Asiatic Warriors
Encyclopedia
Asiatic Warriors, originally named Cold-N-Loco, were a multilingual hardcore rap
crew from Frankfurt
, Germany
.
Cold-N-Loco was composed of D-Flame
(Daniel Kretschmer), A-Bomb and Combad. They invited the Kurdish-Iranian hip hop artist Azad to join the band and it was renamed Asian Warriors. It delivered a mix of German
, English
, and Kurdish
lyrics along with hard beats making them one of the most popular German hip-hop acts of the late 1990s.
After the split, D-Flame
and Azad
went on for successful solo careers
Hardcore hip hop
Hardcore hip hop, also referred to as hardcore rap, is a sub-genre of hip hop music that developed through the East Coast hip hop scene in the 1980s. Pioneered by such artists as Schoolly D, Spoonie Gee, Boogie Down Productions, and Kool G Rap, it is generally characterized by anger, aggression and...
crew from Frankfurt
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
.
Cold-N-Loco was composed of D-Flame
D-Flame
Daniel Kretschmer, better known by his stage-name D-Flame, is a German hip hop and reggae musician. He was also previously part of the hip hop formation Asiatic Warriors.-Albums:* 2000 - Basstard...
(Daniel Kretschmer), A-Bomb and Combad. They invited the Kurdish-Iranian hip hop artist Azad to join the band and it was renamed Asian Warriors. It delivered a mix of German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
, and Kurdish
Kurdish language
Kurdish is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages....
lyrics along with hard beats making them one of the most popular German hip-hop acts of the late 1990s.
After the split, D-Flame
D-Flame
Daniel Kretschmer, better known by his stage-name D-Flame, is a German hip hop and reggae musician. He was also previously part of the hip hop formation Asiatic Warriors.-Albums:* 2000 - Basstard...
and Azad
Azad (rapper)
Azad Azadpour is a German rapper of Kurdish descent based in Frankfurt am Main.-Career:After having arrived in Germany from Iran as young as 10, he was into hip hop, rap, beatboxing and graffiti. In 1988 he joined D-Flame , A-Bomb, and Combad in Cold-N-Locco...
went on for successful solo careers
Discography
- 1994: Told Ya (Dragnet/Sony)
- 1997: Strength (We don't play records/EFA)
- 2000: Asiatic Warriors Y2G