News Desk: “We Are Not Sheep” : The New Yorker

One of the pleasures of a recent trip to Moscow was getting to know the country’s best-known and most political hip-hop star, Ivan Alexeyev, who goes by Noize MC. He is part of a galaxy of civil-society activists whom I wrote about recently for the magazine in a piece called “The Civil Archipelago.” Alexeyev became widely known for his rap “Mercedes S666,” in which he expressed his outrage at yet another politicized incident on the Moscow roads—a car ferrying an executive for a major Russian oil concern, Lukoil, smashed into a much smaller private car, killing two women. The police blamed the “civilian” driver; eyewitnesses said the Lukoil car was to blame. The video is a cry of outrage, and there is a decent translation from a YouTube viewer:

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