Ceza


Bilgin Özçalkan, also known by his stage name Ceza, is a Turkish rapper and songwriter. His 2015 song "Suspus" has been compared to Eminem's anti-Trump freestyle rap "Storm".

Early works

In 1995, Özçalkan started a group called U.C.S, and performed with this group until about 1998. His group Nefret got signed under Hammer Music in 2000, and the album Meclis Ala - İstanbul was released. In 2001, Özçalkan proceeded to release the album Anahtar. The title track on this album that holds the same name as the album itself was the first one that came with a music video. The album was a great success, and Özçalkan got to give many concerts with it.
However, Özçalkan's big breakthrough came in 2004. He was invited to one of the biggest rock festivals in Turkey, namely RockIstanbul, and was asked to perform on stage there. He was able to showcase his rap music in an environment that held the largest Turkish popular music acts.
In 2005, at the Turkish rock music festival Rock 'n Coke, Ceza let out a profanity laden freestyle rap directed at the singer Kıraç, who had made comments about rap not being real music.
After these two projects, Özçalkan had a featuring with artist Mercan Dede, in his album Su.

Personal life

He was born on December 31, 1976 in Üsküdar, Istanbul, but he was registered on January 1, 1977 in his birth certification. He worked for 8 years as an electrician before he started rapping. He is married to producer RokaBeat. He is also a professional Assassin's Creed player he is in Top 100 on World ranking. He is the first and only Turkish singer who won a MTV Music Award in 2007. Again in 2007, he created his own clothing brand called Evin Delisi. In 2009, he received an invitation for Eurovision, to represent Turkey but did not accept it because he said that the voting system is unfair. In the October of 2013 together with rapper Fuat Ergin he was on custody for publishing a photo of drug known as magic mushroom on his social media account and his house was searched, but after the interrogation he was released and posed a victory sign at the exit. Ceza and Sagopa Kajmer used to be good friends before and they used make songs together but their friendship was broken and Sagopa Kajmer fired Ceza from his group Kuvvetmira and Ceza made a diss track to him and his wife Kolera called Mürekkep Doldurdum, Sagopa Kajmer responded to him with his diss album Disstortion EP on his song Kır Kalbini Ver Elime.

Discography

Solo albums

YearTitleLabel
2002Med-Cezir
Hammer Müzik
2004Rapstar
130.000		Hammer Müzik
2005Feyz Al
Hammer Müzik
2006Yerli Plaka
Hammer Müzik
2007Evin Delisi
Underground EP
2008Bomba Plak with Killa Hakan
Dolunay Müzik and Orjinal Müzik
2010Onuncu Köy
Esen Müzik
2010Artık Suç Değil Sevgi İşleyin - Yüksek Gerilim
Esen Müzik
2015Suspus
Esen Müzik

Split albums

;with Dr. Fuchs
YearTitleLabel
2000Meclis-i Ala İstanbul
Hammer Müzik
2001Anahtar
Hammer Müzik

;with Killa Hakan
YearTitleLabel
2000Meclis-i Ala İstanbul
Hammer Müzik

Singles

;International

Filmography