Guf began to appear more and more often on the pages of magazines, on music channels, on news portals on the Internet and, most importantly, in your columns.
Guf recently released his second solo album at Home. Recall that Alexey recorded the first album City of Roads while still in the Centr groups. All fans of Guf and hip-hop in general were waiting for the album of the House. From the very first days of sales, the album was sold out from store shelves, and the number of downloads from the network exceeded all expectations.
Guf himself did not expect such popularity, he spoke about this repeatedly in his interviews. He was suddenly invited to fashion publications to interview him, his fans and journalists began a real hunt for him. Due to the abundance of fake Guf VKontakte groups, Alexei had to open his own official group in contact with.
“I refused to do more than two shows a week. They offered me, but I refused, because if I have three concerts a week, then I already don’t understand something very well”
The beginning of Guf's career can be called the track “ Chinese Wall“, which he wrote while in China in the late 90s. But due to problems with drugs, Alexei could not continue his career. Later, already in the early 2000s, Guf and Princip recorded the first album of the Center group - Gift. The circulation of the Gift album was crazy - 13 copies, only for the closest ones.
The real fame came to Guf later, when the albums of the Center group with Slim and Ptah were released: Swing (2007) and Ether in the Room (2008).
Since 2009, Guf leaves the Center group and begins solo career under the GUF brand.
Guf gave up hard drugs and married Aiza. It was ISA that caused Guf to refuse hard drugs, which he himself sang about in his songs.
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“I like what I do, and I do what I can ...” - well-known to many Gufa fans, words that, in the best possible way, characterize the activities of Alexei Sergeevich Dolmatov (not Dalmatov, as some write), also known under the name Guf (Guf).
The current rap star was born, as he repeatedly mentioned in his songs, in Moscow. This event took place in 1979. 23 September. Guf began to study in Moscow, but after moving with his parents to China, Alexei Dolmatov (Gufu) had to continue his studies there. As a result, it turned out that Alexei graduated from 2 universities: Chinese and Russian.
Rap Guf began to get involved with early years. Guf wrote his first track ("Chinese Wall") when he was 19 years old. At the age of 21, Alexey Dolmatov appeared in the Rolex-X group, which he created together with his classmate Roman, known as Marlin. By the way, the name of the cereal consists of their names.
In 2002 Guf set about creating his first album and thanks to the song "Wedding" began to collaborate with Slim (Slim). In 2004, Guf, together with the Principle, founded the CENTR group (Center). Together they write an album called "Gift", which really became a gift under New Year the closest people.
2006 was a fateful year for Alexei Dolmatov - his song "Gossip" was a huge success among ordinary people(slightly later group"Center" will perform this song at the corporate party of the newspaper "Life", which will be attended by celebrities mentioned in the song), Ren-Tv filmed a video for the song "New Year" and, in addition, Guf recorded the future hit "My Game" with Basta. All these events made Guf famous. In April 2007, the album "City of Roads" was released, which brings Guf "incredibly popular. And a little later, the album of the group" Tsetr "Swing" was released.
On August 6, 2008, Alexey Sergeevich Dolmatov marries Aiza Vagapova, who helped him get rid of drug addiction. A year later, Guf leaves the Center group, while fulfilling all obligations under the contract. Because of this event, the question "Why did the Center collapse?" began to torment many people, but no one gave a clear answer, although some assumptions can be made by listening to the diss (a track in which the rapper shows his disrespect for another rapper) Gufa "One Hundred Lines" and Slima's response diss "Spice baby". Although these will only be assumptions and a clear answer to “Why did the Center collapse?” we are unlikely to ever hear.
In 2010 Gufa had a son, who was named Sami. In the same year, Guf won in the nomination for best artist year, it happened at the Russian Street Awards 2010.
An interesting fact from the life of Alexei Dolmatov:
In addition to rap, as it turned out, Guf is a fan of football and is a fan of English football team"Liverpool".
