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Gorzki,
aka Krzysztof Gorzkiewicz is not only a controversial rapper, but also a hip hop
editor and promoter. He comes from Kalisz (joking KalishFornia :) ), where he
started his work. His first contact with hip hop music was in 1992, when he
heard House Of Pain, Public Enemy, Kriss Kross, MC Hammer, Vanilla Ice,
Salt’n’Pepa, NWA or Cypress Hill.
In
1995 he and his schoolmates started their first band Enemy Pain. The next step
was the group RMK.
In 1998 EK
was established – a few years later this group became successful. The first
success was an award at “Spazm” festival in Kalisz given by Sony
Music Poland. After that they recorded
their first professional record sponsored by Sony. Soon after that SPV
Poland & Pomaton
EMI company became interested in EK. In
2001 they published the first EK album, which was one of the most controversial
records in Polish hip hop. It sold very well, and the videos made by Room
Pipe Studio could be seen at the top of
charts lists.
In
2002 Gorzki established his own label “MGK Records” based at MTJ
Company. He bought up there many international music compilations featuring the
stars of European hip hop (two parts of “His Hop Rasizm Stop”, where many
nowadays popular artists had their debut (Owal / Emcedwa, Chłopaki z Szarego Tłumu,
BRZ etc.; there were also some European stars like Ferris MC, MC Flowwimino,
Toni L, Brixx, Eliott or American underground like Little Egipt or Yejide
Akinlana). A year after that he founded his own record studio “AMSTAFF
RECORDS”, which made compilations such
as “Rap Style 1”
featuring the world famous artists (i.e. Masta
Ace, Grand
Agent, Declaime,
Mr. Complex)
and “Rap Style 2”
(featuring such artists as Sunz of Man,
Hell Razah,
Masta Ace,
Jade Foxx,
Eternia,
K-Otix,
BluRum13).
There were also Gorzki’s music on both of these projects. At the moment the
artist is working on his solo record. He invited many artists to co-operate: Grand
Agent, Shabazz
The Disciple (Wu Tang Clan), Mr.Complex,
Kardesh,
Malek,
Torch,
Minus P,
Jerome XL.
Also many producers – like Tramp Baby
(working for MOP,
Fat Joe, Salt n Pepa, Pink), Dub L
(Rahzel, Plane Asia, Das EFX ...), Get
Large (a great French producer workingwith
Wu Tang Clan Family , Masta Ace), etc.
At
the end of 2004 a book by Dawid Kornaga
“The searchers of stories” was published. One of the characters was a rapper
nicknamed “Gorzki”. The author invited Gorzki to record a recitation of one
chapter, which was attached to the book on CD.
At the moment Gorzki is an author of international hip hop-social internet portal RapOrt (www.eraport.com)