Firewater (album)

Firewater
Studio album by Curse
Publication (s)	March 27, 2000 or August 4, 2003 (re-release) August 20, 2015 ( remastered )
Label (s)	Jive Records
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Hip hop
Title (number)	14 or 16
running time	48:15 or 56:06
production	Sascha "Busy" Bühren, Lord Scan (The Klan), Iman and others
Studio (s)	True Busyness Studios in Bad Oeynhausen
chronology - Firewater Inside Out (2001)

Feuerwasser is the first album by the Minden rapper Curse and was released on March 27, 2000 via Jive Records . Received differently by critics and fans, since the album was stylistically very different from the musical approaches of the German hip-hop hubs in Hamburg and Stuttgart at the time , Feuerwasser is now widely seen as groundbreaking for the development of German hip-hop.

Although the comparatively low commercial success compared to other hip-hop artists of the time, Curse's first single , which made it into the video rotation of some music stations , is on the album with love-hate / ten rap laws .

Concept and production

The lyrics are about interpersonal relationships, self-reflection and depression . There are also representative and battle tracks . Of the Juice magazine album is described as a blend of "naive and sophistication, emotion and Technology, juvenile Feierlaune and astonishing Ernst". The album is designed as a classic rap record and, according to Curse and Bührens, was based primarily on Nas' debut album, Illmatic .

On the musical side, the producers Lord Scan, Stieber Twins, Sascha “Busy” Bühren, Iman, DJ Feedback and Peer Bee work mainly with styles and elements of East Coast hip-hop from the mid and late 90s. This sound aesthetic is primarily characterized by the programming of samples (often from the field of jazz ) using corresponding analog workstations and drum computers such as the MPC 2000 or the SP1200 from E-mu Systems .

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Firewater   DE 31 04/10/2000 (7 weeks)

Track list

1. Ten Rap Laws - 1:39
2. What is ... - 4:05
3. True love - 4:00
4. Leavin 'Las Vegas (feat. The Klan) - 4:29
5. Ladykiller - 3:05
6. Development Aid - 3:23
7. In private - 1:58
8. Seance (feat. Arsonists, Shabazz The Disciple & Stieber Twins) - 3:58
9. Love-hate relationship - 3:47
10. Kaspaklatsche (feat. The Klan) - 2:56
11. Weser water - 3:36
12. You can rely on us (feat. Tone) - 4:33
13. Light and Shadow (feat. J-Luv) - 4:29
14. Final stroke - 2:28
15. Sufis feat. Square One - 3:59 (only included on 2003 reprint)
16. What Is (Square One Remix) - 3:53 (Only included on 2003 Reissue)

reception

Chart placement

Firewater rose to number 31 on the media control charts in the first week. In the second week, the album slipped to 46th place. It was in the top 100 for a total of six weeks, the last time in the 20th calendar week of 2000 at number 89. It is thus the album with the lowest entry position to date and the shortest stay in the charts in Curse's discography of regular studio albums .

Reviews

The critics had different opinions about firewater , partly due to Curse's artistic approach. At the time, it was very different from the conventions and concepts of the German hip-hop epicentres Hamburg and Stuttgart at the time . Nevertheless, Curse had generated corresponding expectations within the hip-hop scene through previous projects, which were very high in many places.

In the year of publication, Juice Magazine saw Feuerwasser as one of "the best German hip-hop albums" and made it its album of the month. Later, in the review section of a special issue , the magazine Feuerwasser included it in the “Selection of the most relevant German rap albums in the young hip-hop history [...]”. The album is "[...] morality, integrity and honor [...]". attributed.

Laut.de rated the album as mediocre on the grounds that the stylistic direction of the album was "a bit too hard and [...] sometimes too personal". The intro attests to Curse's lack of content. When she re-released Feuerwasser in 2003, however, she revised this opinion and spoke of "[...] one of the best rap albums of the year [2003]."

Overall, Feuerwasser met with positive feedback for the most part, but has remained far less popular with fans than, for example, its successors From Inside Out or Freedom

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Juice Magazin Special Issue "Rap in D 2" March / April 2008, Curse Review, p. 115
2. ↑ Juice Magazin Special Issue "Rap in D 2" March / April 2008 p. 115, lines 1-2
3. ↑ Juice Magazine Special Issue "Rap in D 2" March / April 2008, p. 115, Curse: "Nas' first album, I want to go there!"
4. ^ Review, lines 18-19
5. ^ East Coast Hip-Hop - What Is East Coast Hip-Hop Hip. Rap.about.com, October 31, 2009, accessed June 10, 2010 . 
6. ↑ Sources chart placements: DE ( Memento of the original from December 16, 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. , accessed June 6, 2010 
7. ↑ Chart tracking by Curse
8. ↑ See discography
9. ↑ Article in Stuttgarter Zeitung ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. 
10. ↑ Paragraph on "Bambule"
11. ↑ Juice Magazin November 2000, Der Klan Interview p. 39
12. ↑ Juice Magazin March 2000, Review p. 114
13. ↑ Juice Magazin Jan / Feb 2001, in the annual review it says on p. 104: "The opus of the big little one is album of the month"
14. ↑ Juice Magazin Special Issue "Rap in D" March / April 2005, p. 100
15. ↑ Juice Magazin Special Issue "Rap in D" March / April 2005, Curse Review, p. 115
16. ↑ Review of fire water on laut.de.
17. ↑ Curse Interview, in answer to the question Do you read your own reviews?
18. ↑ Intro: Record reviews - Curse - Feuerwasser - Intro Magazin . Intro.de. February 22, 1999. Retrieved June 10, 2010.
19. ↑ Interview with Curse on Fett-MTV, Curse claims that Inside Out was the most popular Curse album
20. ↑ Juice Magazine Special Issue "Rap in D 2" March / April 2008 p. 115 "For many [...] from inside to outside was always THE Curse album"

Web links

• Homepage of Curse