In the back of the bus

In the back of the bus
Studio album by Fler
Publication (s)	2011
Label (s)	Masculine
Format (s)	CD , download
Genre (s)	Rap , German hip-hop
Title (number)	16/18/20 (39)
running time	49:01 / 56:31 / 63:35
production	Beatzarre Djorkaeff Gee Futuristic X-plosive
Studio (s)	Berlin
chronology Airmax Muzik II ( 2011 ) In the back of the bus Behind Blue Eyes ( 2012 )
Single releases September 2, 2011 Mirror image September 16, 2011 character

In the back of the bus is the seventh solo album by the Berlin rapper Fler . It was released on September 16, 2011 on Flers Label Masculin as a standard, premium, limited deluxe (including instrumental version) and Amazon edition (including t-shirt and cap). The album was distributed with the help of Groove Attack .

title

The title of the album is based on the line of text rapped by Fler “ I heard you want to find me? Come up, I'm sitting in the back of the bus! ". This line is from Do you hear me? , the first song from Fler's career, which appeared on the 2001 I Luv Money sampler .

content

In addition to the battle tracks typical of Fler, there are also profound and personal songs on the album. For example, the songs You are out and you are still not a fan are typical battle tracks. In an interview with editor Nicolas Kesper for hitparade.ch, Fler commented on the content of the album: " Most of the songs for" Im Bus Ganz back "I had lying around for a while anyway. These were all theme tracks that didn't really fit on the previous album, that is, on "Airmax Muzik 2" ”. Fler processes his past in characters and in the title song in the back of the bus . The album also includes the party song Spiegelbild and the sexual intercourse song We make one on it . Fler also commented on the latter in an interview with hitparade.ch: “ It is simply important that a sex song doesn't sound disgusting and trite. "We'll do it" isn't cheap porn. It has style and a good beat, that's why I put it on the album. It's danceable, you could even play it in a club ”. The song Still No Fan of It is a continuation of the song No Fan of It . In addition, According to Own Rules 2, the second part of the 2005 title According to Own Rules can be found on the album. The chorus of the song Teer in mein Lunge is based on a sample of the track Your time comes from Kay One and Fler from 2010.

production

The two producer duos Beatzarre and Djorkaeff as well as Gee Futuristic and X-plosive are responsible for producing the beats for the album .

Cover design

The album cover of the standard edition shows Fler, in keeping with the title, sitting on the back seat of a bus. He is wearing a black jacket, jeans and white sneakers. In the middle of the picture are the lettering Fler in red as well as masculine presented and Im Bus at the very back in white. The covers of the Premium and Limited Deluxe Edition only show the lettering Fler in red and Im Bus at the very back in white, on a gray background. On the cover of the Amazon edition, the words Fler are in red (boy t-shirt) or pink (girl t-shirt) and Im Bus at the very back in white on a black background.

Guest Posts

Depending on the version of the album, other artists can be heard on up to eight songs in addition to Fler. Thus from the environment is Kool Savas known singer Moe Mitchell on the songs My lifestyle and character represented, while the singer of the pulse Track The road goes on forever involved. On According to Own Rules 2 , Fler is supported by his former Aggro Berlin colleague G-Hot . He is also involved in the full moon and, together with MoTrip, in money rain , while he appears next to Nicone at Um uns rum . In addition, the song is still not a fan of it , which is a sequel to the song No fan of it from the album Airmax Muzik II , a collaboration with Flers collaboration partner and label mates Silla and MoTrip.

Track list

#	title	Guest musician	producer	length
1	You are out		Beatzarre and Djorkaeff	3:05
2	My lifestyle	Moe Mitchell	Beatzarre and Djorkaeff	3:30
3	Dirty White Boy		Beatzarre and Djorkaeff	2:55
4th	Mirror image		Beatzarre and Djorkaeff	3:39
5	BTM Skit			0:30
6th	No comment		Beatzarre and Djorkaeff	3:24
7th	Still not a fan of it	Silla and MoTrip	X-plosive	3:42
8th	character	Moe Mitchell	Beatzarre and Djorkaeff	3:11
9	Around us	G-Hot and Nicone	Beatzarre and Djorkaeff	4:07
10	Chinatown Skit			0:28
11	Tar in my lungs		X-plosive	3:19
12	We'll do it		Beatzarre and Djorkaeff	3:05
13	If I wasn't a rapper		X-plosive	3:26
14th	friends become enemies		Beatzarre and Djorkaeff	3:05
15th	In the back of the bus		Beatzarre and Djorkaeff	3:51
16	Full moon	G-Hot	Gee Futuristic and X-plosive	3:44

