Afrob

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Afrob 2007
Afrob in 2005
Afrob and Dean at the Splash Festival (2000)

Afrob (born August 1, 1977 in Italy ; real name Robert Zemichiel ) is a German rapper and actor of Eritrean origin.

biography

Afrob was born in Italy and came to Germany at the age of three months. He grew up in Braunschweig, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart, where he began his career as a musician. In 1994 his rap career started as a feature artist for befriended crews such as the Massive Töne , Freundeskreis (FK) and the Berliner Spezializtz . Afrob continued his musical career within the Stuttgart posse “ Die Kolkhose ”, “ FK Allstars ” (including Max Herre , Joy Denalane , Gentleman and Sékou ) and with the “ Brothers Keepers ”. A friendship connects him with the rap musician Samy Deluxe , in whose solo albums he participated and with whom he also founded the project " ASD ".

In 1999 Afrob released his first solo album Rolle with Hip Hop on the Four Music label . The album reached number 13 in the German charts. In addition, the single Reimemonster appeared with Ferris MC . For the album Afrob worked with many musicians from Stuttgart (e.g. Wasi, DJ Friction and Max Herre). In May 1999 Afrob was on tour with his label colleagues from Freundeskreis, and in autumn 1999 he toured the whole of Germany with the Fantastischen Vier . At the end of 1999 he rapped the song 1, 2, 3, ... Rhymes Galore on the single by DJ Tomekk and Grandmaster Flash , which reached number 6 in the German charts, together with Flavor Flav from Public Enemy and MC Rene .

Two years later his second album Made in Germany was released via Four Music , which Afrob calls his best album to this day. Made in Germany has significantly more political content than a role with hip hop . Once again, the rapper worked with well-known artists such as Ferris MC , Joy Denalane and Gentleman .

In the spring of 2003 he and Samy Deluxe released their joint album Who would have thought that? , which is Afrob's most successful album to date. It reached number 5 in the charts and this time was also produced by American producers (e.g. Waajeed and J Dilla ).

Building on the success of ASD, Afrob announced his third solo album for 2005. The long player called Hammer was released on February 28, 2005 by Four Music and was produced by numerous well-known American producers such as Needlz, Waajeed and B. R. Gunna. Nevertheless Afrob could not build on his earlier successes and for this reason withdrew for the first time in order to work on the solo album Eine wie keine by rapper Lisi in 2006 .

The following year, 2007, Afrob made an appearance in the comedy Leroy . He also appeared in the gangster film Heads or Tails .

In 2008, together with rapper Brixx, he produced the new title song for the RTL series Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei and left the Four Music label to found his own label called “G-Lette Music”. In the same year Afrob began his work on the new album The Last of its Kind , which was finally released on September 4, 2009.

After a somewhat longer creative break, Afrob could be heard again for the first time on the very successful song by Sido 30-11-80 . The fifth solo album Push was released on May 30, 2014.

On July 3, 2015 Afrob released Samy Deluxe, the second ASD album after twelve years, entitled Blockbasta . His sixth studio album Mutterschiff followed on September 23, 2016 . In 2017 Afrob released his seventh solo album, Beats, Rhymes & Mr. Scardanelli .

In 2019 Afrob released his solo album Farewell to Yesterday . Afrob talks about his hip-hop career and the people from the hip-hop community he met and who inspired him. In the song refugee4life , Afrob also speaks about xenophobia and the racism that he experienced in Germany.

Afrob is now active on social media such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. On April 21, 2020, Afrob made an online showcase with DJ Derezon for United We Stream to support the Hamburg club scene, which was officially shut down at the time due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

Afrob has been a long-time fan of VfB Stuttgart .

Discography

Studio albums

Who would have thought that? Cover
year Title
pseudonym 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, pseudonym , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
1999 Role with hip hop DE13 (25 weeks)
DE 		- -
First published: March 29, 1999
2001 Made in Germany DE24 (6 weeks)
DE 		AT48 (5 weeks)
AT 		CH68 (5 weeks)
CH
First published: June 25, 2001
2003 Who would have thought that?
with Samy Deluxe as ASD 		DE5 (13 weeks)
DE 		AT34 (7 weeks)
AT 		CH24 (8 weeks)
CH
First published: March 28, 2003
2005 hammer DE38 (3 weeks)
DE 		- CH54 (2 weeks)
CH
First published: February 28, 2005
2009 The last of its kind DE70 (1 week)
DE 		- -
First published: September 4, 2009
2014 Push DE20 (2 weeks)
DE 		AT46 (1 week)
AT 		CH26 (1 week)
CH
First published: May 30, 2014
2015 Blockbasta
with Samy Deluxe as ASD 		DE4 (5 weeks)
DE 		AT16 (1 week)
AT 		CH6 (4 weeks)
CH
First published: July 3, 2015
2016 Mothership DE14 (1 week)
DE 		AT51 (1 week)
AT 		CH32 (1 week)
CH
First published: September 23, 2016
2019 Goodbye to yesterday DE43 (1 week)
DE 		- CH72 (1 week)
CH
First published: November 22, 2019

Filmography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Afrob in an interview, asked about the unclear date of birth on Wikipedia, in the hip-hop program SPRECHSTUNDE from May 15, 2014 ( memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), on SWR radio on DAS DING
  2. ↑ http://musik.freepage.de/fischmopp/FISCHMOPP_AFROB.htm
  3. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart Germany: Afrob in Stuttgart: The rhyming monster in Wizemann. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Made in Germany ( Memento from July 22, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ Musiktipps24.com: Rapper Afrob sings new title song from "Alarm für Cobra 11"
  6. ↑ KreatiFilm-Crew: References KreatiFilm: Music video of Afrob's "Alarm für Cobra 11" ( Memento from August 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Afrob: "Farewell to Yesterday" - time for a turning point. Retrieved on May 10, 2020 (German).
  8. ↑ Afrob on Instagram: “Tomorrow the stream will come. Me and @djderezon are playing a showcase! ! 19 o'clock!! Save the clubs that gave us so many evenings. Das ... " Retrieved on May 10, 2020 .
  9. ↑ United We Stream program. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Stuttgart fan Afrob about VfB: "The players have no honor" , Spiegel Online , accessed on March 7, 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Afrob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zemichiel, Roberto (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rapper and actor of Eritrean origin
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Italy