Roger Rekless

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Roger Rekless, 2018
Roger Rekless, 2018

Roger Rekless (real name David Mayonga; born February 25, 1982 in Munich ) also known as Rekless or Komma 8 is a German musician, producer, presenter and author.

Life

Mayonga was born in Munich and grew up in Markt Schwaben . Because of his father, who comes from what is now the Republic of the Congo , and the color of his skin, he experienced discrimination early on, which also put him off his first career path as a police officer.

He started DJing and scratching in the mid-1990s and was then moved to rap . In 1997 he founded his first band, the Turntable Technicians , from which the Plastik Jugganots later emerged. While still at school, the band had a contract with a major label . At the end of the 1990s he started producing beats . In 2001 he played his first album Da Basilisk's Eye and several EPs with Raptile and their first EP with 4 to 1 . From 2002 to 2005 he was a member of the band The Intrudas , with whom he recorded two albums, at the same time he worked as a scratcher and singer on two albums by Main Concept . In addition to his activities as a hip-hop musician, he was the bassist of the Munich metal band 089 and is a regular stage guest of the Capones .

His solo debut album From Home was released in 2006, the same year as his band's first album 4 to 1 . Also in 2006 he was seen in a supporting role in the film Wholetrain , which deals with the graffiti scene . In 2008 he toured Germany, Austria and Switzerland with the solo project of the blumentopf rapper Roger Manglus, since 2009 he has been a member of Team MAKASI as MC and guitarist , with whom he published the EP Bis es eine Mitkriegt in the same year, which he released in 2010 together with Boshi San , a member of Team MAKASI , the album HeRB. In September 2012 Team Masaki's Makasi album was self-distributed.

Rekless has been singing with the Munich crossover band GWLT since 2013 .

Mayonga is a trained pedagogue with a master's degree and worked in open youth work at the Munich-City district youth association . For the Goethe-Institut he held hip-hop workshops in Iceland and Australia.

Since August 2015 he has been a presenter on the youth channel Puls of Bavarian Broadcasting . Until the end of 2018, he also moderated the daily two-hour pulse format on Bayern 3 .

At the Splash Festival 2017, Roger Rekless opened the festival and moderated the main stage.

In 2019, his first book, A Negro May Not Sit Next to Me, was published , in which he dealt with his experiences of discrimination.

Discography

  • 2001: Da Basilisk's Eye ( Raptile & Roger Rekless)
  • 2002: Three Days In September (The Intrudas)
  • 2003: >> MUC >> NYC >> STHLM >> BRM ( Main Concept )
  • 2004: Penetrate The Empty Space (The Intrudas)
  • 2005: Equilibrium (Main Concept)
  • 2006: From home
  • 2006: Adventure Hoch 3 (4 to 1)
  • 2009: Until someone realizes (Team Makasi)
  • 2010: HeRB (with Boshi San )
  • 2011: manifest EP
  • 2012: Makasi (Team Makasi)
  • 2013: The Thelonious Freestyles Vol. 1
  • 2015: David against Goliath (album Mama by MoTrip )
  • 2019: About the nature of things

Publications

Web links

Commons : Roger Rekless  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrike Ostner: Who's Afraid of the Black Boy? (PDF) In: SWR2 Tandem. Südwestrundfunk, October 5, 2012, accessed on May 11, 2018 .
  2. ^ BR-Puls: Between comfort, martial arts and beats , August 5, 2015
  3. ↑ Roger Rekless & Boshi San - Team Makasi (cover, tracklist & snippet). (No longer available online.) MeinRap.de, October 17, 2012, archived from the original on October 22, 2012 ; Retrieved August 19, 2013 . 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@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / meinrap.de
  4. ↑ Die Lutzi: ROGER REKLESS , March 2017
  5. ↑ Münchner Merkur: No more nightlife on Bayern 3 , July 28, 2015
  6. ↑ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung: Splash! in Ferropolis For the first time, 22,000 hip-hop fans can celebrate under excavators , July 8, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Rekless, Roger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rekless (stage name); Mayonga, David (real name); Comma 8 (artist name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, producer and actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich