Zodiac (album)

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Zodiac
Studio album by Chakuza , RAF Camora and Joshi Mizu

Publication
(s)

March 14, 2014

Label (s) Indipendenza
( Groove Attack )

Format (s)

CD , LP , download

Genre (s)

German hip-hop

Title (number)

12/15/16/18

running time

38:22 / 52:07 / 56:03 / 62:29

Chronology of Chakuza
Magnolia
(2013)
Zodiac EXIT
(2014)
Chronology of RAF Camora
High 2
(2013)
Zodiac Ghøst
(2016)

Zodiak is a collaboration album by the Austrian rappers Chakuza , RAF Camora and Joshi Mizu . It was released on March 14, 2014 via RAF Camora's label Indipendenza as a standard, premium and limited fan edition, including DVD, instrumentals and t-shirt.

Cover design

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The album cover consists of a black drawing. It shows a wolf, a raven and a monkey who together form a logo with the white lettering Zodiak in the middle . At the top of the picture are the three artist names Chakuza , RAF Camora and Joshi Mizu in black. The background is kept white.

The entire artwork comes from the pen of the Swiss graphic artist Raphael "iHAD" Grischa, while the complete photography for Zodiak comes from the German photographer Manuel J. Karp.

Guest Posts

While RAF Camora and Chakuza appear as the main interpreters of the album, Joshi Mizu is represented as a feature guest on about half of the songs on the album ( bomb , everything out , klepto , a heart for haters , the truth , zodiak , tell them ). The song BF Allstars 3 is a collaboration with the rappers Bizzy Montana , Pireli, Massiv and Marc Reis . The latter can also be heard on the bonus track BF Allstars 3.5 . In addition, Sierra Kidd on the bonus track Tell them represented.

Track list

# title Guest musician length
1 Intro 2:07
2 bomb Joshi Mizu 3:15
3 Calm after the storm 3:24
4th FRP 3:12
5 Finally old 3:27
6th All out Joshi Mizu 3:20
7th RAGE 2:52
8th Head the boss 3:20
9 Klepto Joshi Mizu 3:16
10 A heart for haters Joshi Mizu 3:25
11 The truth Joshi Mizu 3:21
12 (*) BF Allstars 3 Bizzy Montana , Pireli, Massiv and Marc Reis 6:55
13 (*) Zodiac Joshi Mizu 3:03
14 (*) Bread & diamonds 3:47
15th thank you 3:23

(*) The songs BF Allstars 3 , Zodiak and Brot & Diamanten are bonus songs of the premium edition.

ITunes Edition bonus song :

# title Guest musician length
16 BF Allstars 3.5 Marc Reis 3:56

Bonus songs from the Amazon LTD edition:

# title Guest musician length
17th Laburnum 3:27
18th tell them Sierra Kidd and Joshi Mizu 2:49

Chart successes and singles

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Zodiac
  DE 4th 03/28/2014 (3 weeks)
  AT 4th 03/28/2014 (3 weeks)
  CH 13 03/28/2014 (1 week)

Videos for the titles Intro and Bomb were already published on YouTube on January 12 and 19, 2014 . Music videos for the songs RAGE and FVKK followed on February 2 and 16, 2014 . With Klepto and The Truth , more videos were released on March 10 and 13, 2014, respectively.

Zodiak entered the German album charts at number 4 in the 14th week of 2014 and stayed in the top 100 for three weeks. The album was also in the charts at number 4 and 13 respectively in Austria and Switzerland.

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