Despite being born in Siberia, Russia, rapper Capital Bra – born Vladislav
Balovatsky on November 23, 1994 - has made his name as one of the fiercest
forces on Germany's underground hip-hop scene before softening his aggressive
style and scoring a string of chart-topping, crossover hits. He initially moved
to Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine because of his father's work in the oil industry, but
as he and his mother settled in the Alt-Hohenschönhausen district of Berlin,
Germany, he began rapping as a way to fit in and make friends. In his youth, he
played football for Berliner FC Dynamo, ...