A German singer, rapper, songwriter and producer by the name of Clueso is currently... 20% of the German charts (i.e. Amazon.de's Rap & Hip-hop Charts:). Named after Inspectah Clouseau in Tha Pink Panther, Clueso started making music in 1995.
But it was 1998 when this current Four Music member decided to quit a potentially fabulous career as a hairdresser -- he represented Thuringia in the Bundesvision Song Contest with his latest single, Keinen Zentimeter and finished second to none. Almost.
But how about you? Should you really google:
rapidshare.com 119288491 Clueso 2008 So Sehr Dabei
Why get the Live Limited Deluxe Edition without the DVD?
Good luck googling it!
Clueso - So Sehr Dabei - LIVE (Ltd. Del. Edition) - 2009
1. Pause (Augen zu Intro) - Live 2. Augen zu - Live 3. Jede Stadt - Live 4. Utopie (Verlierer Intro) - Live 5. Verlierer - Live 6. Niemand an dich denkt - Live 7. Frische Luft - Live 8. Vier kleine Wände - Live 9. Wir woll'n Sommer - Live 10. Mitnehm - Live 11. Keinen Zentimeter - Live 12. Chicago - Live in Berlin 13. Kein Bock zu gehen - Live 14. So sehr dabei - Live 15. Geisterstadt - Live 16. Barfuss - Live 17. Gewinner - Single Version
Who the fuck is Sido? A worthy German rapstar whose work is released by the notorious German record label Aggro Berlin. Sido's provocative and aggressive lyrics, and his trademark silver skull mask make him stand out like... a green hat with an orange bill. The artist name "Sido" is an abbreviation -- "super intelligentes Drogenopfer“ ("super intelligent drug victim“). However, many baby boomers still feel his "backronym": "Scheiße in dein Ohr“ (Shit into your ear).
Sido - Mein Block Rmx Instrumentals - Rapidshare
You could google Sido's very first Single - at least the instrumental version:
You can find "Strip Fuer Mich (Instrumental)" and "Scheiss Drauf (Instrumental)" on the 2CD Bonus Premium Edition of Sido - "Ich und Meine Maske" (2008) exclusively... meaning: Google don't got it. YouTube does:
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:
Potentially long story story short: 21 Classic German Hip-hop/Rap Videos in DVD quality... without Parental Advisory -- and the fresh Google money key: juice.DVD.German.Rap.Video.Classics.2005.DVDRiP gives you...
Juice DVD - German Rap Video Classics (2005) - Rapidshare
1 Fresh Familee Ahmet Gündüz (2:51) 2 Advanced Chemistry Fremd Im Eigenen Land (4:00) 3 Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt Wenn Es Nicht Hart Ist (4:17) 4 Beginner Die Kritik An Platten Kann Die Platten Der Kritik Nicht Ersetzen (4:43) 5 MC Rene Spüre Diesen Groove (3:25) 6 Cora E Schlüsselkind (3:44) 7 Blumentopf 6 Meter 90 (3:24) 8 Zeb.Roc.Ski & Stieber Twins B-Boys Revenge (3:22) 9 Spezializtz (feat. Afrob) Afrokalypse (4:37) 10 RAG Kopf Stein Pflaster (3:18) 11 Afrob & Ferris MC Reimemonster (3:22) 12 Eins, Zwo Hand Auf's Herz (3:46) 13 Beginner , Falk (2) , Ferris MC , Samy Deluxe , Dendemann , Illo 77 , Das Bo K2 (5:33) 14 Stieber Twins Schlangen Sind Giftig (3:40) 15 Plattenpapzt King Of Rap (4:06) 16 Curse (3) 10 Rap Gesetze (2:00) 17 Das Bo Türlich, Türlich (Sicher, Dicker) (3:30) 18 Creutzfeld & Jakob Fehdehandschuh (3:20) 19 Azad Napalm (3:53) 20 DJ Lifeforce Bundes-Rap-Publik-Toyland (3:38) 21 DJ Stylewarz Bitte Wer? (4:10)
Why cover all 16 Rapidshare direct links with TinyURL? To make it more fun for the Googlebot.
When German and other European hip-hop headzz think "Bushido", they don't think Japanese. The German Bushido, or as wikipedia puts it: Bushido (born Anis Mohamed Youssef Ferchichi, September 28, 1978 in Bonn, Germany), is a German rapper. He also uses the pseudonym Sonny Black--if you googled:
Bushido - Das Beste (2007)
Bushido Das Best 2007 hotfilms .rar
...you'll likely google this site:
They don't have any Juice Magazin Ausgaben - Rapidshare Links, but a working link to Das Beste - Bushido's Best:
Juice magazine - Germany's Europe's No. 1 HipHop Magazine
Yet another very important and legendary German hiphop album! The album "General Population" is considered one of "the greatest German hip-hop albums ever". "General Population" features the hit singles "So Strung Out", "Summertime" and "Time Is Tickin' Away", and contains 9 other... 5%er tracks.
