Pasha Technique
Pavel Nikolayevich Ivlev (1 July 1984 – 5 April 2025), known by his stage name Pasha Technique (Russian: Паша Техник, romanized: Pasha Tekhnik), was a Russian hip-hop artist and music producer.
Ivlev was a founder of the group Kunteynir and was known for his provocative work and behavior. Among the main themes of his work were drug addiction, nationalism, and black comedy. He was referred to as one of the most significant rappers in Russia's underground hip-hop scene. In 2010, Pitchfork published an article about the Moscow electronic scene, where the Kunteynir was called an "underground legend" and the album Five Years a masterpiece. Former editor of The Flow and Rap.ru Nikolai Redkin described Technique of the mid-2000s as "a well-heard, very erudite music lover who dug new music and was well versed in non-mainstream hip-hop."
From the late 2010s, he gained media popularity and appeared in numerous internet shows, with quotes from these becoming memes.
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