Anis Mohamed Youssef Ferchichi (born 28 September 1978), better known by his alias Bushido, is a German rapper, hip-hop producer, and entrepreneur.

[2] According to his autobiography, Ferchichi was found guilty of drug possession and property damage and was given the choice to either face a jail term or to complete an officially recognized vocational training program.

[9][10] In April 2005, Bushido's second collaborative studio album, Carlo Cokxxx Nutten II, was released, once again under his alter ego "Sonny Black", but this time in partnership with Baba Saad instead of Fler.

On 1 September 2006, he released his fourth solo album, Von der Skyline zum Bordstein zurück (abbreviated as VDSZBZ).

[13] The music video for his single, "Für immer jung", caused controversy when MTV stopped airing it after two days of heavy rotation.

[17] At some point, Bushido and Kay One wrote and recorded "Fackeln im Wind", which was dedicated to the Germany national football team in honor of the 2010 FIFA World Cup and was released in June.

Bushido got the idea for the song after meeting football player Sami Khedira during the "Zeiten ändern dich – Live durch Europa" tour.

[19] In late-March 2011, Bushido released a video on his YouTube channel, in which he confirmed plans for a new album titled Jenseits von Gut und Böse and the guest appearance of French rapper Booba.

He also presented the producers Rsonist and Benny Blanco and confirmed that Xavier Naidoo from Söhne Mannheims is featured as guest performer on the song "Du bist ein Mensch".

[22] American record producers DJ Premier, Swizz Beatz, Araab Muzik and R'sonist each contributed one beat for the album.

[25] In 2011, after having ended their long-term feud, Bushido reunited with former Aggro Berlin labelmate Sido to form the short-lived rap duo, 23.

[29][30] The same month he completed an internship for CDU deputy Christian von Stetten in the Paul-Löbe-Haus in Berlin,[31] which led to a lot of criticism due to Bushido's controversial song lyrics and his criminal past.

[51] Fler later stated in a YouTube interview with Nico Hüls, a journalist from hip-hop magazine Backspin, that he's not involved in the CCN project due to personal issues with Bushido.

However, some had pointed out his partial North African ethnicity and collaboration with minority artists, like Azad, Eko Fresh and Cassandra Steen as evidences that Bushido is not racist.

(Berlin is going to be hard again, because we beat up every faggot)In November 2005, Bushido hit the headlines after he made a scornful remark about Paris Hilton in an interview with net.zeitung.de: "She is just a stupid piece of meat...

)In late August 2007, Bushido was criticized for his involvement in the concert Schau nicht weg, a campaign against violence at schools, organized by Bravo and VIVA.

[64] During the performance, Bushido appealed aggressively to a small group of homosexual protesters by saying: "You fuckers can demonstrate, hang yourself – I don't give a shit".

[70] In January 2013, Bushido garnered additional media attention by tweeting "Free Palestine" along with a map of the Middle East in which Israel did not exist.

[71][72] German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper that "this illustration does not serve peace, rather it sows hate.

Upon discovery that his tires had been slashed, Bushido and two of his bodyguards were involved in a physical altercation with a 19-year-old Austrian man from Linz who was left with severe head injuries.

Two songs from the Liverpool band Antimatter had also been sampled by Bushido without permission, although this dispute was settled later before any legal action was taken.

Bushido's album Von der Skyline zum Bordstein zurück (2006), which copied Nox Arcana's songs, was re-released in 2007 after going Platinum in Germany.

[83] Here is a section taken from the official page of Nox Arcana:[83] The German rapper, Anis Mohamed Ferchichi, who calls himself "Bushido" or "Sonny Black" is looking at international copyright infringement charges.

On 23 March 2010, German courts convicted him and ordered him to make reparations and to stop the sales of the affected albums, singles, and samplers, including Von der Skyline zum Bordstein zurück.

[98][99] In May 2013, Bushido's former friend Shindy released a diss track against Kay One, titled "Alkoholisierte Pädophile", accusing him of pedophilia and complaining about not being paid for co-writing songs for the album Prince of Belvedair.

In August 2013, released Kay One's diss track "Nichts als die Wahrheit", rapping about his past with Bushido and Shindy.

[106] Bushido then announced his ten-minute-long-running diss track called "Leben und Tod des Kenneth Glöckler" on many social media outlets.

[112] However, a year later in November 2014, Kay One's released his 25-minute response track titled "Tag des Jüngsten Gerichts" on his YouTube channel.

On their third collaboration album Jung Brutal Gutaussehend 3 Kollegah and Bang dissed Bushido and several ersguterjunge artists directly.

Lewe (now Ferchichi) is the younger sister of German singer Sarah Connor and ex-wife of Finnish footballer Pekka Lagerblom (married: 2005-09).