Fuffies in the club

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Fuffies in the club
Cover
Sido
publication April 26, 2004
length 3:47
Genre (s) rap
text Sido gold
music Roe Beardie
Label aggro Berlin
album mask
Cover version
2011 Hammer & compass

Fuffies im Club is a song by the German rapper Sido and the second single from his debut album Maske . The song was released on April 26, 2004 as part of the album on the Aggro Berlin record company and released as a single on August 2, 2004. This reached number 18 in the German single charts. A remix of the song was recorded with the rapper Harris and, like the original version, was promoted with a music video for the single release. The remix was later released as a hidden track on the label sampler Aggro Ansage Nr. 4 .

content

Fuffies in the Club is mainly about money and its importance in the modern world. In the style of American rappers, Sido said he wanted to express his social advancement in this way with his onset of success. At the same time, by choosing 50 euro bills , he wanted to keep the dimensions within realistic limits. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung also described Fuffies in the club in 2009 on the occasion of an article about a Sido concert as a “lascivious social report from the strip club” .

The song also contains pop cultural allusions to the American rapper 50 Cent , his hit In da Club and the film Mission: Impossible .

production

Was produced Fuffies Club in the original and in remix of Roe Beardie, who produced much of the album mask. The recordings took place in the Headrush Studios. The album version of the song contains at the beginning a sample of the song Spüre den Groove by MC Rene from 1995, about which Sido raps his hookline . The melody of the actual song is also based on the theme melody of the film Mission: Impossible .

Track list

In addition to the original version, the single also contains a remix of the song, on which Sido is accompanied by Harris . With this, Sido should later form the duo of your favorite rappers . Fuffies im Club was the first single that both of them worked together. Before that, both of them had already recorded Glashoch, which is also on the single, for Sido's album Maske. This was originally produced by Beathoavenz and is otherwise available in a remix each by DJ Ron and Bommer. Together with his Alles ist die Sekt collaboration partner B-Tight , Sido also recorded the title Yeah . The single also contains the music video for Fuffies in the Club in all its versions.

single
  1. Fuffies in the club (original) 3:47
  2. Fuffies in the club (radio) 3:47
  3. Fuffies im Club (Remix) (feat. Harris ) 3:16
  4. Fuffies in the Club (Derezon Remix) 3:25
  5. Glashoch (feat. Harris) 4:59
  6. Glashoch (DJ Ron Remix) (feat. Harris) 5:03
  7. Glashoch (Bommer Mix) (feat. Harris) 5:03
  8. Yeah ( feat.AidS ) 3:13

Music video

Directed by Specter and Daniel Harder , a music video was shot in the Berlin nightclub Rush Hour for both the original version and the remix of Fuffies im Club . Ngo The Chau was responsible for the camera work . The video shows Sido and the rapper Harris, B-Tight, Fler and the former The sect -members Mesut and Tony D with notes to himself up among numerous dancers who usually a striptease perform. At the end of the video, the police storm the club and arrest the rappers.

The music video of the remix differs from the one for the original version of the song only in that Harris’s additional verse is recorded.

According to Sidos, the video shoot had to be canceled after a fight . The police officers seen in the video were therefore actual police officers.

reception

Commercial win

In the German single charts , the single was placed at number 18. In total, Fuffies stayed in the top 100 of the German single charts for 9 weeks. From the European independent label -Dachverband Impala was Fuffies Club also with a January 2008 Impala Award Silver Award for selling over 30,000 units.

Chart placements
Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK) Germany (GfK) 18th (9 weeks) 9

criticism

The song received mixed reviews when it was released. In the course of their review of the album Maske, the editors of the e-zine laut.de highlighted the innovative nature of the music by Fuffies in the club . The music magazine Rolling Stone classified fuffies in the club when they were published, however, as a tendency to classify them as "youth-endangering peoples" .

Live performances

Fuffies in the club is a regular part of Sido's live concerts. As part of his MTV Unplugged Concert MTV Unplugged Live from MV , Sido also recorded an unplugged version of the song, which was released on the live album of the same name.

At the Red Bull Soundclash 2012 of the bands Kraftklub and KIZ in the Palladium in Cologne , Sido appeared in round wildcard at Kraftklub's side and performed a mashup from the Kraftklub song Randale und Fuffies in the club .

Aftermath

meaning

With Fuffies in the club , Sido was able to build on his success after Mein Block and slowly establish himself as a permanent rap star. Harris and the journalist and Royal Bunker founder Marcus Staiger was Fuffies Club also in retrospect as one of the few " club classified -Hits" the Deutschrap genre. Even Casper called Fuffies Club over the hip-hop magazine Juice as an example of a "pop hit" in the field of Deutschrap, but threw a limitation that the song a more mature generation at that time have not been able to reach.

Allusions in other songs

In his song Gangsta from the album Heavy Metal Payback , the rapper Bushido , who was feuding with Sido and his label Aggro Berlin at the time, refers to fuffies in the club with the line "Throw the fuffies through the club / I throw five hundred in the trash" .

The song, like the song "Mein Block" published on the same album, is quoted in the hook line of Kollegahs and Farid Bangs' anti-Sido disstrack "Die Straße kuckt zu" on the album Jung, brutal, good-looking : Throw the fuffies in the club, I'll do fuffies in the hood "

Conceptually, the song Hunnies in the club by gynecologist is based on fuffies in the club .

A sample of the fuffies in the club line “I can afford it, because your husband orders my tape” is used in 2014 in Sido's verse on the remix of the rapper's Haftbefehl single Saudi Arabi Money Rich .

Cover versions

In 2011, the rap group Hammer & Zirkel and Liquit Walker released a cover of Fuffies im Club entitled Omis im Bus on their EP Two and a Half Men 2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE
  2. ↑ You can't eat money Melodie & Rhythmus 01/2012 , January 3, 2012, accessed on December 22, 2013
  3. ↑ a b Dies Das: Sido - about Azad, Dominic Heinzl and Kurt Kröner Aggro.TV, December 10, 2012, accessed on December 22, 2013 (video)
  4. ↑ Cheers! - Sido in the Maag Eventhall nzz.ch, December 3, 2009, accessed on December 22, 2013
  5. ↑ Whosampled.com: Sido - Fuffies Club Retrieved on December 22, 2013
  6. ↑ a b Album review "Mask": Teutonic gangsta rap has a new messiah laut.de , accessed on December 22, 2013
  7. ^ Laut.de biography: Your favorite rappers laut.de, accessed on December 22, 2013
  8. ↑ IMPALA Press Release Cannes impalamusic.org, January 29, 2008, accessed on December 22, 2013 (English)
  9. ↑ Aggro Berlin vacate the Europe-wide Impala Awards from May 11, 2008, accessed on December 22, 2013
  10. ^ Sido: Fuffies in the club rollingstone.de, January 3, 2005, accessed on December 22, 2013
  11. ↑ Red Bull Soundclash juice.de, December 12, 2012, accessed December 22, 2013
  12. ↑ Red Bull Soundclash: That's how it was in Cologne: demolition! ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2013 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. intro.de, December 10, 2012, accessed December 22, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.intro.de
  13. ↑ Harris: Gras, Koks, Kieferakrobatik ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2013 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. rap.de, January 9, 2009, accessed December 22, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rap.de
  14. ↑ Casper & Kraftklub Interview juice.de, December 15, 2010, accessed on December 22, 2013