Vasily Mikhailovich Vakulenko ( Basta) - known Russian rap artist, author of music and songs, part-time TV and radio host. He is also a screenwriter, director and producer. In addition, he achieved popularity under the pseudonym Noggano.
Vasily was born April 20 in 1980(Rostov-on-Don). His parents are military personnel - they did not belong to the world of art music.
Noticing that the son has musical abilities, they recorded him in music school
Basta's childhood
After graduating from secondary school, Vasily entered the local music school at the conductor's department. But as a teenager, he showed a keen interest in rap - a completely new culture for Russia in the early 90s.
Musical creativity of Basta
Already at the age of 15, Vasily composed his first rap poems. And after 2 years, the young musician was invited to the Psycholyric group, which was then renamed Casta. Vakulenko himself in Rostov became recognizable under the pseudonym Basta Khryu. His debut rap track was the song "City".
At the age of 18, the musician wrote another song - "My Game". These 2 compositions soon became famous in other cities.
In the warm season, Vasily and his companion Igor Zhelezka (also a rapper) actively toured Russian resorts on the Black Sea coast, giving concerts at various venues, sometimes gathering 5-7 thousand spectators. And then Basta went into the shadows for several years, gaining new strength.
Only in 2002 creative biography Vasily Vakulenko resumed her campaign when he and his friend made a studio at home, where Basta re-recorded his old songs on new equipment, adding fresh tracks to them. However, few people remembered him as Bastu, and there were also difficulties in finding a producer.
He described this difficult period of his life in the song "Stupid labels, no chance." And only by a lucky chance, his disc came to Bogdan Titomir, who remained indifferent to the work of the young rapper, after which he invited the young Bast group to Moscow for future development.
The beginning of Basta's popularity
2006 - the year of the beginning of Basta's popularity. The musician released his debut album - "Basta 1". The positive feedback from the listeners inspired the author very much, that he soon recorded and posted 2 more new videos on the network: “Once and For All” and “Autumn”.
In 2007, the album "Basta 2" and several fresh clips were released, the most popular of which were "Our Summer", "So Spring Cries", "Tea Drunkard" and "Inner Fighter".
In the same year, Vasily becomes known under the pseudonym Noggano. It was under this name that 3 more albums were released: "First" (2008), "Warm" (2009) and "Unreleased" (2010).
In addition, in 2008 Vasily Vakulenko made his debut in several other creative professions: director, screenwriter, actor and producer.
2010 - the beginning of cooperation between rapper Guf and Basta, as a result of which a new disc was released, essentially without a name.
In 2011, Basta released his next album called "Nintendo", in unusual style"cyber gang".
Basta's popularity
In the spring of 2015 - Basta gives a grand concert with a symphony orchestra at the Olimpiysky.
In 2016, Vasily Vakulenko participates in the TV project "Voice", as one of the mentors.
The famous song "Mom" was added to the American computer game.
In the future, he collaborates with as a result of this the video “With hope for wings” is released.
Basta's collaborations with the famous singer Polina Gagarina, and a little later with Alena Omargaliyeva, also became successful.
Songs and - one of the last very successful works of Basta. These singles bear no resemblance to previous compositions.
Basta's personal life
Vasily Vakulenko and his wife Elena met by chance. Being a longtime admirer of Basta's work, the girl herself took the initiative.
Elena's mother, the famous journalist Tatyana Pinskaya, who lives in France, at first took hostility to her daughter's relationship with Basta, seeing the brutal rapper's tattoos. But after I got acquainted with his work, I changed my mind about him, realizing that the musician is really talented. After all, Vasily especially for the future mother-in-law composed soundtracks for her documentaries about the artists Oscar Rabin and Eric Bulatov.
In 2009, Vasily Vakulenko and Elena Pinskaya got married and played a wedding. And already in the same year they gave birth to their first daughter Masha, and in January 2013 her sister Vasilisa appeared.
Name: Basta (Basta). Date of birth: April 20, 1980 (age 37). Place of birth: Rostov-on-Don (Russia).
Childhood and youth
Vasily Mikhailovich Vakulenko (real name Basta) was born on April 20, 1980 in Rostov-on-Don in a military family. When the boy's parents realized that the child had creative abilities, they sent him to a music school.
