The future hip-hop innovators YKKE are heralding in their finest hour. With a pop sensibility and trademark vocals on vibrant beats, YKKE take their artistic vision to a whole new level.

Together with the best music producers in Europe and with long-awaited features, the duo has created an album that makes even the dust shine like stars. The Big News as a drumbeat: from virtuality and illustration to reality and the big stage. YKKE show themselves in 2024 in REAL! The metamorphosis from being avatars to tangible stars will send their fans into ecstasy. The congenial duo will take to the stage LIVE for the first time and play their first worldwide tour, which will immerse their fans in a dream world. Even though the two gave their first motion capture interview some time ago and offered an encrypted portrait of themselves for sale (price: 10 million euros) on the NFT marketplace Opensea. Apparently, an interested party got in touch and made an offer that YKKE couldn't refuse and will therefore go on tour from April 2024.

YKKE are now taking the old pop game of masks and identities to a whole new level. It's not about a deliberate game of confusion, but about blurring all trails and entrenched assumptions. As Avatare, the duo has rolled up the German rap scene from behind in record time. By disregarding all the supposed rules with their celebrated mixtapes "UBoot", "Dickicht" and "Yin & Yang" as well as their hit "Diamonds", they injected a new spirit of experimentation into the sometimes seemingly rigid scene, which led YKKE straight into the charts and the hearts of their fans: After reaching the top 20 of the German hip-hop charts with "UBoot", YKKE even cracked the top 10 of the official German album charts with the follow-up "Dickicht", landing at number six, as well as number two with the following "Yin & Yang".

The two were on the cover of the magazine "Das Wetter", with a phenomenal performance as guests on COLORS, they conquered the bourgeois feuilleton and are celebrated and nominated for awards by scene organs such as "16BARS" and "HipHop.de". Even before the release of their first album, YKKE achieved over 200 million streams on Spotify alone. Impressive figures, but for YKKE it's their art itself that counts - and of course the recognition of established artists such as Miksu / Macloud, Jumpa, Juh-Dee, Summer Cem, Bausa, Jamule, Dardan and Sido.

YKKE work with all these colleagues as well as with internationally renowned artists such as Cem Adrian, Lil Zey and UZI. For UFO361, the two were such an inspiration that he named his song "YKKE" (UFO361 feat. Ezhel) after them. With the world premiere of going on tour LIVE, meeting the crowd in real life and creating completely new collabos with the music scene's hit guarantors, the duo is in pure anticipation. At the concerts, YKKE will play their greatest hits as well as their yet-to-be-released album, which is already being touted by insiders as the hottest album of 2024.

All information about the YKKE concert on April 8, 2024 at Backstage can be found HERE.