Montenegro Zero
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January 12, 2018 |
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| Label (s) | Universal , Vertigo Records | ||||||||
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12 (+ 4) |
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39:45 (+ 12:16) |
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Montenegro Zero is the second solo album by the Hamburg rapper Haiyti and was released on January 12, 2018 as her first release on the major label Universal as a standard edition and box set, including the mixtape Untergrund Weltstars and bonus EP.
background
After Haiyti gained first notoriety in 2016 with her Mixtape City tariff and then released further mixtapes and EPs, she decided in mid-2017 to work with the major label Universal Music for her second solo album, Montenegro Zero .
production
The album was produced entirely by the Berlin music producer trio KitschKrieg .
Cover design
The album cover shows Haiyti, who wears a light turquoise dress and looks at the viewer. She is holding a perfume bottle in her hand. No lettering was used.
Guest Posts
Only three songs from the bonus EP of the deluxe edition of the album feature other artists besides Haiyti. She works on Hollywood OK with the underground rappers Joey Bargeld, Kulturerbe Achim and Vira Lata, the latter also being featured on the song Pusher . The rapper Yupanther also has a guest appearance on the song Schicksal Digga .
Track list
| # | title | length |
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| 1 | 100,000 fans | 2:46 |
| 2 | Sunny Driveby | 3:01 |
| 3 | gold | 3:57 |
| 4th | mafioso | 3:15 |
| 5 | Berghain | 3:40 |
| 6th | Kate Moss | 3:31 |
| 7th | Bahama mom | 3:25 |
| 8th | Production model | 3:47 |
| 9 | Bitches | 3:06 |
| 10 | Haubi | 2:58 |
| 11 | Monacco | 2:59 |
| 12 | American Dream | 3:25 |
Bonus XP
| # | title | Guest musician | length |
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| 1 | Destiny Digga | Yupanther | 2:40 |
| 2 | Emergency | 3:26 | |
| 3 | pusher | Vira Lata | 3:06 |
| 4th | Hollywood OK | Joey Bargeld, Vira Lata, Achim cultural heritage | 3:04 |
Chart successes and singles
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Montenegro Zero entered the German album charts at number 25 on January 19, 2018, with which Haiyti entered the charts for the first time. After a week, it left the top 100 again. It could not find a place in Austria and Switzerland.
On October 13, 2017, the first single, 100,000 fans, was available for download and two weeks later, the second single , Sunny Driveby, followed . The third single Mafioso was released on November 24th, followed by the song Gold on December 8th, 2017.
reception
Reviews
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| laut.de |
 
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| rappers.in |
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Anastasia Hartleib from laut.de gave Montenegro Zero four out of a possible five points. The album is "pretty catchy" and is "significantly more poppy than Haiyti's previous releases". The rapper “lets off steam as always, without seeming to run out of breath” and is especially convincing with “her changeability and effortless flexibility: while she whispers a hook with a breaking voice, the next moment she lets trap towers collapse brutally and sufficient critical observations of our time ”.
Alexander Barbian from the website rap.de also rated Montenegro Zero positively. In terms of content, Haiyti undertakes “a furious balancing act between the worlds, revealing inner turmoil and tremendous mental cinema between hysterical instability and unscrupulous coolness” and creating “always strong atmospheres”. KitschKrieg's productions are also praised as “flawless and highly innovative precision work”, with “Haiyti's dominant voice being absolutely at the center of the action”. Overall, the album is “a mystery. A weird and yet extravagant unique item. "
On rappers.in , Montenegro Zero was rated five out of a possible six points. The album is an “indefinable, unclassifiable, sometimes pathetic, sometimes quite casual looking whole” and represents “the combination of the best of their last releases”. Thereby “the search for classic listening pleasure falls between all the screeching and the reverberant effects on the voice "difficult, but" it's just fun to listen to the innovative sound drafts and try to understand the concept or simply the idea behind the album ". KitschKrieg's productions are also praised.
Daniel Fersch from MZEE praised the album and wrote that Haiyti "is far more than a hype that could save itself over two years, but a unique and established artist."
Awards
At the 2018 Echo Awards , the album received a national award in the Critics' Prize category.
In the list of the best hip-hop albums of 2018 by laut.de , Montenegro was ranked Zero 4 and in the list of all albums it was ranked 9.
Individual evidence
- ↑ album cover
- ↑ Chart sources: Germany - Austria - Switzerland
- ↑ Chart tracking Montenegro Zero on officialcharts.de
- ↑ Rating: laut.de
- ↑ Rating: rappers.in
- ↑ Rating: rap.de
- ^ Daniel Fersch: Haiyti - Montenegro Zero. In: MZEE.com. January 19, 2018, accessed on December 23, 2018 (German).
- ↑ laut.de: Hip-Hop-Albums 2018 # 4
- ↑ laut.de: Albums 2018 # 9
