Kasta is a Russian rap group from Rostov-on-Don. The group contains the members Vladi, Shim, Hamil and Zmei. Vladi made his first rap when he was 13 years old. In 1995 he and his friend Tidan made a group Psycholyric. One year later Shim joined Psycholyric. In 1997 Psycholyric and other rappers from Rostov made a group called Kasta, which was Psycholiric's successor. After that, Tidan left the group. In 1999 Hamil joined Kasta, then Kasta created the group Объединенная Каста (Ob'iedenionnaia Kasta)