Blaow

Blaow
Studio album by Lance Butters
Publication (s)	May 8, 2015
Label (s)	Four Music / Sony Music
Format (s)	CD , download , LP
Genre (s)	German hip-hop
Title (number)	13
running time	40:06
production	Bennett On
chronology Futures Hit (2013) Blaow Fear (2018)
Single releases March 6, 2015 Deal with It March 6, 2015 Raw April 20, 2015 It pulls / I pull

Blaow is the debut album by German rapper Lance Butters . It was released on May 8, 2015 on the Four Music and Sony Music labels . The album was released as standard and Amazon editions, including instrumentals .

Content and production

Lance Butters raps on the album mostly in his typically arrogant-ignorant way and often glorifies himself. Several songs also deal with the consumption of marijuana .

The entire album was produced by Lance Butters' producer Bennett On and mixed by Ahzumjot .

Cover design

The album cover of the standard edition shows Lance Butters wearing his mask and a black hat. He is wrapped in white smoke. At the bottom of the picture is the title Blaow in white. The cover of the Amazon edition is darker and shows less smoke. You can see the black silhouette of Lance Butters, whose eyes glow white.

Track list

#	title	length
1	Blaow	2:26
2	Deal with It	3:56
3	Addicted	3:23
4th	Raw	2:44
5	Me & my hat	2:56
6th	Offer (Skit)	2:05
7th	Puff Puff Pass	2:20
8th	Free Lance Butters	4:14
9	On German rap	2:22
10	everyday life	3:15
11	It pulls / I pull	4:10
12	White smoke	3:54
13	30th	2:21

The Amazon edition also contains the instrumentals for all songs.

Chart successes and singles

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Blaow   DE 2 05/15/2015 (3 weeks)   AT 6th 05/22/2015 (1 week)   CH 31 05/17/2015 (1 week)

Blaow entered the German charts at number 2 on May 15, 2015 and stayed in the top 100 for three weeks. The album reached number 6 in Austria and 31st in Switzerland.

The songs Deal with It and Raw were released as singles on March 6, 2015 . On April 20, 2015 it followed with It pulls / I pull the third release. None of the songs could place in the charts. In addition to videos for the singles, music videos for the tracks Auf Deutschrap , Weißer Rauch and 30 .

reception

The album received mostly positive reviews.

• The website laut.de gave the album three out of a possible five points and above all praised the cooperation between rapper and producer:

“At the latest with the in-the-face instrumental of 'Raw', the last head nods in time. 'You pack 50 words in two bars, you have a thousand punchlines, but the delivery sucks'. Rhyme chain fanatics and syllable counters go away empty-handed. The thrown out lines form a symbiosis with the perfectly produced beats that simply fits. The 27-year-old doesn't need double time or sophisticated rhymes to achieve the desired effect. The simple recipe works because you take the ignorant attitude away from Eisenmann. [...] One should actually be disappointed that in 2015 Lance still raps almost exclusively about chicks, bags and pocket money. Actually. It is paradoxical: continuity is strength and weakness at the same time. On the one hand, two years without a release is a long time. On the other hand, that's exactly what 'Blaow' is doing so well. After the mask man had gone underground for a long time, one is simply happy about the casually pissed off flow on the great productions by Bennett On. And that is also the greatest strength of the record: Beats and delivery seem like one piece. You can hear in every second of the long player that the two have been working together for years. The Iron Man of Rap is cementing its own little niche. "

- Excerpt from the review by laut.de.

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

• On rap.de , the album is certified as having a coherent overall picture:

“'Blaow' doesn't sound annoyingly redundant or boring. At most bored. Because not a bit has changed in Lance's attitude either. As before, he stretches the syllables and spits them well chewed like chewing gum kneaded a thousand times with his teeth on the gloomy instrumentals of his congenial partner Bennett On. [...] It's by no means about constantly thinking up new stories, frantically developing new formulas, or artificially creating variety. No. It is much more important that the attitude is right, that the vocabulary is recognizable, that the beats create a round and coherent overall picture. The rest will then take care of itself. It can be that simple - and that is how simple 'Blaow' works. Because it's a classic, ignorant rap album and doesn't want to be anything else. "

- Extract from the review by rap.de

• The MZEE website described the album as a successful development by Lance Butters:

“But can the arrogant Prollrap also convince at album length? The answer is yes and no. In fact, after the umpteenth exaggeratedly stressed 'I'm awesome, you shit' punchline, signs of fatigue are gradually becoming apparent. But Lance secretly adds another interesting facet to his rap: Self-doubt and melancholy shimmer again and again through the lyrics of the otherwise tough Eisenmann. The vulnerability of Lance Butter is not described in extravagantly deep kitsch tracks - and that's a good thing. Instead, loneliness and problems are usually only hinted at until they unfold completely in what is probably the strongest song on the record, 'Es sucht / Ich zieh'. With 'Blaow', the rapper not only provides food for fans of arrogant punchline rap. He also consistently thinks the character of Lance Butter further, makes it more tangible and more vulnerable and thus much more interesting. This clearly shows that Lance can do a lot more than just be arrogant and draw lines. "

- Extract from the review by MZEE

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Album cover of the standard edition
2. ↑ Album cover of the Amazon edition
3. ↑ Chart sources album: DE AT CH
4. ↑ laut.de: Review of the sound carrier
5. ↑ Juice No. 167, May / June 2014, p. 114
6. ↑ Rating: laut.de
7. ↑ Rating: rappers.in
8. ↑ rap.de: Review of the sound carrier
9. ^ MZEE: Review of the sound carrier