84-504: Aggro Berlin was a German hip-hop independent record label based in Berlin that existed from 1 January 2001 until 1 April 2009. Three artists ( Sido , Tony D and Kitty Kat ) were signed with the label at the time of its closure. Since the end of 2007, it used to be a sub-label of Universal . "Aggro" is German slang for having an aggressive attitude (as in British English). The label
168-731: A German punk rock band from Düsseldorf . The name is taken from the German slang idiom tote Hose (literally "dead trousers"), which means "nothing happening"; "boring". The band has had an important success through the years, and it has built a loyal following both in Europe and South America , being particularly popular in their home country and in Argentina . The current members of Die Toten Hosen are Campino (Andreas Frege), Kuddel (Andreas von Holst), Vom (Stephen Ritchie), Andi (Andreas Meurer) and Breiti (Michael Breitkopf). All members except one, Vom, who
252-692: A Hallelujah), a video documentary of their lives. In 1990, the Toten Hosen were invited to attend the New Music Seminar in New York and performed as support for The Rolling Stones in Cologne. That summer the band travelled to Italy to report on the FIFA World Cup for various newspapers and radio stations. For this purpose they recorded a rock cover version of " Azzurro " by Adriano Celentano , accompanied by
336-508: A court order to cease and desist. Die Toten Hosen left EMI and signed to Virgin Records . Their second album Unter Falscher Flagge ( Under False Colours ), was released in 1984. The title explained the front cover of the LP, which carried a picture of the band members dressed as pirates aboard a ship. The original back cover featured the skeleton of a dog sitting in front of a gramophone, a caricature of
420-915: A fact which has led some academics and groups of the German public to interpret the emergence of hip hop in German pop culture as cultural imperialism : that is to say, as a movement that emulated the culture of the United States at the expense of their native German cultural traditions. The influence of American hip hop artists remains strong even in today's German language hip hop scene: music videos rely on similar symbols of power and affluence, such as cars and jewelry. Many German hip hop artists are of Turkish-German or Arab-German descent, often second- and third-generation German citizens who grew up in comparatively poor or "tough" neighborhoods, which has become an influential hip hop narrative. Identification with their roots in neighborhoods remains an important aspect of
504-482: A growing wave of racism. Because many hip hop artists were children of immigrants, this became a major theme of German hip hop. During the 1980s Germany first saw a wave of second generation immigrants coming into the country. Immigration became a big issue in hip hop albums at this point. The German synonym for an immigrant is Gastarbeiter , which means guest worker , and these guest workers were rapped about often. Immigrant teenagers commonly use rap and hip hop as
588-552: A high point in Turkish hip hop . The multilingual and multinational group TCA- The Microphone Mafia is an example of 'Oriental Hip Hop in the German Diaspora'. They combine Spanish, Italian, Turkish and German raps with live music and samples of traditional music from all the previously named countries. In October 2006, what is thought to be the first US-released commercial compilation of German hip hop (and reggae), "Big Up Berlin,"
672-596: A month. In September of that year, the rapper won a prestigious German music award for "Best Newcomer", but his album had been indexed. In June 2004, Bushido left the label and signed with Universal . G-Hot's contract ran out in Autumn 2006. After the song "Keine Toleranz" (No Tolerance) appeared on the internet in July 2007, Aggro Berlin renounced any further business association with him. The song, which featured Boss A, discriminates against homosexuals and calls to kill homosexuals. It
756-760: A mouthpiece against violence and oppression and ultimately against the ghetto, which has become the metaphor for the deplorable state of our world". Contrary to the New School hip hop's attempts to crossover into the mainstream popular culture, the Old School "envisioned and propagated hip hop as an underground community that needed to keep its distance from and to create resistance to mainstream culture in order to avoid co-optation". 10 Albums 9 albums 6 albums 5 albums 22 Singles 12 Singles 9 Singles 8 Singles 6 Singles 5 Singles Hannibal Verlag, 2000 Die Toten Hosen Die Toten Hosen are
840-553: A nuclear test ban), the BUND (German Friends of the Earth chapter) and they were featured on the track "Tout Pour Sauver L'Amour" ("Everything to save love") on the Stop Chirac compilation album. In 2002, the band attracted publicity by posing undressed for posters of the animal rights group PETA under the slogan 'Lieber nackt als im Pelz' (Better naked than in fur). in 2005 they funded On
