never a rapper

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never a rapper
Bushido & Baba Saad
publication April 4, 2005
length 4:02 (album version)
Genre (s) rap
text Bushido, Saad
music Bushido
Label ersguterjunge / Universal
album Carlo Cokxxx Hookers II
Cover versions
2013 Credibil
2016 Eko Fresh

Never a Rapper is a song by the German rappers Bushido and Baba Saad and the first and only single from their joint album Carlo Cokxxx Nutten II . The song was released on April 4, 2005 and reached number 24 in the German single charts.

background

In 2002 Bushido released the album Carlo Cokxxx Nutten together with the rapper Fler . At the time, this had managed without single releases. For the follow-up album Carlo Cokxxx Nutten II, Nie ein Rapper was selected as the only single. It came out the same day as the album. According to Bushido, the song represents a conscious counter-concept to the overall rougher tone of the album Carlo Cokxxx Nutten II.

content

The central theme of Never a Rapper is the impact of a more difficult social environment on the musical creative process. In the course of the song, therefore, reference is made several times to the clichés of German hip-hop culture prevailing at the time of publication, such as wearing wide clothing such as baggy pants , showing high school qualifications or using love poetry and distances oneself from these.

production

The song was produced by Bushido. Never a rapper uses a sample of the song Innocent Child by the neoclassical band Arcana .

Track list

In addition to the title track and its instrumental version, the Nie ein Rapper maxi single, produced by DJ Ilan , when my friends come ... by Saad and its instrumental version are included. In addition, the maxi single has an acoustic version of Never a Rapper , on which Elif Bicét, accompanied by Sven Helbig on cello and Lars Kutschke on guitar, reinterprets the chorus of the song. The maxi-single also contains the video for Never A Rapper , which is played in a Flash menu. In addition, a mini CD was released as part of the "Pock-It!" Series with two tracks from the maxi single.

Maxi single

  1. Never a Rapper (Single Version) 4:10
  2. Never a rapper (instrumental) 4:09
  3. When my friends come ... (Single Version) 2:48
  4. When my friends come ... (Instrumental) 2:50
  5. Never a Rapper (Acoustic Version) 1:22

Mini CD

  1. Never a Rapper (Single Version) 4:11
  2. When my friends come ... (Single Version) 2:49

reception

Commercial win

With Never a Rapper , Bushido and Baba Saad reached number 24 in the single charts in Germany on April 18, 2005 and stayed in the top 100 for a total of 9 weeks. For Baba Saad, the song was first in the German single charts Today, Never a Rapper is his most successful single. For Bushido too, Nie ein Rapper was the highest-ranked single release to date. With his next four singles Endgegner / Public Enemy No. 1 , Moment , Von der Skyline zum Kerbstein zurück and Sonnenbank Flavor , he reached the top 20 each and thus achieved a higher ranking.

Charts Top ranking Weeks
GermanyGermany Germany 24 9

criticism

No rapper has ever received positive reviews. In its review of the single, the online magazine dafoon.com rated both the song's music and Bushido and Saad's rap contributions as convincing. In its review of the Carlo Cokxxx Nutten II album, the e-zine laut.de criticized the fact that the music of the song follows the scheme "quiet, epic sample in the background, a variable, but not particularly innovative bass line" that is characterized by the whole album would correspond, but still highlighted the song as one of the positive highlights of the album because of its chorus.

Aftermath

meaning

Oliver Marquart from the rap.de editorial team described Nie a rapper in 2013 as a "legendary" song, which when published was a "manifesto" and a "street rap confession" that emphasized "street" instead of "rap" Relocated authenticity instead of sophisticated technology ” . In an interview with the Eckernförder Zeitung of the Schleswig-Holstein newspaper publisher in 2012, Bushido Nie named a rapper as his personal favorite title of his career so far.

In the song With a Smile from Bushido's album with Sido , 23 , Bushido quotes himself from Never a Rapper .

continuation

Bushido's solo album Sonny Black , which was released in February 2014, includes a follow-up track entitled Never a Rapper II .

Cover versions

The rapper Credibil published a cover of Nie ein Rapper under the title Nie ein Gangster on his mixtape Deutsches Demotape in 2013 together with Dziki Kaban .

In March 2016, Eko Fresh released a cover of Never A Rapper titled Always Rapper .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE
  2. ↑ Bushido from Berlin in an interview ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dafoon.com, March 31, 2005, accessed February 24, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dafoon.com
  3. ^ A b Sonny Black & Saad - Never a Rapper discogs.com, accessed December 21, 2013
  4. ↑ Sonny Black & Saad - Never a Rapper (Mini-CD) discogs.com, accessed March 22, 2017
  5. ↑ EP Reviews: Sonny Black & Baba Saad - Never a Rapper ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. May 5, 2005, accessed February 24, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dafoon.com
  6. ↑ Laut.de Review: Carlo Cokxxx Nutten II: Nothing to say but phrases , accessed on February 24, 2014
  7. ↑ Bushido announces "Never a Rapper II" rap.de, August 13, 2013, accessed on December 21, 2013
  8. ↑ Bushido does his own thing through shz.de, April 16, 2012, accessed on December 21, 2013
  9. ^ "Immer Rapper" - Eko Fresh covers "CCN II" -Song hiphop.de, March 19, 2016, accessed on March 22, 2016