De Cartier

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De Cartier
Studio album by B.U.G. Mafia
Released	September 20, 1998
Recorded	1997–1998 Schneider Productions (Sebeş, Romania) Midi Sound (Bucharest, Romania) Klaxon Studio (Bucharest, Romania)
Genre	Gangsta rap hardcore hip hop
Length	69:40
Label	Cat Music Media Services 101 1122 4
Producer	Tataee
B.U.G. Mafia chronology
IV: Deasupra tuturor (1997) De Cartier (1998) După blocuri (2000)
Singles from De cartier
"Pentru '98 (feat. July & Andreea)" Released: June 11, 1998

De cartier (From The Hood) is the fourth studio album by Romanian hip hop group B.U.G. Mafia, released September 20, 1998, by Cat Music in Romania. The album went on to sell over 130,000 copies and, due to some of its violently charged content and the group's acerbic statements on Romania's post communist social situation, De Cartier was the source of much controversy upon its release.^[1] The frenzy that resulted from this situation was also the source of a massive discreditation campaign by the Romanian media, who capitalized from the subject by intentionally portraying them in a negative light using false information. The public scrutiny lead to an unprecedented amount of pressure which in turn influenced what the group claims to be their "darkest and most complex work to this day", their following album, "După blocuri".^[2][3] Despite having sold 130,000 copies, group member and producer Tataee had estimated the massive piracy affecting the Romanian music market at the time to have put the real album sales closer to 800,000 albums sold.^[4]