Curse

Curse ( 1 Live Krone , 2014)

Logo of the rapper

Curse (born September 6, 1978 in Minden ; real name Michael Sebastian Kurth ) is a German rapper and systemic coach . The artist name Curse ( English 'curse') is an allusion to his family name Kurth pronounced as a th sound with a German accent.

Life

Curse in the slaughterhouse in Hamburg (1999)

Curse rapped in his youth with the band Phat Kicks , whose former members later formed the band Treadmill . With titles like Zwei Mal in den Kopf from the CD Straight Outta Broketown , the band performed in youth clubs in the Stadthagen area in the mid-1990s .

In 2000, he rapped along with GZA , Prodigal Sunn and Stieber Twins on the single I Live For Hip Hop by DJ Tomekk who placed in the German charts.

Already on his first studio album Feuerwasser from 2000 the lyrics are self-reflective and process his own experiences, but there is also a classic hip-hop part with representative and battle tracks. Curse often raps about failed love relationships and also admits mistakes to himself. Most of the beats on Feuerwasser and many other releases are produced by Sascha Busy Bühren. However, the beats of the latest releases, including those from the Sinnflut album , are mainly from Sieben and Claud .

In 2001 his second album was released, the top ten CD From Inside To Outside , on which Curse pursued this style and with the single Let's be friends for the first time, it achieved attention outside of the hip-hop scene for the first time. The hip-hop magazine Juice awarded it the best album national 2001 in 2001 . The album received international attention and was z. B. published in Japan.

Five days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 , in response to the events, Curse published the Freetrack Nothing Will Be As It Was , in which he called for more tolerance and responsibility.

Shift to more instruments

On his third album Innere Sicherheit from 2003, the style of the music changed in some aspects: While the beats on the previous albums were mostly electronically produced, you will find a wider range of instruments on Innere Sicherheit : from sophisticated instrumentals to classical flutes ( I understand you ) to the crossover song shock therapy to the very emotional And what about now? , a piano ballad, there is a wide spectrum of musical variation, which accompanies and emphasizes the mostly very profound lyrics. An increasing number of political and socially critical texts can be seen mostly from a left-wing perspective, whereby Curse does not neglect his 'old' topics. The single Resistance with the German reggae artist Gentleman was created in this context . The single What about now? was Homeland Security's greatest commercial success .

Curse has also made a name for himself when it comes to working with emerging talent. For example, he gave Italo Reno & Germany and Stress & Trauma the opportunity to present himself to a broader public through guest appearances on his publications and through his artist platform Alles Real Records . Over the years Curse has also worked through numerous collaborations with international and German artists, including Azad , Kool Savas , Tone , Xavier Naidoo , Max Herre ( Freundeskreis ), Samy Deluxe , Dendemann , J-Luv , Braz ( 4Lyn ), Gentleman , Nneka , Hassan Annouri , Pal One , Patrice , Melbeatz , Cassandra Steen , Pete Rock , Black Thought ( The Roots ), The Arsonists , Stieber Twins , DJ Tomekk , Greis , TAZ , RZA and Fort Baxter .

Fourth and fifth studio albums

His fourth studio album, Sinnflut , was released on December 2, 2005 ; the first single Gangsta Rap reached its top position at number 22. On Sinnflut , Curse returns to his roots, in contrast to the experimental album Innere Sicherheit . It is a versatile release with deep and personal songs like No Way Back or My Life and representative tracks like Der Fluch or the Samy Deluxe feature Broken Language Reloaded , which is a remake of the classic Broken Language by Smoothe Da Hustler with Trigger Tha Gambler from 1995 is.

Curse fulfilled a childhood dream with the features of Black Thought from The Roots and producer legend Pete Rock . The latter was persuaded by Curse to sing shoutouts and a hook, which he did last time for Curse's great role model Nas .

On October 5, 2007, Curse presented part of the radio program Plan B on the WDR station 1LIVE for the first time . Curse can be heard every four weeks and shares the moderation on a weekly basis, alternating with Jan Delay , Max Herre and Patrice . Further appointments were initially planned until 2009.

Internationally, Curse worked with Akhenaton , Shurik'N , Promoe and other artists on the Diversidad project and their first release experience .

The album, titled Freedom was published on 26 September 2008, two weeks after the published on 12 September 2008 single release freedom with Marius Müller-Westernhagen . The album was rated almost the highest by the hip-hop magazine Juice with 5.5 out of six crowns and reached 12th position in the German charts. The second single Until the end with Silbermond climbed in seventh place.

Anniversary EP and ending as a rapper

Curse (2012)

After Curse had released his albums on GUN Records , a sub-label of Sony BMG, for several years , it was announced in February 2009 that the rapper's releases would appear on Four Music in the future .

In September 2009 a law firm warned several bloggers, among others on behalf of the Curse record company. It was criticized that there was a song by Curse on a linked mixtape that was offered for download free of charge. As a result, resentment arose in the blogosphere, as such tapes were previously tolerated in support of the artists.