924-639: A reported 70 people, and caused the death of Rieke Lax, a 16 year old Dutch girl. The band later released the song "Alles ist eins" (Everything is one) in her memory. The 1998 Warped Tour took in New Zealand , Australia , Japan and Hawaii . Campino was twice hospitalised after concerts in Byron Bay and Geelong in Australia. Die Toten Hosen have collaborated with numerous other musicians (like Bad Religion , AC/DC , U2 , Rolling Stones ); they are also one of
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#17330936915141008-673: A six-month visit to the United States. It became apparent that they had nothing in common with U.S. rappers and their essentially middle-class upbringing was foreign to that of the cultural environment of U.S. hip hop . "The group subsequently decided to concentrate on issues they saw around them, using their own language, rather than aping American styles." Although Die Fantastischen Vier achieved commercial success and helped to pioneer hip hop music in Germany, they were contested for sounding "too American." The group's lack of socially conscious topics and simplistic delivery and material informed
1092-510: A team alongside professional players from Düsseldorfer EG against a team composed of Finnish rock band Leningrad Cowboys and Finnish national ice hockey players. The match took place in the stadium at the Brehmstrasse in Düsseldorf. Their team Knochenbrecher Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Bonebreakers) lost 9:10. In 1996 they slipped into women's clothing, silk stockings and high heels and took part in
1176-485: A their first ever dates in Argentina. The single "Sascha … ein aufrechter Deutscher" ("Sascha... an upstanding German") was released for Christmas 1992 as a vehement condemnation of right-wing radicalism. The proceeds of this song were donated to an anti-racist charity campaign in Düsseldorf. The right-wing Republikaner party failed in its attempt to have the song banned for defamation and thereby unintentionally contributed to
1260-434: A video satirising the behaviour of German football fans when abroad. The double album Kreuzzug ins Glück (Crusade to happiness) was released in 1990 and sold over 150,000 copies in its first week. In 1991 the Toten Hosen released their album Learning English Lesson One , a tribute to the band's musical influences, consisting mainly of cover versions of English punk rock classics. Each track featured at least one member of
1344-407: A way to defend themselves in their new countries. "Since honour cannot be gained, but only lost, a permanent readiness to fight is required. Thus social approval is acquired by actually defending one's honour or by exhibiting abilities such as the willingness to face physical encounter, talkativeness and humour... According to the rules of the game, the first one to whom nothing clever comes to the mind
1428-443: A year. At the end of the year the band founded their own record label JKP. The first album under their own label was Opium fürs Volk (opium for the people), released in 1996. Its songs deal with faith and religion. The album went platinum, their third record to do so, after Kauf MICH! and Reich und sexy . The single "Zehn kleine Jägermeister" (ten little master huntsmen or rather: ten little Jägermeisters ) went to number one of
1512-474: Is English, are German, though Campino's mother, Jenny, was also English. Vom joined in 1999, after previous drummer Wölli sustained injuries in a car crash. Wölli had played from 1985 to 1999 and was an honorary member of the band until his death in 2016. The drummer until 1985 was Trini Trimpop , who became the band's manager when Wölli joined. The band is reputed to have played for free at private birthday parties or similar events in their early years, so long as
1596-593: Is a parody hip hop version of their song Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder . Nina Hagen also raps in her 1983 single New York / N.Y. New York New York , the English version of New York / N.Y. , was successful in American dance charts, peaking at number nine on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs . These hip hop movies - Wild Style and Beat Street - led the younger audiences in Germany to realize that hip hop
1680-537: Is high time") was published on the sampler Nazis raus (Nazis get out) and in 2006 they supported the band ZSK's Kein Bock auf Nazis (can't stand Nazis) campaign. In 1992, the band participated in a demonstration against xenophobia in Bonn. They performed together with Herbert Grönemeyer , Nina Hagen and others for nearly 200,000 demonstrators. In 1995 they supported Greenpeace , IPPNW , Aktion Atomteststop (an initiative for