At first, Vasya studied reluctantly, but then he liked it so much that after high school the young man decided to get an education in this area.
Vasily Vakulenko in childhood
Vasily entered the conductor's department of the music school, but soon realized that this was not his vocation. According to some reports, he did not leave the school himself, but was expelled due to poor grades.
Around the same time, Vasily became interested in a new cultural trend that was gaining momentum in Russia at that time - rap. The performer wrote his first text in this style at the age of 15.
First steps in music
At the age of 17, Vasily began performing in the Psycholyric group, since then in hometown he was known as Basta Oink. As part of the team, renamed "Kastu" in 1999, Vakulenko released his first song "City", which was included in the group's album.
In the next couple of years, the rapper also wrote several more compositions, many of which he later called significant for his work and becoming a musician.
In the same period, Vasily, together with his friend Igor Zhelezka, made a "chess" in the south of Russia. They performed at various venues and felt like local stars.
But there was no talk of glory throughout Russia. Basta counted on more, and when he could not achieve this, he decided to take a break in his work, which dragged on for several years.
Return to stage and awards
In 2002, Basta and his friend Yuri Volos opened a home recording studio, and Vasily created dozens of tracks. However, finding someone who would promote music proved to be very difficult. By the way, Basta described that period of his life in the song "Dumb labels, no chance."
The bottom line is, but in the end, Basta's demodisk ended up with the then popular performer Bogdan Titomir. So the rapper got into the creative association "Gazgolder", where already in 2006 his first album "Basta 1" was released.
The second disc, called "Basta 2", was released in 2007. Then Basta became known as Noggano. Subsequently, under this pseudonym, he will release four albums: "First" (2008), "Warm" (2009), "Unreleased" (2010) and "Luxury" (2016).
Both creative incarnations of Vasily were successful - the songs were in the lead in the sales charts and occupied the first lines in the charts.
Rapper Basta
In different periods of the 2000s, Vakulenko also participated in other musical projects, including N1NT3ND0 (the first release took place in 2011) and Bratia Stereo (the debut album was released in 2013), and recorded dozens of duet compositions, for example, with Smokey Mo, Guf and Polina Gagarina.
In 2008, the rapper released his third solo album - "Basta 3", in 2013 - the fourth ("Basta 4"), and in 2016 - the fifth ("Basta 5").
In 2015, Basta became one of the first Russian rappers who managed to perform with a symphony orchestra at the Olimpiysky Stadium in Moscow. Two years later, he managed to collect a full house on the same site.
Interestingly, the presentation of Basta's fifth album took place in the Kremlin Palace.
Vakulenko is the owner of various music awards, including awards from Muz-TV, RU TV and MusicBox TV channels.
Film and television
In 2008, Basta presented his directorial debut - the feature film Tea Drinker. Later, Vasily acted as a director, screenwriter or producer of about a dozen more films.
Basta also starred in several films as himself or voiced the heroes of the projects. So, in the documentary television film “Vladimir Mayakovsky. The third extra ”(2013) Basta read the poems of the poet.
Vakulenko wrote soundtracks for many popular Russian paintings, including "ZHARA" (2006), "Freaks" (2011), "Vysotsky. Thank you for being alive ”(2011) and“ Gas holder ”(2014).
In 2016, Basta became a mentor in the musical project "Voice". Polina Gagarina, Alexander Gradsky and Grigory Leps occupied the coaching chairs with him that season.
In 2017, Basta was one of the jury members in the Voice of the Streets music competition.
Non-musical conflict
The year 2016 in Basta's life was also remembered for the conflict with the performer Kirill Tolmatsky, better known as Decl.
A popular rapper in the 2000s complained about too loud music in the Gazgolder club owned by Vakulenko. Then Basta responded very sharply to Decl in social networks.
Word for word, and the skirmish on the Internet grew into a lawsuit. Decl demanded one million rubles from Basta as moral damages.
Decl then stated that he was interested not so much in money as in Basta's public apology. The rapper replied that he was not going to do this in any form.
After several months of proceedings under the close attention of the press, the court ordered Vasily to pay Kirill 50 thousand rubles.