Aleksey Sergeevich Dolmatov, known to all of us as Guf (GUF), was born on September 23, 1979, in Moscow. From about the age of 10, he became interested in rap art. In the 5th grade, he encountered drugs. He often began to skip class, after which he was taken by his parents to China. For seven years he lived in China, where he studied at one of the universities. Alexey has 2 higher educations: economic and linguistic. After that, he returned to Russia.
Already at the age of nineteen, he performed his first track - “Chinese Wall”. He was recorded in tandem with Roma Korobchansky (with whom Guf studied together, in the same group). For 2 years, Guf had a short break (due to drugs) in his hobby.
Guf became more famous in 2000 when he joined the ROLEX-X group. And now he finally realized that you should not sit and wait for something, you need to move forward. It was after this idea that he became one of the creators of the famous this moment group - "CENTER" ("CENTR"). So he got his first demo album “Gift”. Few copies were released, only 13 pieces, they were also presented to their close friends as a New Year's gift.
He was very familiar with the KASTA group, as he often visited his area. He took part in the shooting of the video “We take it on the streets”, and one of the members of the Caste - Shym wrote the music for “New Year”.
Many songs touched on his favorite topic - “Drug”, on this topic they began to recognize him in the circle of rappers. Guf claims that he forgot about drugs a long time ago, he no longer uses them.
Already in 2002, she begins to work on her new, next album. Found a new friend - Slimy (Slim), who at that time was part of the group "Smoke Screen".
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In 2006, the song “Gossip” became very popular. The album “City of Roads” contains the song “Original Ba”, dedicated to Guf’s grandmother, Tamara Konstantinovna, in which she even takes part.
Also in 2006, a video called “New Year's” was released, for one of documentaries called "Drug Users (drug addicts)", soon this clip became quite popular. Was created new hit with SMOKIE MO “Traffic”, it was placed in the album “Air is OK” (2008).
Already in 2007, a popular album entitled “City of Roads” was released. Soon a new track called “My Game” appears in a duet with the popular rapper Basta. Guf also begins his concert activity. The same year, on October 25, an album called "Swing" from the group "CENTR" was released. In 2008, Center won the Best Rap Group at the RMA.
In 2009, together with the Center group, he performed on Muz-TV with the song “City of Roads”. Also in 2009, he voiced a doll named “Fifth” in Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov - “Nine”. By 2009, Guf decides to leave CENTER, he confirmed this in his interview. starting from September and ending in December, all members of the CENTER group release solo albums. Album from GUF'a - "At Home" was released on December 1, 2009.
Personal life of GUF
Soon after Guf decided to quit drugs, he began to lead healthy way life. He only lasted half a year, but then his girlfriend named Aiza came to his aid.
Isa helped Guf a lot with this problem. Once, when she found out about his drug addiction, she locked herself and him in the apartment for 5 days, soon helped to completely forget about them.
Name: Aleksey Sergeevich Dolmatov (alias Guf) Date of birth: September 23, 1979, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Alexey was born on September 23, 1979 in Moscow. Russian, Jewish and Tatar blood flows in his veins.
In the late 80s, the family of Alexei Dolmatov moved to China, it was there that the boy graduated high school and entered the university. After several years of higher education educational institution future artist decided to return to his homeland, where at first he lived with his grandmother Tamara Konstantinovna, to whom, by the way, he later dedicated several tracks, and she even personally took part in the recording of one of them.
The beginning of the creative path
In Moscow, Alexei decided to get a second higher education, enrolled in economic university and began recording his first rap songs.
Since 2000, the artist has been performing as part of the Rolexx group, by the way, Alexey will use this pseudonym until 2005. At that time, all his works were marked alias Guf a.k.a. Rolexx.
Presumably, at that time the musician began serious problems with drugs that musical career moved forward with long breaks. Later, in his interviews, Guf hinted that he knows firsthand what drug withdrawal is. But by 2002, the musician pulls himself together and begins work on music album. In the same year, Guf recorded the song "Wedding" together with the rapper, beatmaker and member of the Smoke Screen group Slim. With this song, a long-term collaboration of musicians begins.