1764-451: Is the loser. This concept is quite similar to 'dissing' in rap." In 1991, the German music label Bombastic released the record Krauts with Attitude: German Hip Hop Vol. 1 . The album featured fifteen songs – three in German, eleven in English, and one in French. The album was produced by DJ Michael Reinboth, a popular hip hop DJ at that time. Michael Reinboth moved to Munich in 1982 and was
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#17330936915141848-694: The Anthony Burgess 's novel A Clockwork Orange and Stanley Kubrick 's film of the same name and was largely written for Bernd Schadewald's theatre adaption of A Clockwork Orange . For half a year the band played on stage at the Kammerspiele Bad Godesberg theatre in Bonn, alongside Ralf Richter, the play's lead actor. In September 1988, Die Toten Hosen performed at the Lituanika Festival in Vilnius and Kaunas , Lithuania. They were chosen by
1932-623: The His Master's Voice artwork used by EMI. Legal action by EMI prompted the album cover to be changed to the skeleton of an eagle, which, along with the Jolly Roger , became a band logo. In Spring 1985, the band toured France for the Goethe Institute and in Autumn they travelled to Hungary and Poland. In late 1985, Trini Trimpop moved from drumming for the band into their management, where he worked until 1992. Jakob Keusen briefly replaced him as
2016-692: The compère mistakenly introduced them as Die Toten H a sen (The Dead Hares). The debut single " Wir sind bereit " ("We are ready") was released in 1982, and was followed by their first album, Opel-Gang , the next year. Guitarist Walter November left the band in November 1983 due to his drug problems. One of the two A sides of the third single was the drinking song "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder" ("ice-cold Bommerlunder" schnapps ), which received considerable radio airplay and increased their fan base. The band released their first album titled Opel -Gang in early 1983 on their own label Totenkopf (skull). In July 1983,
2100-517: The reunification . During the inception of hip hop into Germany, most popular hip hop artists have come from West Germany . This could be because of the large immigrant population there at the time. "By 1994, the number of immigrants living in Germany had reached 6.9 million. 97 per cent of all immigrants were resident in the western part of the country, which meant that in the former Federal Republic of Germany and in West Berlin every tenth citizen
2184-895: The 1970s, to whom they frequently pay tribute in recorded work and live performances. On occasion they have played songs by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Some of the band's songs have been described as "Schunkelpunk", a fusion of German schlager music and punk, exemplified by "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder", numerous cover versions of German schlager songs and tracks such as "Azzurro". They can be seen as pioneers of "Volxmusic", which combines elements of German folk music with jazz, hip-hop or rock. In some of their songs Die Toten Hosen experiment with strings or wind instruments. A few songs have elements that are lifted from jazz (e.g. "Warum werde ich nicht satt"), reggae ("Zehn kleine Jägermeister") or Yugoslavian gypsy music ("Das Mädchen aus Rottweil"). For
2268-695: The Berlin Waldbühne and at the Bizarre Festival in Cologne. In May 1996 they headlined the Rock am Ring festival. In the same year the band released their second live album Im Auftrag des Herrn (on the Lord's behalf). Their 1000th concert was on 28 June 1997 in the Düsseldorfer Rheinstadium, and was attended by over 60,000 fans. Lack of effective crowd control resulted in a crowd collapse which injured
2352-499: The Düsseldorf Mardi Gras parade with their own float under the slogan "We bury good taste". Die Toten Hosen are supporters of the football club Fortuna Düsseldorf . At the end of the 1980s, they helped the club by donating 200,000 DM towards signing the player Anthony Baffoe . From 2001 to 2003, they sponsored the club after it had experienced major financial difficulties. In 2002, the band signed an advertising contract with
2436-632: The German charts at the same time. In 1994 the band was on the road for almost the entire year in Germany and neighbouring countries. In November they gave four concerts in the US and in Canada as support act for Green Day . Starting in April 1995, the Toten Hosen got their own radio program on Fritz radio in Berlin, called Tausend Takte Tanzmusik ("a thousand beats of dance music"). The show aired every Sunday from 7 to 8 p.m. for
2520-490: The German hip hop scene. In 1991, Alper Aga & Kabus Kerim formed the group in Nuremberg , Germany. This year, they released the first-ever Turkish language rap track in, named "Bir Yabancının Hayatı" (Life of a Foreigner). Two years later, they released classic tracks like "Cehenneme Hoşgeldin" (Welcome to Hell) and the controversial "Defol Dazlak" (Begone Skinhead), which was released as a Maxi Single . "Big Porno Ahmet" joined