However, the conflict did not end there. Six months after the court decision, in the summer of 2017, a skirmish broke out between the performers on social networks. And the verbal dispute again turned into a legal conflict, which Decl won.
Personal life and hobbies
The first and only wife of Vasily is Elena Pinskaya, a longtime admirer of his talent. They met in 2007, and two years later they got married and got married in a church.
Basta with his wife Elena
In 2009, the first child appeared in a young family - daughter Masha. Four years later, in 2013, the second daughter, Vasilisa, was born.
Vasily is fond of skating and snowboarding. He also loves the most popular sport - football, he has a lot of joint photos with football players on social networks.
Basta (real name and surname - Vasily Mikhailovich Vakulenko) is a prominent representative of rap in Russia. Vasily Vakulenko - singer, actor, TV presenter, radio host, producer, director. In addition to the pseudonym Basta, the singer is known under the creative names of Noggano and Nintendo. Rapper Basta is also the owner of the Gazgolder label.
Childhood and education of Vasily Vakulenko
The biography on the Know Everything website reports that Basta's father was a military man.
Vasily's musical abilities were noticed by his parents in early childhood. At the initiative of his grandmother, the boy was sent to a music school. There, unlike an ordinary school, Vasily studied well and made obvious progress.
Basta's biography says that almost everyone in his family was a military man. Both grandfathers served in the armed forces - one in the artillery, the other in the army civil defense. Vasily's father served in the missile forces, his uncle was a helicopter pilot and fought in Afghanistan. Another uncle served at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Even Vasily's mother worked as an economist in a military unit. But Vasily did not gravitate towards military service, the future rap star was drawn to creativity.
Having matured a little, the future rapper began to get involved in the Wu-Tang Clan, Ol "Dirty Bastards and Busta Rhymes. At the age of fifteen, the guy first tried to rap. He succeeded, and Basta began to improve in this direction, deciding to make a career as a rapper.
At the same time, Basta did not work out with a musical education. After school, Vasily Vakulenko entered the music school at the conductor's department. However, after the first course, he realized that this was not for him.
School No. 32, where Vasily Vakulenko studied, is located in a difficult area, between the Rabochy Gorodok and Nakhalovka, two well-known settlements in Rostov. “Basta's texts are vital, because they are saturated with their own experience and feelings. And yet - they are very patriotic towards Rostov, ”about Bast in the media.
In his youth, Vasily Vakulenko was also a sacristan, served at divine services and rang bells. Basta also began to sing in the temple - in the church choir. It was then that he met Mikhail Osyak, who is now Bishop Mitrofan of Gatchina and Luga. In 2016, the priest invited the rapper to the service in honor of his birthday, Vasily took part in the Divine Liturgy in Pavlovsky cathedral Gatchina, before his concert in St. Petersburg.
Basta's career in show business
In 1997, Vasily Vakulenko came up with the pseudonym Basta Khryu. At this time, he became a member of the Psycholyric rap group, later renamed Casta. With the participation of Basta, the group recorded the album "First Strike" (1997). But a year later, Basta left the group.
When Basta was 18 years old, he wrote the song "My Game", which he considers the best in his work. Basta felt popular, after that Vasily began to work actively as a musician, gave concerts in Rostov and along the entire Black Sea coast, in the Krasnodar Territory, in the cities of the North Caucasus.
In the photo: musician Vasily Vakulenko (Basta) during a performance at the international music festival KUBANA (Photo: Artem Geodakyan / TASS)
For some time Basta, he left the stage, but returned in 2002, when his friend Yuri Volos(aka Zhora) offered to create a home recording studio. But none of the producers dared to collaborate with little-known rappers. In search of a label that would take them under its wing, the young rappers moved to Moscow.
The singers are lucky. Demo CD of Basta (Vasily Vakulenko renamed himself Basta Bastilio) caught Bogdan Titomir.
The popular musician became the producer of Basta under the auspices of the Gas Holder. Under this label, Basta's first album, Basta 1, was released, which included 19 Vasily's solo tracks. The composition of the disc included "My Game", which Basta traditionally performs at every concert. Then Basta released the first clip "Autumn", then the video "Once and For All" appeared.
