Struggle Da Preacher

Struggle da Preacher

Struggle da Preacher in 2013
Background information
Birth name Ivan Rylov
Also known as Marginal
Born (1986-04-03) April 3, 1986
Origin Tyumen, Russia
Genres rap, hip hop
Occupation(s) Rapper, Actor
Years active 2001–present
Labels SDP Production, Tornadic Entertainment, Pleazantville Records
Associated acts Yukmouth, Young Noble, Bizarre, E.D.I. Mean A.K.-S.W.I.F.T., St.Rap
Website www.struggledapreacher.com

Ivan Rylov (born April 3, 1986 in Tyumen, Russia), better known by his stage name Struggle da Preacher, is a Russian born rapper. He is the founder of SDP Production. He is the first rapper from Tyumen and one of few rappers in Russia who collaborated with world famous rappers such as Yukmouth, Young Noble, Bizarre, A.K.-S.W.I.F.T.[1] without being signed to a major label.

Career

Struggle da Preacher started his rap career in 2000 [2] along with his younger brother St.Rap. They two formed a duo named Lazy Bones. In 2005 they decided to go as solo artists. Later in 2005 on November 18 he released his first studio album '"Be Wit' Me Or F*** Dat'". Also in 2005 Struggle da Preacher donated his song Hope featuring St.Rap[3] to 62030 Promotions in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA for The Hurricane Katrina Relief Album in order to support people who suffered from Hurricane Katrina.

On February 11, 2008, he released his second studio album Da Preacher Of Struggle[4] featuring 11 rappers from 4 countries—USA, Senegal, France, Russia.

In 2009, Struggle da Preacher met up with DJ Cerveau, the owner of CsR Radio in Providence, Rhode Island and Struggle became host of a show called Live With Struggle da Preacher in which he interviewed up and coming artists.[5]

On February 7, 2011, Struggle da Preacher released a music video for his single Coming For You which had been nominated for Best Hip Hop Video in World Music International Film Festival in Washington, DC, USA later that year.

On October 17, 2011, Struggle da Preacher got signed to Tornadic Entertainment, LLC in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.[6]

On November 16, 2011, a major rapper Yukmouth announced a collaboration with Struggle da Preacher.[7] It took more than a year for the single to be recorded and on July 8, 2013 Struggle da Preacher released his single Big Goals[8][9] with Yukmouth.

On March 7, 2013, another well known rapper A.K.-S.W.I.F.T. confirmed his participation on one of Struggle da Preacher's songs.[10] And on July 31, 2013 Struggle released a music video for Still... song[11] that was filmed in Frankfurt, Germany. Later that year in October he gave a performance with A.K.-S.W.I.F.T. at the Livity lounge in Frankfurt.[12] However later in 2015 Struggle da Preacher decided to re-record the song. Besides laying his vocals he changed the beat totally by working with Ivan Muravsky. The tracks was officially released on April 3, 2015 [13]

In August 2013, Struggle da Preacher recorded a song with Young Noble of the legendary Outlawz hip hop group.[14]

On November 16, 2013, famous rapper Bizarre of D12 made an announcement about making a song with Struggle da Preacher.[15]

On February 25, 2014, Struggle agreed to play a guy from a gas station in a feature film "Spider Man Death". The shootings start in April and the movie is due in June 2014. Struggle da Preacher is a co-producer of the film[16] and his song 365 Grind featuring Young Noble will be placed in the movie.[17]

On June 15, 2014, Struggle da Preacher decided to release his single 365 Grind off the album Ups'n'Downs featuring Young Noble and A.K.-S.W.I.F.T.[18][19]

June 30, 2014, Struggle da Preacher released his album Ups'n'Downs under his own label SDP Production [20][21]

Struggle da Preacher continued his work with Danika and they released a single entitled Make You Smile on February 17, 2015.[22] The single includes the original version plus an acoustic one and acapella.

Apr 5 Struggle da Preacher had shootings with Young Noble of the Outlawz for 365 Grind single.[23] The Late Member of the group Hussein Fatal was also on the set.