2604-410: The German people, Gastarbeiter (guest workers) included. Growing self-confidence among Germany's immigrant population coincided with the use of the German language in German hip hop, and provided them with a vocal outlet in line with the plight of poor African Americans, out of which hip hop had originally emerged. The Group Advanced Chemistry originated from Heidelberg , Germany. As they were one of
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2688-696: The German-speaking singles charts. Die Toten Hosen and Iggy Pop were a supporting act at the Ramones farewell concert in the River-Plate-Stadion of Buenos Aires in front of 75,000 people. An extended tour followed under the slogan "Ewig währt am längsten" (Eternity lasts longest) through Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Furthermore, they performed at the Gurtenfestival, the Forestglade Festival,
2772-544: The Run , a compilation album to raise funds for immigrants' rights organisation Pro Asyl , and contributed the song "Meine Stadt" ("My town"). From 1999 to 2004 their web site had a public discussion forum but this was terminated without explanation. Over the course of the band's history, Die Toten Hosen have expressed their loyalty to their home town in various ways. In summer 1995, the band staged an ice hockey game called Powerplay des Wahnsinns (Power-play of insanity), playing in
2856-544: The Toten Hosen song "Hofgarten" in live shows. German rock group Samsas Traum covered "Hier kommt Alex" with a more gothic sound. Lead singer Alexander Kaschte changes the final lyric to "Hey! Ich bin Alex!" (Hey! I am Alex!) as a wry joke. British punk band UK Subs recorded an English-language cover of the song on their 1993 album Normal Service Resumed . '"Hier kommt Alex" is featured in video games Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock and Rock Band (European version). The song
2940-507: The audience. Artist Andreas Gursky produced Tote Hosen , a blown up photograph of the crowd from a Die Toten Hosen concert, depicting youths excitedly cheering for the band, many wearing the red Hosen shirt. It is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art . Faith No More bassist Billy Gould wore a Toten Hosen tee shirt on the cover of their greatest hits album, Midlife Crisis: The Very Best of Faith No More . Faith No More have covered
3024-505: The band lost significant CD sales in southern Germany after the release of the song. In August 2006, Campino starred as Mack the Knife in Brecht's The Threepenny Opera at Berlin's Admiralspalast , a short distance from the theatre where the play premiered in 1928. The director, famous actor Klaus Maria Brandauer , was criticised for the play's unadventurous staging, but Campino was cheered by
3108-581: The band played in Amman, Jordan, their first concert in the Middle East. In 2012, Die Toten Hosen released their album Ballast der Republik . A special edition includes a bonus CD with cover versions of songs that influenced the band. On 26 April 2016, it was announced that former drummer Wolfgang Rohde had died of cancer. In early 2018, members of Die Toten Hosen recorded backing vocals on Australian band The Living End 's eighth studio album, Wunderbar , which
3192-458: The band signed to EMI , who financed a video for " Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder ", directed by Wolfgang Büld. It depicts a chaotic wedding ceremony in a small Bavarian church , with Kurt Raab playing an alcoholic priest and Marianne Sägebrecht playing the bride. After the filming the congregation called for the church to be reconsecrated. German public television refused to screen the video for several years for fear of offending churchgoers. At
3276-708: The band's drummer before Wolfgang Rohde (Wölli) took over in January 1986. Rohde's first concert was also the band's first concert in front of a very large audience. Along with Herbert Grönemeyer , Udo Lindenberg , Marius Müller-Westernhagen , BAP , the Rodgau Monotones and many others, they performed at the Anti-WAAhnsinns-Festival in July 1986 to protest the construction of the nearby Nuclear reprocessing plant Wackersdorf . In 1986, they recorded their third album, Damenwahl (Ladies' Choice). The Damenwahl tour
3360-489: The band's first LP were mostly about having fun, but by the end of the 1980s they were focusing more on political and social issues such as racism . The band openly support political and social organizations in their music, interviews and by donations, but are not affiliated with any political party. They turned down a request from Germany's SPD (Social Democratic Party) to write a song for their European election campaign in 1994. In 1991, their track "Fünf vor Zwölf" ("It
