Wallpaper (rapper)

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Wallpaper (2014)

Wallpaper (* 1983 , bourgeois Leonard Kroppach ) is a rapper from Berlin .

Artistic career

Kroppach's career as a wallpaper began in 2005. In February 2012, he gained greater media attention when it became known that the Berlin-Mitte job center threatened to cut his payments based on his texts about his life as a Hartz IV recipient. In May 2012 he started his own business. Most of his songs can be downloaded free of charge from wallpaper online; many have a Creative Commons license. He is not a member of GEMA . He generates income through appearances and donations. For some songs he worked with the rapper Sookee , also from Berlin . He had other featurings with Lena Stoehr Faktor , Quetschenpaua and Mogli from the band Frucht des Zorns .

Style and texts

In his texts, wallpaper deals with social and political issues and takes a clear left-wing standpoint. For example, in his album Sumpf , he criticized German social policy and the FDP during the black-yellow coalition . In the same album he also expresses his sympathy for the squatter scene . Many of his texts are critical of capitalism and anti-nationalist. In contrast, the album Sonne, Mond und Punkt is more characterized by self-reflection . In 2011 he took a stand against homophobia together with Sookee in the song "Pro Homo" .

On the video portal Youtube , wallpaper publishes some music videos for his songs, including more complex productions such as a 360-degree video .

Discography

  • 2018: door open or wallpaper (LP)
  • 2016: Crowdfunding Tenner (Single)
  • 2016: Kalt (single)
  • 2016: Warlock Business (single)
  • 2015: Merry Christmas (Single)
  • 2015: General Strike feat. Jaan Varaan (Single)
  • 2014: Sun, Moon and Point (LP)
  • 2014: Outsourced Underground - First Takes Tape (EP)
  • 2013: DIY (single)
  • 2013: Standpunkt (single)
  • 2013: Nothing, for nobody and without that certain something (EP)
  • 2012: Master of Hartz (single)
  • 2011: Swamp (LP)
  • 2010: The Lost Tracks 2005–2009
  • 2009: The will guides the action (LP)
  • 2009: Tapeter and the Wolves - Vol. 1: Lip Gloss (EP)
  • 2006: The Eternity of the Ephemeral (LP)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christoph Giesen: Full fat, father state: Rapper wallpaper lives on Hartz IV. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . February 7, 2012, accessed September 4, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Sebastian Puschner: Berlin musician "Wallpaper": "Gema restricts my freedom". In: The daily newspaper . September 5, 2012, accessed September 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Rap, Chanson, Punk ... (PDF) In: Antiberliner. 2011, p. 8 , accessed on September 5, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Christoph Schrag: The wall behind the wallpaper. Retrieved September 5, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Adem Ferizaj: Hengzt and the consequences: Homophobia has never been cool (comment). In: rap.de. February 24, 2015, accessed April 30, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Muni: Wallpaper - Warlock Business (prod. Wallpaper). In: rap.de. February 19, 2016, accessed April 30, 2018 (video).
personal data
SURNAME wallpaper
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kroppach, Leonard (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rapper
DATE OF BIRTH 1983