Kollegah
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Kollegah in 2014
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Felix Antoine Blume |
| Born |
August 3, 1984 Friedberg, Hesse, West Germany |
| Genres | Hip-hop, rap |
| Occupation(s) | Rapper |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Labels | Selfmade Records |
| Website | www |
Felix Antoine Blume (born 3 August 1984), better known as Kollegah is a German rapper. He is also known as "Kollegah der Boss", "Boss der Bosse" or the pseudonym "T.O.N.I.". He is signed at his own Hip-Hop Label Alpha Music Empire. His style and demeanor is heavily based on gangsta rap. Kollegah is known for his punchlines, double time-ability, complex and polysyllabic rhyme structures.
Felix Blume's father is of Canadian descent and his mother of German descent. He spent his childhood partially without a father. His nickname Kollegah came from his Algerian stepfather. Kollegah grew up in Simmern.
In 2004 he graduated from the Herzog-Johann-Gymnasium in Simmern with an Abitur.
From December 2004 until May 2005 Kollegah participated in rap battles on the online platform Reimliga Battle Arena (RBA) and won 11 out of 14 evaluated battles.
His debut album, Alphagene, was released in 2007 as Selfmade Records' fourth album and reached #51 in the German album charts.
He currently lives in Düsseldorf and studies Jurisprudence at the University of Mainz. To graduate the state examination he has to do a placement but currently he's concentrated on his career as rap artist.
In 2013, he received a Golden record for his collaboration album Jung, brutal, gutaussehend 2 together with Farid Bang. 80,000 copies of the album were sold in the first week after release.
On May 9, 2014, German Rapper Kollegah released his fourth solo album King. It reached gold status in Germany within 24 hours after its release for more than 100,000 units and 160,000 within a week sold and has become the first album of a German artist to peak at number one of the global album charts from Spotify. Also, no other rap-album in Germany ever reached the Gold-status after just 24 hours.
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