English translation

A city under hoof

• 1. фомка (fomka) is a thieves' cant for crowbar (used for breaking in)
• 2. чёс (chyos) is a jargon for a tour (usually pejorative connotation: either it is of a very low quality, or it is a bad pop-singer's tour)
• 3. мерч (merch) is from english "merchandise". It is items with the group's or musician's symbols (eg. T-shirts, bags etc.)
• 4. корпортив (korporativ) is a corporative party (a party of a company). When a musician performs at such events, he is being paid a lot. Квартирник (kvartirnik) is a flat party, where a live performance neither gets a lot of audience nor money.
• 5. rap battles
• 6. Valocordin is a heart drug
• 7. выбиться в люди (vybit'sya v lyudi) word-for-word is "to become a man", but the Russian idiom means "to achieve success"
• 8. челядь (chelyd') is a historical term for slaves during the period of Kievan Rus'
• 9. The song title and this phrase, if they are to be translated word-for-word, would be "The city under a sole". BUT the context suggests that:
  1) the song is about depressive and urban cities, so it's better to translate it as something like "a depressed city", for which there is an idiom in English "to be under smb's hoof"
  2) there is some kind of parallelism with the idiom in the lyrics. Again, if translate word-for-word, it would sound like "to live under smb's heel", for which there is also a good idiom in English "to be under smb's thumb OR be tied to smb's apron strings", which means that a man is very dependant on his girl (he is a henpecked husband).
  So, the author obviously draws a parallel between "being under smb's heel" (dependant on a girl) and "being under a hoof" (depressed by smth).
• 10. Есенин (Yesenin) was a Russian lyric poet who mostly wrote about the beauty of the Russian nature.
• 11. Since Miron (Oxxxymiron) has been living for a long time in England, he at first was a stranger in Russia. But now he has his team who he calls "more than his family": Ohra is a back singer, Porchy is a rapper and beatmaker, Ilya Mamai is responsible for Oxxxymiron's concerts.
• 12. The All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (Russian: Всесоюзный ленинский коммунисти́ческий сою́з молодёжи (ВЛКСМ) usually known as Komsomol (Russian: Комсомо́л, a syllabic abbreviation from the Russian kommunisticheskii soyuz molodyozhi), was a political youth organization in the Soviet Union. It is sometimes described as the youth division of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), although it was officially independent and referred to as "the helper and the reserve of the CPSU". It was known for the propaganda of "positive vibes".
• 13. Moskvabad is some kind of a meme or a joke, a funny name for Moscow, that is connected with a great amout of worker migrants from Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan). The ending "-bad" is obviously derived from the capital name Ashgabat (Turkmenistan), but for sure there are more Asian capitals that sound similar, like Islamabad (Pakistan), for example.
• 14. МКАД (MKAD) - The Moscow Automobile Ring Road (Russian: Московская Кольцевая Автомобильная Дорога, Moskovskaya Koltsevaya Avtomobilnaya Doroga), or MKAD (МКАД), is a ring road encircling the parts of the City of Moscow.
• 15. in Russian in can be interpreted in variety of ways: either it is about the moral strength - then it is "not to give up, not to crack", or it is about a car (van in this context) - then "not to break down"
• 16. Ruslan is a Miron's friend and a van-driver during their tour.
• 17. броник (bronik) is a colloquial for bullet-proof vest (бронежилет, bronezhilet). Not used very often amongst common people, perhaps just military people say it like that
• 18. Под марафетом (pod marafetom) = having used cocaine.
• 19. A famous Russian proverb meaning that somebody is not a reliable person, somebody who you do not trust