Prinz Pi
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Prinz Pi (born October 23, 1979 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ; civil Friedrich Kautz ) is a German rapper . He is also known under the pseudonym Prinz Porno .
Life
Private
Friedrich Kautz attended the basic old-language grammar school in Steglitz . He grew up in Schlachtensee , one of the most expensive locations in Zehlendorf. Despite the expensive location, he describes his original family situation as poor, since his parents came to Germany as refugees. Since 1998 he has also appeared occasionally in the German hip-hop scene under the pseudonyms Doc Murdock , Doc Mabuse , Slick Spingo and Prinz Porno One . He later called himself Prinz Porno for a long time , which corresponded to his stage name as a graffiti sprayer.
In addition to his musical engagement, Kautz studied communication design at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art from 2002 to 2008 . Prince Pi designs most of his artwork himself.
In June 2009 Friedrich Kautz became the father of a daughter. In the summer of 2015 he became the father of a son. His third child, a daughter, was born in August 2020.
Career
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In 1998 Pi was represented with a song on the scrapbook Berlin No. 1 Vol.1 under his old artist name Prinz Porno . In 1998 his album Porno Privat, which was actually only intended as a private copy for acquaintances and friends and of which there were only twelve copies, reached the Internet in a previously unknown way (according to him). On it was the track Keine Liebe , which made him known in the Berlin rap scene.
In 2000 the tape An der Front was released. The first CD album, WortShots, followed a year later . In addition, Prinz Pi released several LPs with Mix Master Müller under the pseudonym Social Contacts ( The Only Alternative and The Inclined Plane of Consciousness ).
From 2002 to 2004, Prinz Pi was under contract with the Berlin underground label Royal Bunker . There he was represented, among other things, as a member of the formations Promolle and Panz Dominanz , which in turn arose from the Beatfabrik , which produced numerous publications.
In 2001 he published the EP Radium as a free download on the Royal Bunker website . From this EP the 2002 released album Radium Reaction developed . Other projects followed, such as the black book tape 2: Jung, Schön und Stylisch, which was also published in 2002 , until Pi announced his temporary exit from the rap business in 2004. Prince Pi temporarily ended his Royal Bunker co-op with the collaboration album 1st League, which arose from the collaboration with his colleague Separate . The album was released on separate label Buckwheats Music .
In February 2005, Prince Pi's return followed with the mixtape Guess Who's Back on the Streets . At the beginning of May 2005, Pi's solo album Teenage Mutant Horror Show was released, which was again released on the Mainz label Buckwheats Music , was completely written within two weeks and arose from a bet with Separate. The album includes, among other things, 13 productions from the album Rap Art War by Kinder des Zorns (Casper, Separate, Fadee & Abroo), which, however, were recorded with new lyrics by Prinz Porno. After this publication he was renamed Prinz Pi, because he was tired of getting the CDs returned unopened from superficial magazines, because they “didn't want another CD from one of these porn rappers”.
On the Splash! -Festival 2005 Pi presented his street album Time is Money and performed with Kid Kobra and Smexer on the MZEE .com stage. On November 17, 2005, a 'Best of' album followed with Written History (1998–2005) . In addition to three remixes, there are also two completely new tracks on the CD.
On August 4th 2006 the EP Instinct was released . In the meantime, Pi had founded the No Peanuts label together with friends . On September 22nd, 2006 the most extensive album to date was released ! DonnerwetteR! which was almost exclusively produced by Biztram . With the number 56 on the chart, this work, the most commercially successful to date, is described by Pi as his first real album. It was released in a standard version with two CDs and a limited edition with 3 CDs. While there are 22 songs on the first CD, there are 30 pieces on the second CD, named Herr der Dinge , which with one exception manage without electronically produced music and are completely orchestrated. Based on heroic epics in the style of Lord of the Rings or the Nibelungenlied , Pi packs the story of German rap into one big story.
On February 9, 2007 the DVD + street album Das PrinzIP Prinz PI was released . The DVD contains material such as tour reports and live excerpts from the "not-on-the-tour", the Splash! 2006 in Chemnitz as well as humorous clips like “Crossgolf” with Frank Zander and more. The street album included with the DVD contains 17 titles with guest contributions by Kobra and Jonarama.
On July 6, 2007, Prinz Pi performed some songs from his current album ! Donnerwetter! and older tracks like Keine Liebe on the main stage (Vulcano-Stage) of the Splash! Festivals in 2007 and one day later on the Rheinhiphop-Stage on the Rheinkultur in Bonn.
