Plastic palm trees
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| Studio album by Bonez MC and RAF Camora | |||||||||
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Palmen aus Plastik is the first collaboration album by the German rapper Bonez MC and the Austrian rapper RAF Camora . It was released on September 9, 2016 via the labels Auf! Keinen! Fall! and Indipendenza as a standard edition and as a box set , including bonus EP, instrumentals and DVD.
The follow-up album Palmen aus Plastik 2 was released on October 5, 2018 .
background
After Bonez MC had a guest appearance on the song Geschichte on RAF Camora's album Ghøst, which was released in April 2016 , the two rappers announced at the splash! Festival during a performance by the 187 street gang that they would release an album together. The first songs from the album were also presented during a live show on RAF Camora. In addition, promo CDs containing snippets of some of the songs were distributed among the audience.
The release was finally officially released on July 9, 2016 by the label Auf! Keinen! Fall! approved.
Bonez MC and RAF Camora wrote parts of the album on a joint trip to Jamaica in early 2016. Music videos were published for three of the singles released in advance. The music video on plastic palm trees was shot in Hamburg and Berlin , the homes of Bonez MC and RAF Camora. The video for Murder was filmed in the Bosnian-Herzegovinian city of Zenica .
RAF Camora explained in an interview that rappers from the French region such as JUL , Sch and Booba were of great inspiration for the album . Furthermore, the music of the Parisian rapper MHD , whose album of the same name he "celebrates extremely", served as a template for the production.
The album title Palmen aus Plastik refers to the metal palm trees in Hamburg's Antonipark .
production
The beats for the album were produced by RAF Camora itself and the music producers Beataura, X-plosive , Irievibrations, Jambeatz , KitschKrieg and Suigeneris.
Cover design
The album cover shows Bonez MC and RAF Camora standing in front of a staircase on the beach in Barcelona. Palm trees can be seen on the left and right of the picture and blue sky above. The photo was created by Farido Davis, Bobby Analog was responsible for the cover artwork.
Guest Posts
In addition to the protagonists, other artists are represented on eight songs on the album. So the rapper has Gzuz two guest appearances on songs murderer and ski mask , while the dancehall musician Trettmann on the pieces vaporizers and addition is heard. Without my team there is a collaboration with the rapper Maxwell and the reggae artist D-Flame appears on Killa . The title Attackieren is a collaboration with the rapper Hanybal and the Jamaican dancehall artist Tommy Lee Sparta is represented on Evil . Trettmann can also be heard on the five songs on the bonus EP, with Bausa also making a guest contribution on the song Bei Nacht .
Track list
| # | title | Guest musician | producer | length |
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| 1 | Intro | - | 0:38 | |
| 2 | Ciao Ciao | RAF Camora | 2:33 | |
| 3 | Plastic palm trees | RAF Camora, Beataura | 3:04 | |
| 4th | killer | Gzuz | RAF Camora, Beataura | 3:34 |
| 5 | Without my team | Maxwell | RAF Camora | 3:08 |
| 6th | Blinded | Beataura | 3:10 | |
| 7th | Evil | Tommy Lee Sparta | RAF Camora | 5:42 |
| 8th | Attack | Hanybal | X-plosive | 4:02 |
| 9 | Killa | D-Flame | Suigeneris | 2:36 |
| 10 | Calm after the storm | RAF Camora | 3:14 | |
| 11 | Vaporizer | Trettmann | Beataura | 3:52 |
| 12 | gratitude | Irievibrations | 3:29 | |
| 13 | Ski mask | Gzuz | RAF Camora, Jambeatz | 2:27 |
| 14th | Cabriolet | X-plosives | 3:33 | |
| 15th | Besides | Trettmann | Kitsch war | 3:44 |
Box Set Bonus XP:
| # | title | Guest musician | producer | length |
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| 1 | Back in town | Trettmann | Kitsch war | 3:44 |
| 2 | Thread | Trettmann | Kitsch war | 4:14 |
| 3 | At night | Bausa and Trettmann | Kitsch war | 3:35 |
| 4th | As we want | Trettmann | Kitsch war | 3:57 |
| 5 | Selecta | Trettmann | Kitsch war | 4:12 |
+ Instrumentals for all songs
Chart successes and singles
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Palms made of plastic entered the German charts at number 1 on September 16, 2016 and stayed in the top 100 for a total of 112 weeks, including seven weeks in the top 10. It also reached the top of the chart in Switzerland and number 2 in Austria .