In subsequent years, Basta worked hard. In 2007, he released his second album "Basta 2", with which expressive video works appeared: "Our Summer", "So Spring Cries", "Inner Fighter". The LP sold out 50,000 copies in 90 days. In the same year, foreign developers became interested in Basta computer games from "Rockstar", and in the "Grand Theft Auto IV" released in April 2008, Basta's song "Mama" sounded.
Basta's biography on the Know Everything website says that Vakulenko became a co-owner of the Gazgolder label. Soon a new pseudonym appeared in his work - Noggano. Noggano's new tracks featured harder, bolder, and nihilistic hip hop. Noggano, according to Vasily Vakulenko himself, is “a hooligan project. This is a swindler, a womanizer and a bastard. Asocial and immoral type. Naturally, the audience of Basta and Noggano, although they are characters of the same person, is slightly different: Basta's is more decent, Noggano's is "tougher".
In 2008, Noggano shot a video for a song with the palindromic title "City of Roads" and received the MTV Russia Music Awards as "the best performer who came out of the Internet."
Under the new name, Vasily Vakulenko released three albums: "First" (2008), "Warm" (2009), "Unreleased" (2010).
In 2010, the joint work "Basta / Guf" appeared - a disc in a gray booklet and virtually without a name.
After some time, Vasily Vakulenko became interested in writing. He liked writing scripts. Basta actively took up a new business for him, and soon the audience saw his work called "Tales for Adults".
In 2010, Basta received the Muz-TV award for the song "Turn around", he was also awarded as "the best hip-hop project".
In the photo: musician Vasily Vakulenko (Basta), who won in the nomination "Best hip-hop project", at the annual national television award ceremony in the region popular music MUZ-TV (Photo: Mikhail Dzhaparidze / TASS)
In 2011, Basta delighted his fans with the new Nintendo album, which struck with the unusual cyber-gang style.
In the same 2015, Vasily Vakulenko won the Best Hip-Hop Artist nomination at the First Russian National Music Award.
In the photo: musician Vasily Vakulenko (Basta) (right), who won the Best Hip-Hop Project nomination, at the First Russian National Music Award ceremony (Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofiev / TASS)
In 2016, it became known that Basta became one of the mentors fourth season project "Voice", and he was accompanied by Polina Gagarina, Alexander Gradsky And Grigory Leps.
At the end of 2016, Basta became the main star of Rostov-on-Don, after the head of the administration of the Don capital Sergey Gorban solemnly he received two medals at once - "For services to the city of Rostov-on-Don" and "185 years of Baikov Andrey Matveyevich." These two new awards, initiated by Gorban, were established last year, exactly to the 266th anniversary of the city.
Vasily often performs with other representatives of Russian show business. Together with the group "Nerves" Basta released the video "With hope for wings." Basta's creative union with singer Polina Gagarina was also successful. The fans were impressed by the songs “The whole world is not enough for me without you” and “Voice”. In 2016, Basta and Polina Gagarina also created the composition "Angel of Faith".
In general, Basta never ceases to amaze his fans with the variety of themes of his concerts. Here he is with the singer Alena Omargalieva presented the listeners with the composition “I rise above the ground”, and suddenly surprised them with the performance of Soviet songs. Basta's original work was a cover version of the song "Dark Night", which at one time sounded in the film "Two Soldiers" performed by Mark Bernes.
The single "Master and Margarita" is one of the recent works Basty, the song became the soundtrack to feature film“Me and Uda. Redemption".
The album "Basta 5, Part 1", which, according to Vasily Vakulenko, included compositions composed by him over three recent years, appeared on Apple Music on April 19, 2016. As a media outlet, Basta took the top positions in both Russian iTunes ratings. The first place in the album chart was taken by his new album "Basta 5, Part 1". Among the compositions of the song chart, the first place was also taken by Basta's creation - the single "Voice", which Vasily Vakulenko recorded together with Polina Gagarina.
In April 2017, Basta presented a new video - "Samsara". The song itself was dedicated to family values, and rock musicians took part in its recording Diana Arbenina, Alexander Sklyar, Sergey Bobunets And Andrey Zaporozhets(Sunsay). The clip used real photos of little Basta and his friends.