At the end of 2007, Pi won the Volkswagen Sound Foundation's Newcomer Prize .
In February 2008, Pi flew to Tanzania with other musicians . There he took part in the Virus Free Generation HipHop Tour , in which the rapper recorded songs with young people that dealt thematically with the immunodeficiency disease AIDS . As part of the tour, a documentary was also shot and a concert was held. The Berliner returned to Germany on February 12th. Upon his return, Prince Pi underwent an operation on his vocal cords.
On the album Hin zur Sonne by Casper , released on May 9, 2008, Prince Pi was involved in the song The Last Dance .
His new album Neopunk was released on October 24, 2008 . There are two variants of this, a normal version and the deluxe version, with four bonus titles. At the end of 2008 he worked again with Frank Zander. Biztram produced the track “Where are you going my beautiful” with them about the destruction of the earth and the self-extermination of humanity, in which Frank Zander even raps himself.
In June 2009 it was announced that Universal and the No Peanuts label were separating from Prinz Pi. On July 13th, 2009 he announced on his official weblog that he had founded the label Keine Liebe Records . So far, the album Teenage Mutant Horror Show 2 was released on this label in 2009 and the Illuminati EP in 2010 .
On January 28, 2011, his tenth solo album Rebell was released for no reason . It entered the charts at number 9 and featured guest posts from E-Rich, Chef, Gynecologist , Timi Hendrix , Mudi and Raf Camora . The first single Du bist was released on January 14th.
The acoustic album Hallo Musik was released on December 9, 2011 .
In November 2012 he went on a tour of Germany. This was called Rebell mit Band , based on his solo album Rebell without a reason . With around 14,000 visitors and ten concerts (five of which were sold out), it was his biggest tour so far.
Prince Pi's eleventh solo album Kompass ohne Norden was released on April 12, 2013 and entered the German album charts at number 1 , which means the artist's first top position of his career.
His twelfth solo album pp = mc² was released on January 9, 2015 , on which he appears again under his previous stage name Prinz Porno . It reached the top of the German charts again .
Prinz Pi's 13th solo album Im Westen nix Neues followed on February 5, 2016 and also reached number 1 in Germany. Among other things, the single 1.40m was released, which was commercially successful.
His 14th solo album Nothing Was Free was released on November 3, 2017.
In February 2018, Prince Pi said in the TV show Kulturzeit of the TV channel 3sat : "Actually, I would have much preferred to be a writer. But because nowadays almost nobody writes sensibly and people read less and less books and books have less and less impact have life. […] I thought to myself: Musician, you can achieve more. " In the same Kulturzeit interview, Prince Pi explained metaphorically: "I think pathos is a spice. It's a bit like glutamate: It just brings out the ingredients better. But you can't put in too much, because then it'll be cheap and kitschy. But you can put a little bit of it in, because then it just tastes better. " In addition, Prince Pi described: "You know, people say that calendar sayings are shallow. [...] Most of the people who later make it to calendar sayings are of relatively great thinkers."
He has had his own fashion brand Keine Liebe Berlin at DefShop since 2019 . On February 14, 2020, he released a new Prinz Pi album True Legends and a new Prinz porn album With Distance. He has had his own podcast Pi's Podcast on Spotify since February 24, 2020 .
style
His texts mainly deal with socially critical issues, conspiracy theories and social trends. Another theme of his early work was life in the jet set . In the meantime, Prince Pi reflects in his texts the phases of life at the respective points in time at which the works were created. The central motifs emerge - in a socially critical manner - death and coping with it, love and its failure as well as the emergence and decay of friendship. He describes himself as "the best German theme rapper". In his often ironic texts he uses double and triple rhymes .
criticism
In 2016, Prince Pi appeared on television in a white sweater with the logo of the Palestinian development aid organization Sharek Youth Foundation and rapped the lines I have a microscope, give me your phone / Like Ahmadinejad, I do a nuclear fusion / Then you get a telescope - I have a microphone / [...] Konstantin Nowotny ( Die Welt ) criticized this reference to the former Iranian president, who was criticized for his anti-Israel rhetoric, Holocaust denial and nuclear plans, as well as the fact that the organization promoted by Prince Pi in its press publications by Israeli "Aggression" and a "siege" of the Gaza Strip speak. The first line of the song Schläferstündchen on the album Neopunk (2008) also met with criticism, in connection with the Abu Ghraib torture scandal of “Prince Pi, sympathy for Hezbollah ”, a terrorist organization whose goal is the destruction of Israel is. In December 2014, Prince Pi described the USA in a Facebook post as the "Satan of the West"; In 2017 he said in an interview that he was previously heavily influenced by the Zeitgeist documentaries by director Peter Joseph . According to the museologist Ann-Christin Wachtel, Prince Pi mixes biographical motifs in his songs with “a shortened criticism of capitalism , end-time fantasies and various conspiracy myths ”, he also uses anti-Americanism and anti-Semitic codes.
