MiyaGi & Andy Panda

Biography

Miyagi

Kudzaev Azamat Kazbekovich was born on December 13, 1990 in Vladikavkaz. Azamat graduated from the Medical Academy. He worked as a surgeon, but soon quit and began to study music. He has been rapping since 2000. In 2007-2013 he performed under the pseudonym Shau, then changed it to Miyagi. He took his pseudonym in honor of Mr. Miyagi from the movie "Karate Guy". In 2009, Azamat joined the creative association Dope Records, which also, in addition to the Endgame, included Namo Minigan, Shuga, Asab, SH Kera, The GuyS group. In August 2014, Azamat founded his own label Asata, which, in addition to him, included Namo Minigan and Amigo. During his time at Asata, Azamat released, which became successful at that time, clips for the tracks "Hummingbird", "House", "Bonnie". In September 2017, he released a solo single "Sunshine".

On May 18, 2018, after a long break, the single "Sleepy Hollow" was released. In 2018, 3 more singles were released: "Captain", "Sorry", "Native Sing" (with uch. KADI).

Azamat became a guest in the KADI track "Colors".

In 2019, several singles were released: "Fantasy" "Angel", "Bismarck" (with the participation of TumaniYO and KADI), "Trenchtown". On June 21, 2019, Miyagi's debut album "Buster Keaton" was released, which included 12 tracks, and the album also contains joint tracks with Hajime Records members: Andy Panda (Endgame), HLOY, TumaniYO and KADI. On September 13, 2019, a track called "Jamm" was released (with the participation of TumaniYO). On December 12, 2019, an animated video dedicated to Bob Marley for the song "Trenchtown" was released. Together with the Scriptonite, he took part in track 104 "I'M NOT SORRY" from the album "CINEMA WITHOUT CIGARETTES".

On March 2, 2020, the music video for the song "Samurai" was released. On March 9, the track "Texture" was re-released with an updated instrumental. On April 29, a joint track with the new resident of Hajime Records — Ollane "Touch The Sky" was released.

On September 25, KADI's album titled "KOPFKINO" was released, where MiyaGi participated in the track "Prayers".

Andy Panda (aka Endgame)

Soslan Burnatsev was born on October 2, 1995 in Vladikavkaz. In his youth, he played football for the Spartak youth team (Vladikavkaz). He was educated as a food technologist. He started rapping at the age of 16. He took his first famous pseudonym "Endgame" under the impression of the movie "Hell's Endgame". In 2012, he joined the Dope Records association, which he left in 2014. In the same year, he released his debut solo album "Scum", and a year later released his second album "Tyutelka to Tyutelka". Also in 2015, a joint album of Endgame and Vladikavkaz rapper SH Kera "Idlers" was released.

In March 2018, after a six-month break, the single "It's My Life" was released with the participation of TumaniYO. Soslan introduced himself with a new pseudonym Andy Panda, releasing the track "Intro". In 2018, only 2 singles were released: "Kokon" and "Brother passed". For the second single, Soslan released a video on YouTube.

On March 8 of the following year, the performer Dose, who was working with a Scriptonite at that time, decided to please fans with a joint track with Andy Panda called "Danced". In 2019, several singles were released: "I Wanna Feel The Love", together with Castle; "Billboard", together with Scriptonite, 104, TumaniYO and MiyaGi; "Sun", together with TumaniYO and Niman; "Frozen", for which a music video was also released, together with Scriptonite. Took part in the track "Tell Me", which is included in MiyaGi's debut solo album.

On October 18, 2019, the first single from the EP was released, together with TumaniYO and MiyaGi, titled "Jumanji". In November, a new EP "King Kong" was released, which included 8 tracks. Pastor Napas from the band "OU74", Snake from "Caste", MiyaGi, TumaniYO also took part in the album. He took a direct part in one of the tracks from the joint EP Husky and black cumin oil "U". Some time after the release of the EP "King Kong", a music video for "Rude Mantras" was released. Soslan took part in the album Scriptonite "2004" in the track "Habit".

Soslan took part in the joint album 104 and Saluki "SHAME OR GLORY" in the track "ANGEL". This album was released on April 30, 2021.

History of duet

MiyaGi and Endgame initially performed separately, but in 2013 a joint album of Endgame, Namo Minigan and MiyaGi was released under the name "ENaMi". Also during the stay of both artists in Dope Records, their joint songs were released: Ma Ja (feat. SH Kera), Oak Fur Coat (feat. SH Kera, Namo Minigan), Nowhere to Go (feat. Asab), Slander (feat. Asab, Namo Minigan). Azamat decided to create a duet with Soslan in 2015. The first work of the duo was the single "Sanavabich", which was released together with the video in 2015. The duo took part in LJ's song "Music" in 2015. And there was also a joint song "Releases" with a member of the group "Caspian Cargo" Anar Zeynalov (VES).