Centr group
The Centr group appeared in 2004 - Guf created it with his friend and colleague Nikolai Princip. The first album was called "Gifts" and consisted of only 13 discs, which the rappers gave to friends as a New Year's gift.
Since 2006, a real rise in the popularity of the Centr group begins - the song "Gossip" is released, which received wide rotation on radio stations and broadcast on music channels. The time of duets and collaborations begins - joint tracks with Slim and Ptah, Rostov rapper Basta, the Smokey Mo group and others. Success comes to Alexei and he later begins to perform under the pseudonym Guf.
Solo career
Guf's debut solo album "City of Roads" was released back in 2007.
In August 2009, Guf leaves the Centr group and creates his own label - ZM Nation.
From September to December, solo albums of all former members Centr groups. Guf's solo album "At Home" was released on December 1, 2009.
After the collapse of the Centr group, Guf continues to perform with Basta, they even released in 2010 joint album"Basta / Guf".
In 2010, it came out and instantly gained popularity, perhaps the most famous composition Gufa "Ice Baby". Like other songs of the rapper, she carried a personal meaning: Guf jokingly called his then wife Aiza "ice baby". The musician, by the way, generally likes to give cute nicknames to close people: this is how the rapper called his son Sami Gufik, and the grandmother Tamara Konstantinovna, already mentioned above, called Original Ba XX.
In 2014, the song “Winter” appeared on the album of the Caspian Cargo group with guest verses by Guf and Slim. As reported, the track was mixed with the consent of both ex-members of the Centr group, but in the future the artists no longer worked together.
Personal life
In 2008, the musician married his longtime girlfriend Aiza Vagapova. In 2010, the couple had a son, Sami. In 2013, the first rumors about problems in the relationship of the couple appeared, and in 2014 the young people divorced.
After that, Guf was credited with novels with other girls, in particular, with Katie Topuria, the soloist of A-Studio, but this relationship never received official confirmation.
Aiza Dolmatova is currently a very popular blogger on Instagram, in 2017 the girl gave birth to a son, Elvis, from her new boyfriend.
It is worth mentioning that the rapper's name is often mentioned in connection with drug scandals. Many times the musician was accused of using drugs, Guf, in turn, accused his wife Aiza of using drugs. It is also known that the artist spent his 36th birthday in the Krasnoyarsk pre-trial detention center, where he also ended up in connection with the use of illegal drugs.
Childhood and youth I welcome guests and regular readers of the site website. So, rap artist Alexey Sergeevich Dolmatov, better known under the pseudonym Guf, first saw the world in Moscow on September 23, 1979. He grew up as a Russian-Jewish boy, went to one of the capital's schools, skipped classes, dabbled in light drugs, which was due to the fact that his parents did not properly raise their son. Already in the third grade, Lesha began to listen to rap. At the age of 12, the parents take their son with them and move to China, where he continues to receive education. In another country, Alexei managed to study at a Chinese university. Under the then mood, he wrote his first composition "Chinese Wall", which was written at the age of 19. In China, our hero dealt in illegal drugs. Not surprisingly, soon young man attracted the attention of law enforcement officers. Because of this incident, Guf quickly had to return to Moscow, where Alexei lived for some time with his grandmother Tamara Konstantinovna.
