Server Uraz (born 23 March 1988) is a Turkish

rapper Rapping (also rhyming, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular". It is performed or chanted, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The ...

and

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. He made his debut as a rapper in 1998 under the nickname Pit10. After using this name for 15 years, he started releasing records under his real name in 2017. Under the name Pit10, he released more than 20 albums. He has been mentioned as an influence for rappers such as Canka, Beta, Flowart, and Deniz Gürzumar. In his 2006 song "Ses Çıkarma", he targeted Prime Minister

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (born 26 February 1954) is a Turkish politician serving as the 12th and current president of Turkey since 2014. He previously served as prime minister of Turkey from 2003 to 2014 and as mayor of Istanbul from 1994 t ...

. The acquittal decision by the local court was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2009 in the case opened by Erdoğan's lawyers against him on charges of insulting Erdoğan. The song in question criticized the Erdoğan government for fighting the

PKK The Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement, which historically operated throughout Kurdistan, but is now primarily based in the mountainous Kurdish-majority regions of southea ...

and it concluded with the voice of

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, or Mustafa Kemal Pasha until 1921, and Ghazi Mustafa Kemal from 1921 until 1934 ( 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Rep ...

reading the 10th Year Speech. The song also contained insults directed towards

Abdullah Öcalan Abdullah Öcalan ( ; ; born 4 April 1949), also known as Apo (short for Abdullah in Turkish and Kurdish for "uncle"), is a political prisoner and founding member of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Öcalan was based in Syria from ...

. In his analysis on the subject, Furkan Dilben commented that Uraz had "borrowed the disclosures of the dominant oliticalideology, and then showed that he was against it." In 2017, with the release of his new album, ''Yılan Hikayesi'', he stopped using the nickname Pit10 and made music under his real name afterwards. Uraz, who performed under the name Pit10 on stage for the last time in December 2015, stated that the "infamy" of the name Pit10 lies behind this decision. Uraz founded the music label Epidemik during the same period. Four of the songs from this album were turned into music videos. Evaluating the song "Olmaz" and its music video, ''

Akşam ''Akşam'' (''Evening'') is a Turkish newspaper founded in 1918, owned by Zeki Yeşildağ's Türk Medya Grup (T Medya Yatırım San. ve Tic. AŞ.) since 2013. In 2013 it had a circulation of around 100,000. History ''Akşams founders in 1918 incl ...

'' journalist Onur Akbaş wrote, "Pouring the regrets, unhappiness, disappointments and inner loneliness of the people, Server Uraz manages to reflect these emotions to his audience with his successful cast team in the clip." In his review on the album published in ''Prova Magazine'', Fatih Dalcı didn't find the work successful and stated, "After saying 'I was born again', I was expecting a different style and lyrical qualities and of course a different sound from his Pit10 times, but my expectations from Server Uraz remained as expectations. My score for the album is 5/10." Server Uraz and Volkan Ayvazoğlu, nicknamed

Ceg Volkan Ayvazoğlu (born 28 June 1993), better known by his stage name Ceg (), is a Turkish rapper and songwriter A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer ...

, received a prison sentence of 4 years and 2 months in January 2019 for promoting drug use in their songs. The decision was protested by many hip hop artists.

Discography

Albums

* ''52 Hertz'', 2018 * ''Yılan Hikayesi'', 2017

Singles

*"Parmaklıklar Ardında", 2019 *"Leylim Ley", 2019 *"Ayarımı Bozma, 2019 *"Akbaba Ziyareti", 2018 *"Köpek Öldüren", 2016 *"Melek Şeytanın Tarafında", 2016 *"Alley Alley", 2020

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Uraz, Server Living people 1988 births Turkish rappers Turkish singer-songwriters Turkish male singers Turkish lyricists