K.I.Z.

K.I.Z.
K.I.Z. members
Background information
Origin	Berlin, Germany
Genres	German hip hop Alternative hip hop Horror rap
Years active	2000–present
Labels	Royal Bunker
Website	Official website
Members
Tarek Maxim Nico DJ Craft

K.I.Z. is a German hip hop group from Berlin, Germany. The members are the three rappers Tarek, Maxim and Nico, with a DJ called DJ Craft. Their lyrics often contain a lot of black humor and irony as well as sociocritical content: The song "Straight Outta Kärnten" ('Kärnten' is German for 'Carinthia') criticises the xenophobic and racist politic of the austrian governor Jörg Haider, who died in a car crash in October 2008.

Meaning of the name

K.I.Z. has several meanings. It's the shortcut of Kriegsverbrecher in Zwangsjacken ("war criminals in strait jackets"), Kannibalen in Zivil ("cannibals in plain clothes"), Künstler im Zuchthaus ("artists in penitentiary"), or Kreuzritter in Zentralasien ("crusaders in central Asia"), Krüppel im Zwinger ("cripples in the kennel"), but as they said in an interview, not Klosterschüler im Zölibat ("claustral students in celibacy").

Members

Tarek

Tarek Ébéne was born in Freiburg im Breisgau. His family moved soon to the Mediterranean coast of Spain. As a young man, he moved back to Berlin where he met Maxim. Tarek is also known as Skinhead-Black.

Maxim

Maxim and DJ Craft

Maxim Drüner is of french descent and speaks french fluently as seen in his part in the song "Tanz". He was born and grew up in Berlin.

Nico

Nicolas Seyfried grew up in Berlin and began to make rap music aged 15. And have have fun in bars

DJ Craft

Sil Yan Bori was born 1985, in Berlin. He mixes songs from many different music styles like Dancehall, Dunk or Hip-Hop.

Discography

Albums

Singles

• 2007: Fieber (Fever) (Peter Fox feat. K.I.Z.)
• 2009: Strasse (Street) (feat. Celina)

Other releases

2007: Wir sind auf Tour (Frauenarzt und K.I.Z.) (Juice Exclusive! auf Juice-CD #78)

External links

• Official homepage (German)
• First interactive music clip (Neuruppin) (German)