75-502: The Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt ("Rödelheim Hard-Rhyme Project"), for short RHP , was a mid-1990s German rap group from Rödelheim , a part of Frankfurt . The group comprised two members, Moses P. ( Moses Pelham ) and Thomas H. (Thomas Hofmann). They were among the first groups to garner commercial success by rapping in German , while stylistically leaning more towards American gangsta rap . Moses Pelham had already had moderate success as
150-909: A teenager with his first English language single Twilight Zone in 1989, before hitting a brick wall in his attempts to market his self-produced second album. In 1993 he teamed up with his old friend Thomas Hofmann, whom he had met on a basketball court, to form the Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt. They recorded their album that year with producers Martin Haas, who had worked on Moses's unreleased second album, and Robert Sattler and supported by future stars Xavier Naidoo and Sabrina Setlur . The album, entitled Direkt aus Rödelheim ("Straight out of Rödelheim", an allusion to N.W.A 's Straight Outta Compton ), surprisingly sold an impressive 160,000 copies in 1994. In 1995, when Schwester S. (a.k.a. Sabrina Setlur) released her debut album, RHP collaborated with her on
225-450: A Cause (1998), the latter of which "extended the lineage of rap-rock" with an album that sold over 14 million copies, and helped to "ignite the rap-rock genre". The late 1990s has been cited as rap rock's "golden age". Separate from rap rock, but developing popularity around the same time in the late 1990s, was nu metal . Nu metal would ultimately be conflated with rap rock, although the two genres did not have much in common. However,
300-916: 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
375-469: A goofy melding of rap, rock, funk, and thrash" and this album, along with their follow-up, Ill Communication , demonstrated that rock, hip hop and jazz could coexist on a single album. However, the genre had developed a bad aesthetic reputation, owing to "a series of ill-advised, record-company driven projects" which included the soundtrack album to the film Judgment Night (1993), which featured rock artists collaborating with rappers on every track,
450-482: 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
525-552: 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,"
600-441: A mainstream white audience. It was the first Billboard top ten rap rock success played on radio. The music video signaled "both a literal and metaphoric merging of hard rock and rap"; the recording revitalized Aerosmith's career. The same year that Run-DMC released "Walk This Way", Beastie Boys released their debut album, Licensed to Ill , "a head-banging party album that enjoyed multi-platinum sales". According to CNN ,
675-741: 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 Rap rock Rap rock
750-526: A rap rock band. HotNewHipHop said that Kid Cudi blurred the lines between genres with his album Man on the Moon II (2010), which contained collaborations with indie rock artists St. Vincent and HAIM , and would deliver further into rock on his albums WZRD (2012) and Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven (2015). The publication suggested that the negative reception to the latter two albums, as well as Lil Wayne 's Rebirth (2010), were "glaring examples of
825-543: A resurgence in rap rock, which fans dubbed "glock rock" due to the unfavorable reputation of rap rock. Williams cited as representatives of glock rock, Lil Uzi Vert , a punk rock-influenced rapper who identified as a "rockstar" and cited Marilyn Manson as their all-time favorite musical artist, Machine Gun Kelly , a rapper influenced by emo and pop punk , City Morgue , a group that "mixed thrash metal with pulsating 808s", as well as Trippie Redd , Post Malone , Clever and The Kid LAROI . Also emerging in this period
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#1732905322935900-467: A rock album in the United States . Crazy Town was met with more ire from metal purists than any other rap rock band due to looking more like a hip hop crew than a metal band. Crazy Town's music and image reflected the band members' background in the underground hip hop scene in Los Angeles, anticipating nu metal. Their lyrics reflected "one of the most dynamic and volatile sociocultural environments on
975-572: A sample of a David Bowie song, most of the mixtape's samples came from American underground bands like Black Flag and Minutemen . Twenty One Pilots , composed the rap rock songs " Stressed Out " and " Heathens ", which both peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2016. In 2017, Pitchfork wrote, "if, at some point, you made a name for yourself through combining rap and rock, chances are you either distance yourself vigorously from such efforts now or have learned to adjust to life as
