OG Keemo

Karim Joel Martin was born in Mainz to a Sudanese father. After his parents separated, he first moved to Bayreuth with his mother and younger sister. He later lived in Heidelberg, Mannheim and again in Mainz before finally settling in Mannheim. With his friends Funkvater Frank, Biño, Inu and Mo, he founded the Zonkeymobb group and published his first pieces of music on SoundCloud, In the following two years, the number of listeners on SoundCloud increased massively.