Bushido (2)

German rapper from Berlin and Manager of ersguterjunge. Born on September 28th, 1978 in Bonn, Federal Republic of Germany. He's one of the founding members from BMW (3) and the only one of the founders that is still active. He's the owner of ersguterjunge that was founded in 2004 with D-Bo. As of 2007 under heavy scrutiny for plagiarism, for having lifted complete tracks on at least 2 of his albums from Dimmu Borgir, Dark Sanctuary, Nox Arcana and other bands without ever even having tried to clear the rights. In March 2010 he was found guilty for major use of copyrighted material on 19 tracks in question, various records have been pulled back from the market and high compensation payments were made to the original artists. Bushido has won many prices in music and also in other topics, for example the "Integrations Bambi" (German social award for integrating people of other nations). He got 12 gold awards ("Goldene Schallplatte") and 2 platin awards just in Germany.