Oxxxymiron

Miron Yanovich Fyodorov (Мирон Янович Фёдоров; born 31 January 1985), known by the stage name Oxxxymiron, is a Russian hip-hop artist and former CEO of the Booking Machine booking agency, as well as a co-founder and former member of the record label Vagabund.

He is one of the most influential and prominent hip-hop performers in Russia, and his albums The Wandering Jew and Gorgorod, are considered by the community as the most important releases of Russian rap.

Miron Yanovich Fyodorov was born in 1985 in Leningrad, in a family of Russian Jews.

His father is a theoretical physicist of the Konstantinov Institute of Nuclear Physics in St. Petersburg and his mother is a librarian.

In St. Peterburg Miron attended secondary school No. 185.

When Fyodorov was 9 years old, his family emigrated to Essen, 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 (from Miron Fyodorov).

When he was 15, the Fyodorovs moved to Slough, England.

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 the East End where he restarted his musical career under the name 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.

In 2008, after a seven-year break, Oxxxymiron published a new track London Against All (Лондон против всех).

In the same year he joined a German label Optik Russia where he met Dimitri Hinter (Дмитрий Хинтер), known by his stage name Schokk.

In 2009 Oxxxymiron participated in the 14th independent battle on Hip-Hop.ru and reached the semi-finals.

One of the main intrigues of the battle was the correspondence confrontation of Oxxxymiron and underground anonymous rapper, which was expressed in mutual disses against each other in the tracks of both performers.

However, due to the departure of Miron after the 8th round, the face-to-face confrontation between them never took place.

On 26 and 31 July of the same year, Miron's first concerts took place in Kyiv and Odesa.

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 (Vagabond in German).

On 15 September 2011, Vagabund published Fyodorov's first album The Wandering Jew (album) (Вечный жид), which received a lot of positive reviews.

On 30 October 2011 Vagabund gave their last concert.

On 1 November 2011 Oxxxymiron left Vagabund due to conflict between the members of the label and Moscow rapper Roma Zhigan.

On 12 March 2012 Oxxxymiron published miXXXtape I which includes the best tracks recorded from 2008 to 2011.

It included the best tracks of 2012-2013 and remixed Oxxxymiron's bars from his battle against Krip-a-Krip in Versus Battle league.

On 18 October 2013 miXXXtape II: Long way home (miXXXtape II: Долгий путь домой) was published.

It included 36 songs from 2014 to 2021 and two new tracks among them.

Fyodorov's life in London formed the basis of the script of the Russian 2015 TV series Londongrad.

On 25 August 2015 the music video Londongrad (Лондонград) was published as a teaser trailer for TV series Londongrad based on Miron's life in London before restarting his rapper career.

On 28 June 2016 Oxxxymiron became the first ambassador of Reebok Classic in Russia.

On 28 September 2017 it was announced that Oxxxymiron will star in the film adaptation of Victor Pelevin’s novel Empire V.

The film's director is Victor Ginzburg, famous for the screen version of the novel Generation "П".

In September 2019, Oxxxymiron unexpectedly took part in the 17th Independent Battle on Hip-Hop.ru and passed the track for the first qualifying round.

After that, a certain wave of excitement began around the event, and many famous hip-hop artists also participated (Egor Kreed, Noize MC, L'One, ST1M, Yury Khovansky, etc.).

On 1 November 2021 Oxxxymiron published a ten-minute-long music video Who killed Mark?.

On 12 November Fyodorov's third mixtape, miXXXtape III: Time of Troubles, was released.