Oxxxymiron


Miron Yanovich Fyodorov, better known by stage name Oxxxymiron is a Russian rapper.

Biography

Miron Yanovich Fyodorov was born on 31 January 1985 in Leningrad, in an educated family of Russian Jews. His father is a theoretical physicist and his mother is a librarian. When Fyodorov was 9 years old, his family emigrated to, Germany. During his studies in Maria Wächtler School, Miron had a 'tense relationship' with his classmates because of his social standing and poor German. At the age of 13, Fyodorov began to write lyrics and rap in German and Russian under the name MC Mif. When he was 15, the Fyodorovs moved to Slough, United Kingdom. In 2004, Miron Fyodorov began studying at the University of Oxford in the faculty of English. During his studies Fyodorov was the president of the Russian community of Oxford. In 2006 he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and had to stop studying, however he managed to continue studying after a break. In June 2008 he graduated from the university with a degree in Middle English literature.
After university, Fyodorov moved to East End where he restarted his musical career under the name of Oxxxymiron. The name is derived from his first name Miron, rhetorical device oxymoron and triple X, representing the large amount of profanity in his lyrics. He was not able to find a job because of his perceived overqualification and had to work as a cashier, a translator, a loader, a guide, a stallman, a tutor, an MC and an office clerk.

Optik Russia (2008-2010)

In 2008, after a seven-year break, Oxxxymiron published a new track London Against All. In the same year he joined a German label Optik Russia where he met Dmitry Khinter aka. In 2008 Oxxxymiron published his first music video, I'm a Hater.
In 2009 Oxxxymiron participated in the 14th independent battle on Hip-Hop.ru and reached the semi-finals. At the end of the year Oxxxymiron won several nominations in the Hip-Hop.ru Awards 2009 public voting and also became the Invention of 2009.
In August 2010 Oxxxymiron and Schokk left Optik Russia.

Vagabund (2011)

In autumn 2010 Oxxxymiron and Schokk toured countries of CIS. In a year, Oxxxymiron, Schokk and manager Ivan Karoy aka Vanya Lenin founded an independent label Vagabund. On 15 September 2011, Vagabund published Fyodorov's first album , which received a lot of positive reviews. On 30 October 2011 Vagabund gave the last concert. On 1 November 2011 Oxxxymiron left Vagabund due the conflict between the members of the label and Moscow rapper. On 6 November 2011 he gave a free a cappella concert in Moscow and moved back to London.

miXXXtape (2012—2014)

On 12 March 2012 Oxxxymiron published miXXXtape I which includes the best tracks recorded in 2008-2011. On 18 October 2013 was published. It included the best tracks of 2012-2013 and remixed texts of Oxxxymiron's rounds from his battle against in league. On 8 August 2014 Oxxxymiron extended the deadline of the release of his second album for an indefinite period despite it having been planned to be released on 14 August 2014.

Gorgorod (2015—present)

On 25 August 2015 music video Londongrad was published as a teaser trailer for TV series Londongrad based on Miron's life in London before restarting his rapper career. On 21 September Oxxxymiron published the music video City under Sole which was watched 2 million times in a week.
On 13 November 2015 Oxxxymiron released his second album, which became the most popular Russian music album of 2015.
In 2017 Oxxxymiron became CEO of the Booking Machine booking agency.
On 28 June 2016 Oxxxymiron became the first ambassador of Reebok Classic in Russia.
In August 2019 Oxxxymiron left his CEO position in BM agency.

Acting career

On 28 September 2017 became known that Oxxxymiron will take part in the film adaptation of based on the novel by Victor Pelevin. The film's director is Victor Ginzburg, famous for the screen version of the book "Generation "П"

Battle rap

Oxxxymiron is the most viewed Russian battle rapper in the world. Views of his rap battles in aggregate exceed 100 million watching on YouTube.
Oxxxymiron participated in the Russian battle league five times and won the first four of them.
Also Oxxxymiron performed at the Canadian rap battle league of King of the Dot:

Albums

Miron Fyodorov was married from 2007 to 2012.