Versus Battle : Oxxxymiron vs Gnoyniy. 16 million views on YouTube in a few days

The buttle was of keen interest both to admirers of hip-hop, and to representatives of a rap scene. Participants of a fight represented different styles: Oxxxymiron was the popular performer famous outside rap community while Gnoyniy it was known only to restricted audience. Besides, there were differences and in preparation for a buttle: Oxxxymiron practically ignored an event, being engaged in the active projects whereas Gnoyniy Oxxxymiron several times mentioned in the tracks, including, using the pejorative nickname "Oksana Mironova". At last, rappers represented two the platforms, largest in the country, for buttles — "Versus" and "Word SPB".

The fight has taken place on August 6, 2017. Each of opponents tried to touch the opponent, remembering the offensive and unpleasant facts from the biography. Oxxxymiron mentioned the work by Mayakovsky in the texts "A cloud in trousers", Joseph Campbell "The hero with one thousand persons" and also characters from the screen adaptation by "Batman" by Christopher Nolan, at the end of the performance having quoted Gumilyov's "Word". In turn, Gnoyniy sneered at Oxxxymiron whose album was compared to Orwell and Zamyatin's classical anti-Utopias, however instead, that, according to the opponent, has written down the audiobook, cheap literature. Unlike Gnoyniy, actively using obscene language, Oxxxymiron didn't allow nonliterary expressions.

The video of a buttle has been published on August 14, 2017. Following the results of vote of judges I have won a victory with the score 5:0 Gnoyniy. Video has received great popularity on YouTube, and the fight has generated a set of comments on social networks and memes.