In November 2011, the artist recorded his first music video for the single “Easy”. The video was used to announce the release of Cro’s new mixtape on tape.tv. Soon after that, the music video was uploaded to YouTube. At the beginning of 2012, the number of views reached 12 million. By May, it approached 16 million. As of today, the music video has been viewed over 60 million times.
Cro promoted his music through an American blog, hypetrak.com. It helped the artist find English-speaking fans. A successful German artist Jan Delay posted Cro’s music video in his Facebook profile. He called the artist the future of German rap. During the same period, the singer presented music videos for such songs as "Kein Benz", "Easy", and "Hi Kids". Many artists wanted to book Cro for private events.
In December 2011, Cro got an invitation from the ZDFneo TV channel. As part of a popular show, NeoParadise, the singer presented songs from his mixtapes, Easy and Meine Musik. The former came out several days later with the assistance of Chimperator Productions. The mixtape was available for free downloading from the artist’s website.
At the beginning of 2012, the German singer signed a contract with Universal Music Publishing Group. Soon after that, he embarked on a tour called Pandas gone wild!, together with another rapper Psaiko Dino. Cro continued releasing new singles, among which were "Meine Zeit", "Du", and "King of Raop”. All of them came with music videos.
In July 2012, the artist presented his debut LP, Raop. The album earned a platinum certification in Austria and gold in Germany. In September, Cro attended the Bundesvision song contest. He came in fifth.
In October, the singer presented a new single "1 Millionen", which appeared in iTunes Store for free downloading. Numerous fans listened to the single in a very short time. Soon, the artist presented a music video for the song, which also became a hit on YouTube and collected over 11 million views.
For his single, "Einmal um die Welt", Cro recorded a music video in November. At about the same time, the LP, Raop and the single “Easy” went platinum in Germany. The single “Du” became golden.
In 2013, the artist earned a Swiss music award for the album, Raop. It became Best Album Urban – International. MTV called the same LP the album of the year.
In 2014, Cro presented his second LP, Melodie. It earned positive reviews from both critics and fans. Soon, the artist came up with a live album, MTV Unplugged, which became commercially successful.
The latest album to date released by the rapper is tru. It came out in 2017. The singer arranged a promotional tour for the album. He called it stay tru. tour 2018.
Today, Cro is working on his next album, the release date of which hasn’t been announced it. However, the singer already released several songs for the LP. Among them is his latest hit “Victoria’s Secret”.