Premium Edition bonus songs:

#	title	Guest musician	producer	length
17th	Money rain	G-Hot and MoTrip	X-plosive	3:19
18th	Blood on the dance floor		X-plosive	3:11

Deluxe Edition bonus songs:

#	title	Guest musician	producer	length
19th	According to its own rules 2	G-Hot	Beatzarre and Djorkaeff	3:33
20th	The road goes on forever	Pulse	Beatzarre and Djorkaeff	3:31

+ Instrumental CD of the 18 songs and music video for characters

Contents of the songs

You are out

The first song on the album begins with a skit in which the listener can hear Fler's voice as he is buying a bus ticket. Then the battle track begins . You're out .

My lifestyle

In the song Mein Lifestyle, Fler raps about his current lifestyle. Singer Moe Mitchell sings the chorus of the song. In the song it is mentioned by both of them that their music is not "image rap".

Dirty White Boy

Dirty White Boy partially covers the topic of gambling . In the chorus, Fler emphasizes that a lot of people talk behind his back. The song was filmed as a music video in New York City and released on YouTube on September 8, 2011 .

Mirror image

There is a club track with mirror image on the album. The song was released as the first single from Im Bus and reached number 38 in the German single charts. In the text, Fler raps about his past as a graffiti artist, greatly enhances himself and stylizes himself as rich. He also mentions the songs Real Gangsters Don't Dance and Jump Jump, which he published himself .

No comment

The song No Comment deals with behavior in the event of an arrest. Fler asks the listener not to reveal any of their own companions in the event of imprisonment and instead to say nothing at all.

Still not a fan of it

Still not a fan of it is a song in which the interpreters Fler, Silla and MoTrip do not call themselves supporters of the current German hip-hop scene, which is clear from lines like “German rap, I don't like you”. The song is a continuation of the previously released song Not a fan of it .

character

Character is the only profound song on the album. Fler raps about his career so far. He mentions the relationship with his mother and his stay at home. Characters appeared as the album's second single.

Around us

In the song Um uns rum , the rappers Nicone and G-Hot have guest contributions. The text is mostly about life in the city of Berlin . Fler raps about a conspiracy against the city of Berlin ("Berlin is damned. Look at the neighborhood, all the children are sad"). The verse by rapper Nicone includes a sample from his previously released song Die Streets .

Tar in my lungs

The chorus of tar in my lungs is based on a sample from the song Your time comes from Fler and Kay One. Tar in my lungs can be attributed to battle rap. At the end of the song Fler mentions the rappers G-Hot, MoTrip, Silla and the producers X-plosive.

We'll do it

In making We top it it comes to sexual intercourse with a female, probably married, person what "to the text lines shit out your wedding ring. Today you are my wife ”and“ I'll fuck you from above, below, behind and in front ”becomes clear.

If I wasn't a rapper

In the song If I wasn't a rapper , Fler deals with where he would be now if he hadn't become a rap star. According to his own statement, he would have made drug trafficking his calling.

friends become enemies

Friends become enemies appeared after the album was released as a music video that showed many excerpts from the In the Bus at the Back Tour . In terms of content, only the chorus is about the fact that friends can also become enemies.

In the back of the bus

The title song of the album deals with Fler's career in his homeland Berlin, the position of being outnumbered as a German, and his home and psychiatric stays. In the song, Fler's life is referred to as a "bus ride".

Full moon

The song Vollmond is about status symbols and expensive luxury goods. The rapper G-Hot has a guest post in the song. The rapper MoTrip co- wrote the text.

marketing

In the run-up to the release of Im Bus right back , music videos for three tracks from the album premiered. A video for the first single Spiegelbild was released on July 25th, 2011. This was followed by videos on characters (September 2nd, 2011), Dirty White Boy (September 11th, 2011), Geldregen (October 13th, 2011) and Friends Become Enemies on April 4th. December 2011. One day before the album was released, Fler published a 15-minute snippet of all 20 songs from the Limited-Deluxe-Edition as well as the 30-minute film from the DVD of the previous album Airmax Muzik II on his YouTube channel. He gave an interview for the hip hop magazine Mixery Raw Deluxe .

