1 and the "Weihnachtssong" ("Christmas song") on Aggro Ansage Nr. Sido's solo career began in 2002 with the "Arschficksong" ("Ass-fuck song") on the sampler Aggro Ansage Nr. At a concert the duo got the attention of Halil, Specter and Spaiche Together with his best friend B-Tight he released several EPs and demos under the name Royal TS, which were never officially published, at the Berlin underground hip hop label Royal Bunker. Sido has been active in the music business since 1997. There he attended the Bettina-von-Arnim-Oberschule and afterwards began an apprenticeship as an educator, which he never completed. During his childhood and youth, Märkisches Viertel had a high proportion of migrants and low-income families. They then moved into Märkisches Viertel, a high-rise residential area in the Berlin borough of Reinickendorf. In 1988, the family moved to West Berlin, where they first lived in emergency accommodation in Wedding along with many asylum seekers. At the age of eight years Sido and his younger sister were brought up by their mother in East Berlin in the Prenzlauer Berg neighbourhood. Würdig stated in an interview with the radio station BigFM that he's one-eighth Iranian. Paul Würdig was born to a German father and a Sinti mother. As of 2009 Sido is signed to Universal Music Group. Würdig's career began in 1997, as one half of duo Royal TS (now A.i.d.S) with B-Tight, both of whom were later signed to the label Berlin hip hop Royal Bunker and then to Aggro Berlin in 2001. However, as stated in various interviews, since 2005 he no longer wears the mask, having handed it to his former boss Specter.
After his breakthrough with his debut album Maske in 2004, Würdig was always seen wearing a silver skull mask. Würdig distinguishes himself by using provocative and aggressive lyrics. Sido is currently signed to Urban/Universal Music Group. It used to stand for "Scheiße in dein Ohr" (shit in your ear), a line from his track Terroarr. He interprets his artist name as "super-intelligentes Drogenopfer" (super-intelligent drug victim). Paul Würdig (born 30 November 1980), better known as Sido, is a German rapper. Top 100 Greatest Hip-hop/Rap Singles Of All Time.