MC Basstard, also Battle Basstard, Basstard, MC Basstard One or The Little Man, (born May 22, 1982 in Tehran; real name Nima Najafi-Hashemi) is an Iranian rapper and Berlin Crime and Bass Crew member based in West-Berlin.
Due to his mystical style, which is often oriented towards occult and horror themes, he is considered a co-founder of the German horrorcore rap genre. He is also (from 2017 to 2019 and again since 2022) part of the horrorcore group (self-interpretation: “Schattenbass”) Zombiez, which consists of Zombie Red/GKO, Zombie Whytte/Tamas, Zombie Black/MXP, Zombie GR€Y/KVSV and MC Basstard as Purple Z.