Creation
After a while, Lesha submits documents and enters Faculty of Economics, where, as a result, acquires new friends. With one of these acquaintances in 2000, he created a hip-hop project - "Rolex-X", the name of which is derived from the names of the band members: Roma and Lehi. It was during this period that the pseudonym Guf appeared in the young man. After a two-year creative break associated with drug addiction with a guy, Alexei again takes up music. The rapper starts to write own album, and while working on one of the compositions, in 2002, he met a member of the Smoke Screen group - Slim. Together they recorded the track "Wedding", which later became a cult for the guys and received a lot of positive feedback. In 2004 Aleksey, together with Nikolai Princip, founded the group "Centr. He also recorded a trial album, which was released in a limited edition. The composition of the Center changed several times, but in the end only three performers remained - Guf, Slim and Ptah. Musical creativity guys, it was mainly connected with the drug theme. The team begins to republish old works and release new ones. In 2006, the comrades organize their own label, called "CAO Records".Centr during a live performance (2006)
At the same time, Dolmatov managed to study and solo projects. So, in 2007, he presented the album "City of Roads" (the performer prefers that the second word is stressed on the first syllable). The album was written in a week, but despite this, it received the highest ratings from both ordinary listeners and the rap community. It was on this disc that the first track about the grandmother ("Gossip") was published, which in every possible way shared her grandson's hobbies and supported him in all endeavors. Well, after the composition "Original Ba" Tamara Konstantinovna became known as Original Ba XX. In the same year, the group "Centr" released their first full-length disc "Swing". The release includes 16 audio recordings, many of which have become cult. The track "City of Roads" won in the "Hip-Hop" nomination at MTV Russia 2008. We can say that this was the universal recognition of the artists and their entry into the ranks of rap stars. It should also be noted that at this time the group changes its name from "Center" to "Centr". This is due to the suspicion of plagiarism and selfish use of the name of the famous Soviet-American band Vasily Shumov.
Centr - City of Roads (2012)
Further, Alexei takes part in the recording of the track "My Game" and music video to him. In this piece, the rappers talk about what they've been through in the past, including problems with psychotropic substances.
In the fall of 2008, the release of the Centr album "Efir is Normal" took place, in which such performers as 5Plyukh, Noggano, Slovetsky, and others were featured. According to the site "Rap.ru", the release became best album 2008 year. The guys had big success, and their tracks are very popular: "Someone is the most knowledgeable, downloaded from the Internet. Quickly threw it on a phone flash drive. By the evening, half of the people from the area are already on ringtones, in the morning already on blanks, in suspicious nines and foreign cars!"
Because of conflict situation with other members, Guf decides to leave "Centr" in 2009. The guy does not waste time and creates his own label "ZM Nation", and also publishes the album "At Home". This is the second studio album the hero of our biography, the total duration of which is about 55 minutes. Such beatmakers as Miko, Basta, Capella, Nel (Marselle) worked on the disc. Compositions made in a style typical of the artist: storytelling to pleasant and pumping beats. The track "Ice Baby" deserves special attention, in which Lesha confesses his love to his wife Aiza. This composition took the 12th line in the Russian digital tracks chart, which is a confirmation of its popularity at that time.
Guf - Ice Baby (2010)
In 2010, Guf begins a close collaboration with Vasily Vakulenko (Basta), with whom he records a disc called "Basta / Guf". Despite the gray and unpretentious booklet of the album, the songs had their success: on all phones, the tracks sold out with extraordinary speed. Many of the songs were very fond of the fans of Guf's work and remained in the players until now, because when listening to them, one mentally manages to return to the past and nostalgic for the bygone years.
Basta ft. Guf - Samurai (2011)
In the fall of 2012, the album "Sam I ..." is presented. This is Alexey's third studio release, which consists of 23 tracks. As with many previous titles, the title of the album does not have a single meaning. In addition to the original (himself and those others who are nearby), the name of the son, whose name is Sami, is meant. The rapper is very kind to him and gives him his love, trying to be good father despite all the nuances and circumstances.
Guf ft. Basta - Guf Died (2012)
2013 is notable for the recording with Rigos, with whom the following year Guf releases a joint release called "4:20".
Kravts and Guf - No Conflict (2013)
In 2014, a meeting of all former members of the Centr group took place. The comrades understand that the past conflict is settled and decide to revive the project. In October, a video for the song "Turns" was published on YouTube.