July 9, 2015 Struggle da Preacher and Bizarre shot a music video for their song In Yo Behind which is also features a New Jersey born rapper Blaze Stack Up. The shootings took place in Moscow, Russia.[24][25]

Struggle da Preacher and his brother St.Rap decided to record a dedication song for Hussein Fatal who died on July 11, 2015.[26] The song was released on Struggle da Preacher's official VEVO channel on Aug. 6 entitled simply Hussein Fatal.[27] Struggle da Preacher got to see Fatal in person on Apr. 1 in Moscow, Russia and then during the shootings for his 365 Grind featuring Young Noble where Fatal came along with Noble.

After doing In Yo Behind song Bizarre announced [28] of doing another song with Struggle da Preacher and on Apr. 3, 2016 they released Make It Right single that also features an Australian rapper KD. [29]

Discography

Books

Struggle da Preacher started working on his book entitled The Book of Experience, which initially was supposed to be consisted only of his quotations. However, later he decided to add his life story as a preface, so this way people could relate to his quotes and feel them much better. On this book Struggle da Preacher has worked along with Catherine Shanahan, a British hip hop reviewer. The Book is out in early 2015 [30]

Filmography

Music videos

Year Title Director(s)
2004 "That's Our Name (Our Words)"* Struggle da Preacher
"Basketball"* Struggle da Preacher
"Mu'fuckin Streets"* Struggle da Preacher
2005 "Elementary Course" ft. St.Rap & Ryzhman Struggle da Preacher
"Borough" Struggle da Preacher
2006 "Should I Hope" ft. Asya Solovyova Struggle da Preacher
"Ascension" ft. Sandra Struggle da Preacher
"Another Murder" Struggle da Preacher
"Streets Laws" ft. St.Rap Struggle da Preacher
2008 "Hellbound (Freestyle) ft. St.Rap" Struggle da Preacher
2011 "Coming For You" Petr Mednikov
"That's Only Me" Struggle da Preacher
"Rhymes" ft. Viken Struggle da Preacher
"Hustle (It's A Good Thing)" ft. Kris Struggle da Preacher
"Truest To The Game" Eldar Sharipov
2012 "Tell Me The Way" Struggle da Preacher
"Killing The History" (ft. CALICO) Struggle da Preacher
"My Vatos/Mi Cuento" Struggle da Preacher
"Слова Как Пули (Words Are Like Bullets)" Struggle da Preacher
"Ima Teach You (ft. Kalciy a.k.a. Ca)" Struggle da Preacher
2013 "Go, Eat, Sleep" Struggle da Preacher
"Still..." ft. A.K.-S.W.I.F.T. Struggle da Preacher
"I Wanna Get It Badly" ft. Danika Viktor Krasnov
2014 "True Path" ft. TOP Struggle da Preacher
"All I Got" ft. Danika Viktor Krasnov, Struggle da Preacher
2015 "In Yo Behind" ft. Bizarre D12, Blaze Stack Up Viktor Krasnov, Struggle da Preacher
2016 "Колыбельная Папы / Dad's Lullaby" Viktor Krasnov, Struggle da Preacher
2016 "#FreeDavidich / #СвободуДавидычу" Struggle da Preacher
* as Lazy Bones

Collaborations

Struggle da Preacher & Young Noble, Apr. 1, 2015

Struggle da Preacher has worked with many people all over the world.[31]

Alias

In June 2013, Struggle da Preacher started using a new alias, Marginal, as his alter-ego. He chose Marginal as a synonym for antisocial. Struggle's full-time engineer Dmitry Kupriyanov came up with the name Marginal. On his album Da Preacher of Struggle there is a song entitled "Antisocial" in which Struggle shares his thoughts about being a white crew, his views on society and the fact that he'd rather stay by himself.[33][34]

Tattoos

Struggle da Preacher has 9 tattoos.

