Rich Kidz
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Rich Kidz is the third solo album by German rapper Kay One . It was released on October 25, 2013 through his own label AP Allstars and distributed with the help of Embassy of Music .
title
The album was originally supposed to be released under the title VIP , the title of the first single . The album title was then changed to Rich Kidz (English for: " Rich children "). As Kay One said in a video message published on YouTube , the album title was chosen "very quickly". Looking at a hotel in Zurich is said to have inspired him : “I was in front of the […] most expensive hotel in Zurich. […] And there I was standing in front of it […] and I thought, […] that looks so pompous ”.
background
In 2010 Kay One's debut album was released on the ersguterjunge label. It reached number 7 in the German charts. Two years later, the album Prince of Belvedair was released , which was ranked 4th in the charts. After this album Kay One left the ersguterjunge label and drew attention to himself with the remix for the song Dancing in London and its single Finale we come . In addition, music videos were published for the previously unreleased songs Nah und noch so fern as well as Bottles & Models . On the latter song, Kay One was supported by the American rapper Red Café . In August 2013 the freetrack Nothing but Truth was released , which is a track against its former label boss Bushido . According to his own statement, this work is not a disstrack , but a song that, according to Glöckler, represents “nothing but the truth”.
Editions
The album was released in four different editions. The Standard Edition is a CD with 17 tracks. On the Deluxe Edition , the buyer receives four bonus tracks and a second CD with the instrumental versions of the songs in addition to the 17 tracks. In addition to the songs mentioned above, the iTunes Edition also includes the bonus track 24/7 and all instrumental versions. The limited edition includes a signed poster, sunglasses with a cover and the entire deluxe edition .
Guest Posts
The singer Emory is represented on a total of seven tracks ( Keep Calm (Fuck U) , Rockstar , I hate to love you , ONS , Wiedersehen , Hollister Girl , My First Love , Bad Girl ). The rapper Kns Tha Engineer supports Kay One on the songs Früher and Belstaff . American singer Melody is on the songs Middle Finger and 24/7 . The Russian rapper Timati is featured on the song Rockstar . The group The Product G&B is featured on the songs VIP and Beauty Queen and the German rapper Farid Bang appears on the song Helal Money . Kay Ones producer Juh-Dee ( Rich Kidz ) and Cindy Johnson ( Welcome 2 The Good Life ) are also guest contributions .
Texts
- Party songs
The party track Rockstar with Timati and Emory is included on the album. In this one Kay One raps a changed line from the song Welcome to St. Tropez .
"We make money. Money we're spending. Blackstar, Kay One, Rich Kidz, Anthem. And there are no limits. Being rich means giving presents to chicks. Cancel any flight and I won't inherit it. Timati, AP Millionair's Clique. Anyone who meets me in the club, when I'm drunk, says: "This is no longer funny". I push myself, love to freak out, to applaud women. "
- Personal songs
The album includes the profound song I Hate To Love You . This is about a past relationship with a female person who is addressed as "you".
"I miss it. What do I care about the bitches? All that luxury. Fuck the champagne, fuck the parties, the money. I was thankful to meet you. That was fate on the pageant. When I saw you. And I really thought that would fit with us. We are grown up. So tell me the reason, honey. "
- Songs that glorify violence
The song Helal Money is also on the album. In this song, the rapper Farid Bang calls for violence against the British pop singer Jay Khan .
