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March 3, 2017 |
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CD, digital |
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Chelo Wieland |
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Kleinstadtkids is the second studio album by the German hip-hop duo SAM . It was released on March 3, 2017 on the Chimperator label . It is distributed by Groove Attack .
background
In 2014 the duo released their studio album Two True Brothers (TTB), which reached number 27 in the German album charts determined by GfK Entertainment . It was their first commercial success.
The album was announced in mid-December 2016. It includes guest posts by Fabio Battista, Bobbe Benz, Kelvyn Colt, and Elijah Hook. As is usual in other SAM songs, it was produced by Chelo Wieland, the brother of rapper Samson Wieland.
The brothers spent their childhood in Ochsenhausen . The album title is based on this location. In terms of content, the album mainly deals with topics of love and security.
In 2017 the brothers went on the small town kids tour.
Music videos
On December 16, 2016, the music video for the single Wach auf appeared on YouTube . This was followed by the music videos for Alles und Frei , which were released on February 10 and March 3, 2017.
Track list
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album
| # | title | length |
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| 1 | Intro | 2:47 |
| 2 | Free | 3:35 |
| 3 | The last of us | 2:54 |
| 4th | First time | 3:32 |
| 5 | Everything | 3:39 |
| 6th | Sometime | 3:25 |
| 7th | One room apartment | 3:47 |
| 8th | Real Guy (feat. Fabio Battista) | 3:43 |
| 9 | Wake up | 3:19 |
| 10 | Cadillac (feat. Bobbe Benz) | 3:39 |
| 11 | Slow Motion (feat.Kelvyn Colt) | 3:12 |
| 12 | From you | 3:00 |
| 13 | Come back! | 3:34 |
| 14th | Love you! | 3:55 |
Bonus EP
| # | title | length |
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| 1 | Oh lord | 1:53 |
| 2 | You dance (feat. Elijah Hook) | 2:37 |
| 3 | Crown | 3:14 |
| 4th | Peter Pan | 2:57 |
| 5 | Misstep | 4:05 |
reception
The album received mixed reviews. Fabrizio Perri from MZEE.com magazine writes that SAM shows “how rap works in pop form” . Despite the “lyrical lack of imagination” , every song has “hit potential” thanks to the instrumentation . Samson Wieland can "rap properly" , but he shows this "far too rarely" . The album contains too many "topics that don't offend anywhere" .
The reviewer from rap-n-blues.com has a similar opinion : The album contains "an above-average number of tracks that deal with love topics" . The title suggests “the subject area of the small / big town” , but “most of the tracks are actually about relationship issues” . It is too "omnipresent" for the reviewer .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chart discography Germany
- ^ SAM - small town kids . In: musicline.de , accessed on March 5, 2017.
- ↑ Clark Senger: SAM announce their new album "Kleinstadtkids". hiphop.de, December 20, 2016, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
- ↑ a b SAM - "Kleinstadtkids" (Review + Stream). rap-n-blues.com, March 7, 2017, accessed March 11, 2017 .
- ^ Fabrizio Perri: SAM - Kleinstadtkids - Review. MZEE.com , March 9, 2017, accessed March 11, 2017 .