Life is Saad
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| Studio album by Baba Saad | ||||
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2006 |
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| Label (s) | ersguterjunge / Universal | |||
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Title (number) |
18th |
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running time |
57:56 |
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Decay, Bushido and DJ Stickle |
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Life is Saad is the rapper Baba Saad's first solo album . It was published on June 16, 2006 on the ersguterjunge label .
Track list
- Intro - 1:10
- Green - White WB - 3:15
- Believe in yourself (feat. Chakuza) - 3:03
- How did I deserve this - 3:36
- Caught (feat. Azad) - 3:55
- S double A - 3:11
- What I'm missing - 3:18
- The last ones will be the first (feat. Eko Fresh) - 3:38
- Come back at last (feat. Bahar) - 3:33
- Cheers to you (feat. Bushido) - 3:31
- !! How so !! (feat.Bizzy Montana) - 2:45
- Life is Saad - 3:17
- I hold the position - 3:53
- Disappeared (feat. D-Bo) - 3:43
- Underestimated - 3:02
- Carlo Cokxxx Nutten Flavor (feat.Bushido) - 2:57
- Around Us (feat. JokA ) - 4:04
- Outro - 2:05
illustration
On the cover you can see Baba Saad standing by a lake. The rapper, dressed in a leather jacket, wide pants and baseball cap , is completely reflected in the water. On the left half is the title of the album in ornate white letters. A few splashes of color cover the scene, which is kept greyish.
Guest Posts
The album contains guest contributions, so-called features , by seven different artists. The collaboration with the rappers Bushido , Chakuza , Eko Fresh , Bizzy Montana and D-Bo was an obvious choice, as they are also under contract with the ersguterjunge label . The rapper Bahar was also contractually bound to ersguterjunge at the time the song was recorded . Another song was created with the Frankfurt rapper Azad . We also worked with JokA , an old friend from Baba Saad's hometown of Bremen.
Producers
The main producer of the album was the Austrian producer duo Beatlefield , who were under contract with Ersguterjunge . They are responsible for the beats of the tracks Intro , Grün Weiß WB , Believe in dich , How did I deserve it , S Double A , What I'm missing , Come back at last , Why , I hold the position , Underestimated and Outro . Furthermore, the producer Benny Blanco, who is under contract with Bozz Music , produced the tracks Gefangen and Um Uns . The young in-house producer Decay also contributed two beats . These are the tracks Prost auf dich and Carlo Cokxxx Nutten Flavor . Screwaholic , who was also under contract with Ersguterjunge at the time of the release , produced the track Das Leben ist Saad . Another beat comes from the German Dream producer Kingsize , which can be assigned to the song Verschwunden . Label boss Bushido also contributed the beat to the Eko Fresh feature track The first will be the last .
resonance
success
The album entered the German charts at number 15 . The sound carrier was able to stay in the German album charts for seven weeks. The single Womit I have earned that climbed to number 68 and stayed in the single charts for five weeks.
criticism
rap.de: “ All in all,“ Das Leben Ist Saad ”is a more than successful debut. Saad exceeds all expectations and is more diverse than ever before. Who would have thought beforehand that Bremen's most famous rapper would present us an album like this one with almost no weaknesses? Buyers of this record will certainly not have to make use of their right to exchange and perhaps the numerous critics will at least pay Saad the respect he has clearly earned with this. "
The German hip-hop magazine Juice called Das Leben ist Saad “proof” of the increasing relevance of German-speaking rap and awarded the record 4.5 out of a possible 6 “crowns”. In the evaluation, the beats are highlighted positively. According to the editor in charge, these fit “perfectly into the coherent tension of the album”. The guest appearances of the rappers Chakuza and Bizzy Montana are seen as negative.
"Essentially, Saad deals with the pitfalls of his own life in an authentic way - whether it is the subject of the civil war in [...] Lebanon , the lack of perspective and hostility in the social hot spots, the absence of his father as a male caregiver, relationship problems, the The feeling of life of the disaffected post-fun generation or the death of a close friend in a senseless club argument. Saad is certainly not reinventing the rap wheel, his rhyme technique and diction are too influenced by his obvious role models Bushido and Azad. […] Nevertheless, the self-confidence with which Baba Saad stands for his hip-hop design is new. Here, a position is taken on one's own issues, from one's own language and clothing codes to one's own musical influences. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Album review on rap.de ( Memento of the original from September 2, 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. dated June 20, 2006
- ↑ August edition of Juice (2006) - page 111