In the German album charts of 2016 it was ranked 12th, in Austria 67th and in Switzerland 74th. In the 2016 German hip-hop annual charts, plastic palms reached number 1. Also in the 2017 and 2018 annual album charts, plastic palms were still represented in 51st and 81st place respectively.
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 Germany (GfK)
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1 (112 weeks) | 112 |
 Austria (Ö3)
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2 (... Where.) | ... |
 Switzerland (IFPI)
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1 (19 weeks) | 19th |
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Germany (GfK)
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12 |
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Austria (Ö3)
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67 |
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Switzerland (IFPI)
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74 |
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Germany (GfK)
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51 |
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Germany (GfK)
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81 |
The first music video for the title track Palmen aus Plastik was released on July 14, 2016. The song was released a day later as a single for download and reached number 10 in the German charts. For more than 800,000 copies sold, the song received a double platinum record in Germany . The second release, Ruhe nach dem Sturm , was released on July 22, 2016, ranked 42nd in the German charts and was awarded a gold record for over 200,000 sales. On August 19, the third single Mörder was released, reached position 20 and received a platinum record for over 400,000 sales. On September 1, 2016, the song " Gratitude" was played on the "Get Out The Bed" playlist of Uptowns Finest , a podcast. The fourth single, Ohne mein Team , was released on September 6, 2016, reached number 7 in the German charts and was awarded a diamond record for more than one million units sold. In Austria the song was awarded gold (15,000 sales). In addition, all songs in the standard edition entered the top 100 of the German charts after the album was released due to high individual downloads and streams. On September 26, 2016, a video about track attack was also published.
Sales figures and awards
In Germany the album received a platinum record for more than 200,000 units sold and in Austria it was also a platinum record for more than 15,000 units sold.
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 platinum
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200,000 |
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Austria (IFPI)
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platinum
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15,000 |
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2 × platinum |
215,000 |
reception
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| laut.de |
 
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Plastic palm trees received consistently positive reviews:
Jan Ehrhardt from the website laut.de rated plastic palm trees with four out of a possible five points. The album delivers “finally good German-speaking dancehall”. Both artists “shoot in the usual way over precisely produced beats” and they manage “with large parts of the record something steeped in history: German-speaking artists have never flowed so well on dancehall riddims. The productions on a German-language dancehall record have never been so on point ”. The guest contributions by Tommy Lee Sparta, Gzuz, Maxwell, Hanybal, D-Flame and Trettmann are also praised.
Franz Xaver Mauerer from rappers.in gave plastic palms four out of a possible six points. The album is "well thought out and coherent" and delivers on a "constant level".
The sound carrier also received a positive rating on rap.de. The songs are very “diverse and exciting” and the album “exceeded all expectations, however high”. It sends the listener "on a journey to reinvent German dancehall: catchy hooks meet dark sounds, unbelievably strong production, gangster attitude on point, holiday flair, hurricanes and floodlit sun".
Plastic fir trees
On December 16, 2016 the album was re-released under the title Tannen aus Plastik (also Palmen aus Plastik - Winter Edition ). In addition to the regular palm plastic album are in the limited box set five more songs by Bonez MC and RAF Camora, and EP Safari by Maxwell , the 187 Allstars EP of 187 street gang and a palm plastic - Live in Stuttgart DVD contain.
RAF Camora, Beataura, Jambeatz and the producer Hamudi from the production team The Royals took over the production of these 15 tracks.
