Fan mail 2
| Fan mail 2 | |
|---|---|
| Kollegah | |
| publication | 2nd September 2016 |
| length | 18:30 |
| Genre (s) | Hip-hop , battle rap |
| Author (s) | Kollegah |
| music | Hookbeats & Phil Fanatic, Undercover Molotov, Beatbrothers |
| Label | Alpha Music |
Fanpost 2 is a disstrack published by Kollegah on September 2, 2016 to the rapper Fler . Kollegah published the associated 18-minute video, which shows a mock capture of Fler with subsequent execution, via YouTube and uploaded it at the same time via other platforms. Directed by Daniel Zlotin . Only 15 minutes after publication it was deleted by injunction . The video did not disappear from the platform, but was uploaded again by several users.
background
The beef (a lyrical, but also often serious argument in hip-hop) between Kollegah and Fler dates back to 2009. The trigger was the track West Germany's Kings by Kollegah, Farid Bang and Favorite from Selfmade Records ' sampler Chronik 2 , in which Kollegah and Favorite dissolve Fler , Sido and Kitty Kat , who at the time belonged to the independent label Aggro Berlin , which was still in the process of being dissolved . Fler and Kitty Kat responded with the track You used to be fans on which they got support from Silla . It then continued with Kollegah's track fan mail and Fler's answer, cry for love . Then the beef was kept alive again and again by mutual mentions in songs, interviews or videos, whereby Kollegah and Farid Bang in particular enjoyed provoking Fler. So they rang the doorbell at his apartment door or called for a dispute in Berlin.
Fler released his Extended Play Parole on May 27, 2016 , which featured a few Disses at Kollegah. On the Reality Check opening track, for example, he degraded him “to the eye-catching YouTube Photoshopper (...) who pulled himself up to Fler and [came] to the meeting point with bodyguards”.
Kollegah chose a large-scale answer. He not only wrote the track Fanmail 2 as a continuation of the first title, but also had a video presented and announced a release for September 2, 2016. It was the day Fler's latest album, Vibe , was released. At the same time, Kollegah used the video to promote his album Imperator, which was announced for December 2016 .
Video and text
Similar to Bushido's Disstrack against Kay One Life and Death of Kenneth Glöckler , video and text are a unit. The video production company StreetCinema from Cologne also produced the video . The beat for the song comes from Hookbeats & Phil Fanatic, Undercover Molotov and Beatbrothers. It is kept gloomy throughout and underlaid with choirs. The song is divided into three parts by two passages spoken by Kollegah that serve to change the beat. In terms of text, it begins with a summary of Fler's life, his growing up as a child at home and graffiti sprayer through to his rap career and his attempts as a label boss for Masculin and as a fashion designer. He is portrayed by Kollegah as a failure. A large part of the text as well as the video refers to the so-called "carrot story", in which Fler allegedly pushed carrots into the anus by competitors from the sprayer scene. Also mentioned are pioneers and former colleagues of Fler such as Bushido , Aggro Berlin, Kay One, Sentino , Laas Unltd. , Animus and Silla.
Fler's missteps are also listed with relish. For example, the constant change at his label, an advertisement from Julian Zietlow , an alleged affair between his wife and soccer star Jérôme Boateng , his failed fashion label, the false rumors about a conversion to Islam and attempts to ingratiate themselves with Bushido. References to the Kollegah Fler Beef are also occasionally interspersed.
The video shows Kollegah digging up and resuscitating the buried Fler. Then Fler is locked in an insane asylum, where he is given carrot soup and forced to listen to Kollegah's track. After briefly escaping, he is held again and his martyrdom continues. At the end, he is doused with gasoline before Kollegah cuts his arms off with a chainsaw and then sets him on fire. A Fler double who looks pretty similar to the rapper was hired for the recordings.
publication
The video was released on September 2, 2016, as announced, at 6 p.m. sharp. Fler had the video blocked within the first 15 minutes and stated that this was because the lines against his mother and wife bothered him. In this short time, however, the video had already been downloaded by many fans and was repeatedly uploaded via various channels, including Vimeo , Facebook or YouTube. In addition, an almost complete transcription was available via the Genius.com platform after just under an hour .
reception
Due to the deletion of the video, no exact access numbers can be given, as these relate to various re-uploads and pages that have since been blocked again. Rumor has it that around 100,000 views in the first seven minutes were assumed.
The video caught the attention of mainstream media like the online edition of the Gala or Focus Online . For the hip-hop magazine Juice , it is a staged beef from which both parties benefit:
“The argument between the two has degenerated so much into a kind of daily soap (?) That many are waiting for a sequel. (…) The beef has become a caricature of itself. You listen, laugh, feel entertained, but you no longer have the feeling that two people really want to attack each other. After all, you would not argue in public for seven years, but something would have actually happened long ago (...) Because many of the curious would jump off as soon as an argument escalated into violence, wrapped in rhymes. Fler and Kollegah probably know that too. These almost 20 lavishly staged minutes are accordingly mere entertainment for in between. They don't scare anyone anymore, they are not really taken seriously. It is great."
The music magazine Laut.de went a little further and described the song as "an 18-minute tirade of hate about Fler (...) and by far the worst thing that has been heard from Mr. Bosshaft."
At the Juice Awards 2016 held by the hip-hop magazine Juice , Fanpost 2 took second place in the Greatest Embarrassment category .
Individual evidence
- ^ Kollegah - Fanmail 2 (prod. By Hookbeats & Phil Fanatic, Undercover Molotov, Beatbrothers). (No longer available online.) Rap.de, September 2, 2016, archived from the original on September 17, 2016 ; accessed on September 17, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ a b c Johann Voigt: Post with Vibe: Kollegah - Fanpost 2 // Video. Juice , September 2, 2016, accessed September 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Jürgen Richter: Fler - Probation by EP [Review]. In: Rap.de. piranha media GmbH, May 23, 2016, accessed on September 17, 2016 .
- ↑ a b 18-minute diss opera to Fler. Laut.de , September 5, 2016, accessed on September 17, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Kollegah - Fanmail 2. Genius.com , accessed on September 17, 2016 .
- ^ After "Fanpost 2": Reaction from Bushido & Arafat Abou-Chaker? & Fler tops charts! spit-tv.de, September 3, 2016, accessed on September 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Fan mail 2: Fler reacts to Disstrack from Kollegah. Gala , September 3, 2016, accessed September 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Fan mail 2: Fler reacts to Disstrack from Kollegah. Focus Online, September 3, 2016, accessed September 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Juice No. 178, January / February 2019, p. 23
