Little Brother is an American hip hop duo from Durham, North Carolina that consists of rappers Phonte and Big Pooh, DJ and Producer 9th Wonder was an original member of the group but departed in 2007. The group has produced five acclaimed studio albums and six mixtapes.
Ekrem Bora, better known by his stage name Eko Fresh, is a German rapper of Turkish and Kurdish descent.
Patrick Losenský, known professionally as Fler, is a German rapper and the CEO of Maskulin Music Group.
Paul Hartmut Würdig, better known as Sido, is a German rapper. He interprets his artist name as "super-intelligentes Drogenopfer". It used to stand for "Scheiße in dein Ohr", a line from his track Terroarr. Sido is currently signed to Urban/Universal Music Group.
Anis Mohamed Youssef Ferchichi, better known by his alias Bushido, is a German rapper, hip-hop producer, and entrepreneur of Tunisian descent. He is the co-founder of the record label ersguterjunge. Born in Bonn and raised by a single mother in Berlin-Tempelhof, Ferchichi came in contact with hip-hop through graffiti and his friend and fellow rapper Fler. In 2001, Ferchichi released his demo King of KingZ, which later led him to sign a record label deal with Aggro Berlin. Ferchichi's first official release was Carlo Cokxxx Nutten in 2002, a collobaration with Fler.
Adnan Hamidović, better known by his stage name Frenkie, is a Bosnian rapper from Tuzla. The themes present in his music are often concerned with the political situation in Bosnia, as well as traditional hip-hop subject matter such as battle rapping and pop culture. As of 2019, he has recorded four successful full-length albums to date: Odličan CD (2005), Povratak Cigana (2007), Protuotrov (2009), Troyanac (2012) and Egzil (2017). He also released extended plays Pokreni se (2008) and Putanja (2016), and a Bosnian only released album DOSTA! (2006).
ersguterjunge is an independent German hip hop label distributed by Sony BMG. It was founded by rappers D-Bo and Bushido in 2004, after he left the indie label Aggro Berlin. Bushido is the managing director. ersguterjunge is a reflexion on some of Germany's immigrant population's slang for standard German "er ist ein guter Junge"
Electro Ghetto is the second studio album by German rapper Bushido. It released on October 25, 2004 by his newly founded record label ersguterjunge and Universal Music Group. This was the first record since he has left former label Aggro Berlin.
K.I.Z is a German hip hop group from Berlin. The members are the three rappers Tarek, Nico and Maxim. Until 2018, DJ Craft was also part of the group. Their lyrics often contain a lot of black humor and irony as well as sociocritical content.
Adel Tawil, is a German singer, songwriter and producer. Besides his solo career, he is part of the popular German pop duo Ich + Ich, after being part earlier of the German boy band The Boyz.
Finian C. St. Omer II, better known by Chaundon, is an American hip-hop artist from South Bronx, New York City. In 2008, he released his debut album Carnage and has become well known on the internet due to his website (theweightwontloseitself.com), independent music show, and internet blog show Nignorance. Chaundon released his second album, No Excuses, on October 26, 2010.
L.E.G.A.C.Y. is a rapper from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and former member of the Justus League collective.
The Away Team is a hip hop duo consisting of MC Sean Boog and producer Khrysis, both of whom are members of the North Carolina rap collective the Justus League.
Kenneth Glöckler is a German rapper known as Kay One. He is also known as Prince Kay One.
Christopher Frederick Tyson, better known as Khrysis, is a hip hop producer and half of the duo The Away Team.
Fumio Kuniyoshi is a rapper from Germany of Japanese descent, known as Blumio. His 2005 single, "Meine Lieblingsrapper", debuted at number two on the German Urban TRL charts.
Azad Azadpour is a German rapper of Kurdish descent based in Frankfurt am Main. As one of the first German street rappers who become successful, he strongly influences the German rap scene.
Peder Losnegård, better known by his stage name Lido, is a Norwegian musician, record producer, singer, and songwriter. He produced "Same Drugs" and "Angels" on Chance The Rapper's Coloring Book. He is known for his extensive work with Halsey, executive producing her debut Badlands, as well as co-writing and producing several songs on Hopeless Fountain Kingdom and Manic. Lido has also notably produced for Ella Mai, Jaden Smith, Ariana Grande, Mariah Carey, A$AP Ferg, Smino, and BANKS, among others.
Moritz Wilken, better known by his stage name grim104, is a German rapper, who is signed to the Hamburg label Buback. Together with the rapper Testo he forms the hip-hop duo Zugezogen Maskulin.
Vladislav Balovatsky, known professionally as Capital Bra and informally as Capital, Capi and Joker Bra, is a German rapper of Ukrainian and Russian descent. Born in a small town in Siberia, Russia and raised in Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine, he and his mother moved to Berlin, Germany in the early 2000s. He started rapping at age eleven and participated at Rap am Mittwoch in 2014, a German battle rap tournament. Intent on pursuing a solo career as a rapper, Capital Bra released his first studio album Kuku Bra in January 2016 to minor commercial success in Germany. The follow-ups Makarov Complex and Blyat were released in February and September 2017 and peaked in the Top 5 of German-speaking Europe. His fourth studio album, Berlin lebt (2018), peaked at number one in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and the follow-up Allein (2018), debuted at number two on the German album charts. Balovatsky is the most successful charting German act of the 21st Century, with twenty number-one songs in Germany.
