Mário Cotrim, mostly known by his

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ProfJam aka Docente Compota (born 6 June 1991), is a Portuguese rapper and hip hop singer.

Career

Profjam started doing his own rhymes in 2008. His first exposition to the Hip Hop audience occurred when he participated in the Portuguese competition "''Liga Knockout''", where rappers had to make their own rhymes in order to defeat their opponent in a 1v1 punchlines battle. Docente Compota met Carlos Gonçalves at this stage in his career. A lot of his rhymes were influence by him. To this day they still talk and write together. Later on, after dropping from a Computer Science and Information Systems degree at

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, he went to

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to pursue a degree on Audio Production, in the

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. In 2016, he created his own record label, Think Music Records. The label has been growing over the years and has become one of the most popular Hip Hop labels in

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. Think Music Records produced for known Portuguese artists such as Yuzi, SippinPurpp, Mike El Nite,

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, among others. In January 2019, it was announced that ProfJam will perform on the

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of Super Bock Super Rock 2019, on 20 July. In 2018 he performed at the same

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but on the secondary stage. After he released his album #FFFFFF in February 2019, the numbers started to appear, as almost every song on the album got to the top 100 of

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singles charts. The song "Tou Bem" featuring Lhast, got to the number 1 spot on the Portuguese charts and on the main social media streaming services, like

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. The records, "Água de Côco" and "Tou Bem" reached the platinum certification as they got over 20,000 sales registered by AFP. The album reached the number 1 spot on the Portuguese charts in March 2019. On 5 August 2020, ProfJam will perform at the ''MEO Stage'' of

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.(Canceled due to the

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)

Personal life

On 10 October 2019, he was hospitalized after suffering from a

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due to

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while he was writing his new song "''Anjos e Demónios''".

Discography

Mixtapes

Albums

Studio albums

Collaborative albums

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

Awards

References

{{Authority control Living people 1991 births Portuguese rappers 21st-century Portuguese male singers Singers from Lisbon