"VISA RUN" is SQWOZ BAB at his most cheeky: a swaggering, joke-stuffed brag where paperwork and pickup lines get mixed into one ridiculous pitch. He opens like a tailor fussing over his look, "Ну-ка, застегни обе пуговички" (Come on, do up both little buttons), then turns straight to a warning: "Девки, сучки, берегитесь!" (Girls, bitches, watch out!). Blunt, and very much the tone of the whole track.
The running gag is bureaucracy as flirting. ВНЖ is short for вид на жительство, a residence permit, and he offers one "за жмж", a crude abbreviation for a threesome. The outro twists the official phrase into a pun: "Вид на жительство с видом на меня" (A residence permit with a view of me), because вид means both "permit" in that phrase and "view". He even names a visa run, the trick of leaving a country and coming straight back to reset your visa: "Я обещал малышке визу в татарстан / Но вошёл и вышел, это visa run" (I promised my baby a visa to Tatarstan / But I went in and came out, it's a visa run). Tatarstan is a republic inside Russia, so the "visa" is a joke from the start, and "went in and came out" is a double meaning.
Watch the slang: ЖЭК is the old municipal housing office where people complain about leaks, which is why he "complains to the ЖЭК" when his girl "didn't leak", a filthy joke dressed up as a plumbing problem. Шарим means "we know our stuff", сорян is a slangy "sorry", and директ is your Instagram DMs. "У моргена есть звёздочка" (Morgen has a little star) pokes at rapper Morgenshtern, joking he must be a hotel since hotels get star ratings. It is silly, rude and catchy, and a great crash course in modern Russian internet slang, as long as nobody's grandma is listening.
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