Overview

• GfK Entertainment data shows "Scherbenhaus" is Gzuz’s sixth solo and eighth overall chart-topping album in Germany since its late July release.
• Amazon Prime began streaming “Licht und Schatten” on August 1, portraying his life at home in Halstenbek with his wife and three children.
• In recent interviews, Gzuz rejected claims that his lyrics incite violence or misogyny, calling the idea of blaming artists for fans’ actions absurd.
• He enforces strict household rules, including forbidding his eleven-year-old daughter from wearing belly-baring tops to school and advising her to look to her mother as a role model.
• The rapper draws on a troubled upbringing in Hamburg’s St. Pauli district and ongoing probation linked to past convictions to frame his identity as both a gangsta icon and devoted father.