Famous

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You can be considered a famous person. But for those who don't know, who is Garagan? How would you introduce yourself? Just a citizen of Azerbaijan.

Where did you get interested in rap? For example, you could sing in the pop genre, why rap? Rap himself demanded that black American citizens get their civil rights. It is a type of music that took a mass picture in its time. And the main essence, the main purpose of this type of music was to convey the truth to people and tell the truth. Perhaps what attracted me to rap is that it is an art of creativity rather than music. True, this may seem like a non-serious business to the representatives of our older generation. But at that time, when Mirza Alakbar Sabir and Jalil Mammadguluzade published Molla Nasreddin, their older generations also pointed and laughed at them. Publishing magazines was regarded as a bad habit that came from Europe. Right now, rap is experiencing the same problem in Azerbaijan. That is, if you write the same word in a book, it will be serious literature, and if you say it with a microphone, it will be non-serious rap. But the essence of the word remains the same.

There is a protest, a rebellion in your songs. What do you object to? Protest rebellion is inside every young person. That is, even when dividing it into life cycles and stages, the age of 18-21 is regarded as a period of rebellion for every person. And every young person must go through this stage of self-awareness and development. So to speak, this was a sign of evolution and development. That is, we are not talking about a specific rebellion or criticism, we are talking about the impetus for the transition of an entire society from the old stage to the new stage. I think that as HOST, we just expanded the musical framework in the minds of young people of Azerbaijan. We were able to increase the seriousness of the topics in music. I don't know to what extent you are interested in rap, but philosophical and serious topics began to be used more often in Azerbaijani rap after HOST. Maybe this kit may seem like an inside job. But imagine 13-14-year-old children. All they see are clumsy and illiterate teachers. I am not talking about the Russian-speaking crowd. Russian-speaking people have always used feature films, magazines and books to increase their intellectual knowledge. But precisely in post-independence Azerbaijan, not much could be done for the development of young people. And we come across a strange syndrome. "Shallow" syndrome in Azerbaijani youth. In fact, our struggle, rebellion and protest was against shallow minds and thoughts.

You repeated the success in rap in literature. Where did the idea to write a novel come from? To be honest, I have been writing since childhood. In other words, ten years ago I was doing something black. I loved to write something. I was born in a generally intellectual family and grew up with the smell of books from childhood. I probably owe the first thing I wrote to my parents, who sometimes took the ball and toys away from me and gave me books. That's where the desire to write came from. As you read, you learn, and as you learn, you want to share what you know. Let me say this, I started with the desire not to write a novel, but just to share it.

Winning the National Book Award seems to have come as a surprise to you too... I was in the military at the time and, frankly, I was not ambivalent about contests and competitions. . It always seemed to me that some kind of familiarity, kinship, money was the main factor here. But when I suddenly said that you won the first place, I couldn't believe it. And I'm just glad that all is not lost. In fact, a genius artist could have received this award. But my receiving this award encouraged hundreds of young people like me to pick up a pen and write for the first time. I remember, even earlier, when there was a discussion among young writers about such contests and awards, the children would laugh and say, "Who the hell is he?"

You always speak out against the negative situations in society in your songs, so you have a sincere answer to this question. can you give: What are the shortcomings of the National Book Award? In any case, there were not nuances that you did not like. By God, what can I tell a lie, as I said at the time, I was in the army. I had no idea how the book was chosen, who chose it. I only know that it seems that those who read the books did not know about the scores given by each other. Something like this such things, contests, elections, judges, documents and deeds have always been dark for me. I just get bored when I pay too much attention to such things, and in meetings with writers, when everyone starts talking, I get bored of talking for a long time and think of some kind of game for myself. Or I count the seats inside, or I'm looking out the window. What's missing in the competition. Before there was no National Book Competition, now there is. What could be wrong here? I think it can be done better in the future. But that's what happened with time. The first Oscar competition is also much weaker than the current one. But when something new sprouts, our nation tries to break his back. But we had to hold him by the hand.

Your success in literature has led to the formation of critical opinions against you. There were those who considered your work weak and claimed that it did not deserve the award. What do you think when you hear these ideas? Do you see these comments as jealousy of a young man's success, or do you really agree with the criticism? I'm generally a person who doesn't like negativity towards me. Not criticism, just negative energy. In other words, if someone's words make me feel bad, why should I listen to them? It is true that in our country there is freedom of speech and everyone has the right to say what they want. However, even though it is not in the constitution, everyone has the freedom of "hearing". That is, the right to hear what he wants or not to hear what he does not want. When I came back from the army and saw that everyone was criticizing me, I took my head and went to Europe. I went to Kiev, from there to Odessa, from there to Crimea, then a little further down to Istanbul, I walked around for myself. I'm 23 years old, why waste my time reading negative opinions? Do I want to be the best writer in the world so I listen to criticism and correct myself? No, my own reader was enough for me. If anyone doesn't like it, they know, I don't look down on such things. Every time someone comes to see if they have written a criticism about you, I don't read it. I'm not afraid of criticism, I just like it. If I was afraid, I would read it so that I could answer quickly to save my life.

What do you think: if some young person writes an interesting piece of fiction, admit that it is really interesting When do you have to wait for the author to get old? I don't know, we have a little age syndrome was staying. This feature in our nationthere is But his life will be five or ten years. The world is developing and becoming globalized very fast. These issues will be resolved in a little while.

Those who stick to certain parties and publish a few books a year are not so targeted, but your critics they don't want to forget you, what is the reason for this? They probably see that I am not making a sound. He also criticizes. Looking at it like this, what is wrong here? They criticize - good for them > I don't read reviews - that's fine with me too < /span> The crowd is confused - and the crowd is good. The book is advertised - good for the book The rating of some newspapers and websites is increasing - good for them. If it's good for everyone, why shouldn't there be criticism?