trip

After the album was released, Fler went on the Im Bus right back tour, during which he traveled across Germany in a tour bus with DJ Gan-G , G-Hot and Nicone . A video for the song Friends Are Enemies was also filmed on this tour, which featured many appearances. The tour kicked off on October 29, 2011 in Berlin, where rappers Silla , Manny Marc and Sady K were also on stage. Then Fler appeared in the cities of Leer , Kiel , Bochum , Hamburg , Osnabrück , Braunschweig , Nuremberg , Frankfurt am Main , Munich , Stuttgart , Villingen-Schwenningen , Sandhausen , Freiburg im Breisgau and Erfurt .

reception

Chart successes

In the 40th calendar week of 2011, the bus at the very back entered the German album charts at number 3, which was the highest ranking of a solo album by Fler to date. After five weeks, the record left the charts.

On September 2, 2011 the song Spiegelbild , including two remixes, instrumental and video and the song According to Own Rules 2 , was released. The single entered the German charts at number 38 for a week. The second single sign appeared only for download on the release date of the album, including Remix, Instrumental, video and the song Dirty White Boy .

album

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2011	In the back of the bus	DE3 (5 weeks) DE	AT9 (4 weeks) AT	CH6 (5 weeks) CH	First published: September 16, 2011

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2011	Mirror image	DE38 (1 week) DE	AT73 (1 week) AT	-	First published: September 2, 2011
	character	-	-	-	First published: September 16, 2011

criticism

Professional reviews
Reviews
source	rating
laut.de
rap.de
rappers.in

The reviews of In the back of the bus were average.

At Laut.de the album received 2 out of a possible 5 stars:

"" The street, the street, how do I get my ass out of here? " A question that I ask myself at the latest with "Um Uns Rum". "Im Bus Ganz Hinten" has quite a bit to offer, which is partly consoling over the one-dimensional content and the unimaginative implementation of the clear range of topics. Fler is - thank God! if you exclaimed, you would be just a touch more Catholic - again straying from the wrong path of trying your hand at being a singer. In the worst case, AutoTune-distorted slip-ups, which made "Flersguterjunge" completely unbearable, were completely saved this time. Fler leaves the cry-baby parts to the ubiquitous Moe Mitchell, always a safe bet for hookline lard. "

- Extract from the review by Laut.de

At Rap.de the album received 7 out of a possible 10 points:

"No," Im Bus right back "is not an album that spreads high hopes or even optimism. Between the youth home and psychiatry, false friends and real traitors, there is hardly any space for feelings such as security or real affection. Women do not play a major role in this world, except as objects of pleasure, as horny but ultimately unimportant and interchangeable sluts ("money over bitches"). The only piece that deals with, well, interpersonal relationships is correspondingly hard. "We're going for it" describes without further ado how the protagonist does it with such a slut, hard, directly, from the front, back and the side, but actually without much enthusiasm. Sex here serves primarily as a means of self-affirmation, the exercise of power and control, and the short-term distraction from stress and worries. Enjoying a shisha ("tar in my lungs") or an evening at the club ("mirror image") are only temporary diversions. "

- Excerpt from the review by Rap.de

book

One day before the album was released, Fler's semi-autobiographical book Im Bus right back: A German story , which was written by Julia Kautz and Sascha Wernicke, was published by riva-Verlag, where he a. a. gives a look back at his life "between loneliness, psychiatry and great fame".

Fler commented on the book on hitparade.ch: “ There is a lot of background information on my path, which many rappers have followed: Difficult childhood, the desire to become a rapper, and the rocky road to success. I was finally able to put a lot of things right in the book that the media once put into the world. After reading it, you will understand the artist Fler and the person behind him better. It can also be interesting for the parents of hip-hop fans so that they can better understand the business and understand why their child is interested in it ”.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Interview with Fler
2. ↑ Album cover on amazon.de
3. ↑ Album cover of the premium edition on amazon.de
4. ↑ Cover of the Amazon edition on amazon.de
5. ↑ Fler live in Berlin
6. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: DE AT CH
7. ↑ Rating: laut.de
8. ↑ Rating: rap.de
9. ↑ Rating: rappers.in
10. ↑ Laut.de: [1]
11. ↑ Rap.de: [2]