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About Ercandize
- Ercan Kocer (born April 12, 1978), better known as Ercandize is a German rapper of Turkish ancestry and a certificated economist.
- He is signed on Kool Savas' label Optik Records. Ercandize grew up in Wesel.
- In his youth, he wrote graffiti until he started the rap crew ABS with Sedat and Daiker around 1993.
- Producer Discopolo, DJ Salicious and MC Short joined later.
- In 1999, ABS released their first single, "08-15/Focus", which was chosen as 12" of the month by the German hip hop magazine Juice and in mid-99, the first record contract was signed.
- Features with well-known German artists like Plattenpapzt, Too Strong, RAG and Roey Marquis as well as two more singles followed until ABS' debut album Kinderspiel - Leichter getan als gesagt was published.
- Beyond expectation, it reached #46 on the German charts. ABS went on hiatus, and due to several differences, Ercandize parted from his label BMG. Kool Savas took notice of Ercandize's talent through a feature on an album by Illmatic and invited Ercandize to Berlin to record some tracks.
- Consequently, Ercandize was signed to Optik Records and his first solo album Verbrannte Erde was released in April 2007.
- He also founded his own label Assazeen. Ercandize has studied economics at the Ruhr University in Bochum.
- He got his diploma in 2006.
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