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Ian Hopeless Profile and Facts

Ian Hopeless Profile and Facts

Ian Hopeless was a Sakha rapper under Cold Jug. He officially debuted on April 12, 2019 with the studio album “Шамбала” (“Shambala”).

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Stage Name: Ian Hopeless (Ян Хоплесс)
Birth Name: Aiaan Albertovich Nikiforov (Айаан Альбертович Никифоров)
Birthday: February 22, 1999
Astrological Sign: Pisces
Chinese Zodiac Sign: Rabbit
Height: N/A
MBTI Type: I—

Ian Hopeless Facts:
– He was born and raised in Yakutsk, Sakha Republic.
– Family: single mother, younger sister Kyunnei born in 2005.
– School education: Yakutsk City National Gymnasium.
– College education: Vladivostok State University of Economics and Services, Superior School of Cinema and Television (withdrawn after one year).
– He did not have any musician relatives.
– His personality was calm.
– He had several tattoos and piercings.
– At school he was a frequent participant in concerts both in dancing and singing.
– He had been writing songs since 2015.
– He stood on rap music path in his 15 years old when he was at his beatmaker friend’s house and he was asked to rap in English a bit.
– His first predebut tracks were played on school discos all over the Sakha Republic.
– His first professional performance was at Poshlaya Molli’s concert in Vladivostok.
– He didn’t tell his mother that he was doing music at school and in college, and told about it when he already planned moving to St Petersburg.
– His grandparents and mother did not approve his rapping.
– He formed Cold Jug label with 5 rappers and beatmakers from Yakutsk.
– He moved from Yakutsk to Vladivostok in 2017 for education, then he was living in Saint-Petersburg for music career, then in Moscow from 2020 until 2022, and he was living in Almaty 2022-2023.
– He was a fan of Michael Jackson since childhood.
– He was being called ‘hopeless’ by his school teachers, so that’s why he chose this stage name.
– His favorite instrumental was Soulja Boy’s “Kiss Me Through The Phone”.
– He thought the best hip-hop duo is A$AP Rocky and Tyler, the Creator.
– If he had had a child boy, he would have listened to him Bob Marley’s songs.
– He was part of Yakutsk Theater for Youth in grade 2.
– He had stage names Yan Abyss and Andrei Hopel.
– His favorite foreign musician was Dylan Brady.
– He considered Drake as the most influential rapper in the world.
– His favorite rap albums were Tell’Em by Soulja Boy, Finally Rich by Chief Kief, and Blonde by Frank Ocean.
– In Frank Ocean’s Blonde album, he loved performer’s sincerity.
– He mixed Russian with Sakha and English in his rhymes.
– While producing songs, he thought about lyrics in Sakha, then writes them in Russian.
– He had a track, where he used his favorite videogame No More Heroes as a reference.
– He read works of Jack Kerouac.
– He didn’t have any dislikes in food.
– His favorite dish was beshbarmaq.
– He thought his sister is more artsy than him.
– He had to cooldown after every performance for several days because he gets upset from thought he would have done better.
– He attended taekwondo section for four years, he had brown belt.
– He had been writing a diary since January 2022.
– He had a girlfriend.
– He sometimes performed in rock concerts with the stage name Ian Punk. He did not release any rock music.
– He left this world May 29, 2024 due to drowning in a river near Moscow.

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