Beginner is a rap group from Germany's hip-hop hochburg Hamburg, founded as Absolute Beginners in 1991, initially with six members. Beginner (plural in German) started rapping in English and German with homemade beats, but later realized that the German accent is way too distracting... too fake. So they started dropping German bars solely.
Absolute Beginner - Bambule (1998)
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"Gefaehrliches Halbwissen" was released in May 1999. Now after almost 10 years, this album is highly regarded -- yet another classic piece of German hip-hop culture. This is what wikipedia says about this Pre-2000 German hip-hop duo:
Eins Zwo ("One Two") was a German hip hop group from Hamburg, consisting of DJ Rabauke (Thomas Jensen) and MC Dendemann (Daniel Ebel). Rabauke produced his first music with his 'Projekt an der Grenze'. He however, was before Eins Zwo more known for his work as tour DJ with the group Fettes Brot. Dendemann was formerly mostly associated with his work as a member of the 'Vorgruppe Arme Ritter'.
BTW, "Gefaehrliches" means "Dangerous", "Wissen" means "Knowledge" and "Halb" means "Half".
And if you googled the following keyword:
Eins Zwo - Gefährliches Halbwissen (1999)
and added your favorite Rapidshare keyword, you'd find the following Rapidshare link in the the number Eins or Zwo spot.
It was the year 2003 when Azad confirmed his first studio album with the sophomore LP "Faust des Nordwestens" ("Fist of the North-West"): Deep lyrics, grimy battle bars, more elaborate producton than on "Leben".
Azad - Faust Des Nordwestens (2003) - Instrumentals - Rapidshare
It's 2009, and you could easily google The Instrumentals of Azad's second, and find this [RS] link:
This 30-year-old conscious German MC called Prinz Pi released a true German Hip Hop Milestone in 2006: Orchestral production, 52 tracks, and stories about the fairy tale corporate hiphop industry wrapped up in middle age methaphores". In order to get it, though, you need to speak German & be German.
Advanced Chemistry is a German hip hop group from Baden-Württemberg, South Germany. Advanced Chemistry was founded in 1987 by Toni L, Linguist, Gee-One, DJ Mike MD (Mike Dippon) and MC Torch. Nowadays, it is said that the original members of the Advanced Chemistry are the pioneers of German HipHop, although another hip hop band called "Die Fantastischen Vier" has dropped two singles and one album on a major label in 1991. Influenced by North American conscious rap and the Native tongues movement, the central subjects of Advanced Chemistry's lyrics were politically and intellectually motivated and focused mainly on their identity as Germans of foreign descent and the status of hip hop around the world.
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The Heidelberg based hip-hop band Advanced Chemistry rose to fame with the song “Fremd im eigenen Land” in the early 1990s, and Torch, Linguist and Toni L are since regarded as German hip-hop legends. “My passport’s green, with a golden eagle on it”, is one of the lines in the song, which breaks with rigid conceptions about what should be considered German. Representative for many migrants and Afro-Germans, the band offers resistance to being verbally maltreated as soon as one looks as if one might come “from somewhere else”. The music video reenacts everyday scenes which are exemplary for the decades long denial of the fact that Germany is an immigration country. Advanced Chemistry was among the very first bands to rap in German. The band introduced the term “Afro-German” into the hip-hop context, and this term was also at the core of their political message. Influenced by American artists such as Melle Mel, KRS-ONE or Public Enemy, they became a standard to the young hip-hop scene in Germany when it comes to technique, rhyme and beat. In their texts, they point to existing grievances such as the increasing exclusion of minorities and the spread of rightwing radicalism. However, their form of hip-hop could not establish itself in the musical mainstream, so that by the mid nineties, people were mostly talking about “Deutschrap” – as the music of the “majority society”. This “Deutsch-rap” model structured rap music along ethnical lines, contrary to the image the scene had of itself. By creating their own structures, Advanced Chemistry tried to escape from being pocketed. In the meantime, racist, homophobic appropriations in a hip-hop context are making the headlines. With “Fremd im eigenen Land”, Advanced Chemistry protests against the structural and factual violence of which this development is also indicative.
"The term ▄▀Deutschrap▀▄ denotes hip hop music produced in Germany. Elements of American hip hop culture, such as graffiti art and breakdancing, diffused into Western Europe in the early 1980s. The first German hip hop artists emerged in the mid-1980s as part of an underground music scene. Early underground artists included Cora E. and Advanced Chemistry. It was not until the early 1990s that German hip hop entered the mainstream, as groups like Die Fantastischen Vier and the Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt gained popularity. Though some dismiss Die Fantastischen Vier as 'pop rappers,' it was their music that made hip hop accessible to a broader German audience." -Wiki