C-Block - General Population (1997)
01. Looking To The Sky 02. Time Is Tickin' Away 03. Round N Round 04. Everything's Good 05. Summertime 06. So Strung Out 07. Being Raised 08. Acapella Preston 09. Dem Bustas 10. My Life 11. Da Ghetto 12. Shake Dat Azz 13. Psycho
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.
Samon Kawamura is a Japanese-German Hip Hop DJ/Producer. Unfold is his sophomore full-length effort. This fine album features Madlib’s brother Oh No... and a ton of other artists. 1 Intro 2 Sugar Hill - Kawamura, Samon & Om’Mas 3 Love And Sex 4 Still Significant - Kawamura, Samon & Kev Brown 5 0804-005 6 Right Here - Kawamura, Samon & OH NO 7 Morioka Sunset (JS Love) 8 Night Will Fall 9 Interlude 10 Try - Kawamura, Samon & Aloe Blacc 11 Let’s Do It 12 Lovelude - Kawamura, Samon & Ta’Raach 13 Get Down - Kawamura, Samon & Ta’Raach 14 No Te Puede Ver - Kawamura, Samon & Laura Lopez Castro 15 YWAGD 16 Cp2sk - Kawamura, Samon & Christian Prommer 17 Playground 18 Outro
I'd be wrong to google: Samon Kawamura Unfold connectdastyle
Volkswagen, brought to you by Hitler, announced at Wörthersee (close to Braunau, Austria:) the start of a partnership made in heaven: Europe's largest car maker is going to pimp Fanta4, Germany's #1 hip-hop brand till 2010! Die Fantastischen Vier agreed to engage in utter corporate whoring ... at various Volkswagen rallies events.
But seriously, The Volkswagen Sound Foundation Tax Shelter & Goodwill Builder has also been profiting lately from the four German hip-hop MCs’ years of experience. Smudo & Co. mentor young wanna-be artists and up-and-coming bands when they take their first steps in show business with Volkswagen.
Volkswagen, like many other "savvy fictitious persons", has been established in the global music scene for a long time--Die Fantastischen Vier join a long list of world stars global brands like the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Seal ... and Bon Mofockin' Jovi. Happy Indpendence day! Happy "Independence" Day!
Germany - Rap star Bushido savoured the taste of a dual victory at Germany's 17th Echo Awards, held in Berlin last month. Billed as the Teutonic Grammys, the Echos are considered to be one of the most important music prizes in Europe. Rubbing shoulders with international prize-winners such as James Blunt, Linkin Park, 50 Cent and Nelly Furtado, Bushido was voted Best Domestic Live Act and Best Domestic Artist R&B/Hip-Hop for the third time running.
Something of a national icon in Germany by virtue of his controversial lyrics and colourful live presence, Bushido has recently finished a sold-out tour supplied by premier German live production specialists, Complete Audio, Berlin. The rider specified a Martin Audio line array driven by Crest Audio Pro8200 and 9200 amplifiers. Bushido has been working with Complete Audio for all his recent tours. According to Complete Audio's project manager André Rauhut, the combination of a Crest Audio-driven Martin Audio line array system complete with XTA control was precisely what was required to deliver Bushido's powerful, energetic rap show. "I love the dynamic and crystal clear sound of the Crest Pro200 amps. They offer plenty of headroom for Bushido's muscular groove." (Jim Evans) (1 April 2008)
Bow, wow, wow! No wonder people (who couldn't even find Germany on a map) think German Rap is full of alien-hating swastika MCs with like-minded fans ... fuck 'em! (Certain polarizing media people, that is ... they don't use this: Deutschrap mit Gehirn)
Lizas Welt examines a German rap scene that increasingly spews Jew-hatred, extols terrorist attacks, and idolizes Osama bin Laden. [...] Threats of violence are, in any case, commonplace among rivals in the German rap scene. Among Massiv’s most adamant foes, for instance, is the Stuttgart-based rapper Bözemann [roughly, “Badman”], who likes to appear in the persona of an armed Albanian guerrilla fighter and who makes a point of his Muslim faith, as does Massiv.
March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Germany's main economic institutes made a joint plea against the government's plans to introduce minimum wages, saying the move would lead to "considerable'' job losses, Handelsblatt reported. [...] Implementing further minimum wages ``would damage the foundations of the successful system of the market-economic order,'' Handelsblatt quoted seven institute leaders.
German hip-hop artist thrown off reality show over Hitler salute
By The Associated Press Tags: Nazi, Germany, RTL Television
A hip-hop artist was thrown off the German reality TV show Jungle Camp for giving the stiff-armed Hitler salute to the cameras, RTL television said Wednesday.
DJ Tomekk, a 31-year-old Polish-born disc jockey who lives in Berlin, was thrown off the show on Tuesday night, the television network said in a statement. [...] On RTL's Web site, however, he is quoted as saying that he was anything but xenophobic.
"I haven't seen the video personally and don't know what's on it (but) I have heard through a third party that there is allegedly a Hitler salute on it," he was quoted as saying. "There's no way I can explain this at the moment. Particularly not as anything meant seriously."
Giving the Hitler salute is illegal in Germany, but since the video was shot in Australia, it was unclear whether Tomekk could face any legal repercussions.
Patrick Losensky goes by the name of Fler, Baujahr 1982. He's a bastard child, and did not rap at all till his early 20s, starting his rapping career later in life. He has been accused of nationalist views, because of his lyrics in songs like "Neue Deutsche Welle" (New German Wave [allusion to the so called "Neue Deutsche Welle" in the 1980s]) and "Das hier ist schwarz, rot, gold - hart und stolz" (This is black, red, gold - hard and proud). After co-hosting the 2007 MTV TRL:Urban show, Fler was attacked by three unknown men armed with knives. He survived unharmed. Fler is down with the music label Aggro Berlin, with whom he released a number of hit singles. Among them, "Neue Deutsche Welle", which peaked at 9th position on the German Top 100 charts.
German breakdancing, B-boy, Deutschrap, German hip-hop
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.
Like Water for Chocolate Brownies
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.
Neo Gangstas rule!Almost Like Real Gangstas. This time, German rap is coming from the streets. By Scott Roxborough
A new generation of German hip-hoppers is doing what the first generation failed to do – adding a touch of the ghetto to German pop culture. [...] Their images of crime and police brutality, drug abuse and casual violence is not the way most Germans think about their own country, but their mix of crude German and English slang rapped over a pounding beat is climbing the charts. A whole generation of German rap stars with tags like Sido and Azad, Kool Savas, Bushido and B-Tight are dressing ghetto, talking trash and keeping it real. Call it German Gangsta Rap. Visit any German high school and it is clear German kids also want to walk the walk and talk the talk of U.S. hip-hop. [...]
And as it is in the United States, aggression is a big part of German gangsta rap. Aggression is one of the foundations of our street culture,” argues Specter of AggroBerlin. “I’ll burn you like napalm,” screams Azad in one song. “I’m planning murder and rape... I’m a fighting dog on the mike,” raps Bushido. However, what rappers of the new generation are most interested in is not politics, but music. They want to change rap. That‘s why more often that not their anger is directed at older rapper rivals like Blumentopf and Die Fantastischen Vier.
“If you’d rather sit at home by your pool, eat from a nicely-set dinner table/Then you’ll soon realize Berlin’s not for you,” Sido raps on Mein Block. “This is my block, not Blumentopf’s block! Yeah!” The fans are in on the joke. Many of the kids who bought Sido‘s debut Maske also checked out Viel, the latest best seller from Die Fantastischen Vier, and groove to Eminem, 50 Cent and Jay-Z. German kids, after all, have never had much of a problem playing mix-and-match with U.S. and German culture, or adapting U.S. imports to fit local customs. If you can mix Sauerbraten with French Fries, why not gold chains with Lederhosen?
- Scott Roxborough is a Canadian journalist living in Cologne and German bureau chief for the leading media trade daily The Hollywood Reporter.
Dynamite Deluxe is still a German hip hop group hailing from Hamburg, consisting of the MC Samy Deluxe, producer Tropf and producer/DJ Dynamite (alias Joni Rewind). The name is a combination of DJ Dynamite and Samy Deluxe. In 1997, the trio released their first mixtape "Dynamite Deluxe Demo", which was an 8-track EP produced in a very small amount but can still be heard on the EP "The Classic Vinyl Files". Between the release of their first and final album Deluxe Soundsystem followed in 2000, they produced several other EPs and mixtapes. Although Samy Deluxe left the group in early 2001, DJ Dynamite and Tropf still work together and run the label Hamburgs Finest with him. The group was awarded an ECHO in the category "Best Hip-Hop/R&B National" in 2001. There is a comeback planned for January 2008. (wiki)
No. Deuce in Deutschland. October 2007 issue feat. Godsilla, Keyza Soze, Sera Finale, Dresta, Jesm, Mädness, Jasha, MC Bogy, DJ Mixwell, No Peanuts. Cover: Kool Savas - Der King of Rap ist zurück;
"Kool Savas (formerly King Kool Savas (KKS), Juks or Jux) (born February 10, 1975 in Aachen) is a German rapper of Turkish descent and one of Germany's most influencial hip hop artists. His real name is Savaş Yurderi. Savaş is the turkish word for War. He is also the frontman of the Optik Army. [...] As a baby, one-year-old Savas returned to Turkey with his family. His father was arrested for political activities, forcing his mother to return to Aachen. In 1987 the reunited family moved to Berlin where Savas first came in contact with rap music. In 1997, he acted in the film Geschwister – Kardesler in the role of Ahmed. He lives with his long-time girlfriend Melbeatz in Berlin. The relationship is also one of artistic and business collaboration as she produces many of his beats. They also are both vegetarians. At the end of 2004, there was a rumor that they were no longer together. Savas seems to confirm this in the song "Was hab' ich dir angetan?" (What did I do to you?) on the album ONE."
"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
