for parody songs, mashups and chastushki.
- Buter Brodsky is used in existential gloomy compositions with balalaikas. It is a wordplay, which consists of the word buterbrod and Joseph Brodsky's last name.
- Vorovskaya Lapa is used for parodying bad recitative, mumble rap and detroit rap.
- Big Baby Prilepin is used to mock rapper Big Baby Tape and writer Zakhar Prilepin.
- Gleb Minyokhin is used for 'strictly LGBT+' songs.
- There are also several less known and rarely used pseudonyms, such as Brick Bazuka, Valentina Matvienko, Valyazhny Tonny, KPSS, Sirenevaya Storona Yebla Opukhshaya, Aval SSPK, MC Baklasan, Kostya Greben, mc perez hilton, MC Kucheryavy, Leontyev Valera, Ochen' Priyatny Gremlin, Slava Siropchik, MC Zhutkiy Rot, mc calendula, MF Deripaska, Tragediya vsey zhizhi, MC Ashotik, Yelena Montana, Zamayskiy zhuk, Ministerstvo haipa, LIL BAB, DJ Hattifnatt, Drenazhnaya voda A4, Tri dnya govna.
Political views
In an interview with Ksenia Sobchak, he stated that he is a vegetarian and adheres to left-wing political views.
In May 2021, Vyacheslav announced that he would run for the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the Green Alternative party.