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Plastic fir trees (five additional songs) by Bonez MC & RAF Camora:
| # | title | Guest musician | producer | length |
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| 1 | Palms of gold | Beataura | 3:21 | |
| 2 | Past them | RAF Camora, Hamudi | 3:20 | |
| 3 | Scandals | Gzuz | RAF Camora, Hamudi | 3:14 |
| 4th | Atramis | Bausa | RAF Camora | 2:56 |
| 5 | traitor | RAF Camora | 3:47 |
Safari EP from Maxwell :
| # | title | Guest musician | producer | length |
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| 1 | Hakuna Matata | RAF Camora | 2:24 | |
| 2 | safari | RAF Camora, Bonez MC | RAF Camora, Hamudi | 2:38 |
| 3 | playground | Bonez MC | RAF Camora, Hamudi | 2:35 |
| 4th | High voltage | RAF Camora | RAF Camora | 2:22 |
| 5 | Golden times | RAF Camora | 2:23 |
187 Allstars EP from 187 Strassenbande :
| # | title | Artist | producer | length |
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| 1 | ten years | Gzuz, LX , Bonez MC, Maxwell, Sa4 | Jambeatz | 3:47 |
| 2 | Big caliber | Bonez MC, Gzuz feat. Against K | RAF Camora, Hamudi | 3:04 |
| 3 | Reunited | LX, Maxwell | Jambeatz | 2:32 |
| 4th | My language | Gzuz, Bonez MC, Sa4 feat. RAF Camora | Beataura | 4:00 |
| 5 | resume | Bonez MC, Gzuz | Beataura | 3:27 |
Chart successes and singles
As a result of the release of the Winter Edition , the album Palmen aus Plastik rose from number 34 to number 2 in the charts, as the sales of both albums are considered together. In addition, the 187 Allstars EP and the Safari EP reached positions 52 and 65 respectively in the album charts.
On November 24, 2016, the song Palmen aus Gold was extracted from plastic fir trees , which reached number 7 in the German charts and was awarded a gold record for over 200,000 sales. In addition, on December 12, 2016, the song Past them was released as another single that took 8th place. The single was awarded a platinum record for more than 400,000 sales. In addition, with the exception of the track Hochspannung, all songs on the EPs entered the top 100 of the German charts after their release due to high individual downloads and streams. On December 29, 2016, a music video for 10 years was also released.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Raf Camora and Bonez MC: "Palms made of plastic" confirmed! Backspin, July 7, 2016, accessed September 8, 2016
- ↑ Palms made of plastic are coming! No! No!! July 9, 2016, accessed September 8, 2016
- ↑ RAF & Bonez - what's actually going on? at hiphop.de, accessed on August 23, 2016.
- ↑ Malcolm Ohanwe: Interview with RAF Camora "In five years no one will rap". In: PULSE . Bayerischer Rundfunk , January 31, 2017, accessed on January 31, 2017 .
- ↑ 41 ° 23'42.5 "N 2 ° 12'25.1" E. Retrieved June 25, 2020 (de-US).
- ↑ album cover
- ↑ a b c d Chart sources: Germany - Austria - Switzerland
- ↑ a b c Gold & Platinum Germany. musikindustrie.de, accessed on August 29, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Gold & Platinum Austria. ifpi.at, accessed on August 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Chart tracking plastic palm trees on officialcharts.de
- ↑ a b Top 100 annual album charts 2016. officialcharts.de, accessed on August 29, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Annual Hit Parade Albums 2016. austriancharts.at, accessed on August 29, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Annual Hit Parade 2016. hitparade.ch, accessed on August 29, 2020 .
- ↑ HipHop annual charts 2016
- ↑ a b Top 100 Annual Album Charts 2017. Officialcharts.de, accessed on August 29, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Top 100 Annual Album Charts 2018. officialcharts.de, accessed on August 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Palms made of plastic (single) - DE: 2 × platinum
- ↑ Calm after the storm - DE: Gold
- ↑ Murderer - DE: Platinum
- ↑ Without my team - DE: Diamant
- ↑ Rating: laut.de
- ↑ Rating: rappers.in
- ↑ Rating: Backspin
- ↑ Rating: rap.de
- ↑ Germany - Austria - Switzerland
