The work of V.V. Drok is dedicated to Russian rap poetry, which has a significant place in modern culture and literature. The focus of the book is the problem of the lyrical hero and his transformation into a character hero. The author traces the evolution of rap text images using the example of analyzing rap albums by Oksimiron, Husky and LSP. The main topics of the monograph: the genre phenomenon of Russian rap, its intertextuality and image system. The work illustrates the general tendency towards the syncretism of Russian rap, the development in it, along with the lyrical, epic and dramatic principles and, as a result, the definition of this direction in the modern literary and media-word process as a meta-genre. The monograph was prepared based on the materials of the master's thesis "The problem of the narrator in Russian rap poetry: the transformation of a lyrical hero into a character," scientific articles "Features of the interpretation of biblical motifs in the Oxxxymiron's Gorgorod album" and "Visual interpretations of Oksimiron's rap album" Gorgorod "" and reports. The work is addressed to humanitarian specialists specializing in the modern literary process, and all those interested in relevant cultural processes associated with Russian rap.