The strengths of Tony Routh include aggressive delivery of rap, originality and a special vision of music. The musician successfully formed an opinion about himself among music lovers.
Tony Raut is perceived as the image of an evil clown. In his tracks, the young man touches on sensitive social topics. He often appears on stage with his friend and colleague Harry Axe.
Tony Routh's concerts are filled with psychedelic tracks. The rapper's performances are not ignored in the cultural capital of Russia - St. Petersburg.
You will not find love songs in Tony's repertoire. Despite this, many consider Raut's songs soulful and vital.
Childhood and youth of Tony Routh
Of course, Tony Raut is a creative pseudonym under which the modest name of Anton Basayev is hidden (in some sources - Moskalenko).
The young man was born in St. Petersburg. It is known that he was not brought up in a complete family. The father abandoned the family during perestroika.
Mom, who worked as a kindergarten teacher, raised two sons.
Anton Basaev recalls his childhood as a quiet horror. There was barely enough money for the most necessary food, utility bills and clothing. Studying was also not so easy.
Basayev never gravitated towards studies. And it seems it was mutual. Anton barely graduated from high school, then went to college, from where he was expelled for poor academic performance.
The next step is to go to university. But here, too, there was a failure - Basayev was expelled again, the reason was bad behavior.
The creative path of Tony Routh
Basayev, like all teenagers, had his idols. However, initially Anton listened to heavy music. The future rap star liked the compositions of the groups: "King and Jester", "Alice", "Gaza Strip".
A little later, Basayev fell in love with rap. Acquaintance with this musical direction began with the tracks of the famous Tupac Shakur. Together with his nephew, Anton even tried to collect all his albums.
At the age of 10, Anton recorded compositions on an old tape recorder. He posted the records on thematic portals under the pseudonym Tony Raut.
Summed up the disgusting quality of the tracks. Despite this, fans of rap culture were delighted with the songs of the young talent. Actually, this was the beginning of Tony Routh's career. Later, Anton tried on the role of a battle MC and plunged into Internet battles.
Participation in InDaBattle II, where rappers competed in the ability to mix and rhyme on a given topic, gave Tony Routh a lot of fans. At this competition, the rapper met the one who became his best friend. Yes, we are talking about Harry Axe.
At the beginning of his musical career, Tony formed an image of an evil clown who hides his face under an evil grimace. It must be admitted that it was a great idea that allowed to increase attention to the rapper's person.
Since 2009, Tony has performed at St. Petersburg nightclubs. These are not empty words. It is enough to look into his old archives to see or even hear the first performances.
In the same period of time, the rapper created the first solo release in the horrorcore style, an underdeveloped direction of rap in Russia. In 2010, his fans saw the Antape mixtape, which included dark tracks from lyrical content to murder scenes.
The work of Tony Raut was warmly received by established rappers. The tracks “The circus left, the clowns stayed” and “Sweet dreams” deserved considerable attention. On the compositions "Grim" and "Icarus" the rapper presented video clips.
By 2012, Routh's image had changed. There were bright blue lenses and makeup from a horror movie. Such changes were perfectly accepted by the already formed army of “fans”. The popularity of the rapper has increased.
Artist albums and releases
In 2013, the debut album of the artist "Routville" was released (this is the name of the ghost town from which there is no turning back). During this period of time, Tony Raut and Harry Topor are given an application by the Booking Machine concert agency.
Then the young people went on a big tour of the cities of Russia.
In 2014, Ax and Tony Raut released a joint collection "The Land of Wasps". The top song of the joint album was the track "The man said, the man did."
2015 was remembered by Tony's fans for the release of the video for the song "On the Way to Valhalla", as well as endless tours. Anton has held more than 50 concerts.
In 2016, the composition "Good Clown, Dead Clown" from Raut's second studio album SUSPENSE was on everyone's lips. An interesting experience for Tony Raut was collaboration with other representatives of Russian rap culture.
With Franky Freak, he recorded the track "South Trap", then - with Fadi Azima, better known under the creative pseudonym Talibal, he created the compositions "I don't care" and Bad Pazific.
In 2014, Tony and Ivan Reis delighted fans of their work with the Vampire Ball video.
Personal life of Tony Routh
Despite the fact that Tony is a public person, in life he avoids parties and parties. In life, Anton is a well-mannered and cultured guy who prefers to spend his weekends reading classical literature. Anton is fond of sports.
The young man does not talk about his personal life. However, it is known for certain that the rapper's heart has long been occupied by a girl whose name he keeps a secret.
Tony Raut is registered in all social networks. A lot of interesting information can be found on Instagram and Twitter. Fans could not ignore the changes in the appearance of their favorite rapper.
Tony noticeably lost weight, grew his hair a little, which he now collects in a ponytail. The brutal Raut was replaced by a lyrical character. Judging by the comments, such changes benefited the rapper.
Tony Routh now
Tony continues to be creative. In addition, he interacts with other performers. At the beginning of 2017, together with the 2rbina 2rista team, he presented the video clip "Matzai".
In the spring, together with Ivan Reis, at one of the concerts, he presented the track “Dance on the Bones”.
In 2017, Tony, together with Harry Topor, went to conquer Belarusian fans. In addition to concerts, rappers pleased fans with an autograph session.
In 2018, the singer expanded his discography with the album Mask. The album included 6 tracks: "Loft", "I understood" ft. Yltramarine, "Best Friends", "The Mask", "Give Fire", "Miami" ft. Toli Wild.
In 2019, Harry Topor and Tony Routh released a joint album "Hostel". 39 minutes of music lovers "pump" energetic and aggressive tracks. In 2020, the video clip "Reis" was released with the participation of Ivan Reis.
