Blumio

Blumio in Saarbrücken (2011)

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Blumio (born February 16, 1985 in Hilden ; real name Fumio Kuniyoshi , Japanese 国 吉 史 生 , Kuniyoshi Fumio ) is a German rapper of Japanese descent.

biography

Blumio was born in Hilden in 1985 and grew up in Düsseldorf , which is the largest Japanese community in Germany . Because his parents initially expected a return to Japan, he started school at the Japanese International School in Düsseldorf , but in the third school year he switched to a German elementary school. At this age he chose soccer and martial arts as his hobbies.

Inspired by the American rapper Ice-T , Blumio began writing his own rap lyrics at the age of 14. Instead of studying for school, he preferred to engage in hip-hop . This resulted in his being seated three times and having to end his high school career. He took the stage name Blumio after a drunk friend said he looked like a flower. In 2002 he applied with a cassette to an MC competition entitled Kiss My Ass . After an internet vote, Blumio won the competition and prevailed against the Berlin rapper Taichi, among others . The music producer Don Tone became aware of him and invited him to his studio in Düsseldorf, where Blumio came into contact with numerous well-known rappers, including Eko Fresh and rappers from Aggro Berlin .

He had his breakthrough in 2005 with the song Meine Favorite Rapper , in which he imitated various German rappers. Only Sido , who played a part in the song, was not imitated by Blumio. In 2007 he took part in the L-Records label sampler L-Boom and the album Psychoterror by rapper Flaze , which were released together as a double album.

In December 2008 Blumio released the album Rush Hour in cooperation with BTM Squad member Habesha . The sound carrier was the first release on Blumio's label Japsensoul . In June 2009 his second long player Yellow Album was released and with it the song Hey Mr. Nazi on it , which is still Blumio's most famous song in German-speaking countries. In September 2010, Blumio's third album Tokio Bordell was released . This resulted in the singles Eberhard and Die Welt ist schwul .

Since the end of 2012, Blumio has been presenting Rap da News! weekly raps in which he critically deals with current topics from politics and world affairs (→ Conscious Rap ). Blumio has been campaigning against nuclear power since the Fukushima nuclear disaster . In 2013, the city of Düsseldorf awarded him its cultural promotion award in the music category.

Blumio lived in the Pempelfort district of Düsseldorf , then he and his girlfriend moved to the neighboring Derendorf district .

Blumio now lives in Japan.

Discography

Albums

• 2009: Yellow Album
• 2010: Tokyo brothel
• 2011: Yellow Album Reloaded
• 2012: three
• 2015: floriculture
• 2018: demo

Collab albums

• 2008: Rush Hour (with Habesha)

Mix tapes

• 2004: I Love German Rap

EPs

• 2005: My favorite rappers

Singles

• 2007: My Favorite Rappers (Maxi-Single)
• 2009: War of the Roses (featuring Zemine)
• 2009: anti-violence song
• 2009: Hey Mr. Nazi (E-Single)
• 2009: HDGDL
• 2009: intro
• 2010: Let's talk about sharks
• 2011: We dream of better days together (E-Single)

Juice exclusives

• 2004: Cell phones in the air ( Juice-Exclusive! On Juice-CD # 47)
• 2007: New Kids On The Block II with many other rappers ( Juice-Exclusive! On Juice-CD # 75)

Web links

• Blumio's channel on YouTube
• Blumio at laut.de
• Blumio - The new star in the rape sky? , Biography on rap2soul.de
• Blumio at Discogs (English)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Blumio in the German charts ( details )
2. ↑ ^{a b} biography on laut.de
3. ↑ Verena Patel: Blumio raps against violence and for more tolerance . Article from January 9, 2014 in the portal rp-online.de , accessed on December 14, 2014
4. ↑ Autobiography on its own website ( memento of the original from September 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ MTV TRL: Interview with Blumio , accessed on January 27, 2017
6. ↑ rap.de - L-BOOM and Psychoterror  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Blumio and Habesha with a collaboration album and their own label  ( page can no longer be called up , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Rap da News! on yahoo screen ( memento of the original from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ Prizes for promising talents , press release of the state capital Düsseldorf of December 10, 2013, accessed on the duesseldorf.de portal on January 14, 2014