Potap’s irrepressible creativity has many guises. The rapper, singer-songwriter and producer feels equally at ease navigating playfully swaggering, accordion-laced pop as one half of award-winning duo Potap & Nastya; unleashing house- and electro-inflected anthems with MOZGI; or forging high-profile collabs with pop royalty such as Vera Brezhneva. In his solo releases, like 2019’s MISHA/ and /NINA, the musician runs with his artistic urges in smart and multifaceted sounds—his coarse raps increasingly giving way to smooth-flowing melodies and lyrical, soul-baring choruses.