Azad (Rapper)

Azad (* November 24, 1973 in Sanandaj, Iran; civil Azad Azadpour ) is a German rapper of Kurdish origin. He lives in Frankfurt am Main and also grew up there.

• 2.1 Studio albums

Biography

Azad came as Kurdish refugee child to Germany. In 1984 he first came in contact with hip-hop, first with breakdancing. Then followed developments in the Graffiti area, with the noise, beatboxing, Cutten and producing.

In 1989, he joined, at that time still under the name Azazin, the group Cold -N- Locco, which consisted of D-Flame and the DJs and producers A-Bomb and Combad. 1990 Named one around in Asiatic Warriors. By German standards, unusually harsh mix of German, English and kurdischsprachigem road rap group is first locally, nationally known in 1994 through the EP published on the Ruff'n'Raw label " Told Ya ". However, over the years there were internal differences between the artists, the group split up. 1999 signed a contract with the label Azad Pelham Power Productions.

Through features on mixtapes and on the albums of labelmates Azad came back into focus the scene. Together with his many years successfully rolling Turntablism team "Transformers " (with DJ Dragon, Twister and release), he won the 1998 "Da Swing DJ Battle".

Stages of development

With the release of the single Napalm / Heart Core ( 2000) he confirmed his return to the scene. In 2001, Azad released his first solo album life. The album was completely produced by Azad and enjoys their minimalist beats, hard word choice, sophisticated Raptechniken and a large list of guest rappers to cult status among fans.

In 2003, the album Fist of the North West is published. Again by hard battle rap but also by profound melancholy songs Azad consolidates his reputation in the scene. He devotes his young daughter in his song, My light, but they also mentioned in other songs. In addition, it shall meet on Bushido's album Electro Ghetto with firestorm and Eternal Night in appearance.

In 2004 he leaves 3p and founded his own label Bozz Music under Urban, which is part of Universal Music. It will be under contract the group Warheit ( Sezai, Lunafrow, Jeyz, Chaker and Azad itself) and the rapper Jonesmann and Sti. In the same year there will be a scandal on the hip-hop Open in Stuttgart. After a brawl between members of Bozz -Music and Aggro Berlin was, inter alia, Sido slightly injured. This brought one hand, restrictions on the appearance of Azad at Splash! 2004 but also an enormous media attention with it. On 2 August 2004 finally released their third album Azad The Bozz, originally only under the name of Phoenix should appear as EP at Optik Records. Despite the so far shortest game time of under 42 minutes, the album sold very well and went into the top 10 album charts. It offers a varied mix of hard street rap and deeper songs. The solo album was later indexed so the original version since 31 December 2005 young people must no longer be sold. Since then, only the " light version " of the album allowed to advertise obtained commercially. The indexing was referring to passages of the songs blackout and Judgement Day, which have been classified as " harmful to minors " by the BPJM. The end of 2004 is the Bozz -Music Sampler Vol 1 appeared on the Azad introduced his own label.

He was a major success by the joint album with Kool Savas, One, released on 29 March 2005 on Sony BMG Music Entertainment, celebrate. The next solo album Azad Game Over was released on 31 March 2006 on the label Urban. It polarized his fans: Many see it as his best album so far, but other fans miss the " uncut hardness", which you still got to listen to his first CD. Game Over was ranked 8 in the album charts. The second single from the album One day made ​​it at least into the top 30 of the German charts.

In November 2006, Azad appeared as collabo partner in the first international video clip of Russian rapper Seryoga. The single from the Russians, who is a star in his homeland and has already received MTV awards, gold and platinum records, ie 2Kaiser and appeared on 24 November 2006 On December 8, published in 2006 Bozz -Music The Bozz -. Remix. The album includes remixes of songs produced by Sti from The Bozz. As a replacement for the indexed tracks the Shok Muzik - Diss is AZ Pitbull vs. Shmok Muzik as well as the song Frankfurt with Warheit on the CD.

2007 Azad was with the song Prison Break Anthem ( I think ' to you) ( theme song of the RTL series Prison Break) together with Adel Tawil, singer of I I, the third German rapper No. 1 on the Media Control Single charts (before him have only the Fantastic Four and Sabrina Setlur before). The single sold over 150,000 copies in Germany, reaching gold status.

In 2008, he joined an MTV Unplugged concert the Söhne Mannheims on ( singing contest in Schwetzingen), was there in "For you open the gates" by Xavier Naidoo heard. In August 2008, the TätowierMagazin published an article on the Frankfurt rapper Azad and took on the cover of the magazine.

January 30, 2009 Azad appeared first street album titled " Azphalt Inferno" on Groove Attack. There were, among others productions used by Shuko, STI, Brisk Fingaz and M3 & Noyd. In addition, guest posts by Samy Deluxe, Freeman, Kool G Rap and Capleton were contributed.

In May 2009, Azad published his sixth solo album " Assassin". There were, among others productions used by Shuko, STI, Martelli, Brisk Fingaz, Benny Blanco, M3 & Noyd, X - plosive and were guest posts by Tino Oac, Kool Savas, clays, and contributed by the American rapper Rakim. Furthermore, it was in February 2010, hosted by the produced by RTL II docu-soap The Girl gear.

On 9 April 2010 Azad appeared second street album titled " Azphalt Inferno 2 " via Groove Attack. There were, among others productions used by STI, Brisk Fingaz, M3 & Noyd, Abaz, Gee Futuristic, X - plosive and Azad itself as well as guest posts from Godsilla, Snaga, Kool Savas and Francisco were contributed.

Discography

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Studio albums

Singles