Mert (rapper)

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Mert (2019)

Mert (born March 5, 1996 ; real name Mert Ekşi ), also called Mert Abi , is a German rapper and former YouTuber with Turkish roots from Bad Pyrmont .

Life

Mert founded his YouTube channel itsMertTV on August 22, 2011. There he publishes vlogs , music videos and entertainment videos. In the beginning in particular, he showed gaming videos from FIFA in the Fifa Kingz format , where he mostly competed against various rappers such as Alpa Gun , Massiv or Ufo361 . In 2015 he started rapping. His debut video Ausländer and his EP AMK , released in 2016, were successful in the iTunes charts . Foreigners reached number 63 in the German charts. At the end of 2016 there was also a collaboration with the now very successful rapper Samra . At the time, the two released a track called U21, which was very well received by the community. Musically, he mainly serves aggressive street rap.

In 2016, his channel had 500,000 subscribers. In 2017 his first album Kunde ist König was released , on which he mixed his street sound with AutoTune into Cloud Rap , which was successful at the time . The album reached number 2 in the German album charts.

After some arguments with his former label Husla Music in 2019, he announced that he had founded his own label called Mula Brothers. On March 6, 2020, he announced his first signing with the name Z with the track U23 .

Controversy

In 2017, in the course of a dispute with Youtubers, Mert published a statement video in which he described homosexuality as "inhuman", among other things . His former network Divimove then terminated the cooperation with him. In interviews afterwards, however, he denied having anything against homosexuals and later apologized for the video as well.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
2017 customer is king DE2 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT4 (1 week)
AT 		CH11 (1 week)
CH
Husla Music
2018 Delikanlı DE6 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT15 (1 week)
AT 		CH56 (1 week)
CH
Husla Music
2019 Boxer cut DE16 (1 week)
DE 		AT39 (1 week)
AT 		CH53 (1 week)
CH
Husla Music

EPs

  • 2016: AMK ( Divimove )
  • 2017: EP subscriber special (Husla Music)
  • 2017: AMK Army EP (Husla Music)
  • 2018: Double Apple EP (Husla Music)

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH
2015 Foreigners
 DE63 (1 week)
DE 		AT72 (1 week)
AT 		-
2016 AMK
 - AT73 (1 week)
AT 		-
2017 Ajajaj
customer is king 		DE60 (7 weeks)
DE 		- -
feat. Soolking
Anti-social
customer is king 		DE97 (1 week)
DE 		- -
feat. Play69
Love means
customer is king 		DE46 (2 weeks)
DE 		- -
2018 Ekşi
Delikanlı 		DE52 (2 weeks)
DE 		- -
Don't call me
Delikanlı 		DE57 (2 weeks)
DE 		- -
Kanaken with Para
Delikanlı 		DE85 (1 week)
DE 		- -
feat. Dopebwoy
Mula
Delikanlı 		DE79 (4 weeks)
DE 		- -
Delikanlı
Delikanlı 		DE83 (1 week)
DE 		- -
Brand new box
cut 		DE77 (1 week)
DE 		- -
2019 Xxlarge
boxer cut 		DE94 (1 week)
DE 		- -
feat. Burry Soprano
Boxer cut boxer
cut 		DE67 (2 weeks)
DE 		- -
2020 U23
 DE19 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT36 (2 weeks)
AT 		CH51 (2 weeks)
CH
with Z
Foreigners 2020
 DE16 (3 weeks)
DE 		AT18 (1 week)
AT 		CH34 (1 week)
CH
with Alpa Gun
thunderstorm
 DE60 (1 week)
DE 		- -
Like ben jij
 DE89 (1 week)
DE 		- -
Mahalle
 DE100 (1 week)
DE 		- -

More singles

  • 2016: Mert versus Lappen
  • 2017: Yes, yes
  • 2017: boxer cut
  • 2016: U21 ( feat.Samra )
  • 2017: Groupie ( feat.Eunique )
  • 2018: Ha Siktir
  • 2018: Rolex & AirMax
  • 2018: Bas Gaza
  • 2019: mother of pearl
  • 2019: Sunpoint
  • 2019: without limit

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Mert, did they want protection money from you?" In: Raptastisch . September 19, 2018 ( raptastisch.net [accessed September 29, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Channel information. In: YouTube . Retrieved September 29, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Mert at laut.de . Retrieved September 29, 2018
  4. ^ Homophobic hate video: Youtube star Mert Eksi is thrown out of his network . In: Berliner Zeitung . ( berliner-zeitung.de [accessed September 29, 2018]).
  5. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE AT CH
personal data
SURNAME Mert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ekşi, Mert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rapper and YouTuber
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1996