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. From 29 June to 1 July 2012, Cro released one single each day; " Du", "

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", and " Meine Zeit". Music videos were also filmed for every single. All of his five released singles were placed in the top 100 in the German single charts.

Background

Cro worked on the album for one and a half months. On 19 April 2012 it was announced the album would be released on 6 July 2012. It was titled ''Raop'' after Cro's description of his music genre. He says it is a mixture between rap and pop. On 24 May 2012 the album cover was first uncovered.

Versions

The album was released in five different versions, a standard version, including 13 songs, a Vinyl LP, also including the 13 songs, a premium edition, including 2 more songs, 4 remixes, and a DVD of the making-of the album, ''Road to Raop'', a limited "Panda Banda Deluxe" edition, which includes the 13 songs, 2 bonus songs, 4 remixes, the DVD and instrumentals of all of the songs, and an exclusive Amazon edition, which includes the 13 songs, 2 bonus songs, 4 remixes, the DVDs, instrumentals of all of the songs, a T-shirt, and a playbutton which can play all of the 13 songs.

Production

''Raop'' was mostly produced by Cro himself. While he had often used samples for his earlier mixtapes he had to waive using portions of other songs. The reason was the short production progress which led to him not having enough time to obtain consent for using samples. Cro changed his working procedure to recording his own melodies.

Promotion

Singles

Three songs from the album were released as singles. These were released on three consecutive days. " Du" was released on 29 June 2012. "

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on 30 June. " Meine Zeit" was released on 1 July as the last promotional single. Music videos were also made for all of the three songs. On 28 June 2012 the music video for "Du" was published on tape.tv. Following that, was the video for "King of Raop" which was filmed by a company from Stuttgart called ''Formzwei''. The video for "Meine Zeit" was released by ''Juice Magazine''. Parts of the video were filmed on the roof terrace of ''Chimperator Productions''. On 27 October, Cro released the music video for his fifth single "

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" which was released on 2 November. The song previously appeared on his Mixtape "Meine Musik" in early 2011.

Tour

On 5 May 2012 Cro embarked on the " Road to Raop Festival Tour" during which he has been visiting many festivals. During the tour he has visited

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and Splash! Festival. The tour is supposed to end on 22 September 2012. On 1 October, Cro embarked on the " Raop Tour".

Track listing

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''Raop +5''

On 5 July 2013, a new extended version of the album was released titled ''Raop +5'' that included the 15 songs of the premium edition plus five additional tracks, including the single " Whatever" and "Chillin", "Bei dir", "Ab jetzt" and "Wie du". Track list #"Intro" (2:46) #"King of Raop" (3:09) #"Easy" (2:52) #"Geile Welt" (2:50) #"Du" (2:54) #"Wie ich bin" (3:11) #"Meine Zeit (3:07) #"Nie mehr" (3:04) #"Jeder Tag" (2:56) #"Genauso" (3:25) #"Einmal um die Welt" (2:22) #"Wir waren hier" (2:24) #"Ein Teil" (2:55) #"Hässlich" (2:58) #"Papa schüttelt seinen Kopf" (3:06) #" Whatever" (3:11) #"Chillin" (4:32) #"Bei dir" (2:19) #"Ab jetzt" (2:49) #"Wie du" (2:32)

Personnel

Performance

* Cro - primary artist, vocals, composer, mixing, production, writer * Carl-Michael Grabinger - drums * Guido Craveiro - bass, drums, guitar, keys, production, trombone, mixing, remixing * Karolina "Lean" Kovac - vocals * Peter Weihe - guitar * Johannes Opper - bass, guitar, composer, production * Til Schneider - trombone

Technical

* Arne Schult – composer * Benedikt Janny – composer * Bobby Hebb – composer, writer * Carl Möller – composer * Christoph Bauss – composer * Conscious Youths – production * Den Kilians – composer, production * Dexter – production * Dominic Lorberg – composer * Felix Göppel – composer * Gordian Scholz – composer * Jonas Lang – composer * Jopez – production * Karri Miettinen – composer * Lasse Mellberg – composer * Lukas Michalczyk – composer * Markus Winter – composer * Michael Schuermann – composer * Morten "Pro-Moe" Edh – composer * Narinder Singh – composer * Niko Papadopoulos – composer * Peerless – mixing, production * Peter Albertz – composer * Ralf Christian Mayer – composer, mixing, production * Sascha "Busy" Bühren – mastering * Shuko & Fonty – production * Simon Hartog – composer * Tom Krüger – mastering * Volker "IDR" Gebhardt – mixing

Chart positions

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

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