3444-403: The betrayal of the concept of realness". Furthermore, the Old School of German hip hop may have been seen as representing "a critique of White America" because of its modeling after US hip hop; however, Old schoolers dispute that hip hop in Germany was about the oppression of people in Germany. One Old School artist, DJ Cutfaster lamented that, "Most people have forgotten that hip hop functions as
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3528-483: The early 1980s. 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. German hip hop was heavily influenced by films, leading to a strong emphasis on visual and cultural elements such as graffiti and breakdancing beyond
3612-516: The emergence of Viva 's Freestyle ; the equivalent to the American Yo! MTV Raps show. Viva's freestyle consisted of hip hop songs from the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany. The influx of immigrants into Germany caused an adverse effect on employment and wages. It was found that immigrants and native Germans were imperfect substitutes for each other, while old and new immigrants were interchangeable exposing an inelastic labor market. In
3696-448: The end of 1983, they released "Hip Hop Bommi Bop", a hip-hop version of "Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder", featuring New York rapper Fab Five Freddy . In 1984, the band played a session on the BBC 's John Peel Show . EMI were displeased with the band's high travel costs and by Norbert Hähnel publicly parodying their million-selling artist Heino at a Toten Hosen concert. Heino successfully obtained
3780-715: The few German punk bands popular outside Germany, with a large following in South America , Australia and Eastern Europe . The band's members are passionate fans of their local football team, Fortuna Düsseldorf , which they sponsored from 2001 to 2003. When a goal is scored at the club's ground, the Esprit Arena , the chorus of the band's song "Strom" is played. The band released a football-themed song named " Bayern " in 2000 in which they proclaim that they would not join Bayern Munich under any circumstances. Campino mentioned that
3864-591: The few early hip hop groups to rap in English, they were extremely influential in promoting the hip hop scene in Germany. More importantly, however, Advanced Chemistry was a prominent hip hop group, because of the ethnic diversity of the members. Torch , the leader of the group for instance is both of a Haitian and German ethnic background . Advanced Chemistry exploded onto the German hip hop scene in November 1992 with their first mixed single entitled Fremd im eigenen Land (Foreign in Your Own Country). This song
3948-542: The first DJ to introduce Garage House and Old school hip hop music to the Munich club scene . His compilation Krauts with Attitude is considered one of the first German hip hop albums, as it features Die Fantastischen Vier . The title refers to N.W.A (Niggaz with Attitude), one of the most controversial hip hop groups of the time in the United States. Krauts with Attitude was the first album to nationalize German hip hop, and its album packaging reflected this. "The cover
4032-432: The first to incorporate social critiques of growing prejudice and racism in Germany . "…the newly emerging hip hop movement took a clear stance for the minorities and against the marginalisation of immigrants who, as the song said, might be German on paper, but not in real life" In 1992 the group released the single Fremd im eigenen Land . The song dealt with the widespread racism that non-white German citizens faced. In
4116-500: The group as a producer/beatmaker. Shortly, the success of Karakan spread beyond the borders of Germany and the group started to get well known within the European hip hop scene. During jams, they met Cinai Sebeke ( Da Crime Posse ) and Erci-E. Together, they established the legendary group CARTEL and released a compilation album in 1995. In 1997, KARAKAN finally released his first official album "Al Sana Karakan" and shot 2 videos, which marked
4200-478: The host provided them with unlimited beer and covered all damage caused by the band. Die Toten Hosen formed in 1982 at the Ratinger Hof, a Düsseldorf bar frequented by punk musicians. Its founder members were Campino and Andreas von Holst, both from local punk band ZK, with Andreas Meurer, Michael Breitkopf, Trini Trimpop and Walter November. According to their friend and one time promoter Andrea Berzen, they chose
4284-642: The identity of individual rappers and their "crews". When not rapping in English, many German rappers employ a dialect of German developed in these communities and which is therefore associated with immigrants and the German "ghetto". Using this language in their music, some academics have argued, enables them to levy criticism and protest aspects of society and politics that they perceive as having disadvantaged them and their communities. Die Fantastischen Vier (the Fantastic Four) are another important German hip hop group, who also began to rap in German around