For the tenth anniversary of the release of the album Feuerwasser , the EP 20 Feuerwasser 10 was released in 2010 as a supplement to an issue of the hip-hop magazine Juice . In this EP, and later officially on his website, Curse announced that he would not continue his rap career for the time being. Since then he has been a member of the group The Achtung Achtung , which he founded together with the Swedish producer Jimmy Ledrac . Most recently, Curse worked as a composer in the background and worked a. a. on the top 10 success Never Forget and the single release Moment by Glasperlenspiel with.

Comeback and new studio album 2014

On October 31, 2014, his new studio album, Uns . The mastering was done by his long-time companion Sascha Busy Bühren. The album is the first release under the label Indie Neue Welt , newly founded by Curse , which is distributed by the independent distributor Groove Attack .

Seventh studio album The Color of Water and Tour 2018

On November 12, 2017, Curse announced on his Facebook page that he would be releasing a new studio album entitled The Color of Water , which was released on February 23, 2018 and reached number 2 in the German charts. The Color of Water Tour started on March 13th in Vienna and ended on December 1st, 2018 in Kiel.

Coaching, podcast, book

During the artistic break, Curse trained as a systemic coach and started a family. He came to Buddhism , learned to meditate and trained as a teacher for Kum Nye , a Tibetan healing yoga .

Michael “Curse” Kurth has been producing the podcast Meditation, Coaching & Life since January 2017 . He also appears as a speaker (Speaker) on the topics of meditation and work-life balance on. In 2018 he published the book Imagine you're waking up with the OOOO + X method he developed , which he has been teaching in workshops ever since . The book reached number 7 on the bestseller list of Der Spiegel magazine .

Curse lives with his family in Berlin .

Discography

Curse at the Out4Fame Festival 2015

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Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)			Remarks
		DE	AT	CH
2000	Firewater	DE31 (7 weeks) DE	-	-	First published: March 27, 2000
2001	From the inside to the outside	DE9 (7 weeks) DE	-	CH98 (1 week) CH	First published: October 1, 2001
2003	Internal security	DE12 (12 weeks) DE	-	CH60 (2 weeks) CH	First published: March 31, 2003
2005	Prestigious	-	-	CH20 (5 weeks) CH	First published: January 28, 2005 together with Greis , Claud & Taz
	Deluge	DE28 (1 week) DE	-	CH47 (2 weeks) CH	First published: December 2, 2005
2008	freedom	DE12 (11 weeks) DE	AT57 (1 week) AT	CH29 (3 weeks) CH	First published: September 26, 2008
2014	Us	DE5 (2 weeks) DE	AT23 (1 week) AT	CH10 (1 week) CH	First published: October 31, 2014
2018	The color of water	DE2 (4 weeks) DE	AT15 (1 week) AT	CH5 (3 weeks) CH	First published: February 23, 2018

Awards

His website was awarded the VIVA - Comet in the category Best Artist Homepage in 2002. Inside Out was named Best National Album in 2001 by hip-hop magazine Juice.

Fonts

• Michael "Curse" Kurth: Imagine you wake up. The OOOO + X method for more presence and clarity in life. Rowohlt Polaris, Reinbek near Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-499-63366-9 .

Web links

Commons : Curse  - collection of images

• Curse website
• Curse at laut.de
• Curse at Discogs (English)
• Curse at Allmusic (English)
• Curse in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by Curse in the catalog of the German National Library

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1. ↑ Bumbanet Magazine, Interview with Rob Labas, June 2000
2. ↑ Curse.de - News archive August 22, 2007 Soul music on the radio ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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.  
3. ↑ curse.de: Curse at Four Music, next single: "Wenn ich die Welt ..." ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Venue Music, warnings against mixtape linkers, September 2009 ( memento of the original from September 28, 2009 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.  
5. ↑ Hip-Hop.de: Curse with EP in the upcoming Juice
6. ↑ http://curse.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1316:danke&catid=1:newsbeitraege
7. ↑ Jesper Ipsen: Curse in the Juice No. 162, pp. 8 & 9.
8. ↑ Curse founds label "Indie Neue Welt" . rap.de. August 23, 2014. Retrieved October 7, 2014.
9. ↑ Facebook post from @curseoffical . November 21, 2017. Retrieved January 2, 2018.
10. ↑ Christina Raftery: Interview: Curse. In: yogaworld.de , July 24, 2018, accessed on September 21, 2019.
11. ↑ Mathias Mauersberger: Rapper Curse helps with self-discovery. In: Tonart , Deutschlandfunk Kultur , February 16, 2017, accessed on September 21, 2019 (interview).
12. ↑ Tim Wiese: The rapper and coach Michael "Curse" Kurth: Into the trap, out of the trap. In: In conversation , Deutschlandfunk Kultur, June 11, 2019, accessed on September 21, 2019 (interview, podcast).
13. ↑ Robert Paschmann: Rapper Curse: The ultimate answer to the ultimate question. In: Deutsche Buddhistische Union (Ed.): Buddhismus aktuell , No. 3/2018, p. 62.
14. ↑ Michael Curse Kurth. Rowohlt Verlag , accessed on September 21, 2019.
15. ↑ Curse at laut.de