Centr - Turns (2014)
A few months later, in February 2015, the premiere took place music video"Tough": "Like the good old ones, SL, PT and Guf are here. We still represent Moscow, I will never stop playing my game."
Centr - Tough (2015)
And in early November, Guf's 4th solo album "More" appeared on the network. Slim and Ptaha took part in the recording of the track "On the Ram". The album was produced by BluntCath, who was also responsible for the joint release of Lesha with Rigos.
Guf - Mowgli (2015)
Finally, on March 11, 2016, the premiere of the album of the Centr group called "System" took place. The boys confessed that latest album"Centr" and the team will no longer continue to exist, and all members will be engaged in their solo projects. The release consists of 18 audio tracks, the guests of which are A'Studio, Caspian cargo and Mitya Severny.
Centr, A "Studio - Far (2016)
Guf, perhaps, is known to all connoisseurs of Russian hip-hop. He continues to work musical activity, and his name is still on the lips of music lovers. Regular solo release creative material and participation in feats allows Dolmatov to remain popular and be in demand as an artist of the Russian hip-hop scene.
Rigos Ft. Guf - Not a single passenger (2016)
Due to his media exposure, Guf was invited to an interview with Yuri Dudyu, where answered a number uncomfortable questions that concerned drugs, personal life and creativity of the performer.
Guf - about the heroine, divorce and new life (2017)
In 2017, two parts of the joint album with Slim "GuSli" are released, the name of which is derived from initial letters creative pseudonyms guys. All the same familiar stories guys about life, put on trendy beats. Many noted a positive change in the approach of these artists to the creation of music, so the album received enough good feedback: the collaboration of two former members of the Centr group has borne fruit.
Gusli (Guf & Slimus) - Tricks (2017)
The same year saw a somewhat controversial collaboration between two artists who released a music video for joint track. The composition and Guf’s “Generation” was received ambiguously, but still, it was another experiment from Alexei and going beyond the usual creativity.
Timati feat. Guf - Generation (2017)
In February 2018, one of the most anticipated battles of the Versus platform is released, where Guf and Ptaha met face to face. The prehistory of the conflict was long, the guys spoke impartially towards each other, accused of all kinds of sins, and finally, they decided to express all the claims face to face. Not without special conditions financial plan, so there was a fair amount of advertising in this release. As a result, thanks to charisma and the ability to make it interesting for the public to spread their thoughts, the victory was for Guf. At the battle itself, many personal things were expressed and passions did not subside even after the fight.
Versus #9 (Season IV): Guf VS Bird (2018)
Personal life
If we talk about personal life, it should be noted that in 2008 the hero of the biography married Aiza Vagapova, to whom he dedicated one of his main hits "Ice Baby". The couple had a great relationship and the fruit of their love was the son of Sami, who was born in May 2010. But at this time, as Lesha recalls in an interview, he begins to cheat on his wife. Relations were taken to extremes, and constant quarrels ended with Aiza leaving Guf in 2013, and since March 2014 their relationship has officially ended. It should also be mentioned that during the battle "Versus" Lesha's opponent David was told that Guf has another son. Alexey was seen in relationships with many girls of model appearance, but this did not lead to anything serious. The public is aware that for some time the artist was in a relationship with Keti Topuria, but the couple soon broke up. There is also evidence of Alexey's connections with an 18-year-old girl Yana, who blackmailed the rapper by presenting to the public some facts of their closeness.Guf now
Guf is talented performer which has remained in demand for many years. His manner of narration and sincerity in the tracks attracts many. Every year Lesha tries to expand the scope of his work and experiments are not alien to him. Thanks to the presence of a stable fan base that Alexey has formed, he is supported even in difficult periods the life of your idol. Thus, Guf receives a portion of trust from the fans and has no right to disappoint them. The artist is not going to stop at what has been achieved, he plans to release new creative material and concert performances, which fans of the rapper are looking forward to.Preview: Wikimedia Commons - Alina Platonova
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