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#17330936915144368-504: The jury as the best band of the event. The album included " Hier kommt Alex " ("Here comes Alex") was later re-recorded in an unplugged version in 2005, incorporating the opening piano phrase of Beethoven 's Moonlight Sonata . Their spring tour in 1989 included a sell-out performance at the huge Westfalenhallen in Dortmund . The band released 3 Akkorde für ein Halleluja (3 Chords for
4452-405: The mid-1990s German hip hop was growing. John Clarke used the term ' recontextualization ' to describe the process of borrowing cultural ideas and integrating them into a new society. German hip hop did just this as it took US hip-hop and gave it a new meaning and identity in German culture . Black American gangsta rap , however, is not the only type of rap that has developed in Germany. Some of
4536-462: The more humour-based groups paint a portrait of a vibrant and diverse hip hop community in Germany. Despite common notions of the Old School German hip hop's emulation of US hip hop styles and the New School's attempt to rap about crime and violence, some "Old Schoolers " feel that the New School has, in fact, forgotten about its roots. Old School supporters and Scholars disagree on the nature of
4620-439: The most innovative rap music in Germany is made by Germans or by underground crews dedicated to rap for both political and artistic reasons. Rap has been able to succeed in Germany not just due to a different national culture of the U.S., but also because people are responding to other racial and ethnic cultures . At this time, in the mid-1990s, the relation of import and domestic rap was 70% import to 30% domestic, but domestic
4704-455: The most part, The Toten Hosen have not departed substantially from their original style of music, choosing power chords , straightforward lyrics, simple melodies and anthem-like choruses over long instrumental solos. Other influences on the music of Die Toten Hosen include hardcore punk, punk blues, heavy metal, thrash metal, and hard rock. The focus of the band's music has gradually shifted from funny and nonsensical to serious. The songs from
4788-420: The music itself. In addition to films, such as Wild Style and Beat Street , American expats and soldiers stationed in Germany facilitated the introduction of hip hop music and culture into German pop culture . GLS United released the first German language hip hop song, Rapper's Deutsch , in 1980. While the group (consisting of three radio DJs including the later comedian and TV host Thomas Gottschalk )
4872-485: The name Die toten Hosen – which literally translates as "the dead trousers" but suggests the German idiom tote Hose , meaning "nothing going on", "it's boring" – over Die Pariser . According to Andrea Berzen, Campino preferred the former because it implied that their concerts might not be sold out, but there might be "tote Hose" on the nights. At their first concert at the Bremer Schlachthof over Easter 1982,
4956-577: The original band that had recorded it. Several songs were recorded in Rio de Janeiro with Great Train Robber Ronald Biggs . The album also marked the beginning of the band's collaboration with T.V. Smith , songwriter and lead singer of The Adverts , which continues to the present day. The band's 1992 'Menschen, Tiere, Sensationen' (People, Animals, Sensations) tour included concerts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Great Britain, Spain, France and
5040-483: The people were young. Furthermore, German hip hop, much like many other countries, was heavily influenced by the western world. During that time, a rises of anti-immigrant feelings resulted in the acts of arson and murder against the Turkish asylum seekers . In May 1993, 5 Turkish people were killed and many injured when someone attacked the home of a Turkish family with a firebomb . In 1993 German hip hop " globalized " with
5124-409: The personnel for the important rap groups that began to develop in the late 1980s and early '90s." "Graffiti and breakdancing came out big but it only lasted for a short period of time. But hip hop survived in the underground." American hip hop continued to influence the German scene, influencing emergent acts such as Rock Da Most . Originally most German rappers relied on English language lyrics,
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#17330936915145208-470: The recent transformation in German hip hop. Scholars have argued that the Old School German hip hop "scene was musically and vocally oriented to American role models. Rhymes were written in English; funk and soul samples dominated musical structures". However, Old Schoolers themselves contend that it is the New School German rap artists who have been "Americanized," and therefore lack the authenticity of
