Paraziții

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Paraziții
Origin Romania
Genres Hip hop, Rap, Hardcore hip-hop, Political hip-hop
Years active 1994–present
Labels A&A Records, Rebel Music, Roton, Cat Music, 20 CM Records
Associated acts Raku, Bitză, Pacha Man, B.U.G. Mafia
Website http://www.20cmrecords.com/
Members Cheloo
Ombladon
FreakaDaDisk
Past members DJ Ies
Dinte
Paraziții (Romanian for "The Parasites", pronounced [paraˈzit͡sij]) is a Romanian
three-man rap and hip hop group founded in 1994. It consists of Cheloo (Cătălin
Ștefan Ion), Ombladon (Bogdan Ionuț Pastaca), and FreakaDaDisk (Petre Urda).

History
The group was subject to multiple restrictions by the Romanian National Audiovisual
Council, due to explicit language. Romanian television and radio stations were
repeatedly 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; the music video includes a monologue of Larry Flynt
blasting Romania's government for its censorship practices.

Ombladon, member of the group, won the Best Romanian Act Award at the MTV Europe
Music Awards in 2004 with the song "Egali din naștere" (Born Equal).

In 2003 they established their own label, "20CM Records", providing launch pads for
Romanian hip hop artists such as Spike and Guess Who.

Their first recorded track, "În jur" ("Around" - a pun on Înjur - I curse), dated
September 13, 1994, represented Paraziții's breakthrough. At the "Nici o problemă"
(No Problem) album release concert, a big fight started due to the La Familia-
R.A.C.L.A. musical war.

Paraziții first performed out of Romania in 2000 by participating at the "Summer

Hits" festival in Chișinău, along with the groups BUG Mafia and Zdob și Zdub.

In 2002 and 2003 the group performed in tours in Germany, Austria and the
Netherlands. Due to the September 11, 2001 attacks, the group lost the opportunity
to perform in a Canada-USA tour. The most important event remains the act at the
Wuppertal Rap-Attack festival (2004) when Paraziții were the only group to perform
before the well known rap/hip-hop artist Grandmaster Flash.

Paraziții were part of major campaigns like "Playback" / "Shoot Yourself" (2001),
in which they took a firm position against lip synching, or "Instigare la cultură"
(Instigation To Culture) (2004) against ignorance among Romania's youth.

Paraziții tracks were featured on movie soundtracks like "Nordrand" (Austria),

"Visul lui Liviu" (Liviu's Dream), "Milionari de weekend" (Weekend Millionaires) or
"Marfa și banii" (The Goods and The Money).