Jeeep (rapper)

Maksim Evgenievich Gololobov (born 7 September 1974), better known as Jeeep (Jeep), is a Russian rapper, a former member of the K.T.L. D.L.L., Slaves of the Lamp, D.O.B. Community, "Empire", "Fury Inc.".

He is the founder and participant of the T.I.R. project.

In 1991, Maxim Gololobov became interested in hip-hop music thanks to his acquaintance with Sergei "Sir-J" Bulavintsev, who at that time had a collection of American rap music that he himself had brought from the USA.

Gololobov often spent time at Sir-J's house, listening to and transcribing albums on audio cassettes.

On 19 December 1991, Jeep met a dancer from Madagascar named Kristin, who invited him to work as a backup dancer for rapper MC Anthony at the Jump disco at the Druzhba Multipurpose Arena in the Luzhniki Olympic Complex as part of the Igor's Pop Show musical show project.

On the same day, the group "Bachelor Party" performed there, which had breakers as backup dancers - Kirill Lisovsky ("Seal") and Dmitry Lanin ("Moose").

After the concert, Jeep met Seal and Los, who at that time had the idea to create a rap project called "K.T.L. D.L.L."

(an abbreviation of the full names of Tyulen and Elk: Kirill "Tyulen" Lisovsky and Dima "Moose" Lanin).

Jeep decided to join their group.

Inviting him to his home in Orekhovo-Borisovo North, Tyulen showed him his lyrics and music.

The cost of recording one track at the studio at that time cost from one hundred to two hundred dollars, so Jeep offered them to record two songs with the money of the father of his new acquaintance, Konstantin Vasilevsky ("Iceberg"), whom he met at the Dukat club.

In 1992, Jeep joined the K.T.L. D.L.L. group, with which he recorded eight tracks until its breakup.

In 1992, at the 2/2 club, Gololobov met the future members of the Cash Brothers group (N'Pans, Bual, Jackson), who began to teach him how to breakdance.

It was they who nicknamed him "Jeep" because of his red jacket with a patch that says "Jeep" that he wore.

The meeting of the band members with Vasilevsky took place at a concert of the French rapper MC Solaar at the Orion Club on 9 June 1992.

A few days later, the four of them went to the studio and recorded the first song called "You are a corpse."

Two months later, the track "Only the Killed Is Out of Danger" (aka "Streets") was recorded.

Guitarist Zuy took part in the recording of both tracks.

The day after the recording of the track "Streets", the group "K.T.L. D.L.L."

performed with her at the first All-Russian rap festival, organized by the producer of Lika MS (Lika Olegovna Pavlova), Sergey Obukhov (Class Studio), in Moscow's Gorky Park in August 1992.

Music critic Artemy Troitsky was the chairman of the jury of the festival, and Lolita Milyavskaya and Alexander Tsekalo (Cabaret duet "Academy") were the hosts.

Group "K.T.L. D.L.L."

took third place, second place went to Bad Balance, and first place went to MD & C Pavlov.

In early 1993, at the SBI Records studio, together with the techno group The Cool Front ("Cold Front"), a remix was made for the song "You are a corpse", and the song "They are not among the world" (aka "They") was also recorded.

At the same time, the song "Forbidden Quarter" was recorded with a local rock band with the participation of guitarist Zuya, with which the group performed twice.

At that time, the band members began to use marijuana, under the influence of which the last three songs were recorded at the MixArt studio at Alexander Kornyshev in April: "My every new day", "I'm waiting for the night" and "It will be easier for you."

The lyrics of the songs "My every new day" and "I'm waiting for the night" were invented by Tyulen at Bogdan Titomir's house after celebrating his birthday.

In May, Dmitry Lanin ("Moose") left to serve in the army for a year.

In 1996, together with Grundik, he formed the duet Slaves of the Lamp, who only released one album, It Doesn't Hurt.

After Grundik's death, Maksim joined the D.O.B. Community, with which he released three albums.

In 2004 Jeep released his solo album Here I Was.

In 2004, Jeep was mentioned by Rap.ru as "the most expressive MC in D.O.B. Community" and as the owner of "the most original voice in Russian rap", and members of the group "K.T.L. D.L.L."

called "underground legends".

In 2007, the Russian edition of Billboard magazine named D.O.B. Community "sign formation", and the group "C.T.L. D.L.L."

and "Slaves of the Lamp" referred to the "kings of the underground of Moscow."

In the same year, the Rap.ru portal indicated the members of the D.O.B. Community "legendary", and two years later RAPpress magazine referred to the group as "cult".

In 2010, together with rappers Legalize and Max Lomak (ex-FMWL), he created the Rage Inc. project, which published one album, Barrel of Tar.

In 2015, The-Flow magazine named D.O.B. Community "the iconic hip-hop association of the 90s", the group "K.T.L. D.L.L."

- "pioneers of the Moscow underground", and the group "Slaves of the Lamp" - "new rap poetry."

In 2016, together with bass player Alexey Avdeev, he founded the duo T.I.R. He took part in the creation of documentaries Slave of the Lamp (2016), Yug: The Last Word (2016) and BEEF: Russian Hip-Hop (2019) directed by rapper Roma Zhigan.