5292-635: The record are a parody of Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols by the Sex Pistols (1977). In late 1987, Die Toten Hosen released their first live album Bis zum bitteren Ende (Till the Bitter End). It charted in the German and Austrian Top 30. In 1988, the band released their commercial breakthrough, the album Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau (A little bit of horrorshow). The album referenced
5376-424: The same time as Advanced Chemistry . Die Fantastischen Vier saw English rap in Germany as meaningless loyalty to "surface elements" of U.S. rap, and devoid of any German political or social context . They sought to appropriate hip hop from its foreign framework, and use it to bring a voice to historical and contemporary problems in Germany. The shift of rapping from English into German increased hip hop's appeal to
5460-465: The same year, another rock-hip-hop collaboration emerged. The punk rock band Die Goldenen Zitronen , together with the US-American rapper Eric IQ Gray and the hip-hop group Easy Business , released the maxi-single 80 000 000 Hooligans , which includes a rap version of their song 80 Million Hooligans . The song addressed the nationalism and hatred against foreigners that emerged in Germany after
5544-442: The song "Kauf MICH!" showed footage of these concerts. In the same year, the band released Reich & Sexy (Rich & Sexy), their first best-of album. On the cover the members of the band are naked, portraying pretentious millionaires from the music industry surrounded by nude women. An international version of the best-of album was released in 1994 called Love, Peace & Money . For a period, Die Toten Hosen had three albums in
5628-556: The struggle of the ghetto in West Germany. The German old school acknowledged that there were many differences between the situation in the United States and the situation in Germany, and aimed at expressing the concept of "realness," meaning to "be true to oneself". Different from the US hip hop's equating "realness" with a tougher "street credibility," many raps that came out of the old school German hip hop "address this issue and reject unreflected imitation of US hip hop as clichés and as
5712-436: The success of the single. The song grossed half a million Deutsche Mark. In 1993, the album Kauf MICH! (Buy ME!) was released and reached number one in the German charts. Its songs express opinions on consumerism, advertisement and right-wing extremism. In the summer of 1993 Die Toten Hosen performed as the supporting act for U2 on their Zoo TV tour in Germany, with audiences of over 50,000 people at each concert. The video to
5796-405: The ways in which they were viewed as a trite pop group. During 1992–93 many acts of protest occurred in the wake of rising anti-immigration sentiment in Germany. Amongst the angst of this period, the content of German hip hop started to become more politicized . Additionally, the language of the music started to reflect a more local voice. The group Advanced Chemistry has been noted as one of
5880-487: Was a foreigner." Of those 97% of immigrants in the Western part of Germany over 1.5 million of them originated from a European country. For example, the community with the largest number of immigrants (roughly 1.9 million people) was the Turkish community . Within the Turkish community only 5% of its people were of age 60 or older. Such statistics give justification for why hip hop may have flourished in Germany; many of
5964-496: Was also featured on the second sampler, but he had not yet signed on to the label. Bushido and Fler released, in the same year, the collabo album, entitled Carlo Cokxxx Nutten . In 2003, Aggro Berlin released Bushido's debut album Vom Bordstein bis zur Skyline , which was indexed by the BPjM (Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young People) . Later, in 2004, Sido's debut album, Maske sold more than 100,000 copies in less than
6048-449: Was also released as a downloadable track on the American version of Rock Band on 27 May 2008. Die Toten Hosen also have a special edition of SingStar for PlayStation 2, devoted exclusively to the band, featuring 24 tracks and videos from over the decades, which was released in 2007. MC Frontalot , in collaboration with faux-German electronic musician KOMPRESSOR on the track "Rappers We Crush", rhymes "What did I do to deserve this?/What
6132-601: Was designed in the colours of the national flag (black, red and yellow), and the liner notes read as follows: 'Now is the time to oppose somehow the self confidence of the English and the American.'" In the early 1990s, hip hop established itself in the mainstream , and many new rappers emerged on the scene. One such band was Die Fantastischen Vier , four rappers from Stuttgart , whose optimistic sound and lighthearted lyrics have brought them fame both in Germany and abroad. Apparently, original crew members Smudo and Thomas D , were inspired to begin rapping in German following
