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Born in Tokyo and taken to Moscow at the age of two, St. George Kulikov grew up under the midnight sun-
days spent playing at VDNH, watching his mother exchange dollars and rubles on the street,
police armed with AKs, the chaos surrounding the collapse of the Soviet Union,
and tanks rumbling past his home as if it were part of everyday life.
"My Roots" is a work that refuses to look away from that reality.
It fires back at society from the very side labeled as "the scum of society,"
etching the true origins-the roots-of St. George Kulikov.
After returning to Tokyo, he fell into truancy, crime with his friends,
and years of surviving the violent swings of bipolar disorder.
Yet despite everything, rap and music never betrayed him.
Carrying both Moscow and Tokyo as his two homelands,
holding loneliness, anger, and a fragile hope,
he carves into the mic the very reason he is still alive today.
At 12, I was struck by the sound of HIPHOP playing from my sister's room - that moment changed everything. I began writing lyrics, but in my twenties, I gave up on my dream and walked away from music. The deaths of my mother and sister forced me to confront the meaning of life. Now in my thirties, I've picked up the mic again. Carrying both pain and hope in my words, I live through music once more.
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