Balovatsky announced his third studio album Blyat on 16 June 2017, through Facebook.
It included five tracks, all produced by Saven Musiq and written by Balovatsky. Three months later, he released his unannounced second EP Ibrakadabra. It reached the top of the charts on the Austrian album charts and the German hip-hop album charts. The album debuted within the top five in German-speaking Europe. Makarov Komplex was released on 3 February 2017, through Auf!Keinen!Fall!, Chapter One and Team Kuku. The following two singles "Geld machen" and "Die Echten" didn't enter the charts. The second single "Es geht ums Geschäft", released in January 2017 and became his first song to enter the German single charts, reaching number 76. The first single of the album, "Ala Ba Ba" featuring Ufo361 was released in mid December 2016. His second studio album was announced less than a year later in November 2016. 32 on the German album chart on issue dated 19 February 2016. None of them entered the charts however and the album was released on 29 January 2016 through Baba City, Chapter One and distributed through Universal. Three more singles have been released, including "Kuku Habibi", "Fluchtwagen glänzen" and "Kreide", all three alongside German rapper King Khalil.
2015–2017: First three albums īalovatsky, at this time known as Capital, announced his first release Kuku Bra on 1 December 2015, through the single "Bra macht die Uzi". In March, Balovatsky released his first single "Bra". Following his win, Balovatsky announced his departure from Rap am Mittwoch. His last competition against Master Marv was the most-watched Rap am Mittwoch battle on YouTube, with more than 7.8 million views as of January 2019. He rose to prominence in German underground rap through Rap am Mittwoch, a German battle rap tournament where he participated in a number of battles. Under the pseudonym "Smia One", Balovatsky uploaded his first music video onto YouTube in 2009. He played football for Berliner FC Dynamo. They settled in Alt-Hohenschönhausen, Berlin, where Balovatsky spent his youth. Balovatsky's mother decided to move to Germany in 2001 to find a better life for her son. At a young age Balovatsky and his parents moved to Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine. Vladislav Balovatsky was born on 23 November 1994 in Siberia, Russia to Ukrainian parents, who worked in the petroleum industry.
īorn in a small town in Siberia, Russia and raised in Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine, he and his mother moved to Berlin, Germany in the early 2000s. Bra is the short form of Bratan, the Russian word for brother. Vladislav Balovatsky ( Ukrainian: Владислав Баловацький born 23 November 1994), known professionally as Capital Bra ( German pronunciation: ) and informally as Capital, Capi and Joker Bra, is a German rapper of Ukrainian and Russian descent.