1050-399: A sea of people and the stage is twenty feet [6 m] in the air and you're performing, and you're feeling your music, how do they expect us to see something bad going on?" Former Limp Bizkit manager Peter Katsis defended Durst in an interview for Netflix's 2022 documentary on the festival, claiming that "pointing the finger at Fred is about the last thing anybody should do. There really isn't
1125-673: 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
1200-423: A walking joke." In 2018, conversely, The A.V. Club wrote that "rap-rock as we once knew it as dead", while HotNewHipHop said that the genre showed "no signs of stopping". The late 2010s saw the emergence of female rap rock artists such as Princess Nokia , Rico Nasty and Bali Baby , diverging from the typically male-dominated rap rock acts of the past. In 2020, NME writer Kyann-Sian Williams reported
1275-550: A way to control 300,000 people. The best thing he could do is put on the best show possible, and that's what he did.". Their third album, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water , debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 , selling 1,054,511 copies in its first week of being released, with 400,000 of those copies being sold in the album's first day of release making it the largest first-week sales debut for
1350-407: 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
1425-537: A weak retread of the "Walk This Way" collaboration. The 1990s saw rap rock achieving mainstream success. Faith No More reached a large audience with their 1990 hit " Epic ", in which the band's singer, Mike Patton , mixed singing and rapping. Rage Against the Machine also saw success with rap rock music influenced by political hip hop . According to the BBC , 1990s hip hop artists like Ice Cube , DMX and Onyx displayed
1500-457: Is a music genre that developed from the early to mid-1980s, when hip hop DJs incorporated rock records into their routines and rappers began incorporating original and sampled rock instrumentation into hip hop music. Rap rock is considered to be rock music in which lyrics are rapped, rather than sung. The genre achieved its greatest success in the late 1990s and early 2000s. AllMusic characterized rap rock songs as rock songs in which
1575-593: 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
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#17329053229351650-451: 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
1725-566: The Woodstock '99 festival and the band Limp Bizkit would wind up linking, as well as shifting critical opinion of both genres from the acclaim they'd initially received to near-universal disdain. The band's frontman, Fred Durst , grew up with hip hop music, and Limp Bizkit would have a stronger connection to rap rock than any previous artist in nu metal, including having former House of Pain turntablist DJ Lethal as part of their line-up. The release of Limp Bizkit's 1999 album Significant Other
1800-517: 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
1875-506: The 1990s were capped off by the short-lived late-90s sitcom Shasta McNasty , which encapsulated numerous 1990s trends in its depiction of a fictional rap rock band, brought the genre to primetime. The style of crunk developed by Lil Jon was categorized as a " southern rap take on punk, which prioritised uncomfortably loud horns and repetitive screams." Linkin Park debuted in 2000 with their album Hybrid Theory and would continue to be
1950-553: The Big Beat ", the Monkees ' " Mary, Mary " and Steve Miller Band 's " Take the Money and Run ", in order to "flaunt their vinyl guile". Impressed by post-punk band Public Image Ltd. 's incorporation of dub elements into their music, hip hop artist Afrika Bambaataa collaborated with the band's singer John Lydon on the single "World Destruction". The post-punk and new wave scenes also saw
2025-462: The Cult . Although hip hop music would gain popularity in the 1980s, many dismissed it as either bring a fad, or as a marginal art form which appealed only to urban African Americans. However, a rap rock collaboration between Run-DMC and the rock band Aerosmith helped diminish such biases. The 1986 single " Walk This Way ", a remake of Aerosmith's 1975 rock song, helped bring hip hop into popularity with
2100-490: 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
2175-410: 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
2250-475: The album "essentially invented rap-rock", as demonstrated by songs like "Rhymin' and Stealin'", which was built around samples from Black Sabbath , Led Zeppelin and the Clash, " (You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!) " and " No Sleep till Brooklyn ", which featured guitar playing by Slayer's Kerry King . Also that year, rap rock band Urban Dance Squad formed, and according to AllMusic writer Heather Phares,
2325-453: The band's "mix of rock, rap, funk, ska , folk , hip-hop, and soul signaled the trend toward genre-bending that prevailed in '90s music." Public Enemy's 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back contained a song which sampled Slayer, and in 1991, the hip hop group would re-record their song " Bring the Noise " with the metal band Anthrax , a collaboration Spin deemed to be