Basta in the cinema
Basta often appears in films. Back in 2008, Basta tried himself as a screenwriter, director, producer and actor. This happened during the filming of his film "The Tea Drinker". Then there were cameos and small appearances in the films "Moats", "Pruha", dubbing. In 2013, Basta took part in the project “Vladimir Mayakovsky. Third wheel".
In 2014, the creative association "Gazgolder" released a full-length film of the same name, where Basta played the main role.
In 2015, Basta recorded the soundtrack for the film Petra Buslova"Motherland". This film tells about the fate of the Russians who ended up in the famous Indian resort of Goa. "Russian share, we are on this share in the share in rightfully so. The motherland will not let go, it gave birth to itself, it will crush itself, ”this is how Basta feels about a person living in a foreign land, but still yearning for his native Russian expanses.
In 2015, film news reported on the filming of the new film "Gasholder" - "Klubar". Basta wrote the music for the film and took part in the filming.
Vasily Vakulenko is the owner of the clothing brand "Gazgolder".
At the end of 2014, Vasily Vakulenko purchased a black Cadillac Escalade. One of the most famous and expensive American jeeps fell in love with the Rostov rapper so much that Basta did not regret a very tidy sum. The photo of the “boar Kadi”, as Basta dubbed his new acquisition, gained tens of thousands of likes on the musician’s page in social network.
Basta's personal life
From the biography of Basta it is known that he met his wife Elena by accident. The initiative was shown by the girl herself - a longtime admirer of the rapper's work.
In the photo: Basta with his wife Elena (Photo: Sergey Bobylev / TASS)
Elena is the daughter of a famous journalist Tatyana Pinskaya living in France. At first, the future mother-in-law, seeing the brutal rapper in tattoos, was horrified, but after reading his texts, she changed her anger to mercy. The woman agreed that the guy is very talented. Basta wrote soundtracks for Pinskaya's documentaries about artists Erica Bulatov And Oscar Rabin. Father-in-law Basta, Dmitry Pinsky, runs the company DP-trade, dealing with expensive wines.
In 2009 Vasily Vakulenko and Elena Pinskaya legalized their relationship. On December 4, 2009, Vasily and Elena had their first daughter, Maria. Three years later, another daughter, Vasilisa, was born.
In the photo: Basta with her daughters (Photo: instagram.com/bastaakanoggano)
Basta loves and sings puer tea in songs.
Vasily Vakulenko often shares photos on Instagram, where he has over 2 million followers.
Vasily Vakulenko (Basta) was born into a military family. I was not going to a music school until my grandmother insisted. I got into rap in high school. In an effort to continue his musical education, he entered the school at the conductor's department, but was expelled.
In 1997, Basta joined the Psycholyric group, at the same time the pseudonym Khryu appeared, then Basta Khryu. He began to write and perform his own songs (one of the most famous is “My Game”, and pretty soon, together with like-minded musicians, he began to give concerts in his native Rostov and the Krasnodar Territory.
In 2002, a friend of Vasily Vakulenko suggested re-recording some songs and creating new ones. Basta recorded a demo, came to Moscow - and he was lucky: Bogdan Titomir heard the songs and invited the artist to join the Gazgolder creative association.
In 2006, the first album appeared with the laconic title "Basta 1", a year later - "Basta 2". He brought Basta fame.
Soon the musician got a new pseudonym - Noggano, under which he released albums in 2008, 2009, 2016. Then he launched another musical project - N1NT3ND0, the first album was released in 2011, the second - in 2019.
Basta continued his solo activities: new albums with the same simple titles and numbers were released in 2010, 2013, 2016.
In 2014, Vasily Vakulenko released the film Gas Holder, which cannot be called successful.
2015 began with a successful release of a joint project with Smokey Mo, and in April Basta gave a concert at Olimpiyskiy, accompanied by symphony orchestra.
Basta participated in various television projects: he read Mayakovsky's poems, wrote the music for a film about the artist Erik Bulatov, the main musical theme series "Streets" on TNT, was a mentor in the fourth season of the show "Voice" (2015) and the fifth - "Voice. Children "(2018).
