D-Flame, born Daniel Kretschmer in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on September 19, 1971, is a German rapper and reggae musician. He began his career in the late 1980s in the Frankfurt hip-hop scene, co-founding the group Asiatic Warriors alongside Azad (performing as Azazin), A-Bomb, and Combad, who released their debut studio album in 1994 before disbanding. After performing with the group Foreign Accent and the dancehall sound systems SoundquakeSound and Pow Pow Movement, D-Flame launched his solo recording career in 2000 with his debut studio album, Basstard, which reached number 28 on the German Albums Chart. He followed with his biographical studio album Daniel X – Eine schwarze deutsche Geschichte in 2002, which reached number 66 in Germany, the reggae-dancehall studio album Unaufhaltsam in 2003 featuring a reggae cover of Extrabreit's “Polizisten”, FFM in 2006, and ...Stress in October 2008. D-Flame collaborated with artists including Seeed, Samy Deluxe, Jan Delay, Xavier Naidoo, and RAF Camora, joined the anti-racism collective Brothers Keepers on their hit single “Adriano (Letzte Warnung)”, which reached number 5 in Germany in 2001, and represented Hesse in the 2007 Bundesvision Song Contest with the single “Mom Song”. In 2016, he featured on the single “Killa” from Bonez MC and RAF Camora's platinum-certified collaborative album Palmen aus Plastik, and was featured in the 2007 documentary film Yes I Am.
