Xatar

Quick Facts

Full Name	Xatar
Occupation	Rapper
Date Of Birth	Dec 24, 1981(1981-12-24)
Age	43
Country	Iran
Birth City	Kurdistan Province
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Xatar Biography

Xatar is one of the most popular and richest Rapper who was born on December 24, 1981 in Kurdistan Province, Iran. The German-born Kurdish rapper who made waves in 2008 with the debut of his album Alles or Nix. He later followed up with smash albums such as the 2015’s Baba aller Babas and 2016’s Der Holland Job.

His first exposure to the rap genre was while in listening to Dr. the album “The Chronic” by Dre.

Xatar [ˈχatar], real name Giwar Hajabi (born December 24, 1981 in Sanandaj, Iran), is a German entrepreneur, publisher, rapper and producer of Kurdish descent. He has been with Universal Music Group since 2018. He is also founder and owner of the labels Alles oder Nix Records and Groove Attack TraX. He was also the managing director of the now closed company Kopfticker Records. Through his labels he promoted hip-hop musicians such as SSIO, Schwesta Ewa, Kalim, Eno, Mero und Sero el Mero. In addition to his musical activities, he expanded his entrepreneurial work with the Shisha bar Bar Noon, the tobacco brand Orijinal and jewelry and clothing design for Massari. He authored his autobiography Alles oder Nix: Bei uns sagt man, die Welt gehört dir (All or nothing: We say the world belongs to you) in 2015.

At the end of the 1990s Hajabi began using the pseudonym Xatar, the Kurdish term for “danger”, to rap and produce beats in the recording room of a youth center. In 2007 he founded the label Alles oder Nix Records, which signed a distribution contract with Groove Attack. The first artists he signed were Samy and SSIO. His first album, Alles oder nix was released at the end of November 2008. In addition to his label colleagues Samy and SSIO, it also features guest contributions from La Honda, Azad, Jetsett Mehmet, Jamila and Jalaal. Less than a year after its release, Xatar’s debut album was indexed by the Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien (German Federal Review Board for Media Harmful to Minors).

His birth name was Giwar Hajabi. He came from Bonn, Germany as a refugee from Iranian Kurdistan.

Xatar Net Worth

Xatar is one of the richest Rapper from Iran. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Xatar 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He started learning piano at age nine thanks to his father. He later began rappers with his future label partners Samy as well as Ssio.

The year 2009 was the time when he along with seven accomplices stole gold from a transporter. He was in hiding until March 2010 when he was arrested by Interpol. Iraq through Interpol.

Xatar was born in 1981 under the name Giwar Hajabi in Sanandadsch in the Iranian province of Kurdistan. His father is the music professor Eghbal Hajabi. In the early 1980s, his parents fled with him to nearby Iraq. At this time, the first Gulf War broke out between the two Middle Eastern states. After Saddam Hussein’s regime attacked the Kurdish minority in Iraq his parents were also tortured and imprisoned. He himself was held prisoner for three months near Bagdad.

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Who is Xatar Dating?

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For the tenth anniversary of Alles oder Nix Records Michael Rubach from Hiphop.de looked back on the development of Xatar and his label. The artists on the platform were initially inspired by the G-funk and Boo-Bap-Rap of the 90s. With their “no-frills street rap”, they have set themselves apart from the “trends or stylistic twists of the time,” which “had their roots above all in Berlin’s underground and the boys from Düsseldorf with their powerful word play”. In addition, Xatar used terms such as “Baba” “long before Haftbefehl and other Frankfurters of the generation after Azad had made the mixed- cultural slang mainstream-friendly”. Dennis Sand on the other hand, assessed the beginnings more critically in a portrait of Xatar in 2015. Thus the Bonn artist “at that time still quite awkwardly verbalized his half imagined, half real street life on a soundtrack.

Facts & Trivia

Xatar Ranked on the list of most popular Rapper. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Iran. Xatar celebrates birthday on December 24 of every year.

In the summer of 2016, a man in front of Xatar’s Shisha bar Bar Noon was attacked by several men. In addition to knife wounds, he also suffered a fractured skull. Since the men involved were associated with Xatar and the injured man with the musician KC Rebell, some tabloid media spoke of a “rapper war”. There had been public disputes between the two hip-hop musicians some time before, after Xatar had claimed that KC Rebell had wanted to join Alles or Nix Records a year earlier. After the incident, the Cologne District Court issued an arrest warrant against Xatar for attempted manslaughter and assault. He surrendered on August 23, 2016, referring to having been on his way back from a Hanover festival at the time of the crime. The arrest warrant was ultimately lifted.

Top Facts about Xatar

1. Xatar is a Kurdish-German rapper and former gang member.
2. He was born in Iraq and raised in Germany.
3. Xatar’s real name is Giwar Hajabi.
4. He served eight years in prison for armed robbery.
5. Xatar founded the label Alles oder Nix Records.
6. His debut album “Alles oder Nix” reached #4 on German charts.
7. Xatar has collaborated with popular German rappers such as Haftbefehl and SSIO.
8. He has been involved in controversies over alleged ties to organized crime.
9. In 2018, Xatar released his fourth studio album “KDD”.
10. He is known for his unique flow and storytelling abilities in his music.

Is Xatar Kurdish?

Born in 1981 to a Kurdish family in Iran’s Sanandaj city , Xatar and his family fled to what is now the Kurdistan Region. Like many other Kurds in Iraq, he and his family were tortured and imprisoned by Saddam Hussein’s regime, Xatar told Rudaw, adding that he himself was imprisoned in Iraq for three months.

Where is Xatar from?

Sanandaj, Iran