6216-465: Was formed explicitly for the one song, and the song was intended primarily as a parody of Rapper's Delight by The Sugarhill Gang , it was none-the-less the first German hip hop group and first German-language hip hop track. Also the punk rock band Die Toten Hosen released one of the first German hip hop songs, Hip Hop Bommi Bop , in 1983, which also was one of the first rap rock crossovers ever. The song, created in collaboration with Fab 5 Freddy ,
6300-438: Was founded on 1 January 2001 by Berlin rappers Specter, Spaiche and Halil. The first signed artists were Sido and B-Tight . Later, the label also signed Bushido . The same year it released EP Das Mic und ich by A.i.d.S (formerly Royal TS) on the label, which was the first release of Aggro Berlin. In 2002 released the two samplers Aggro Ansage Nr. 1 and Aggro Ansage Nr. 2 , which contains tracks by its signed artists. Fler
6384-451: Was immensely popular because it directly addressed the issue of immigrants in Germany: "In the video of the song, a band member brandishes a German passport in a symbolic challenge to traditional assumptions about what it means to be German. If the passport is not enough, the video implies, then what is required? German Blood ?". After the reunification of Germany in 1990, many Germans saw
6468-457: Was increasing rapidly. CD's had practically taken over the market in Germany and cassettes were almost out and were just used for black copies . German hip hop was yet to have a specific identity as different styles occurred due to ethnic and musical background. This was also a time that a lot of immigrants were moving to Germany and they all came with their own culture which contrasted with or added to that of Germany. Karakan also emerged in
6552-449: Was much more than just rap music, but was very much a cultural movement in and of itself. Though at the time of the release of the movie, it did not have a great overall impact, once German reunification began in 1990, the hip hop scene began to flourish. As one German remembers on a visit to the US in 1986, things were much different. MTV did not exist in Europe at the time, and the scene
6636-530: Was my crime?/Was it because I sampled Die Toten Hosen that one time?" In 2002 and 2005, the band played at Przystanek Woodstock , the biggest open air festival in Europe. In 2010, the band played several dates in Central Asia and became the first foreign rock band to perform in Tajikistan since 1991. The band was criticised for accepting €68,000 of German government funding towards this tour. On 2 October 2010,
6720-622: Was not officially released by any label and G-Hot stated that it had been recorded many years prior to its leak and was never intended to be released. According to Sido and Fler in an interview with the German hip-hop magazine Juice , Aggro Berlin has not been a fully independent label since October 2007 but now collaborates with Universal Records. German hip-hop German hip hop (locally known as Deutschrap , Deutsch meaning German) refers to hip hop music produced in Germany. Elements of American hip hop culture , such as graffiti art and breakdancing , diffused into Western Europe in
6804-406: Was recorded in Germany. On November 27, 2020, the single "You're No Good" was issued online. All band members are self-taught musicians. At the beginning of their musical career most of them were still at school. Their first album was recorded in a studio rented by the hour. The band kept to simple guitar chords and lyrics, in garage style. Die Toten Hosen were mainly influenced by punk bands from
6888-482: Was released in the US. It received 4.5 of 5 stars in All Music Guide (now known as All Music) and featured artists such as Bushido , Fler , Kool Savas , Azad and others. Today, the German hip hop scene is a reflection of the many dimensions that Germany has come to represent in a unified image of Europe. Everything from "migrant hip hop," which is known as hip hop from the large Turkish immigrant population, to
6972-589: Was sponsored by the northern German condom manufacturer Fromms, who arranged for free samples to be scattered amongst the crowd. In 1987, the band celebrated its first chart success with the record Never Mind the Hosen, Here's Die Roten Rosen ( Never mind the Trousers – Here's the Red Roses ) using the pseudonym Die Roten Rosen (The Red Roses). The album contains rock versions of German 1960s pop songs. The name and cover art of
7056-501: Was still very much underground . Moreover, there was a lack of European hip hop clubs. After this initial wave of popularity, hip hop fans were few and far between. However, the fans that did remain would play a role in the resuscitation of the hip hop culture . "The hardcore hip-hop fans that remained after the breakdance craze faded from the media were central to the further development of hip hop in Germany-they supplied much of
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