Kool Savas – Net worth and Income

How much money does Kool Savas have?

Many people have only known Kool Savas since his collaboration with Xavier Naidoo. But the German rapper can already look back on a career of more than 20 years and is considered one of the veterans of German hip hop. But how much fortune was he able to build up during this time? The first studio album was released in 2002, although Kool Savas had been a rapper long before that. He started rapping in the early 1990s, initially in English. A few years later, German rap music followed, he also made some collaborations with other rappers. So Kool Savas was able to become a valued one to this day Assets of 5.5 million euros accumulate.

The income of Kool Savas

In contrast to many other German rappers, Kool Savas focuses almost exclusively on music. It was only in April 2017 that he announced that he was going into the hookah business, otherwise no outside jobs are known. But thanks to his long and successful career, he was still able to get one impressive fortune build up.

1 Income from rap music

Kool Savas released only four solo albums, but these could all reach gold status or are about to do so. There are also numerous collaborations with other artists, mixtapes and samplers. The most successful collaboration was that with Xavier Naidoo, which achieved platinum status. The collaboration album with Azad only has to sell a few times to get gold. At the beginning of his career, Kool Savas was under contract with a major label and had to be satisfied with around one euro per CD sold. However, since Essah Entertainment was founded, he has been independent and accordingly earns better. He does have to dig into his pocket for a doctorate, but he does he earns around 5 euros per CD. This is clearly worth it with the numerous gold awards.

2 Fees through live performances

Kool Savas is considered one of the best liverappers in Germany. Since the beginning of his career he has played numerous tours and is also a popular musician at festivals. The locations used have become bigger and bigger over the years, accordingly Tickets were also more expensive. From these many appearances, Savas was able to build an enormous fortune. In addition, there are merchandise sold on the tour and special tour mix tapes.

3 Income with hookah tobacco

In April 2017, Kool Savas announced that it would be launching its own Shisha tobacco. The brand is called “Essah German Tobacco”And is available in different flavors. In addition, he brings his own hookah onto the market under Essahwerk.

Kool Savas’ cars

In addition to rap music, Kool Savas has another passion: Expensive cars. He currently owns three cars. He drives a Mercedes-AMG GLE 63, which costs over 140,000 euros. The SUV has 557 hp. He also has a Bentley Continental GT Speed, which has over 600 hp and costs around 280,000 euros. His Nissan GTR costs around 130,000 euros and has 570 hp. Before that, Kool Savas owned, among other things, an S Coupé 63 AMG 4matic for 225,000 euros, a G63 AMG and a Mercedes-AMG GT S. He is also a big fan of the Porsche brand and had its logo tattooed on his arm.

Career of Kool Savas – his youth

Kool Savas was born on February 10, 1975 in Aachen as the son of a Turk and a German. However, the family moved back to Turkey when Savas was one year old. The father became politically active there, which ultimately led to his arrest and a five-year prison term. The mother of Savas therefore fled back to Germany, the father also came to Germany after his release. At that time Savas was 11 years old and the family found themselves in Berlin, in the Kreuzberg district. As an adolescent, Savas also began to be politically active and took part in numerous demos. It was also at this time that he began working under the Rapping the pseudonym “Juks” in English.

Beginning of the rap career

Savas met Fumanschu at hip hop workshops, with whom he traveled to Los Angeles. Then he decided to change his stage name and continued as Kool Savas in German. Together with Fumanschu and Justus Jonas he founded the Gruppe MOR, which stands for Masters of Rap. Over the years, more members joined and others left the group. One of them was the rapper Taktloss, with whom Savas performed together under the name “Westberlin Masculin”. The first solo release by Kool Savas was LMS / Schwule Rapper, he received more attention in 2000 with the song “King of Rap”. In 2001 the joint album with MOR called “NLP – Neuro-Linguistic Programming” followed. In the same year the EP “Haus & Boot” was released together with the singer Valezka, who entered the charts for the first time. After this success, Savas parted ways with MOR and his old label.

Musical breakthrough

In early 2002, Kool Savas was signed to Sony BMG and founded the Sublabel Optik Records. There he signed the singer Valezka, the rapper Eko Fresh, the producer Melbeatz and DJ Nicon. Valezka and Eko Fresh left the label in 2003. This led to disputes and ended in the disstrack “The Reckoning” and “The Judgment”. In November 2002 the album “The best day of my life” was released, with which Savas entered the German album charts at number 6. In 2004 Kool Savas brought the remix album “The best days are counted” on the market, which could be charted again.

The label Optik Records got bigger again and over time Ercandize, Caput, Amar, Moe Mitchell, Kaas and others were signed. In 2005 he released the album One with rapper Azad, which entered the charts at number 5 and contained the hit “All 4 One”. Shortly thereafter, the Optik Records crew album called “The John Bello Story” was released. The second solo album “Tot oder Lebendig” was released in 2007, before the last release on Optik Records in 2008 with “John Bello Story II”. The label was closed at the beginning of 2009.

Essah Entertainment

After Optik Records closed, Kool Savas founded the independent label and the booking agency Essah Entertainment. There he first released “John Bello Story III” and in 2011 the third solo album “Aura”, with which he was able to chart at number 1 for the first time. In 2012 he did with Xavier Naidoo under the name Xavas. The joint album “Gespaltene Demokratie” is his most successful to date and achieved platinum status. With the song “Don’t look back”, the two of them also won the Bundesvision Song Contest founded by Stefan Raab in 2012. In 2014, the fourth and so far last solo album by Kool Savas was released. “Märtyrer” again reached number 1 and went gold like its predecessor. In 2016 the mixtape “Essahdamus” was released, on which Kool Savas worked with numerous other German rappers, such as KC Rebell or Sido.

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