Legacy (album)

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Legacy
Kollegah's compilation album

Publication
(s)

July 14, 2017

Label (s) Self-made records

Format (s)

Double CD , download

Genre (s)

German hip-hop , rap

Title (number)

40

running time

148: 57

production

chronology
Emperor
(2016)
Legacy Young, Brutal, Handsome 3
(with Farid Bang )
(2017)

Legacy ( English for “ heritage ” / “ legacy ”) is a best-of album by German rapper Kollegah . It was released on July 14, 2017 on the Selfmade Records label as a standard and limited gold award edition.

content

Standard edition

The album contains a total of 40 songs from the period from 2005 to 2017. 35 of the songs are remastered versions and come from Kollegah's solo albums, mix tapes and samplers that he released on Selfmade Records during this time. With five tracks each, most of them were taken from the albums pimp tape volume 3 and pimp tape volume 4 . The best-of also includes five previously unreleased tracks that were recorded especially for the album.

Box set

In addition to the standard edition of the album, the Limited-Gold-Award-Edition also contains Kollegah's nine solo albums, Zuhalteertape (X-Mas Edition) (2005), Boss der Bosse (2006), Alphagene (2007), Kollegah (2008 ), released via Selfmade Records ), Pimp tape Volume 3 (2009), Hoodtape Volume 1 X-Mas Edition (2010), Bossaura (2011), King (2014) and pimp tape Vol. 4 (2015). The box set also includes the two-hour Legacy DVD with previously unpublished video recordings, as well as the Golden Era tour tape , which Kollegah recorded with other rappers on his Imperator tour.

production

The songs selected for the album were produced by music producer Rizbo , among others .

Cover design

The album cover is in black and white and shows Kollegah, who looks at the viewer seriously. The golden lettering Kollegah and Legacy are in the lower part of the picture . The background is black.

Guest Posts

In addition to Kollegah, other artists are represented on nine songs on the album. So the rapper Favorite , label-mate of Self Made Records, the songs made Kaputt , Self Made raid bosses , middle finger up , West Germany Kings and disco-speed involved, taking on the middle finger up also the rapper Casper is heard and West Germany Kings also Farid Bang makes its appearance . Slick One , the label boss of Selfmade Records, has guest appearances on the tracks Rauch and Ein Junge cry nicht hier , whereby Tarek from the rap group KIZ is also represented on the latter . The piece Chronik III is a collaboration with the rappers Karate Andi and SSIO . In addition, Kollegah works with the French rapper Ol Kainry at Business Paris .

Track list

CD1

# title Guest musician length Original album
1 Destroyed Favorite 2:55 Pimp Tape (X-Mas Edition)
2 night 4:14 Boss of bosses
3 smoke Slick One 4:25 Boss of bosses
4th summer 3:09 Boss of bosses
5 Veni, Vidi, Vici 2:24 Alphagene
6th Look at the gold chain 2007 3:49 Alphagene
7th Self-made final bosses Favorite 4:27 Alphagene
8th A boy doesn't cry here Slick One, Tarek KIZ 4:26 Alphagene
9 Kollegah 3:59 Kollegah
10 Big boss 3:40 Kollegah
11 Street pharmacist 3:42 Kollegah
12 Coca music 5:20 Kollegah
13 Middle finger up Casper , Favorite 3:34 Chronicle 2
14th West Germany's Kings Favorite, Farid Bang 2:48 Chronicle 2
15th millennium 3:45 Pimp Tape Volume 3
16 Pimp rap 2:42 Pimp Tape Volume 3
17th 180 degrees 3:20 Pimp Tape Volume 3
18th Westside 3:13 Pimp Tape Volume 3
19th International player 2:38 Pimp Tape Volume 3
20th Disco speed Favorite 3:49 Hoodtape Volume 1 X-Mas Edition

CD2

# title Guest musician length Original album
1 lunar eclipse 3:16 Bossaura
2 Business Paris Ol Kainry 3:28 Bossaura
3 H&F 3:05 Bossaura
4th Bossaura 6:02 Bossaura
5 alpha 2:20 King
6th King 3:29 King
7th AKs in the closet 3:02 King
8th You are boss 2:42 King
9 Chronicle III Karate Andi , SSIO 3:48 Chronicle III
10 No new friends 3:16 Chronicle III
11 Empire Business 3:08 Pimp Tape Vol. 4
12 John Gotti 3:05 Pimp Tape Vol. 4
13 Pitbulls & AKs 3:40 Pimp Tape Vol. 4
14th winter 3:16 Pimp Tape Vol. 4
15th Bye bye Mr. President 3:16 Pimp Tape Vol. 4
16 Fine poetry 2:57 previously unpublished
17th High speed 3:05 previously unpublished
18th Rap flows, cash flows 2:54 previously unpublished
19th Lucifer 2:51 previously unpublished
20th Legacy 13:58 previously unpublished

Golden Era Tourtape of the Limited Gold Award Edition

# title Guest musician length
1 Voulez vous couches avec Mois Ali As , Pretty Mo, Seyed 3:05
2 Tourlife Cr7z , MoTrip 3:23
3 Hostage-taking Ali As 2:12
4th Diplomatic empire 18 carat , Play69 2:14
5 Sufferin from Success Gregpipe 2:28
6th Gucci sandals I Ali As, Seyed 2:27
7th The holy punch Morlockk's dilemma 2:21
8th Flexer part of the century 1:27
9 Business talk Skit # 1 1:20
10 Water corpses Ali As 1:40
11 Tina, Pam and Mandy Seyed 2:04
12 Boys from the Westside PA Sports 1:17
13 Ballin ' Manual 2:10
14th Pearl White Fresh King brothers 3:10
15th Matador 1:02
16 archangel Ali As 2:09
17th Roll and roll Ali As, Koree 2:07
18th The general 1:36
19th Kollescha Skit 0:41
20th Gucci sandals II Ali As, Koree 3:03
21st We don't see it Jesen, Flaze, Ali As, Seyed 2:32
22nd Joe Pesci 1:04
23 The Ruhrpott on the mother Pillath 1:43
24 Purple Was the Haze That They Gave Me Favorite , Karate Andi 2:13
25th Business talk Skit # 2 1:43
26th As If It Was Nothin ' Pretty Mon 2:20
27 Blue sky Ali As 2:00
28 Bitch we're alpha 2:48

Chart successes and singles

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Legacy
  DE 2 07/21/2017 (7 weeks)
  AT 8th 07/28/2017 (3 weeks)
  CH 11 07/23/2017 (2 weeks)
Singles
Legacy
  DE 51 03/17/2017 (1 week)
  AT 68 March 24, 2017 (1 week)

Legacy entered the German album charts at number 2 on July 21, 2017, ranked 19th the following week and stayed in the top 100 for a total of seven weeks. The album reached position 8 in Austria and 11th in Switzerland. It was 91st in the 2017 annual German album charts.

On March 10, 2017, the title track Legacy was released as the first single and reached number 51 in the German charts. In addition to a music video for the single, videos for the songs Millennium , Sommer and Rapflows, Cashflows were released in advance of the album release .

reception

Professional reviews
Reviews
source rating
laut.de

David Maurer from laut.de rated Legacy with four out of a possible five points. The album leads “entertainingly” through Kollegah's development and offers “a comprehensive overview of the rapper's now imposing discography”.

Individual evidence

  1. album cover
  2. Chart sources: Germany - Austria - Switzerland
  3. Legacy chart following on officialcharts.de
  4. ↑ Annual album charts 2017
  5. Rating: laut.de