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2400-409: The band's performance; this included fans tearing plywood from the walls during a performance of their song " Break Stuff ". Durst stated during the concert, "Don't let anybody get hurt. But I don't think you should mellow out. That's what Alanis Morissette had you motherfuckers do. If someone falls, pick 'em up." Durst said during a performance of the band's hit song "Nookie", "We already let all
2475-403: 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
2550-483: 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
2625-834: The early rap rock recordings " The Magnificent Seven " and " This Is Radio Clash " by the Clash , influenced by Grandmaster Flash and the Sugarhill Gang , and the new-wave rap song " Rapture " by Blondie . Although the Cold Crush Brothers ' "Punk Rock Rap" did not see much success and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five would wind up being jeered opening for the Clash, Run-DMC saw a crossover audience with their rap rock sound, helping gain rock fans' acceptance of hip hop. Subsequently, Public Enemy would further unite hip hop and punk rock audiences, "with their rough, hard-hitting boom-bap sound resonating with both black kids in
2700-516: 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
2775-642: 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
2850-542: 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
2925-432: 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
3000-500: 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
3075-658: The guitarist can just solo over the same riff that drives the verses." Rap rock is often conflated with rap metal , but while the two styles may appear to have minute differences, AllMusic says that rap rock has "organic, integrated" hip hop elements, while rap metal features "big, lurching beats and heavy, heavy riffs" and has a tendency to sound "as if the riffs were merely overdubbed over scratching and beat box beats." AllMusic says that old school rap rock had more in common with " hardcore punk or artsy post-punk with breakbeats " than with metal. Early hip hop DJs utilized breaks from rock records, such as Billy Squier 's "
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3150-642: 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
3225-430: The inner cities and white kids in the suburbs". Public Enemy brought a punk rock attitude to hip hop; frontman Chuck D cited punk band the Clash's triple album Sandinista! as a release that made him take notice of hip hop. Another link between hip hop and punk rock was producer Rick Rubin , who split his time between working with hip hop artists Run-DMC and Beastie Boys , and punk-influenced bands like Slayer and
3300-405: 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
3375-462: 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
3450-439: 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
3525-410: The most visible rap rock group of the 21st century, going as far as to collaborate with rapper Jay-Z on the 2004 release Collision Course . Subsequently, Kid Rock and Linkin Park's styles changed, with Kid Rock having shifted to a country rock sound. Hollywood Undead was seen as a revival of the rap rock sound, although they considered themselves a rock band with hip hop influences, rather than
3600-420: 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 )
3675-491: The music media immediately shutting down Black artists for stepping outside of the confines of what is deemed as 'Black music.'" The publication also said that Lil Wayne's use of autotune on the album and its "raw rock attitude" would prove "to be highly influential on the next generation of rap rockstars." By 2011, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that rap rock "seemed [...] dead". However, that year saw
3750-537: The musician having started out as a hip hop artist, before shifting his style from sample -based hip hop to guitar-driven alternative rock that fused hip hop beats, boasting and fashion with hard rock guitar and Southern rock attitude, influenced by classic rock and country music . After releasing "two albums of pure Beastie Boys worship", including his first rap rock album, The Polyfuze Method (1993), Kid Rock began to explore his Southern rock influences on Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp (1996), and Devil Without
3825-500: The negative energy out. Its time to reach down and bring that positive energy to this motherfucker. Its time to let yourself go right now, 'cause there are no motherfuckin' rules out there." Eyewitnesses also reported a crowd-surfing woman being pulled down into the crowd and assaulted in the mosh pit during Limp Bizkit's set. Widely blamed for inciting the crowd to violence, Durst later stated in an interview, "I didn't see anybody getting hurt. You don't see that. When you're looking out on
