Now 12 weeks in the prestigious song charts US — Billboard Hot 100 — the track is a new York rapper by the name of SAINt JHN (real name Carlos St. John) “Roses”. He would’ve never been found if not for Imanbek Sakenov from Aksu. Boris of Drums tells the story of how a guy from Kazakhstan, first entered the U.S. top 10, and then helped the protesters in the United States.When the 18-year-old employee of the railway junction of Aksu city (population of 70 thousand) Imanbek Zikanov decided to make a Remix of the track SAINt JHN “Roses”, his countrymen ja Ghalib (Alma-ATA) and Hook (Pavlodar) has long remained the status of the big stars of the post-Soviet space. At the time nobody could have imagined that the most influential and recognizable of the Kazakh musician in the world will become like a big shy baby Imanbek. He and music, then started just the year before.The original version of “Roses” was released in 2016 and glory is not earned, as does SAINt JHN the biggest achievement of which was a collaboration with Beyonce and Wikidom “Brown Skin Girl” from the soundtrack to the new “lion King”. “Roses” Imanbek found by chance, flipping through the tape VK. He did a Remix, put it on the page and earned ten likes. By the time “Brown Skin Girl” barely squeezed in the top hundred Billboard, the Remix of “Roses” began to slowly gain momentum in VK. The first serious signal to the young railway did when his “Roses” appeared in the public Emporio Armani with more than a million subscribers. Imanbek began to receive offers of cooperation from Kazakh and foreign record labels. According to him, the most serious proposal came from Effective Records.Effective Records is a Moscow company which is engaged in commercial dance music. She’s good at advance on West electronics from the provinces, in her catalog — Rompasso (Saratov), Going Deeper (Nizhny Novgorod), Swanky Tunes (Smolensk). These artists are living proof that in the segment of electronic music it does not matter where you are based, would be a worthy content.Signing a contract with Imanaka, Effective Records were at risk. Imanbek unable to obtain consent to the processing from the SAINt JHN — Remix, in fact, was a pirate. From the SAINt JHN the negotiations were led by the company Hitco Entertainment, which is worth mentioning separately. Her boss, three-time Grammy winner L. A. Reid, in the 2000s taxiing legendary label Def Jam in 2011 was headed by Epic Records (part of Sony Music) and became a member of the jury of “X Factor”, and in 2018, was compelled to leave Sony Music after accusations of harassment against his assistant. “Hitco and Effective — two independent companies, who hate major labels— said the head of Effective Records Cyril Lupines, and we managed to agree!” And there himself SAINt JHN signed up for Imanaka to Instagram and sent a message: “Bro, you’re handsome!”Photo: Evan Agostini / Invision / Arseniy 2019 official track “Roses (Imanbek Remix)” on Spotify and listened to 4 million times, the audio track on YouTube 20 million times, and it was only the beginning. Remix charts conquered one European country after another and eventually made it to third place in the global Shazam. In December, Imanbek retired from the railroad. And in 2020, the popularity of the Kazakh-American track released by Russian label, received a new impetus: the song “aviruses” in TikTok. In April 2020, Imanbek could boast of 4.5 billion spins in TikTok. In a recent interview with The Flow he said that at some point his track sounded there every fifth clip. As for YouTube, two videos on “Roses (Imanbek Remix)” in the amount already collected 154 million views.To date, the Billboard composition is in the 7th place. In the official UK chart “Roses (Imanbek Remix)” spent two weeks in the first place, throwing out “Blinding Lights” Weeknd. Until now, the achievements of the Russian show-business in the largest markets to be about the music released by Western record companies (the most striking example — t.A.T.u.). “The secret of the success of this Remix that Imanbek with its characteristic taste blends with modern “library” sound, that is the actual sound, available to any Internet user with a good old tune. You know that the track, released four years ago, by today’s standards the old”— comment on “Roses,” Cyril Lupines.Imanbek preparing to release several collaborations with stars are much more significant than SAINt JHN. In the same interview, The Flow he said he now can afford to buy a house in his hometown. After all this ridiculous, of course, to read the complaints of large Russian pop artists that the pandemic has left them without a penny.But that’s not all. In addition to the original version of “Roses” and the Remix of Imanaka SAINt JHN recorded a new version of the song with the participation of popular rapper Future. SAINt JHN was about to shoot a video for it, but here in the US, protests began and the musician decided to send the entire budget of the clip — $125 million— for the redemption of the demonstrators arrested during the riots, and to help affected businesses owned by blacks. From the perspective of SAINt JHN happening on the streets is more important clips. After the success of the Remix of SAINt JHN can afford such a gesture. And attention to the song it will add not less.
