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Paraziții
12+ albums
hip hopRomanianRomanian Hip-HopHip-Hopseen-live
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Paraziții (Romanian for "The Parasites", IPA: [pa.ra.'zi.tsiː]) is a Romanian three-man rap group founded in 1994 in Bucharest. It consists of Cheloo (Cătălin Ștefan Ion), Ombladon (Bogdan Ionuț Pastaca), and FreakaDaDisk (Petre Urda). They're well known for their campaigns against heavy use of playback in Romanian music and against the National Audiovisual Council (CNA). The group was subject to restrictions by the National Audiovisual Council, due to heavy language. Television and radio stations were fined for playing some of their videos/songs and two videos were banned outright. This motivated their song "Jos cenzura!" ("Down with Censorship!") which criticized the Social Democratic government and was released shortly before the local elections in June 2004. Cheloo, then going by the name "Tenny-E", starts the hip-hop project Paraziții. In May of the same year he is joined by Ombladon (then known as B.I.P.). The first song they record is În jur on September 13, 1994. A day later they have their first concert at the Freshman's Ball from Spiru Haret High School in Bucharest. In the winter of 1994 DJ Ies joins the group. Their first album, Poezii pentru pereți, produced independently, is released on June 15, 1995 making them the second hip-hip group to release an album in Romania after R.A.C.L.A. and before B.U.G. Mafia. Their success attract the attention of Digital Records which leads to their second album Nimic normal, released on March 5, 1996. On June 23, 1997 Paraz
