Dragonborn

**Dragonborn** is the debut studio album by Russian hip-hop artist and producer Big Baby Tape, released on November 16, 2018 on the Warner Music Russia label. Recorded with the participation of Husky, Boulevard Depo, i61, Jeembo, White Punk and others. Hip-hop portal The Flow placed the album on line 13 of “50 Domestic Albums of 2018”.

## Background

Shortly before the release of the studio album, two singles were released : "Wasabi" and "Flip Phone Twerk", originally released separately from the album.

Following the release EP of the Hoodrich Tales, Big Baby Tape announced that he was working on a new music project, later dubbed Dragonborn..

In 2020, Kirill Lachaev gave him ten-platinum certification.

At the time of recording the album, various excerpts of Egor’s songs periodically appeared on the Internet, most of which did not make it into the final track list of the album.

In the fall of 2018, Big Baby Tape published a snippet of the music video for the single “Flip Phone Twerk,” saying that its release should not be expected.

The reason for naming his album this way was due to several factors: the artist was born in 2000, the video game that the musician was playing at that time - The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - Dragonborn, as well as the previously recorded tracks “Hokage” and “Benzo Gang Money”, which have a predominant oriental sound.

## Release and promotion

The album was released on November 16, 2018. It was released on the Warner Music Russia label. The recording also featured Boulevard Depo, Husky, Jeembo, i61, White Punk and others. And the producers were FrozenGangBeatz, Meep, White Punk, Big Baby Tape himself and many others.

A few days after the release of the album, the track “ Gimme The Loot ” took first position in the song charts of “ Apple Music ”, “ iTunes Store ”, “ VKontakte ”, displacing the latest releases of Feduk and Eldzhey, and also ahead of Sicko Mode from Travis Scott and Thank U, Next from Ariana Grande on the foreign portal Genius.

A week after its release, Dragonborn sold 50 thousand equivalent album units in Russia and received its first platinum certification from the Warner Music Russia label. The studio album currently has triple platinum status.

The single " Gimme The Loot " was released separately from the album on December 21, 2018 on Apple Music with censorship.

## Participants of the recording

Lyrics/vocals
* Big Baby Tape - Tracks 1-23
* Dope V - track 7
* i61 — track 9
* Loco OG Rocka — track 11
* Husky - track 13
* Boulevard Depot - track 17
* OG Prince - Track 19
* White Punk — track 21
* Jeembo - track 22

Music
* FrozenGangBeatz — tracks 1, 21
* White Punk — tracks 1, 5, 21
* Meep - track 2
* Keenanza — tracks 3, 12
* DJ Tape — tracks 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 16—20, 22, 23
* Redeyes.smoker — track 8
* Toreno - track 11
* Nikitque — track 13
* Highself - track 14
* 6Silky — track 15
* Jay Blow - Tracks 17, 18

Recording studio
Sakura Records
Information
Big Baby Tape - Tracks 1 - 23
Mastering
OG Prince - Tracks 1 - 23
Cover
Shulya

## Trivia

* " Gimme The Loot " was originally supposed to feature a guest verse from Boulevard Depo.
* The track “Project X” was included in the album Dragonborn, but due to technical reasons it was released a little later.
* During the recording of the album, Big Baby Tape was based on the concept of the album by Dr. Dre The Chronic.
* Slava CPSU recorded his own version of the Dragonborn album called Donbassborn