In 2017, Basta voiced Yandex. Navigator". In 2018, he gave large-scale solo concerts in Rostov after the end of the World Cup and in Sochi after the Formula 1 Grand Prix stage. Then he starred in the film "BEEF: Russian hip-hop" in the role of himself.
In May 2019, Basta announced the launch of his own audio brand, Z.
Basta received awards in different years: MTV Russia Music Awards, MTV Europe Music Awards, Muz-TV, RU. TV, MusicBox, Golden Gramophone, Russian National Music Award.
In 2016, rapper Decl (died in 2018) complained about the noise from the Gazgolder club, owned by Basta. He called the singer bad words, a conflict broke out, as a result of which the court ruled that Basta must pay Kirill Tolmatsky 50 thousand rubles. Vasily Vakulenko suggested that Decl was a hermaphrodite, and as a result of a new court session, he was obliged to pay another 350 thousand.
Basta's personal life
Basta is a respectable family man. On June 13, 2009, he married Elena Pinskaya, they have two daughters: Maria (December 3, 2009) and Vasilisa (January 13, 2013).
Photo by Vasily Vakulenko (Basta): Legion Media
(pseudonym - Basta) - a popular Russian rap artist, composer and TV and radio host. The famous rapper proved himself not only in music, but also achieved particular success as a screenwriter, director and producer. Also known by the pseudonym Noggano.
Childhood and youth
Vasily Mikhailovich Vakulenko was born in Rostov-on-Don on April 20, 1980 in a military family. His father and mother had nothing to do with the world of art, but, noticing that his son had musical abilities, they took the boy to a music school.
After graduating from a comprehensive school, Vasily Vakulenko decided to continue his journey in the world of music and became a student at a local music school, choosing a conductor's department. But soon the future rap artist realized that conducting was not something that would be useful to him for self-realization. As a teenager, he showed interest in a new phenomenon for Russia in the 90s - rap culture.
Music
At the age of 15, the young musician wrote the first rap text. And at the age of 17, Vasily was taken to the Psycholyric group, which was soon renamed to. In his native Rostov, Vakulenko was known as Basta Khryu. During this period, a debut rap track called "City" recorded by Basta appeared.
The musician celebrated his 18th birthday by writing a new song, My Game. "City" and "My Game" quickly glorified Basta far beyond the borders of his native Rostov. Gradually, the artist's compositions become more and more popular.
From that moment on, the rap artist, together with his friend Igor Zhelezka, who is also a rapper, began touring the cities of the Black Sea coast of Russia. They went on a kind of musical tour of the Krasnodar Territory and even the North Caucasus, performing at various venues. At times, they gathered 6-7 thousand fans at the stadiums. But everything did not go as Vasily dreamed, and the concert activity quickly came to naught. The rapper has not performed with concerts for several years.
The creative career of rapper Basta resumed in 2002. Yuri Volos, a friend of Vakulenko, suggested making a studio at home, equipping it with the necessary sound equipment. Vasily, who has long missed creativity, quickly restored his old compositions and wrote new ones. But no one remembered the rapper Basta, and finding a producer turned out to be a difficult task.
Bast later wrote a song about this difficult period of his life under the telling title "Dumb labels, no chance." By a lucky chance, Basta's demo disc got to. The musician liked the compositions of young performers, and he invited them to the Russian capital. In Moscow, Titomir brought Basta and Volos to the studio creative association"Gazgolder", where rappers were accepted and showed interest in them. In the very first year of his stay in the capital, Basta created musical material for several discs, but decided not to rush, but to release albums with a time interval.
2006 was a breakthrough year for rapper Basta. His debut album "Basta 1" was released, positively received by rap lovers. This long-awaited success inspired the artist so much that Basta immediately released two new videos under the names "Autumn" and "Once and For All." For rapid distribution, he took advantage of the Internet. The composition "Mom" also became popular.
Basta and Guf - "Tea Drunkard"In 2007, the album "Basta 2" appeared, which included duets with a singer and a rapper and a number of new clips, the most striking of which were "So Spring Cries", "Our Summer", "Inner Fighter" and "Tea Drunkard". In just three months, the rapper's second album sold 50,000 copies.
