Andrey Menshikov

Andrey Vladimirovich Menshikov (the rapper's real name) was born on July 30, 1977 in Moscow. The parents of the future star least of all expected that their offspring would become famous as a hip-hop artist. Legalize's father is a professor of chemistry who planned that his son would follow in his footsteps and connect his life with science.

Andrey grew up as an active child. It is known that in his childhood he was engaged in karate. The boy devoted seven years to martial art and achieved some success - he won prizes at regional competitions. But Menshikov did not work out with sports due to the fact that his whole nature was drawn to the illusory world of sounds, which captivated him almost from the cradle.

In conversations with media representatives, the artist has repeatedly said that while his peers were playing the ball in the yard, he mastered programs for creating samples and beats.

After school, at the insistence of his parents, the young man applied to the Institute of Chemical Technology. True, the talented rapper never managed to graduate from a higher educational institution. Four years later, he realized that the technical profession was not for him and that he did not want to do anything other than music.

After he heard the American band NWA in 1990, his life changed dramatically. Inspired by the creativity of the Californians, Menshikov fired up the idea of ​​creating something similar in Russian realities.

In 1993, thanks to a strange coincidence, the young man met the Moscow MC Ladjak. Together, the guys created a project called Slingshot. Colleagues wrote songs in English, since Russian rap was not popular at that time.

At some point, there was even talk of a contract with an American label, but it didn't work out. It is known that within the framework of this project Legalize managed to record the album "Salut From Russia", but released it only in 2015.

In 1994, Legalize, along with the bands "Slaves of the Lamp", Just Da Enemy and Beat Point, entered the hip-hop DOB Community. This year Andrei took part in the recording of the album of the DOB group and helped "Rabam Lamps" with writing songs.

In 1996, the artist left for Congo, where he began to rap in French with the group AERO Skwadra. In the new country, Andrei's worldview changed dramatically, and he realized that recitative is not a memorized text, but pure improvisation that comes from the soul. A year later, the artist left the country, as the civil war began in the Congo. Together with his wife, he was deported to his homeland as a foreigner.

Upon returning to Russia, Legalize made every effort to change the style and direct the minds of the guys in a different, new direction, because they still recorded rap under the DOB label

The period from 1998 to 2000 turned out to be extremely fruitful for Menshikov. The artist was in full view all the time - he worked on the disc "Legal Business $$ a", sang in the Bad Balance group and collaborated with Decl. In 2000, the album "Legal Business $$ a" - "Rhyming" was released. The record turned out to be strong, clearly demonstrating to the audience that Andrei puts not only emotions into the lyrics of the compositions, but also meaning.

In 2005, the artist attracted the attention of the label-distributor "Monolith Records". In the same year, he became the country's most-toured rapper. On the eve of May 9, 2005, Legalize released a video clip for the composition "First Squad" (rap to the tango melody "Burnt Sun").

For the domestic show business, this format was new. The video sequence was created in the anime style, the video was directed by Daisuke Nakayama. In the story, Soviet pioneers are fighting the Nazis with swords, and T-34 tanks are fighting German fantastic robots.

2006 is the year that divided Legalize's career into before and after. During this period, he became popular even outside the rap scene. The youth TV series "Club" was released on the screens, the soundtrack to which was the composition of Legalize "Future mothers". The artist appeared in the tape as a cameo. The song quickly became a hit, it broke the mold and was incredibly outspoken.

By the way, old fans of such a change of course did not understand, but thanks to "Moms" Legalize began to sound on the radio, flashed on TV, and its tracks appeared in the lists of the most downloaded ringtones. Then his debut solo album "XL" was released.

In the same year, the movie "Bastards" by Alexander Atanesyan was shown on the screens of cinemas. For this picture, the rapper wrote the soundtrack of the same name. With him, Legalize was nominated for the MTV Russia Movie Awards.

This was not his last work in the film industry. In 2012, the film "Stone" was released with Sergei Svetlakov in the title role. Legalize composed the song "Time to collect stones" for the film.

In the middle of 2012 a mini-album of the musical group "Legal Business $$" - "Wu" was presented, in the recording of which, according to tradition, Menshikov also took part. The fans also saw a popular performer in the "Rage Inc" project, in which Legalize was assigned the role of a producer.

