
Three more singles have been released, including "Neymar", "One Night Stand" and "Berlin lebt", which all reaching the pole positions on the German and Austrian single charts. The single became Balovatsky's first single to top the German single charts on 13 April 2018.

The first single of the album, "5 Songs of einer Nacht" was released on 6 April 2018. The teaser features Balovatsky performing in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. He announced Berlin lebt, his fourth studio album on 26 March 2018 with a teaser on YouTube. The album debuted within the top five in German-speaking europe.īalovatsky was featured on "Power", by German rapper Ufo361, which peaked at number seven in Germany. The album was released on 29 September 2017, through Team Kuku and Auf!Keinen!Fall!. The album was supported by six singles, including "Nur noch Gucci" and "Olé olé", which became his first singles to be certified gold by the Bundesverband Musikindustrie in early 2018. It reached the pole positions on the Austrian album charts and the German hiphop album charts.īalovatsky announced his third studio album Blyat on 16 June 2017, through Facebook. The album debuted within the top five in German-speaking europe. Makarov Komplex was released on 3 February 2017, through Auf!Keinen!Fall!, Chapter One and Team Kuku. The following two singles "Geld machen" and "Die Echten" didn't enter the charts. The second single "Es geht ums Geschäft", released in January 2017 became his first song to enter the German single charts at position 76. The first single of the album, "Ala Ba Ba" featuring Ufo361 was released in mid december 2016. His second studio album was announced less than a year later in November 2016. 32 on the German album chart on issue date 19 February 2016. None of them entered the charts and the album was released on 12 February 2016, through Baba City, Chapter One and distributed through Universal. Three more singles have been released including "Kuku Habibi", "Fluchtwagen glänzen" and "Kreide", all three alongside German rapper King Khalil. In March, Balovatsky released his first single "Bra".īalovatsky, at this time known as Capital, announced his first release Kuku Bra on 1 December 2015, through the single "Bra macht die Uzi". Following his win, Balovatsky announced his departure from Rap am Mittwoch. The last battle he did against Master Marv, is the most watched Rap am Mittwoch battle on YouTube, with more than 7,8 million views as of January 2019. He rose to prominence in the German underground rap, through Rap am Mittwoch, a German battle rap tournament, where he participated in a couple of battles.

Balovatsky uploaded his first music onto YouTube, under the pseudonym "Siam One", in the year 2009. They settled in Alt-Hohenschönhausen, Berlin, where Balovatsky spent his youth.

Balovatsky's mother decided to move to Germany in 2001, to find a better life for her son. At a young age Balovatsky moved with his parents to Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine. Vladislav Balovatsky was born on 23 November 1994 in Siberia, Russia to Ukrainian parents, who worked in the petroleum industry. Outside of music, Balovatsky critized the German political party Alternative for Germany (AFD), issued support for Russian president Vladimir Putin and spoke out about social injustice. Balovatsky is the most successful German act of the 21st Century, with eight no. His fourth studio album, Berlin lebt (2018), peaked at number one in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and the follow-up Allein (2018), again reached the top five. The follow-ups Makarov Complex and Blyat were released in February and September 2017 and peaked in the Top 5 of German-speaking Europe. Intent on pursuing a solo career as a rapper, Capital Bra released his first studio album Kuku Bra in January 2016 to minor commercial success in Germany. He started rapping at age eleven and participated at Rap am Mittwoch in 2014, a German battle rap tournament. Born in Siberia, Russia and raised in Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine, he moved with his mother to Berlin, Germany in the early 2000s. Vladislav Balovatsky (born 23 November 1994), known professionally as Capital Bra, colloquially referred to as Capital or Bra, is a German rapper. Top 100 Greatest Hip-hop/Rap Singles Of All Time.
