Originally was born as Ivan Rylov and raised in Tyumen, Russia, Struggle da Preacher started rapping like in 2000-01 with his blood brother St.Rap. They two formed a group, called Lazy Bones but later in 2004 they started as solo artists and SDP dropped his first solo album a year later in November 2005, called Be Wit’ Me Or F*** Dat. In 2005 Struggle made many helpful contacts abroad with foreign artists and started making collaborations with them. The first major step was showing up on The Katrina Relief Album CD which was dropped by 62030 Promotions in Las Vegas, NV. But his main work for now is his last alubum Da Preacher Of Struggle which was dropped on Feb. 11, 2008. There are 11 artists from 4 countries (USA, Russia, France, Senegal) are invited as guests. Now he has been working on his new double cd album Ups’n’Down which is planned to be released in autumn 2008.