Felix Martin Andreas Matthias Blume[1][a] (born 3 August 1984), known professionally as Kollegah, is a German rapper.

Born in Friedberg and raised by a single mother in Simmern, he started rapping in the Reimliga Battle Arena in December 2004.

Intending to pursue a solo career as a rapper, Kollegah released his first mixtape Zuhältertape in July 2005 and was signed to Selfmade Records in December of the same year.

Kollegah also released four collaborative studio albums with German rapper Farid Bang, the Jung brutal gutaussehend tetralogy, between 2009 and 2018.

[b] Felix Blume was born on 3 August 1984 in Friedberg, Hesse to a Canadian father and a German mother.

[8] Blume's first studio album Alphagene was set to release in September 2007, but was postponed to November, after he was found with cocaine and amphetamine in Bad Kreuznach.

[11] On 28 August 2008, Blume released his second studio album Kollegah, which peaked at 17 in Germany,[12] 48 in Switzerland[13] and sold over 20,000 copies.

[11] On 17 April 2009, Chronik 2 was released, an album featuring the Selfmade Records artists Kollegah, Favorite, Casper and Shiml.

The previously released song "Westdeutschlands Kings" performed by Kollegah, Favorite and Farid Bang, targeted insults at Sido, Fler and Kitty Kat from Aggro Berlin.

[14] In March, a song titled "Früher wart ihr Fans" was released by Fler, Kitty Kat and Godsilla as a reaction.

In the song, they accuse Selfmade Records artists of having created the feud for the sole purpose of marketing their album; Kitty Kat also attacks Favorite by referring to the death of his parents, who died because of a fire while camping.

Kollegah responded on 20 March with the song "Fanpost", calling Fler a "fat potato" and claims that he was penetrated with a carrot.

Jung, brutal, gutaussehend 2, his collaboration album with Farid Bang, was released in 2013 and reached number 1 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

[29][31][32] The project became their third collaborative studio album to debut on the pole positions of the German, Austrian and Swiss albumcharts.

Additionally, the track Frühling was teased, which marks the conclusion of his long-running series consisting of Sommer, Herbst, and Winter.

On his third mixtape Zuhältertape Volume 3, Blume used the line "Endlösung der Rapperfrage", directly referring to the Final Solution during the Holocaust.

4 contained statements like "Nutte, Zeit, dass du Putzlappen befeuchtest / Ich bring Schusswaffengeräusche wie die Schutzstaffel der Deutschen" ("Hooker, that time that you moisturize cloths / I bring firearms sounds like the Schutzstaffel of the Germans") or "Kid, es ist der Boss, der für 'ne Modezeitschrift Posen einnimmt wie die Wehrmacht, die in Polen einschritt" ("Kid, it is the boss, who poses for a fashion magazine like the Wehrmacht, which invaded Poland").

He also doubts the official version of 9/11, the Moon landing and evolution theory and also spread rumours about Pizzagate and chemtrails.

[citation needed] In November 2016, Blume released the documentation Kollegah an Palästina (Eine StreetCinema Dokumentation) on his YouTube channel Alpha Music Empire.

He travelled through the Palestinian territories, visited the West Bank barrier, the refugee camp Am'ari and supported a school.

[38][39] In 2018, months after release, Kollegah and Farid Bang were criticized for the lines commit another Holocaust and come with Molotov and My body is more defined than those of Auschwitz inmates on their album Jung Brutal Gutaussehend 3.

Both had originally defended their lines as a form of stylistic means, exaggeration, provocation, artistic boundaries, but later apologized.