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#17329053229353900-483: 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
3975-409: 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,
4050-495: The planet [...] where the urban squalor of the South Central district exists just minutes away from the glitz of Beverly Hills." Rapper KRS-One recorded a guest appearance for the band's debut album The Gift of Game . Although Crazy Town were best known for having a rap metal sound, their biggest hit, " Butterfly ", was "decidedly hip-hop". "Butterfly" would be the only Hot 100 hit by a rap rock act. According to Vulture ,
4125-412: The punk rock sensibilities of hip hop. This period also saw Beastie Boys reinventing themselves by distancing themselves from the frat boy image they portrayed on their Licensed to Ill album; harkening back to the group's roots in hardcore punk, Beastie Boys began playing live instruments again on their 1992 album Check Your Head , a "groundbreaking record that captured suburban skateboard culture with
4200-470: 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
4275-412: The release of several acclaimed rap rock projects, including Wugazi , a mashup mixtape in which raps by Wu-Tang Clan were paired with instrumentals by the band Fugazi , and the rap rock mixtape Exmilitary by the band Death Grips , which "[coupled] contemporary avant-rock techniques with underground rap sonics"; while some of the mixtape's samples and influences were more mainstream, such as
4350-452: The results of which Slate described as being "lumpy and uneven" in its fusion of rap with grunge and metal; Slate wrote, "the subsequent corporate rap rock of the '90s followed the blander, more conservative examples of fusion to be found on Judgment Night ." In the book Is Hip Hop Dead? The Past, Present, and Future of America's Most Wanted Music , author Mickey Hess identifies Kid Rock as connecting hip hop music to rap rock, due to
4425-424: 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
4500-465: 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
4575-531: The single Ja Klar ("Yeah, right") which entered the Top 10 of the German Media Control charts. In 1996 the group released their second and last album, Zurück nach Rödelheim ("Back to Rödelheim"), which entered the charts at 3rd position and sold 180,000 copies. The first single extracted from the album, Höha, Schnella, Weita ("Higha, Fasta, Furtha") received a lot of airplay and was also fairly successful. It
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#17329053229354650-601: 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
4725-408: The vocals were rapped rather than sung . AllMusic also states that the rhythms of rap rock are rooted in those of hip hop , with more funk influences than normal hard rock . Session player Eddie Martinez , who created the guitar parts for hip hop group Run-DMC 's rap rock song " Rock Box ", recognized that "a rap-rock song needn't feature a new change in the chorus; rather, it's a spot where
4800-405: 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
4875-487: 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
4950-601: 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
5025-465: 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 ,
5100-451: 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
5175-457: 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
5250-421: Was linked to festival violence. The festival featured performances by multiple rap rock artists, including Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock, Insane Clown Posse and Rage Against the Machine, all of which were considered the "breakout stars" of the festival. However, despite these performances being well received, Limp Bizkit's performance was subject to national controversy as violence and vandalism occurred during and after
5325-449: 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
5400-476: Was pinpointed as a breakthrough for rap rock. Selling more than more than 7 million copies, and featuring the hit single " Nookie " as well as a guest appearance by Wu-Tang Clan rapper Method Man , Significant Other demonstrated the commercial viability of rap rock by "drawing from Rage's metallic aggression and the Beastie Boys' skateboard-slacker attitude". However, Limp Bizkit's performance at Woodstock '99
5475-482: 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
5550-501: 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
5625-551: Was this year that Moses split with the group's former label, Universal Music , for his own new label, Pelham Power Productions (3p). From around then on, RHP factually ceased to exist, while Moses Pelham now concentrated on marketing his label's artists and on his own solo career. 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
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