Ruffiction

Ruffiction
General information
origin	Berlin / Osnabrück / Hameln , Germany
Genre (s)	Hip hop
founding	2006
Website	ruffiction.de
Current occupation
Rap , production	Crystal F.
rap	Crack Claus
rap	Arbok48 (since 2007)
former members
rap	partisan
rap	Daniel Gun
rap	Audio max
rap	KOS
rap	Phil

Ruffiction is a German rap crew consisting of the three rappers Crystal F (Berlin), Crack Claus (Hameln) and Arbok48 (Osnabrück). Crystal F also runs the independent label of the same name, Ruffiction Productions , which publishes other artists in addition to the publications of the three rappers.

Band history

Crystal F, Crack Claus and Partisan met in 2006 and decided to make music together. In the same year, Crystal F founded the label Ruffiction Productions as a side project, which was initially intended for his friends, but was then used to market the rap group "Doom & Death", which at the time still consisted of Partisan, Phil and himself. Arbok48 joined Ruffiction through Audiomax in 2007 after meeting Crystal F and Crack Claus a year earlier at a Shiml concert organized by Snuffshit Records. Shortly after the first release "Götterdämmerung" was released, Phil left the label. This was followed by the free download EP "Messermassaker EP" by Partisan and the second album "Das wird ein Nacht", on which the new crew members Daniel Gun, Arbok48 and Audiomax were represented for the very first time. After the album "Crystal, Crack, Kannibalismus" was released in 2008 together with Crack Claus, Crystal F's first solo album Art of Death followed in 2009 , for which he used the books of the author Cody McFadyen . In 2009, the Ruffiction.de website was temporarily indexed by the Federal Testing Office for Media Harmful to Young People (BPjM) . The background was the indexing of the two free download releases Messermassaker EP by Partisan and Das wird ein Nacht von Ruffiction.

In October 2012, Daniel Gun and Partisan left the label due to "musical differences". From then on, the remaining members continued alone, but released the two albums Rebellion der Großstadt by Daniel Gun and the album Last Action Heroes by Doom & Death. While the first DAD was still about pure violent fantasies, the second album showed a lot more humor and was therefore not affected by any indexing. In 2013, the Commission for the Protection of Minors in the Media tried to have the Ruffiction Productions website indexed. This was due to various videos on YouTube that were linked via the website. The band came to terms with the test center and removed all video links. Since then, the official website has only consisted of links to the webshop and Facebook .

After the mixtape Lost Tapes , which contained unreleased songs from 2007 to 2013, was released in 2013, the following album Ruffnecks followed on June 13, 2014 , which entered the German music charts at number 21 as the group's first album . A year later, the next album, Frieden , was released, which landed at number 9 and gave the band its first top 10 position since the label was founded.

Music style and lyrics

Ruffiction deliberately transgress genre boundaries and mix their hip-hop with musical elements from other genres, such as horrorcore , trap , gangsta rap and battlerap . There are also influences from the crossover and hardcore punk . The band performs live with beatdown bands such as Cunthunt 777 and Slam Coke. The band appears with corpsepaint and straight-edge shirts. The texts deal with criminal machinations, violence, criticism of politics and the use of firearms. Elements of the Battle Raps are also found in the texts, so dissing Ruffiction established hip-hop acts such as, among others, Samy Deluxe , Curse and Olli Banjo . First and foremost, they see their music as entertainment and consider their fans intelligent enough to tell the difference to real violence. She takes her influences from the horrorcore of Necro and Ill Bill , but also from early German battlerappers such as Westberlin Masculin , Bassboxxx and Dynamite Deluxe . Features outside of the label are mostly from artists from Hirntot Records or from the metal and hardcore scene.

Discography

Chart placements (preliminary) Explanation of the data

Albums

Ruffnecks   DE 21st 06/27/2014 (1 week) peace   DE 9 07/10/2015 (1 week)   AT 69 07/17/2015 (1 week) state of emergency   DE 3 03/23/2018 (1 week)   AT 18th 03/30/2018 (1 week) Hate mask   DE 2 07/31/2020 (...  where.)

Ruffiction

• 2007: This Will Be One Night (Confiscated) (Free Download)
• 2007: Doomsday EAST
• 2011: Ruffamilia
• 2014: Ruffnecks (only with Crystal F, Arbok48 and Crack Claus)
• 2015: Peace (only with Crystal F, Arbok48 and Crack Claus)
• 2018: State of emergency (only with Crystal F, Arbok48 and Crack Claus)
• 2020: Hate mask (only with Crystal F, Arbok48 and Crack Claus)

Albums of the band members

• 2006: Götterdämmerung (DAD, Crystal F, Partisan & Phil, indexed)
• 2006: Straight Outta Keller - Promotape (Crystal F, indexed)
• 2007: Knife Massacre EP (Partisan, indexed) (Free Download)
• 2008: Crystal, Crack, Cannibalism (Crystal F & Crack Claus)
• 2009: Art of Death (Crystal F, indexed)
• 2010: Blood on the Streets (Goodfellas Mafia, Partisan & Daniel Gun)
• 2010: Ruffradikal (Crystal F, indexed)
• 2011: Jerks (Crystal F & Serious Dan)
• 2012: Modus Operandi (Arbok48)
• 2012: Last Action Heroes (DAD, Crystal F & Partisan)
• 2012: X (Crystal F, indexed)
• 2012: City Rebellion (Daniel Gun)
• 2016: Scars (Crystal F)
• 2018: XX (Crystal F)
• 2018: duct tape and cheap crack (Crystal F)
• 2019: Mixed consumption EP (Crystal F, Tamas, KDM Shey, Nils Davis)

Ruffiction Productions

• 2007: Goodfella's Mafia: Kieztape
• 2008: Mob elite: The name says it all
• 2010: Affenzirkus: Hard and direct
• 2010: Daniel Gun: Hate Mixtape

Web links

• Ruffiction at laut.de
• Ruffiction Productions at Discogs

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BPjM indexes albums of the small hip hop label Ruffiction. Schnittberichte.com , May 5, 2009, accessed October 23, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Inquiry: Ruffiction about controversial texts & the BPjM. 16bars.de, June 13, 2014, accessed October 23, 2015 . 
3. ↑ http://www.16bars.de/magazin/6049/interview-ruffiction-ueber-ihr-erstes-aufeinandertreffen-indizierung-label-frieden/
4. ↑ Ruffiction - musicians, not gangsters. hiphop.de, May 5, 2008, accessed October 23, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Arne Lehrke: Ruffiction: A question of respect . In: Juice . No. 168 (July / August), 2015, p. 92-93 .
6. ↑ DE AT