Karate Andi
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Karate Andi (* in Lower Saxony as Jan Salzmann ) is a German rapper from Göttingen. Since 2014 he is the German hip-hop - Label Self Made Records under contract.
Career
Karate Andi comes from the small town of Hardegsen in Lower Saxony , but began his rap career in Göttingen as Monty Burns , which he later shelved for a short time. He then moved to Berlin-Neukölln via Leipzig . After he had not performed publicly for several years, he took part regularly in the hip-hop event Rap on Wednesday from 2012 under the pseudonym Karate Andi . His pseudonym has nothing to do with the former pimp Andreas Marquardt , who is also called "Karate Andy".
In 2014 his debut album Pilsator Platin was released , named after the beer type Pilsator . The album was produced by 7inch . and reached number 24 on the German album charts.
On the album Freie Schwarzmarkt Wirtschaft by Plusmacher from 2014 he was involved in the piece Bockwurst , on the follow-up album The Harvest from 2016 in the piece Mit Senf , and on the 2018 album Hustlebach in the piece Im Brötchen .
On July 16, 2014 Selfmade Records officially announced that they had signed Karate Andi.
His second solo album Turbo was released on May 13, 2016 .
His third solo album ASAP KOTTI was released on November 29, 2019 .
Music genre
Karate Andi does hard battlerap in the style of the old MOR or West Berlin masculine as well as newer influences such as Trailerpark . The texts are mostly provocative and anti-social . They are very fixated on punchlines and contain allusions to the lower class lifestyle and pub culture, mixed with the four elements of hip-hop ( breakdancing , DJing , rap and graffiti ).
Karate Andi at Bochum Total 2015
Karate Andi at Rock im Park 2016
Discography
Albums
- 2014: Pilsator Platin (macheete / distri )
- 2016: Turbo ( Selfmade Records / Universal Music Group )
- 2019: ASAP KOTTI ( Selfmade Records / Sony Music Entertainment )
Mixtapes:
- 2009: In Your Face (as Monty Burns with Prisma)
- 2016: Taxi Tape (exclusively in the Limited Deluxe Box from Turbo )
Others
- 2010: Servus, Grüezi and Hallo (Freetrack as Monty Burns)
- 2015: Chronicle III (single with Kollegah & SSIO )
- 2016: Das Karate Andi (on Juice CD # 133)
Web links
- Karate Andi at Discogs (English)
- Official page on Facebook
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Chart sources: Germany - Austria - Switzerland
- ^ Press report Welt.de from 19 September 2016
- ↑ a b Sascha Wieland: Karate Andi does Pennerrap with a lot of beer. Noisey , accessed March 20, 2014 .
- ↑ Karate Andi announces "TURBO" (release date, tracklist). In: Raptalk.org. Retrieved on March 25, 2016 (German).
- ^ Mathias Hansen: Karate Andi - Pilsator Platin (Review). (No longer available online.) Meinrap.de, February 21, 2014, archived from the original on March 5, 2014 ; accessed on March 20, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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SURNAME | Karate Andi |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Salzmann, Jan (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rapper |
DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |