Rappers Against Racism

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Rappers Against Racism was a German hip-hop collective that was founded in Kaiserslautern in 1998 .

history

The project Rappers Against Racism goes back to an initiative of rapper Joe Thompson ( Down Low ) and Ronald Bähr from the Kaiserslautern hip-hop label K-Town Records. The idea was to bring various European hip-hop artists together and to address the widespread social racism and the related discrimination based on skin color. The composition of the collective was variable. a. La Mazz, Trooper Da Don , Jay Supreme ( Culture Beat ), the Dungeon Mastaz and the rapper Richele.

The project's first single was a cover of I Want to Know What Love Is and was released in March 1998 by ZYX Music . In the same year the singles Key to Your Heart and Only You were released . All three reached the German single charts. In 1999 the group released the single Sorry and the first album The Message . At the same time, the Italian label Baby Records launched them in Italy, where Only You also became a chart success in the summer and the album ( marketed there as Only You. The Album ) surprisingly reached the top of the Italian charts.

With the single Hiroshima , the Rappers Against Racism reported back in August 2000. In 2001 ZYX released the older single Streets of London , after which it became quiet around the group. In 2003 ZYX brought out the sampler Rappers Against Racism - The Message Vol. 2 , which however has no relation to the original project.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH IT IT
1999 The Message / Only You - - - IT1 (12 weeks)
IT
K-Town Records / Baby Records

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 IT IT
1998 I Want to Know What Love Is
The Message / Only You 		DE36 (9 weeks)
DE 		AT20 (11 weeks)
AT 		- -
Key to Your Heart
The Message / Only You 		DE79 (1 week)
DE 		- - -
Only You
The Message / Only You 		DE59 (6 weeks)
DE 		- - IT13 (3 weeks)
IT
feat. Trooper
chart entry IT 1999

More singles

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c Rappers Against Racism Biography. (No longer available online.) T-Music, formerly in the original ; accessed on March 15, 2005 (English, no mementos ).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / t-music.web.surftown.se .
  2. ^ Biografia di Rappers Against Racism. In: Rockol.it. Retrieved March 31, 2020 (Italian).
  3. ↑ Guido Racca & Chartitalia: Top 100 FIMI album . Lulu , 2013, p. 159 .
  4. ↑ Chart sources (singles):