Vom Bordstein bis zur Skyline

Vom Bordstein bis zur Skyline
Studio album by Bushido
Released	July 14, 2003
Genre	German hip hop
Length	69:32
Label	Aggro Berlin
Producer	DJ Ilan, Bushido
Bushido chronology
Carlo, Cokxxx, Nutten (2002) Vom Bordstein bis zur Skyline (2003) Electro Ghetto (2004) Singles from Vom Bordstein bis zur Skyline "Bei Nacht" Released: May 25, 2003 "Gemein Wie 10" Released: November 9, 2003

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"Bei Nacht"
Single by Bushido
Released	2003
Recorded	2003
Genre	German hip hop
Label	Aggro Berlin
Producer(s)	Bushido & DJ Ilan

"Gemein wie 10"
Single by Bushido
Released	2003
Recorded	2003
Genre	German hip hop
Label	Aggro Berlin
Producer(s)	Bushido

Vom Bordstein bis zur Skyline (German: "From The Curb To The Skyline") is the first solo album by Bushido, released in July 14, 2003 under the label Aggro Berlin and was later indexed. The album reached #88 in the German Media Control Charts. It was entirely produced by Bushido and DJ Ilan.

Indexing

The youth welfare office from Trier-Saarburg proposed to indexing the album. In addition Bushido and Aggro Berlin argued with art freedom. The songs "Eine Kugel reicht", "Tempelhof Rock", "Dreckstück" and "Pussy" had been indexed, because of their controversival lyrical context; discrimination against homosexual persons, handicapped persons and women.^[4]

The song lyrics are mostly about violence, crime, sexism and discrimination. On 30 September 2005 the album was indexed by the German BPjM (Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons). Since then it is not allowed to sell the album to people below the age of 18.

Legacy

The album applied besides Carlo, Cokxxx, Nutten as one of the influential German speaking gangsta rap album.^[5] It achieved the breakthrough to the German gangsta rap and also for Aggro Berlin. Bushido's album was the first one of the label, that entered the German Charts, reaching place 88.

This album was also Bushido's last releases over Aggro Berlin. He only worked for the last time with the label on Aggro Ansage Nr. 3. Later it cames to disputes with the three bosses Spaiche, Halil and Spaiche. In 2004 he left the label and started his own career by forming label ersguterjunge. Afterwards there follows several successful records including Electro Ghetto (2004) and Staatsfeind Nr. 1 (2005).

For many fans applied Vom Bordstein bis zur Skyline as Bushido's best record album and is constituted as "milestone" in German hip hop history.^[6]

Track listing

Samples

A sample list is available here.

• "Electrofaust"
  • "Drunken Master Theme" by Chow Fu-Liang^[7]
  • Excerpts from Drunken Master
• "Bushido"
  • Excerpt from American History X
• "Berlin"
  • "Shadow Of Doubt" by Yoko Kanno
• "Vaterland"
  • "What U Rep" by Prodigy feat. Noreaga^[8]
• "Pitch Bitch"
  • "Aoi Hitomi" by Yoko Kanno
  • "Memory of Fanelia" by Yoko Kanno
• "Mein Revier"
  • "Sweet Dreams" by Eurythmics
• "Gemein wie 10"
  • Excerpt from American History X^[9]
• "Tempelhof Rock"
  • "GOD Part 3 (Remix)" by Mobb Deep
• "Asphalt"
  • "Hades Pluton" by Sopor Aeternus
• "Stupid White Man"
  • "Welcome to the Real World" by Don Davis
• "Zukunft"
  • "J'y suis jamais allé" by Yann Tiersen
• "Dreckstück"
  • "Sieh', mein Geliebter, hier hab' ich Gift" by Sopor Aeternus
• "Pussy"
  • Excerpts of Kobe Tai from a porn film
• "Vom Bordstein bis zur Skyline"
  • "Consensual Words" by Delerium
• "Outro"
  • "Love Theme From The Robe" by Felix Slatkin and The Fantastic Strings

References

External links

• http://zeitzeuge.blog.de/2008/10/06/musik-bushido-klaut-nox-arcana-4830657/
• http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vom_Bordstein_bis_zur_Skyline