List of tattoos
Title Placement Date Notes Picture
True Playa right leg April 2005 referring him being a basketball player
Struggle da Preacher's Tru Playa tattoo
Struggle right forearm November 2005 his stage name
Struggle's Struggle Tattoo
1986 under navel November 2005 his year of birth
The Struggle Continues left shoulder January 2006 a clinched fist with barbed wire
Struggle da Preacher's The Struggle Continues Tattoo
Anna left side of neck February 2010
Struggle da Preacher's Anna tattoo
Ball Till I Fall, Rap Till I'm Dead right shoulder October 2010 a basketball and a microphone, Struggle's main activities
Ball Till I Fall, Rap Till I'm Dead
Clinging To You Made Me A Beast, Suspended Above Death right forearm July 2011 the Beast's left hand holding Belle's one
Struggle da Preacher's tattoo
It's Not Flesh And Blood But Heart Which Makes Us Fathers And Sons left arm September 13, 2012 Struggle walking with his son
Struggle da Preacher with son
Marginal right forearm July 8, 2013 Struggle da Preacher's alter-ego
Struggle da Preacher's Marginal tattoo on his right forearm

Suspension of YouTube account

On December 16, Struggle da Preacher's YouTube account was suspended for unknown reasons, but the official statement is the following: "This account has been suspended due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube's policy against spam, gaming, misleading content, or other Terms of Service violations."[35] The account had been running since 2006 until December 16, 2013 and had had a good standing during that time. Since then he's been running only his Official VEVO account on YouTube.[36]

References

  1. ↑ Struggle da Preacher's interview with I Am Hip Hop Mag
  2. ↑ Struggle da Preacher's interview with Rago Magazine (Jan. 2, 2010)
  3. ↑ The Hurricane Katrina Relief Album track list
  4. ↑ Da Preacher Of Struggle on Discogs
  5. ↑ CsR Radio commercial
  6. ↑ Tornadic Entertainment had signed Struggle da Preacher
  7. ↑ Yukmouth announces his collaboration with Struggle da Preacher
  8. 1 2 Big Goals on iTunes
  9. ↑ Russian Rapper Collaborates with Yukmouth on a Song
  10. ↑ A.K.-S.W.I.F.T. confirms his participation on a Struggle da Preacher's song
  11. ↑ Still... Music Video
  12. ↑ Live in Frankfurt, Germany
  13. ↑ Still... on Google Play
  14. ↑ Struggle da Preacher's interview with Mr. Dreamz Magazine where he speaks on working with Young Noble. p.61
  15. ↑ Bizarre announces his collaboration with Struggle da Preacher
  16. ↑ The "Spider Man Death" movie Official Site
  17. ↑ The "Spider Man Death" movie videoblog
  18. 1 2 365 Grind on iTunes
  19. ↑ Struggle da Preacher releases new single ft Young Noble & AK-SWIFT
  20. ↑ Ups'n'Downs on Discogs
  21. ↑ Ups'n'Downs on iTunes
  22. ↑ Make You Smile on iTunes
  23. ↑ 365 Grind Official Teaser
  24. ↑ Bizarre and Struggle da Preacher shoot a video in Moscow
  25. ↑ In Yo Behind Official Teaser
  26. ↑ Hussein Fatal killed in car accident
  27. ↑ "Hussein Fatal" by Struggle da Preacher, St.Rap & Irina Smirnova
  28. ↑ Bizarre announces new song with Struggle da Preacher
  29. ↑ Struggle da Preacher and Bizarre with a new song
  30. ↑ Struggle Da Preacher Presents The Book of Experience (The Hype Magazine 24/7 News)
  31. ↑ Struggle da Preacher's interview with Pure Cash Magazine (Mar. 4, 2011)
  32. ↑ D-Euro Official website
  33. ↑ Lyrics for Antisocial on OHHLA.com
  34. ↑ Lyrics for Antisocial on Rap Genius
  35. ↑ YouTube Suspends Struggle da Preacher's Channel
  36. ↑ Struggle da Preacher's Official VEVO Channel

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