In 2015, the artist shot a video for the song "Fight", which was recorded with the American band Onyx.

In 2016, Legalize released his second solo album "Live". This disc became a kind of return, or rather, a rebirth. These are almost two dozen tracks, and more than half of them were recorded in collaboration with notable representatives of other genres - Vladimir Presnyakov, Bianca, Andrey Grizzly, Ika and others. The album includes songs, both familiar to the listener for a long time, and previously unreleased compositions.

During his career, Legalize managed to work with singers Maxim (the song "Sky, fall asleep"), Tina Kuznetsova ("Melody of the Soul"), artist Dato ("Dzhanaya"), rappers Detsel ("God is"), N'Pans ("Who you are ”) and the group“ Velvet ”(“ I want to be with you ”).

For some time, the artist did not give concerts, for which he repeatedly apologized to fans on social networks. And in April 2017, Legalize in the Yota Space club presented the album "Live", which appeared on the shelves back in 2016. For many songs from the disc ("Melody of the soul", "Ukroyu", "Caravan", "Karma", "On the day the war ended", "Gagarin", "Fight") clips were shot.

Legalize tries not to advertise his personal life. But still, journalists managed to find out that Menshikov was officially married to the popular singer Simone Yori. The musicians were part of the same rap movement DOB Community, and their romance developed rapidly, the lovers soon got married. At that time, Simone already had a child, Jacques-Anthony, whom Andrei Menshikov took as his own and even gave him his last name.

Unfortunately, over time, their relationship has exhausted itself, and the couple divorced. And then Jacques grew up and also decided to become a rap artist. And here a scandal erupted. Journalists vied with each other that the son of Legalize did this, the son of Legalize did that. But at that time, Andrei and Jacques-Anthony did not communicate. In an interview, the musician says that it was a painful story, and today Jacques does not call himself his son, as, in principle, Menshikov - Jacques.

Legalize was showered with thousands of questions from journalists, and the musician does not hide that it was very annoying. In his opinion, this is nothing more than an interference with personal life. After all, today a man is happily married, he has a son, who was born in 2008. But the rapper does not intend to talk about the current family with the press. This time he is even more closed from prying eyes.

On his Instagram, most of the photos from concerts and posters of upcoming performances are posted, only occasionally joint shots with his son, and even less often with his wife, flash. In July 2017, Legalize published a photo of her beloved, which he tenderly signed: “My love, my wife. 13 years together. "

In 2017, Andrei and singer Burito recorded the single "The Untouchables", which, according to the artist, was to be included in his next album. Fans were looking forward to this event.

Lately, many rappers have been quite successful in combining hip-hop with house. So Legalize decided to do something similar. In the fall of 2017, he recorded a joint track with the Moscow house duo Filatov & Karas. The video for the song “Another Day” was shot by Igor Voloshin, known for the films “Nirvana”, “Olympius Inferno” and the TV series “Olga”.

The main female role in the video was played by the athlete Angela Peresypkina. In the story, Legalize is fighting for survival in a post-apocalyptic world. He was accompanied by a dog, whom he treats with meat. The viewer liked this work, and in just 4 months the video gained 3 million views.

From the very beginning of 2018, the singer began to delight fans with new works. At the end of January, a video of Legalize with Zdobsi Zdub and Loredana appeared on the Web. The song is called "Balkan Mom" ​​and it sounds appropriately.

In March, a joint track was released with the group "25/17" called "Destiny (Damn Rap)".

And in April 2018, the musician presented his third solo work - the disc "Young King". It includes 11 tracks. In the same month, the musician shot the first video for this album - "Don't believe the hype."

In June 2018, he gave a great honest video interview to the YouTube channel The Flow, in which he spoke about his successes and weaknesses, and also shared his critical attitude to his actions. The rapper admits that he understands that he will not return his former popularity, but now he is in the right creative tone. Legalize continues to tour and gather full houses.

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Legalize is a musician, author of soundtracks for films "Taras Bulba", "Bastards", "Stone". He became famous as the founder and member of the underground association DOB Community, as well as rap groups "Bad B. Alliance", "Legal Business $$", Bad Balance, "P-13" and "YAROST Inc."

Today he is engaged in a solo career and a producer.