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“Uroboros” is the third studio album by Kazakhstan hip-hop artist Skryptonit, released on December 16, 2017 via Gazgolder Records. It consists of two parts: "Street 36" and "Mirrors", and is conceptual.

Album history
Initially, Skryptonit planned to release the album on the same day as the album “House with normal phenomena” in 2015, which was called 3P at that time, and then “Hotel Everest”, but the work on it was delayed for two years. The album has undergone many changes: from the trap sound has flowed into rap, trap, soul and rock. According to Skryptonit, it was originally planned to publish a release of about twenty songs, but they did not suit him, did not reach the level of the weakest on Uroboros, therefore they were constantly eliminated. At the “Hotel Everest” there were songs about real events, and some of them were included in the “Mirror” part. The performer collected simpler songs in “Feast on 36 Street”, continuing work on “Ouroboros”. Some of the compositions of those times were published on releases by the Jillzay team.

The album was released in two parts: the first was named “Street 36”, and it’s about the poor life, and the second is “The Mirror”, about the other side of the artist’s popularity and life. It is noteworthy that the first part consists of "old school" bits, and the second, on the contrary, "newschool". The work does not touch upon the themes of relations between the sexes, but reveals the eerie world of social bottoms. On the day of release, the performer announced that he was “leaving the rap” and taking a break for 2-3 years, but did not end his musical career.

Success and reviews
In the first days after the release, the album took 1 and 2 places in the Russian iTunes, pushing the album Revival from Eminem, and the third place in Google Play Music. The publication Gazeta.Ru called the album one of the twenty best albums of 2017. The publication Meduza considered the album "perhaps the best" in Russian in 2017. Portal The Flow named the fourth album among the best domestic albums of 2017.

Alexander Kulikovsky from Silent Place describes Ouroboros as an album with genuine emotions, calling it a bare nerve giving an opportunity to rush through the life of an artist, highlighting interest not so much towards the path itself as the scenery through which the listener has to rush.

Critic Sergei Guselnikov believes that the part “Street 36” - about “the difficulties of living at the very bottom of a modern post-Soviet city, about striving for a dream and overcoming difficulties, is filled with darkness and hopelessness”, and part of the “Mirror” tells about “what happens after how success is achieved, and what new difficulties this success leads to, ”the disc is filled with more darkness and hopelessness, but with a“ looped ending ”that returns the hero to the very beginning of the first part.