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Hennessy Artistry has been touring the world for three years and has set a universal trend in the global art of mixing. Having begun in October 2008 with a shimmering premiere in “Felix Clubrestaurant” in Berlin, this is now continuing in Stuttgart. On the 22nd of May, the Hennessy Artistry Party took place in Perkins Park. Hennessy presented a multi-sensory work of art made up of live acts, cocktails and food plus video installations in one of the hippest clubs in Stuttgart. As their live act, Hennessy was able to get ‘urban folk singer’ Fetsum. Massive Disco was providing the optimum club sound and the VJs BerlinBeamBoys was also presenting their live video performance.
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Welcome to the unassuming Rhine town of Mutterstadt, Germany. Massiven Mc's Jean Christoph Ritter, called Schowi, and Joao dos Santos, alias Ju, have always worked best together, in life like in music. Way back in second grade, living in the multi-cultural Mutterstadt housing projects in Pfaffenäcker, they started spending their afternoons together. Theirs grew into a friendship that would last the years, and as the 90ies dawned and folks were getting all hipped up by the gigs of Public Enemy and Gangstarr, the two met up with Alexander Scheffel, alias "DJ 5ter Ton" and it quickly became clear to one and all that it wouldn't be long until they'd be setting the stage on fire too.
As early as 1991, when in Berlin no one dared to rap in German and images in rap were not yet calculated ones, the Massiven started up the legendary and much-cited "Kolchose" together with other Stuttgart hip-hop activists such as Afrob and friends. This was the creative stem cell that grew to make Germany's motor city (Mercedes are made near Stuttgart) the capitol of the head-banging set of the mid-90ies. The Massiven cemented their position in 1996 by releasing their debut album with just that name, "Kopfnicker" (Head-Banger) that followed the 1995 EP "Dichter in Stuttgart." A band has seldom created what these four guys from the Swabian metropolis did with their debut work: an instant classic, a blueprint for German hip-hop.
So things got off the ground, and shortly after this Schowi and Massive Töne manager Strachi guided the opening of the 0711Club on the Pragsattel there. It remains to this very day one of the most prestigious hip-hop clubs in Germany. The uniquely autonomous network around these kids from Stuttgart started growing thicker and thicker. Guest appearances by such big-timers as Missy Elliott, Mc Lyte, Krs One and 50 Cent followed, artist friends of theirs like French rap legend Iam or New Yorkers PF Cuttin invited them into the studio, and so it turned out that the Massiven also, completely unexpectedly, found themselves on a New York mix-tape.
In 1999, their second album "Überfall" entered the German album charts at number six. The classics "Chartbreaker" and "RapGame" remain unforgettable, and in spring of the following year the Massiven launched their own label "Kopfnicker Records." But the most successful chapter in the band's history to date came in 2002 when their third album, "MT3," became the most successful hip-hop album of the year, the hymn to chrome-rims everywhere, "Cruisen," became the summer sleeper hit that held its place in the top ten for weeks after steadily climbing the charts all season. The album "Zurück in die Zukunft" (Back to the Future) gave the charts such long-run hits as "Topmodel" and "Mein Job," among others. What would hip-hop in Germany be without "jaja," "Beweg dein Arsch" (Move your Ass), "Kopfnicker" or "Junge" (Guy)?