“I'm coming with Kay One. Who is Jay Khan? Fucking for 10 hours is what I can do on Jay. After I knock the bastard out, the fish is in the paper like a mafia message. Smack him out. Then he wakes up again, sees the teeth on the table and says: "Didn't I have them in my mouth?" "
Track list
- Standard Edition
| # | title | Guest musician | length |
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| 1 | Intro | 0:41 | |
| 2 | Keep Calm (Fuck U) | Emory | 4:43 |
| 3 | Push | 3:17 | |
| 4th | Middle finger | Melody | 3:37 |
| 5 | Rock star | Timati & Emory | 3:21 |
| 6th | I hate to love you | Emory | 4:11 |
| 7th | VIP | The Product G&B | 4:25 |
| 8th | Rich Kidz | Juh-dee | 3:23 |
| 9 | ONS | Emory | 3:45 |
| 10 | Goodbye | Emory | 4:12 |
| 11 | Helal Money | Farid Bang | 3:34 |
| 12 | Prince Kay One | 3:36 | |
| 13 | Beauty Queen | The Product G&B | 4:01 |
| 14th | Hollister Girl | Emory | 3:29 |
| 15th | karma | 3:06 | |
| 16 | Earlier | Kns Tha Engineer & Emory | 3:01 |
| 17th | My first love | Emory | 3:34 |
- Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks
| # | title | Guest musician | length |
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| 18th | Belstaff | Kns Tha Engineer | 2:49 |
| 19th | This life | 3:12 | |
| 20th | Bad girl | Emory | 3:16 |
| 21st | Welcome 2 The Good Life | Cindy Johnson | 3:38 |
+ Instrumentals
- iTunes Edition Bonus Track
| # | title | Guest musician | length |
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| 22nd | 24/7 | Melody | 3:34 |
+ Instrumentals
- limited edition
+ Instrumentals, DVD, sunglasses, signed poster
Bonus DVD:
| # | title |
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| 1 | How are you? |
| 2 | How is "Rich Kidz" different from your two previous albums? |
| 3 | How did the collaboration with the feature guests work? |
| 4th | Who are you currently working with? |
| 5 | What has changed in your life since you left Berlin? |
| 6th | What is "AP" all about? |
| 7th | Will there be another Prince collection from 12/13? |
| 8th | How important is it to you to be authentic? |
| 9 | Do you have any other goals that you would like to achieve? |
| 10 | Why does Emory listen to "Rich Kidz" so often? |
| 11 | Will there be beef with other rappers again in the future? |
| 12 | How was the video shoot of "VIP" in Brazil? |
| 13 | Why does your father actually do your management? |
| 14th | Freestyle / conclusion |
Cover design
The cover is in black and white tones. On the left there is the lettering Prince Kay One and below the title of the album Rich Kidz . The Deluxe Edition has an object on the left and right of the cover labeled FSK approved from 12 , album making-of , bonus DVD and 4 bonus tracks . It shows the rapper from a side view. Kay One wears sunglasses on the cover.
marketing
A German and an English version of the single VIP was released as a music video. In addition to the music video for the single Keep Calm (Fuck U) , a video for the song Earlier was also released . In addition, the song VIP was promoted through television commercials and TV appearances. Kay One also appeared on the Stern TV show . He also uploaded many short films to his album on YouTube. On October 28th, a track by track video about the album was released in which Kay One describes each song individually.
reception
success
Rich Kidz entered the German album charts at number 1 and stayed in the top 100 for 19 weeks. In Austria it was at number 3 and in Switzerland at number 5.
The single VIP , which was released on May 31, 2013, reached rank 4, which meant the highest single placement for Kay One to date. The second single was Belstaff (with Kns Tha Engineer), which was available for purchase exclusively on iTunes on October 4, 2013. It reached number 50 in Austria and was also able to stay in the German iTunes charts for several weeks. A week later, the theme song Rich Kidz was offered for sale. The title song made it to 98th place in Germany and 33rd place in Austria. On this song, Kay One is supported by his producer Juh-Dee. The fourth single Keep Calm (Fuck U) was released on October 18, 2013 and made it to number 11 in the German charts. The songs Helal Money (feat. Farid Bang ), Pushen and Ich hasse es dich zu liebe also made it into the single charts due to heavy downloads. So occupied Helal Money Place 71, I do hate to love rank 95 and pushing position 96 in Germany.
album
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| 2013 | Rich Kidz |
DE1 (19 weeks) DE |
AT3 (10 weeks) AT |
CH5 (6 weeks) CH |
First published: October 25, 2013
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Singles
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Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
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VIP Rich Kidz |
DE4 (14 weeks) DE |
AT9 (11 weeks) AT |
CH10 (3 weeks) CH |
First published: May 31, 2013
with The Product G&B |
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Belstaff Rich Kidz |
DE96 (1 week) DE |
AT50 (2 weeks) AT |
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First published: October 4th, 2013
with Kns Tha Engineer |
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| Rich kidz rich kidz |
DE98 (1 week) DE |
AT33 (3 weeks) AT |
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First published: October 11, 2013
with Juh-Dee |
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Keep Calm (Fuck U) Rich Kidz |
DE11 (15 weeks) DE |
AT15 (12 weeks) AT |
CH30 (1 week) CH |
First published: October 18, 2013
with Emory |
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| Helal Money Rich Kidz |
DE71 (1 week) DE |
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First published: October 25, 2013
with Farid Bang |
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| I hate loving you Rich Kidz |
DE52 (6 weeks) DE |
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First published: October 25, 2013
with Emory |
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| Pushing Rich Kidz |
DE96 (1 week) DE |
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First published: October 25, 2013
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criticism
- Media reviews
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| laut.de |
 
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| Backspin |
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| rap.de |
 
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| hiphopjam.net |
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In the music media, Rich Kidz received mostly negative reviews. At Rap.de, Rich Kidz was awarded three out of ten stars. The editor Phil Weichert titled the publication as "plastic pop without content". The album's intro and the song Keep Calm (Fuck U) have been criticized most: “Even the intro does not suggest anything good. After a short retrospective of Kay One's school days and the usual "I-don't-want-to-go-to-school, I-get-rich-rapper" gibberish, the track "Keep Calm", which has already been released as a video and single, follows straight the way to the next 60 minutes of plastic pop with hollow phrases and rhymes on elementary school level English fourth grade ”. On the other hand, the following song Pushen is highlighted : “Thank God" Rich Kidz "lets the listener breathe deeply after this catastrophic introduction and offers with the following track" Push ", then really something like an entertaining track. The 3:17 minutes long rumgeprotze is not really innovative, but the catchy beat of Juh-Dee and the powerful voice of Kay make for a solid piece of music ”. In addition, the editor criticizes Kay One's lack of arrogance and technology: “You look in vain for the old arrogance and above all its once outstanding technology by Kay on" Rich Kidz ". The entire work seems carelessly cobbled together. The efforts to deliver a real hit quickly run into the sand due to Kay's consistently boring lyrics with monotonous presentation. There is no banger like "I need a Girl Part 3" or "Style und das Geld" on "Rich Kidz". But you can be content with a carelessly performed part by Farid Bang as well as kitschy love songs or crooked hooks by Emory ”. At the end of the review, the editor recommends the reader to read NWA by Shindy and Hallo Monaco by Capo .
