RAV

Soviet-born indie rap veteran and founder of award-winning Hip-Hop collective EXOCIETY, Rav returns to the stage with his latest album, EMERGENCE DELIRIUM, alongside indie heavyweights Cavalier (Backwoodz Studioz) and Teller Bank$ ($$$). With distinct corners of modern alternative rap connecting for the first time all under one roof, this will be a night to remember. The EXOPOCALYPSE is here!

Born in the USSR a few weeks before it was dissolved, Rav ended up spending many of his formative years in the post-Soviet Union slums, raised by a single, young mother. Since that corner of the world was suddenly no longer shielded from the outside world of arts and entertainment, Rav’s exposure to media consisted of a lot of mostly weird Soviet cartoons, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Sailor Moon.

Rav experienced his first dose of Hip-Hop in his pre-teens, falling in love with Midnight Marauders by A Tribe Called Quest. “My whole world changed the moment I heard ‘Electric Relaxation’ - I no longer wanted to be a comic book character, or Donatello from the TMNT, I wanted to be Q-Tip, and so I started rapping.”