Felix Nier (born 16 February 2001), known professionally as Filow, is a German

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and

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Life

Felix Nier grew up in

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. In 2020, shortly after finishing his

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, he moved to

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. He uses various social media channels such as

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and

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. He is under contract with 1UP Management. In 2021, he took part in a

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competition and became the official moderator of the Red Bull Twitch channel together with Ollimeee. He mainly does comedy segments on his channels. During

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, an incident occurred that cost him a number of followers after he claimed to have uninvited another web video producer from the guest list. He received further criticism for a blind date video in which he participated. Since 2022 he has also been producing music. In 2024 he performed with the

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duo at Splash!. He produced the song ''Lieber Gott'' (German for "dear god") with them. He has almost 1.2 million monthly listeners on Spotify (as of August 12, 2024). He became known with the song ''Rasenschach'', which he produced during the 2024 European Football Championship in Germany. The song was produced in the span of 3 hours during a live stream. It is less of a football song and more of a parody of a football song. In the two and a half minutes, he raps in a highly exaggerated

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, with dirty jokes and sexually connoted

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s, left-wing extremist slogans (with a line translating to "We're killing all Nazis and their swastikas"),

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and references to 's party hit song ''Pyrotechnik'', among others. He himself describes the song as a play on stereotypes. The song reached number 58 in the German charts. He also performed this song in a live stream of the ARD, a German public broadcaster. In September 2024, his album ''Icke'' was released, reaching number 28 in Germany in its week of release. He also created songs on his streams with other musicians like

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and Ikkimel.

Discography

Studio albums * 2024: ''Icke'' Singles * 2023: ''Glücksbringer (2 iPhones)'' * 2023: ''Cheatcode'' * 2023: ''Schiff'' * 2023: ''Super Sex Bass'' (with yani5000) * 2024: ''Red Flags'' * 2024: ''Rasenschach'' * 2024: ''Lieber Gott'' (with Mehnersmoos) * 2024: ''Turbo'' * 2024: ''Atze seit Tag 1'' (with

Frauenarzt Vincente de Teba Költerhoff (born 18 October 1978), known professionally as Frauenarzt (German for "gynaecologist", literally "The Women's Doctor"), is a German rapper from Berlin, also known as "DJ Kologe", "MC Digital F", "Arzt", "Gynniko" or ...

; #17 of the German single-trend charts on 2. August 2024{{cite web, access-date=2024-08-03 , date=2024-08-02 , publisher=GfK Entertainment , title=Single Trending Charts , url=https://www.mtv.de/info/kj3m94/single-trending-charts , website=mtv.de) * 2024: ''Chopard'' * 2024: ''Kiwi (with Chapo102)'' * 2025: ''Jiggy (with Ikkimel)''

References

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