Discography
Studio albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 DE
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 AT
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 CH
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| 1998 | Porn private | - | - | - |
First published: 1998
as Prinz Porno |
| 2001 | Radium reaction | - | - | - |
First release: 2001
as Prinz Porno |
| 2003 | BlackbookCD # 2 - Young, beautiful & stylish | - | - | - |
First published: January 27, 2003
as Prinz Porno |
| 2005 | Teenage Mutant Horror Show | - | - | - |
First published: May 2nd, 2005
as Prinz Porno |
| time is money | - | - | - |
First published: August 22, 2005
as Prinz Porno |
|
| 2006 | ! Thunderstorm! |
DE56 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
First published: September 22, 2006
|
| 2007 | The Prinz IP Prinz Pi Volume 1 | - | - | - |
First release: February 9, 2007
including DVD |
| 2008 | Neopunk |
DE50 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
First published: October 24, 2008
|
| 2009 | Teenage Mutant Horror Show 2 |
DE45 (2 weeks) DE |
- |
CH96 (1 week) CH |
First published: September 4, 2009
|
| 2011 | Rebel for no reason |
DE9 (3 weeks) DE |
AT44 (1 week) AT |
CH29 (2 weeks) CH |
First published: January 28, 2011
|
| 2013 | compass without North |
DE1  (19 weeks)DE |
AT4 (4 weeks) AT |
CH5 (4 weeks) CH |
First published: April 12, 2013
Sales: + 100,000 |
| 2015 | pp = mc² |
DE1 (4 weeks) DE |
AT10 (2 weeks) AT |
CH12 (2 weeks) CH |
First published: January 9th, 2015
as Prinz Porno |
| 2016 | Nothing new in the west |
DE1 (8 weeks) DE |
AT5 (2 weeks) AT |
CH5 (5 weeks) CH |
First published: February 5, 2016
|
| 2017 | Nothing was free |
DE2 (4 weeks) DE |
AT9 (2 weeks) AT |
CH13 (2 weeks) CH |
First published: November 3, 2017
|
| 2020 | True legends |
DE3 (2 weeks) DE |
AT18 (1 week) AT |
CH7 (2 weeks) CH |
First published: February 14, 2020
|
| With distance |
DE6 (1 week) DE |
AT42 (1 week) AT |
CH20 (1 week) CH |
First published: February 14th, 2020
as Prinz Porno |
|
Awards
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1 live crown
- 2013: in the category "Best Plan B-Act"
- 2018 German Music Author Award in the Text Hip-Hop category
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Berlin singer Prinz Pi tells in his songs about the love and death of German soldiers Bye bye German rap, hello music , Berliner Zeitung, February 17, 2011
- ↑ Prinz Pi on work, fairness & the music industry. Retrieved September 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Hello music - Prince Pi invites you to an audience . 371stadtmagazin.de
- ↑ Prince Pi is father ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 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.
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ https://www.instagram.com/p/CEJbz2IqrDf/
- ↑ Winning the Newcomer Prize from the Volkswagen Sound Foundation
- ↑ Prince Pi against AIDS in Africa
- ↑ Short news: Casper / Prinz PI. Mzee.com
- ↑ Prinz Pi - Rebel without Reason (Cover & Tracklist) ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2016 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.
- ↑ Prince Pi is a rebel with a band
- ↑ 3sat culture time . Cultural television broadcast, February 14, 2018, 40 min. (From minute 33:52). Report by Charlotte Pollex, produced by 3sat , ZDF , ORF , SRF and ARD , Mainz
- ↑ Konstantin Nowotny: How anti-Semitic is German rap? www.welt.de, December 30, 2016
- ↑ Ann-Christin Wachtel: “'Adolf Hitler and his UFOs control the USA'. On the problem of conspiracy myths, end-time fantasies and anti-Semitism in German-language rap using the example of Prince Pi. "In: Samuel Salzborn (Ed.): School and Antisemitism. Political stocktaking and educational options for action. Beltz Juventa, Weinheim 2020, p. 185 ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Prinz Pi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kautz, Friedrich (real name); Prinz Porno (former pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rapper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 23, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |