Russian hip-hop artist
Russian hip-hop artist
ATL (real name Sergey Olegovich Kruppov; born January 30, 1989, Novocheboksarsk, Chuvash ASSR USSR) is a Russian hip-hop artist. Former member of the Aztecs.
Since 2006, he has been a member of the Aztecs, which also included Eecii McFly, Cherokee and SmitBeat. In 2008, on the ST1M compilation called "The World Belongs to You", released under the label "Aggrobabruysk", a song appeared called "My World, My Style".
In 2009, the group took part in the Coffee Grinder festival, where they won a prize. In the same year, Aztecs released their debut album, Now or Never. The group's next album was Music Will Above Us, released in 2012. After that, the group ceased to exist, and ATL moved to Moscow.
In 2012, solo mini-albums "Thoughts aloud" and "Heat" were released.
In December 2013, he took part in the Versus Battle, where rapper Andy Cartwright was his opponent, and won.
In 2014, he released his debut solo album called "Bones" and in the same year the mini-album "Cyclone Center". The first ATL videos were released for the songs "Natural Born Killers" and "C4".
In 2015, the second album called "Marabu" was released, and clips were released for the songs "Mandrake Root", "Skull and Bones" and "Snowdrop".
In 2016, a re-release of the FCKSWG mixtape and videos for the songs "Iskra" and "Pchelki" are released.
During this period, the rapper worked with the Serpent (Casta), L`One, Scryptonite, ST, Evil, Ar-Side, Pablo Stop and some other performers of the same level.
In 2017, he released the album Limb, clips were released for the songs Sacred Rave, Architect and Limb.
Sergey, along with beatmakers from Dark Faders, appeared in the twenty-fifth episode of the Profession: Rapper web project,hosted by Denis Grigoriev (rapper Pencil).
On December 13, 2019, ATL released their fourth studio album Crooked Air. It included 15 tracks for production by Ripbeat. The rapper himself previously noted that this record will be “about crooked and crazy. About my friends".
On August 14, 2020, ATL releases the single "Zabil".
On October 15, 2020, ATL releases the single "Bracelets".
On July 30, 2021, ATL releases the single "Helioz" together with the artist ICHI.
On October 29, 2021, ATL releases the single "Adrenochrome".
November 18, 2021 ATL releases the single "Box".
On November 26, 2021, a mixtape called "Radio Apocalypse" is released.
Russian hip-hop artist