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.jpg) Kollegah in 2015 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Felix Martin Andreas Matthias Blume |
| Born | 3 August 1984 Friedberg, West Germany |
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| Years active | 2003–present |
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| Website | Kollegah on Facebook |
Felix Martin Andreas Matthias Blume[1][a] (born 3 August 1984), known professionally as Kollegah, is a German rapper. He releases his music via his own label, Alpha Music Empire.
Born in Friedberg and raised by a single mother in Simmern, he started rapping in the Reimliga Battle Arena in December 2004. Intending to pursue a solo career as a rapper, Kollegah released his first mixtape Zuhältertape in July 2005 and was signed to Selfmade Records in December of the same year. He went on to pursue a variety of styles on subsequent albums Alphagene (2007), Kollegah (2008) and Bossaura (2011). His fourth studio album, King, was released in 2014 and became his best-selling album to date. His fifth album, Zuhältertape Vol. 4, was released in 2015, Imperator in 2016 and Monument in 2018.
Kollegah also released four collaborative studio albums with German rapper Farid Bang, the Jung brutal gutaussehend tetralogy, between 2009 and 2018.[b]
- ^ "Das Rätsel um Kollegahs bürgerlichen Namen". kiloherz.info (in German). 7 November 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
- ^ Ahlers, Michael (2019). "'Kollegah the Boss': A case study of persona, types of capital, and virtuosity in German gangsta rap". Popular Music. 38 (3): 457–480. doi:10.1017/S0261143019000473. ISSN 0261-1430. S2CID 211662156.
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