From the inside to the outside

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From the inside to the outside
Studio album by Curse

Publication
(s)

October 1, 2001
August 4, 2003 (republication)

Label (s) Jive Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Hip hop

Title (number)

20th

running time

75:08

production

Sascha "Busy" Bühren, SaschliQ , Sieben, Roey Marquis II. , U. a.

Studio (s)

True Busyness Studios in Bad Oeynhausen ,
Tone-Bar in Bielefeld ,
Semmon-Dojo in Frankfurt am Main ,
Masterdisk in New York

chronology
Firewater
(2000) 		From the inside to the outside Internal Security
(2003)

From the inside out is the second album by the Minden rapper Curse and was released on October 1, 2001 via Jive Records . It is still one of the musician's most popular and successful records to this day.

Concept and production

From the inside out is commonly interpreted as a further development of the subject complexes of its predecessor, firewater . The Juice Magazine described the content- related focus from inside to outside with "[...] thoughts about interpersonal relationships, social [n] events [n] and hip hop [...]". Compared to his debut, the texts largely deal with similar, albeit more in-depth approaches to the artist persona Curse created by Michael Kurth , which he himself explains as a product of his living conditions at the time and with the experience of a two-month trip through Singapore , New Zealand and Tonga .

“After the album release [from Feuerwasser] came the tour and countless appearances followed [...]. I got to know a lot of people, saw a lot of things, got a lot of impressions - positive and negative - in short: I got a lot of input. A lot has happened in my personal life too. It was a turbulent time that shaped me in many ways. [...] So I decided to go on the trip. I needed distance, I was overloaded with everything. "

- Curse in an interview, October 2001

Curse had already dealt with love relationships with women on Feuerwasser through songs such as love-hate or light and shadow , which is also dealt with in more intense form on From Inside Out in songs like Let's be friends , Trust or Much easier . Accents critical of social and hip-hop were also continued on this album.

In addition to the extremely personal component in Curse's poetry , which was already known at the time, it is noteworthy that his subjects were expanded to include irony . So with the tracks Why not , I don't rap anymore and above all, Fuck Curse, an unusually large number of obviously ironic songs were released on a Curse record. This is generally to be interpreted as a reaction to the perception of the public at the time, which Curse often accuses of "extreme seriousness" even today and calls him an "expert on relationship issues".

The musical accompaniment of producer Sascha "Busy" Bühren, Treyer / Seven, Roey Marquis II. , Hawkeye , Jaleel , Stieber Twins, DJ feedback and peer Bee oriented itself again in his with drum machines programmed sample -Aesthetics, as with firewater , on Style of East Coast hip-hop , but far more melody-oriented than before.

With a large number of other guest musicians such as the rappers Kool Savas , Tone, Azad , Germany and above all the singers Samir, Youdon and Xavier Naidoo , more singing can be heard on the record compared to its predecessor. A circumstance that plays an increasingly important role in Curse's musical development on his later albums.

Track list

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
From the inside to the outside
  DE 9 10/15/2001 (7 weeks)
  CH 98 10/14/2001 (1 week)
Singles
Let's be friends / think of me
  DE 58 10/21/2001 (5 weeks)
  1. Think of me - 3:48
  2. Soulmusic ( feat.Xavier Naidoo ) - 3:54
  3. Let's be friends - 3:36
  4. Licorice (balm for my soul) - 3:55
  5. Why not? - 3:39
  6. Not like that - 1:24
  7. The Antidote (feat. Kool Savas ) - 4:05
  8. Fibilude (feat. Youdon) - 2:20
  9. Desert Flower (feat. Youdon) - 5:21
  10. Much easier - 4:10
  11. That 'll be fine - 4:12
  12. Fuck Curse - 4:00
  13. Nobody knows (feat. Samir & Germany) - 3:41
  14. Family - 5:09
  15. Cherubim (feat.Tone & Azad ) - 3:03
  16. Cardiac death - 2:11
  17. I don't rap anymore - 3:49
  18. Confidence - 4:39
  19. Responsibility - 4:12
  20. Sham holy - 2:29

Singles

Single releases were Let's be friends / Think of me and why not? ( as EP ) for which video clips were shot. It should also be emphasized that on the occasion of the then burgeoning debate about the legal position of music exchanges (especially the then market leader Napster ), Curse unusually did not make a short video for his Interlude So either .

reception

Chart placement

From the inside out , it entered the first week at number 9 on the Media Control Charts, the highest new entry on a Curse album to date. The record went down to number 26 in the second week and stayed in the top 100 for a total of seven weeks, last at number 88 in week 48 of 2001.

Reviews

The Juice Magazine from October 2001 gave five out of six crowns from the inside out , the second highest rating of the editors. The majority of the critics saw in this work "[...] a very good record that should not be missing in the German-speaking hip-hop households." The comparison with the American rapper Common , which is often quoted today , was clearly displayed here for the first time. Both the Juice-editors spoke with Inside Out of of "[...] memories of the last [2001] album of Common [...]" and the critics laut.de discovered a similarity to "Emcee Common [sic]" . This is also based on the thematic, yet true to concept, versatility of the long player as a "[...] manifesto for a rap record that would be at your side in the various moods [...]". For critics and fans, Von Innen nach Aussen is regarded as a record that "[...] has set new standards in the genre of 'German HipHop' [...]" and is one of the most popular albums in his discography for many of his listeners and, according to Curse, according to himself.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [Juice Magazin Special Issue "Rap in D 2" March / April 2008, Curse Review p. 115]
  2. ↑ [Juice Magazin Special Issue "Rap in D 2" March / April 2008, Curse Review p. 115]
  3. ↑ [Juice Magazin October 2001, Curse Review p. 135]
  4. ↑ [Juice Magazin October 2001, Curse Interview p. 52]
  5. ↑ [Juice Magazin October 2001, Curse Interview p. 52]
  6. ↑ [Juice Magazin October 2001, Curse interview p. 52, quote: "Of course a song like that (shit on Curse) also works as a joke"]
  7. ↑ [Juice Magazin October 2001, Curse Review p. 135 Ziat p. 54]
  8. ↑ [allesreal.de In the review of the album it says "The hard synthetics of a Lord Scan were exchanged for soulful musicality" ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on June 6, 2010)] @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.allesreal.de
  9. ↑ Lines 14 - 16 ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2009 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. (accessed on June 6, 2010) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sonymusic.de
  10. ↑ a b Sources Chart placements: DE ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2005 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de
  11. ^ Frank Patalong: The Napster judgment: grace period with harsh conditions , Spiegel.de, from February 12, 2001
  12. ↑ See discography
  13. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 26, 2005 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de
  14. ↑ [Juice Magazin October 2001, Curse Review p. 135]
  15. ^ [Juice Magazin October 2001, Curse Review p. 135, lines 40 - 43]
  16. ^ [Juice Magazin October 2001, Curse Review p. 135, lines 19-20]
  17. ↑ laut.de review of the album (accessed June 6, 2010)
  18. ↑ [Juice Magazin Special Issue "Rap in D 2" March / April 2008, Curse Review p. 120]
  19. ↑ hip-hop.de Review of the album ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2009 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. (accessed on June 6, 2010) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hip-hop.de
  20. ↑ [Interview with Curse on Fett-MTV, Curse claims that "From Inside To Outside" was the most popular Curse album]
  21. ↑ [Juice Magazine Special Issue "Rap in D 2" March / April 2008 p. 115 "For many [...]" From inside to outside "was always THE Curse album"]

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