Timati

Timur Ildarovich Yunusov (born August 15, 1983), better known by his stage name Timati (Ти́мати), is a Russian rapper, singer, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur.

Timur Ildarovich Yunusov (Тимур Илдар улы Юнусов, Тиму́р Ильда́рович Юну́сов) was born on August 15, 1983, in Moscow to an ethnically mixed family of Tatar father Ildar Vakhitovich Yunusov and Jewish mother Simona Yakovlevna Yunusova (née Chernomorskaya); he also has a younger brother, Artyom.

He grew up in a wealthy industrialist family, saying "I have very wealthy parents", but "I was never spoiled."

He was raised mainly on Mira Avenue in Moscow.

His current stage name "Timati" has stuck with him since he was young.

Yunusov also lived in Los Angeles for 3 years.

At the urgent request of his grandfather, composer and conductor Yakov Chervomorsky, Timur graduated from violin class in music school.

He studied at the Higher School of Economics, and finished his third year, but left to focus on his music career.

He later became associated with the YPS squad.

His first single came out with Konaldo.

He became well known to the Russian community from the music reality show Star Factory 4, but before it he collaborated with Detsl.

Member of the group Banda (Банда; lit. "Gang") and co-founder of VIP 77.

Former owner of B-Club nightclub, the bar Black October and the stores Ё-Life.

He is the CEO of his label called "Black Star Inc".

In 2006, was featured in Heat produced by Fyodor Bondarchuk.

In 2008, Timati was featured in a Fat Joe song called "Put U Take It", also featuring German rapper Nox and Raul, produced by Scott Storch, referencing Jacob Arabo.

In 2008 Mario Winans featured Timati in the single "Forever".

In the same year, Timati appeared in the comedy film Hitler goes Kaput!.

Timati, in 2009, featured Snoop Dogg in the single "Groove On" although some make unverified claims that Snoop Dogg (and also Busta Rhymes) was simply paid for the collaboration.

Michael 'Mike' David is currently Timati's UK producer.

He is responsible for Timati's collaborations with foreign artists, such as Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, and Mario Winans, and much of Timati's popularity in the Western world.

In summer 2011, he topped the charts in Luxembourg, Poland, and Romania with the single "Welcome to St. Tropez" vs. DJ Antoine and feat.

Kalenna Harper from Diddy – Dirty Money, shortly after being nominated for the best clip in Russia's Capital Moscow with "I'm on You" feat.

P Diddy.

The clip was created by Timati's old friend and partner, Pavel Hoodyakov, in the U.S.

He participated in a political video to support Vladimir Putin during the 2012 Russian presidential election.

In 2016, Timati gave his biggest solo performance in the Olympic Stadium in Moscow.

The concert was attended by 15,000 people and featured a 3D installation, a car on stage and other spectacular show elements.

In 2017, Timati shared an Instagram post of himself posing in Kadyrov's private jet.

When anti-corruption activists highlighted this, Timati removed the Instagram post.

On the night of June 21, 2018 Timati and Egor Kreed held an unauthorized mass event in Moscow on Bolshaya Dmitrovka by staging an impromptu performance right on the roof of a car, which caused a major traffic jam on the street.

This action was devoted to the opening of Timati's beauty salon.

The next day, lawyer Alexander Khaminsky filed an application to initiate a case on this incident in the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tver and the Moscow State Traffic Safety Inspectorate.

The court was appointed on August 1, 2018.

In 2021, Timati 's music video Scandal featuring Hanza and Oweek received a nomination at the Berlin Music Video Awards for Best Visual Effects.

The VFX company behind the music video is HoodyFX.

Timati calls the Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov a friend and brother.

During the 2018 Russian presidential election, he endorsed and was an official supporter of Vladimir Putin.

During the repression of candidates for the election of the Moscow State Duma, police brutality was used to hold back protestors and Timati collaborated with another rapper "Guf" to make "Москва" (Moscow), a song including the chorus "my best friend is President Putin", dissing the protesters and Russian opposition movement while praising the mayor of Moscow, the Kremlin, and Vladimir Putin and the video amassed 1.48 million dislikes on YouTube, the highest amount for a Russian video on YouTube before Russian rapper Morgenshtern broke the record for a music video for song "Pososi".

Later, Timati deleted the "Moscow" video due to a "wave of negativity".