Gheddo
| Gheddo | |
|---|---|
| Eko Fresh feat. Bushido | |
| publication | June 2, 2006 |
| length | 3:50 |
| Genre (s) | rap |
| Author (s) | Anise Ferchichi, Ekrem Bora, Yunus Cimen |
| Label | Subword / Sony BMG |
| album | Hartz IV |
Gheddo is a song by the German rapper Eko Fresh , on which he is accompanied by the rapper Bushido , and the first single from his album Hart (z) IV . The song deals with the social grievances in the Cologne district of Cologne-Kalk and was released as a single on June 4, 2006 via the Sony-BMG sub-label Subword. This reached number 15 in the German and number 40 in the Austrian single charts.
background
Eko Fresh, who comes from Mönchengladbach , had two chart successes in 2003 with König von Deutschland and I am young and need the money , and then in 2004, together with Valezka, the R&B- heavy album Life Of Valezka & Eko and the Turkish-language album Dünya Dönüyor - Die World turns published. The latter in particular turned out to be a commercial failure and in the German rapeseed scene Eko received considerable criticism for both works. Eko Fresh then moved to the Cologne district of Köln-Kalk, founded the crew German Dream and published the disstrack Die Abrechnung at the end of the year , in which he verbally attacked several German rappers. This title kicked off a beef wave in the German rapeseed scene, which caused numerous response tracks . One of these was The Judgment , published in early 2005 , in which Eko's former collaborator and promoter Kool Savas spent more than five minutes talking about Eko Fresh. The verdict was rated by critics as the higher quality title and one of the most important German-language disstracks of all time. For the rest of the year, Eko Fresh failed to make commercial solo releases.
For Gheddo , the first single of his second solo album Har (z) IV , Eko Fresh got the support of the Berlin rapper Bushido, in whose environment Fresh had already previously met with the common Fler -Disstrack Flerräter and his participation in the ersguterjunge -Labelsampler Nemesis . Bushido, together with Sido , is credited with establishing German-speaking street rapeseed in the first decade of the 21st century. In the German hip-hop scene, Eko Fresh was therefore again confronted with accusations that he would change his image too often due to the publication of Gheddo .
Emergence
Like the entire album Hart (z) IV , Eko Fresh recorded Gheddo entirely in the bedroom of the producer Kingsize.
content
Eko Fresh and Bushido represent a social problem area in Gheddo , whose life is marked by drug trafficking , prostitution and prison stays. In this context, the song also contains several direct allusions to Peter Hartz , the namesake of the labor market reforms of the early 2000s that became known as the Hartz Concept . The Cologne district of Gremberg is referred to in the song as "Grembranx".
In interviews, Eko Fresh emphasized that he wanted the song to be understood not as gangsta rap , but as “reality rap”, which reflects his personal impressions in Cologne-Kalk. He also described Gheddo as the most profound allusions on his album Hart (z) IV .
Track list
In addition to the album version of Gheddo , the single contains two remixes of the title. On the Turkish Remix, Eko Fresh, who is of Turkish descent, raps in Turkish and is accompanied by the Turkish-speaking rappers Ceza , Killa Hakan and Yener. Fresh is accompanied on the Evangelium Remix by German Dream members Capkekz , Farid Bang , Ice-H, Kay One , Muroh and Summer Cem . In addition, the single contains the songs I'm an Outlaw and a Dear Neighbor . In addition to La Honda, the American rap group Outlawz is featured on the track Ich bin ein Outlaw . Eko, who had repeatedly emphasized that he was an avowed fan of Outlawz member Tupac Shakur , who died in 1996, said he was fulfilling a personal dream.
With the exception of Ich bin ein Outlaw , for whose musical design Thai & Zero were responsible, all tracks on the single were produced by Kingsize.
- Gheddo (feat. Bushido) - 3:50
- Gheddo (Turkish Remix) ( feat.Ceza , Killa Hakan & Yener) - 3:48
- Gheddo (Evangelium Remix) ( feat.Capkekz , Farid Bang , Ice-H, Kay One , Muroh & Summer Cem ) - 3:50
- I'm an Outlaw (feat. La Honda & The Outlawz ) - 4:27
- Dear neighbor - 2:31
marketing
Music video
A music video was recorded for Gheddo under the direction of Hinrich Pflug from Katapult Filmproduktion GmbH, which premiered on May 11, 2006 on the MTV broadcast Total Request Live . This is completely in black and white and shows the daily routine of a boy played by Ozan Aksu who lived in Cologne a . a. ongoing education leaves and firearms into contact. In the course of the video, this boy briefly meets Eko Fresh and Bushido, who are shown rapping in the other scenes in the video. At the end of the video, the boy and a friend meet two grown men in an underground car park in which Eko Fresh and Bushido were shown rapping. Since everyone involved is armed, the situation escalates and the boy is shot.
