Fuat

Turkish Rap

FUAT ERGIN / BIOGRAPHY Fuat Ergin was born in Berlin, in 1972. He came to Turkey (to his native town, Sile) with his family for a temporary stay in 1984. After staying there 5 years, he turned back to Germany. In 1992, he wrote his first rap song in English. In 1995, he decided to write his songs in Turkish, because he has proficiency in three languages, but he was thinking of in Turkish. He recorded his first professional album, titled ‘Hassickdir?’ in 1995. He made his debut in Germany after releasing of Royalbunker’s compilation album, M.O.R (December, 2000), which made sale of almost 90 thousand copies. (For more information about dates, please check the ‘discography’) Starting from 1992, he joined hip-hop jam-sessions in Berlin. He had many concerts nearly in every Turkish city and also in Austria, Holland, Sweden, and North Cyprus. 1993 – 1995 : Fuat interviewed with the masters of hip-hop when they were performing in Berlin. His interviews with BEASTIE BOYS, NAS, FUGEES, BLADE, ONYX, GUNSHOT, DAS EFX, READYKILL, HOUSE OF PAIN, GOATS, GANGSTARR’DAN GURU, GRAVE DIGGAZ, BOOYAA TRIBE were published in a hip-hop journal, called ‘Miks News’ 1995 – 1996 : He performed for Hip Hop Mobil and taught Hip Hop. 1997 – 1998 : He masterminded rap workshop in Berlin Hip Hop Haus. In this workshop, he gave Hip Hop courses to German and Turkish children whose age ranged from 8 to 16. 1999 : Fuat was on his first professional tour in Germany with Soul of Mischie...