"This is also a crime": Yarmak called the stars performing in the Russian Federation "high-quality slippers" (video)

The host read the audience's question about the rapper's attitude to artists who "changed their shoes" and translated their songs into Ukrainian, clarifying that it is probably about such artists as Olya Polyakova, Dmytro Monatik, Svitlana Loboda, etc. "In general, it's good that they're moving in this direction, but for me it's still in some sense an adaptation.

Because since 2014, since the Maidan period, a lot of them have been writing about Ukraine, sometimes with Russian artists, sometimes going to perform at Gazprom's corporate events. I don't count on them much either culturally or socially, so I don't relate to them in any way, I don't cross paths," Yarmak said. He called such colleagues "high-quality shoemakers" and noted that such artists actively involve people who are the drivers of Ukrainian culture in cooperation and collaboration.

"A lot of things have been done that have created this terrible consequence for today, and this is also a crime. Therefore, I believe that they should be in our environment, in the country, in space, we should not beat them on the streets or throw them in the trash. But they have their own environment - I remember how they were all great friends in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 - it's like that had its own separate caste.

Let them continue to live like this, and we need to form another - and preferably not with them," said the rapper. Until 2014, the Ukrainian rapper Oleksandr Yarmak built his career, in particular, on the territory of Russia and wrote tracks in Russian. In November 2013, he took an active part in the Revolution of Dignity and wrote the song "22" ("My country"), which became its symbol.

After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation in February 2022, the rapper voluntarily mobilized into the army, participated in battles in the Kharkiv region, and from September 2024 he became the commander of the R&D unit of the 412th regiment of the Unmanned Systems Forces and a company commander.