Since its republication on the official Bushido YouTube channel in August 2012, the music video for Gheddo has been viewed over 3.7 million times (as of April 2014).
TV appearances
On June 6, 2006, Eko Fresh was on Total Request Live to promote the single. Bushido stayed with the recordings, according to Eko Freshs, in protest against the broadcaster's refusal to publish the music video for the single What did I do that? to play his protégé Baba Saad, far away.
Commercial win
In its first week of sales, Gheddo entered the German singles charts as the second highest newcomer to number 15. Gheddo stayed in the top 100 for a total of 13 weeks. That’s after Ich bin jung and need the money , which reached number 5 in 2003, the Eko Fresh single with the second longest chart stay and together with König von Deutschland from the year 2003 the artist's second highest ranked single. In 2006 she was one of the 100 best-selling singles of the year in Germany.
In addition, Gheddo , placed in Austria, where the song got in on 16 June 2006 at No. 69 and two weeks later to position scored 40 its peak, the first in the charts and until the publication of Joko Diss in April 2014 highest placed Eko Fresh -Single. For Bushido, Gheddo was his highest single chart position in Austria at the time of publication. In Germany he achieved his second highest single chart position in Germany and the highest entry one to date with the song after Endgegner / Staatsfeind Nr. 1 Song on which Bushido is represented as a guest artist.
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Live performances
At the award ceremony of the Grimme Prize in 2014 , accompanied by Klaus Doldinger , he rapped the stanzas of Gheddo , which were slightly changed in text, about the theme melody composed by Doldinger for the crime TV series Tatort . Already in January 2014 Eko Fresh rapped at the release party of Psaiko.Dino's debut album #hangster Gheddo about the melody of Haftbefehls Chabos know who the Babo is . Moreover Gheddo regular part of Eko Fresh's live concerts.
Continuing effect
Gheddo in other songs
The Gheddo text line "You all have rich parents and says Germany has no ghetto" is used by Bushido on the song Nie ein Rapper II from his 2014 album Sonny Black and slightly modified on the title Ich rap for Carlo , published in 2009 together with Fler Cokxxx hookers 2 quotes.
Eko Fresh himself refers in 2012 as the first single of his album Ek to the Roots published titles These two , where he first worked again with Bushido for almost six years, on Gheddo . For the chorus of the title Es muss sein , also published on Ek to the Roots , Eko Fresh also used the last half of his own Gheddo chorus line “Eko Fresh, Ghetto-Chef, Junge, because es muss sein”, which he also used on his A little later, the thirty-minute Freetrack 700 Bars referred to.
continuation
Over the years, Eko Fresh delivered several sequels to the song. The first was titled I stay here (Gheddo 2) in 2008 and was published by rapper Intikam with a guest post by Eko Freshs. 2010 Eko Fresh picked for his mixtape Freezy Bumaye 1.0 - There can be only one , together with Ado Kojo another sequel titled Gheddo Part 3 on.
In the fall of 2014 Eko Fresh released as a lead single for his album German dream with Gheddo Reloaded for the first time a commercial successor to Gheddo . In this version, Sido took on the guest part. Bushido stated in interviews that, despite his good personal relationship with Eko Fresh, he did not want to be involved in the song, as Eko published Deutscher Traum on the Punchline label of Aggro Berlin co- founder Jens “Spaiche” Ihlenfeld, with which the former Aggro Berlin artist Bushido refused to work together again. Gheddo Reloaded reached number 74 in the singles charts in Germany.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT
- ↑ Eko Fresh biography at: laut.de . Retrieved April 7, 2014.
- ↑ Kool Savas: Eko is the victim again . At: laut.de. November 26, 2009, accessed April 7, 2014.
- ↑ Kool Savas: At the end of the billing process . At: tagesspiegel.de. June 7, 2010, accessed April 7, 2014.
- ↑ a b Juice , 06/2006, p. 36.
- ↑ a b c d Eko Fresh Interview . At: hiphop-jam.net. June 23, 2006, accessed April 7, 2014.
- ↑ MTV TRL , edition of July 6, 2006.
- ↑ 2006 annual charts officialcharts.de, accessed on January 21, 2016
- ↑ 50th Grimme Prize: Those honored are better than the gala . At: noz.de. April 4, 2014, accessed April 7, 2014.
- ↑ Interview: Bushido & Shindy - Ersguterjunge is the gang . In: Juice , No. 164, January / February 2015, p. 30.