The e-zine laut.de , which rated the album with 2 out of 5 possible stars, also found that Kay One was "pretty wasteful" with his talent on the album . In addition, the editors criticized the thematic inconsistency of the album and criticized the frequent presence of Emory, who is represented on eight songs, in the more emotional songs on the album. Meanwhile, the titles Helal Money and Prince Kay One were identified as “bright spots” . Even further in his criticism went the backspin Hip Hop magazine , the Rich Kidz which gave the lowest possible rating 1 out of 5 points, and work collectively as an album filled with "completely reasonable freed texts, blunt disco sounds and tracks, all of which can hardly be are different because of their insignificance ” .
Sometimes the album received more positive reviews in news magazines. Die Welt praised it in the highest tones: "It's called" Rich Kidz "and is not only a 60-minute verbal prod that has become sound, but also one of the best German rap albums of the year". The album brings German hip-hop back onto the dance floor: “Behind the driving bass hides a pure club sound that playfully breaks the shackles of strict German hip-hop iconography. Suddenly German rap can also take place on the dance floor ”. In the report, the album is described as the best release by Kay One to date: “The 17 tracks sound with a few interruptions [...] overall so fresh and homogeneous that Prince Kay One has clearly presented his previous masterpiece here. A delayed summer album that should save you through the winter well ”. The guest musicians would even bring the album to an international level: "With feature guests like Melody Thornton from the Pussycat Dolls and a revamped production, the album even reaches an international level".
- Reactions from other artists
The rapper Bushido rated the album on the Amazon website . He had "already thought in advance" that the album would "develop in a different direction". For him, the album only contains “put on attitudes and senseless hymns of praise to all brands that you need to show that you have money”. He also described it as a "very bad attempt to represent something that you are not".
The rapper Silla also gave a customer review on Amazon. He criticized that the album contained the song I hate it to love you , as Silla had already released a song with the same title years earlier: “Nice try, but unfortunately it doesn't come up against my version. So my thumb is clearly going down ”. In addition, the phrase “Buy my new album in 2014 and let yourself be inspired again” alludes to the fact that Kay One would be inspired by Silla.
Baba Saad reacted in the form of a so-called "disstrack". In Song Jim Knopf he accuses Kay One, the beat of the published as video songs Sooner to have used without permission. He also dubbed Kay One's singer Emory as a "son of a bitch". The song Earlier appeared on the album Rich Kidz in a different version.
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcYimTvPusw
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/user/princekayone/videos
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2P0KUmc5HA
- ↑ a b Chart sources: DE [1] [2]
- ↑ a b Laut.de: Split Personalities (Berlin Day & Night Edition). Retrieved January 15, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Backspin: Prince Kay One - Rich Kidz. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 16, 2014 ; accessed on January 15, 2014 . 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.
- ↑ a b rap.de: Review: Plastic pop without content. Retrieved January 15, 2014 .
- ↑ rappers.in: Review: Prince Kay One - Rich Kidz (Deluxe Edition). Retrieved January 15, 2014 .
- ↑ hiphop-jam.net: Review: Prince Kay One - Rich Kidz. Retrieved January 15, 2014 .
- ↑ Dennis Sand : Kay One: Boy, boy, don’t mess with Bushido! In: welt.de . November 1, 2013, accessed October 7, 2018 .
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 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.
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