Combining their creative efforts, MiyaGi and Endgame released the first Hajime album in the spring of 2016, consisting of eight songs, and in the fall of the same year, the second part was released, which also included eight tracks. In 2016, 7 singles were released: "Rapapam", "For the Idea", "For the Last Time", "Buzz", "Gut", "#TOASTMASTER", "My Gang", together with ManTana and "I got love" with Rem Digga.

In June 2017, the video for the song "I Got Love" was released, which is included in the album Hajime, pt. 2, and thereby became the most popular clip in Russia and in the CIS countries, having currently gained 558 million views on YouTube.

In early April 2017, the duo releases a new video for the song "Risap" from the upcoming album "Umshakalaka". After the premiere of the video "I Got Love", Azamat and Soslan released the third full-length album "Umshakalaka" with the participation of one of the first rappers of North Ossetia Roman Tsopanov under the stage name Amigo.

In 2017, 5 singles were also released: the joint track "Pappahapa" with the Old Gnome and the band OU74, "No Reason" with the Kazakh artist Truwer, "Exactly That" and "DLBM" with the participation of music producer Nerak and "When I Win". In 2017, a joint single with Tipsy Tip "Beauty" was released.

The song "Half of mine" was included in the top 30 most listened songs of the VKontakte website for 2017.

On July 13, 2018, after a six-month break, the promotional single "Lady" was released. It is included in Hajime's new album, Pt. 3, which is the completion of the Hajime trilogy and consists of ten songs. The release took place on July 20, 2018. 10 days later, the bonus single of the new album "In Love" featuring KADI was released.

The albums Hajime, Pt. 1 and Hajime, Pt. 2, as well as the single "I Got Love" became multi-platinum. Both records received 4-fold platinum status (more than 80 thousand copies sold). Sales of the single "I Got Love" exceeded the mark of 600 thousand copies, which equates to 6 platinum discs.

On August 14, 2018, the soundtrack "Hustle" for the documentary "Charisma" and a joint track with TumaniYO "Dance Up" were released. And a couple of months later, a joint track with Rem Digga "Untouchable" was released.

Since 2019, Soslan has completely changed his pseudonym to Andy Panda , and the duo became known as "MiyaGi & Andy Panda".

In 2019, several singles were released: a joint track with the American artist from Los Angeles Moeazy "Freedom", "Freeman", for which a music video was later released, "Force", together with TumaniYO, "Get Up", "At Your Own (2017)".

On January 13, 2020, the producer, who MiyaGi & Andy Panda entrusted to remake the instrumental for their officially unreleased joint single with New York singer Azealia Banks, put the song under the fictitious name "Shar Iz Ognya" (Fireball) online. Meanwhile, Azealia Banks reported: "In September 2019, we planned to release this music track without a release on paid platforms, due to the fact that a "sample" of one of the artist's songs under the name Kid Cudi, which was used in the instrumental of our track, was however rejected by the author on our request for its use."

On February 14, 2020, the duo released a single called "Kosandra".

On March 5, 2020, a new album of the duo called "Yamakasi" was announced, associated with the charity tour "Arnella's Tour" in some European cities in order to raise money for the treatment of seriously ill Arnella Persayeva , but due to the coronavirus pandemic, the tour had to be suspended. The duo launched the #YAMAKASICHALLENGE campaign to raise 50 million rubles for treatment.

On April 3, 2020, the duo released the first single from the album "Yamakasi" called "Utopia".

On April 10, 2020, the second single from the album "Yamakasi" was released - "Not Enough for Us".

On May 1, a track called "Brooklyn" was released, together with TumaniYO. Azamat and Soslan also released a music video for him. With this track, the Vladikavkaz duo paid tribute to the legendary hip-hop artist The Notorious B.I.G.

On May 21, the fundraising for Arnella's treatment was completed.

On July 17, Vladikavkaz duo released their fifth studio album "YAMAKASI", which consists of 9 tracks. It is also the first album recorded without the participation of guest artists.

On August 3, the music video for the song "There the Mountains Roared" was released. On August 10, the music video for the song "Minor" was released. On August 17, a mood video for the track "Not Enough for Us" was released. On November 13, the music video for the track "YAMAKASI" was released

On November 27, 2020, MiyaGi and Andy Panda released the single "Not Regretting".

On December 25, 2020, MiyaGi and Andy Panda released the single "All the Time".

On April 2, 2021, the single "Patron" was released

On May 21, the duo took part in Ollane's song "Where Are You"

On June 4, a joint track with TumaniYO "Thaw" was released