The successful Russian rapper was noticed by American computer game makers from Rockstar Games. Basta's song "Mama" sounded in popular game Grand Theft Auto IV.
Basta - "Graduation" (Slow)The composition "Graduation" has become one of the main ones in the career of a musician. In social networks, users called it one of the best, suggesting that such a single would be played in schools for a long time at every prom.
In the future, Basta pays more and more attention to working with other representatives of Russian show business. Together with the Nerves group, he creates the video “With Hope for Wings”, which impresses the Russian audience.
In 2007, Vasily Vakulenko is recognized not only under the pseudonym Basta, but he also becomes Noggano. Under this name, three albums of the rapper were released: in 2008 - "First", in 2009 - "Warm" and in 2010 "Unreleased".
Besides creative biography Basty has been enriched with new pages. In 2008, the musician made his debut in several capacities at once: screenwriter, director, producer and actor. It happened when he presented his own film "The Tea Drinker". Basta liked writing scripts so much that they began to appear one after another. Vasily worked as a director in the film "Tales for Adults". Now Basta's creative baggage in the world of cinema is acting in 12 films, scripts for 5, directing and producing in a number of films.
Basta - "My game"Basta is gradually strengthening cooperation with other rap artists. In 2010, rapper Guf participates with Vakulenko in the creation of a new work, and in November a disc is released in a gray booklet and virtually without a title.
In 2011, Basta pleasantly surprised fans with the new Nintendo album, which struck with an unusual cyber-gang style, and fans of his work expect other innovations.
In 2016, it became known that Basta became the mentor of the fourth season of the project "", and he was accompanied by, and.
Basta's collaboration with singer Polina Gagarina was successful. The songs “The whole world is not enough for me without you” and “Voice”, as well as the composition “Angel of Faith”, presented in 2016, were especially remembered by the fans.
In the same year, the album "Basta 5" was released, which became the seventh work in the discography of the rapper, performing under the stage name Basta. After a while, Vasily pleased Noggano's fans by releasing the Luxury disc. Thanks to an income of $ 1.8 million, Basta was ranked 17th in the list of the richest figures in Russian show business, according to Forbes magazine.
Basta and Polina Gagarina - "Angel of Faith"Vakulenko collaborates with famous musicians to create new masterpieces. Together with singer Alena Omargaliyeva, he sang the song “I rise above the ground”, which was very popular with celebrity fans.
Surprised fans and the rapper's performance of Soviet songs. A cover version of the lyrical song "Dark Night", written by composer Nikita Bogoslovsky and poet Vladimir Agatov, became Basta's unique work.
Basta - "The Master and Margarita"The song "Master and Margarita" is one of the last works of Basta. This single can be attributed to completely different works that have no resemblance to the already familiar compositions. The song was included in the soundtrack to the full-length feature film “Me and Uda. Redemption".
Among the works of the musician that became part of film projects are the song “Giv mi money”, which was included in the soundtrack of the crime comedy “Bablo”, a cover version of the composition “Paradise Apples”, which sounded in the drama “Vysotsky. Thanks for being alive". The number of films in which the rapper's songs are used included "Motherland", "Ke-dy", "Attraction", "Street".
Paulina Andreeva ft. Basta - "Look into your eyes"In 2017, together with Basta, he performed a cover version of the hit "Look into Your Eyes", which ended the film "Myths". A video was later shot for the song.
Fans also expected unique concerts from Vakulenko, which few rap artists dared to attend, because fans remember April 2015, when he was the first Russian rapper to perform with a symphony orchestra at the Olimpiysky stadium, the largest concert venue in the Russian capital. Therefore, in 2016, Basta organized a concert in the Kremlin Palace, and again with the participation of a symphony orchestra.
Basta - "Samsara"The artist decided to re-hold a concert at the Olimpiysky in 2017, and all the fences were removed for a 360 ° view, and the singer appeared before an audience of 36,000 on a stage designed in the form of a boxing ring.
In 2016, Basta had a conflict with Russian rapper Kirill Tolmatsky, known as. Tolmatsky complained about too loud music in the Moscow club Gazgolder, which belongs to Vakulenko. Basta reacted on social media by posting an angry post regarding such remarks. Posting a tweet on a microblogging service