Imanbek Zeikenov is 19 years old and lives with his parents in the small village of Aksu in Kazakhstan. He studied railway engineering at school, and until last December, held a day job at his local train station. But everything changed in the summer of 2019, when he discovered a song called “Roses” by the Guyanese-American rapper and singer Saint Jhn. On the raw, sinewy “Roses,” which had already been commercially available for three years, Saint Jhn sings (explicitly) about a night on the prowl. Imanbek posted his remix to Russian social media without giving it a second thought.

Source: International New York Times July 15, 2020 20:37 UTC