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  German Rap Keeps it Real | Culture & Lifestyle | Deutsche Welle | 26.02.2006
The German counterparts to the likes of Dr. Dre and Busta Rhymes used to be middle-class white boys in baseball caps.
As well as introducing a grittier dimension to German rap, it was also one of the first bands to write German lyrics.
Some German rappers have been making the headlines for their very politically incorrect lyrics.
www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,2144,1914272,00.html   (766 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: German hip hop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Mozarts German singspiel The Magic Flute (1791) stands at the head of a German opera tradition that was developed in the 19th century by Beethoven, Weber, Heinrich Marschner and Wagner.
Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint In arts, the Baroque (or baroque) is both a period and the style that dominated it.
German styles of music Hip hop is a cultural movement that began amongst urban African American youth in New York and has since spread around the world.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/German-hip-hop   (932 words)

  
 P27 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
P-27 are a Swiss rap group from Basel, Switzerland.
Lyrics were partly in English, partly in Swiss German.
As Swiss German rap really became popular between 1997 and 1999, they dropped a third album in 2000, which was mostly unrecognized.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/P27   (148 words)

  
 Hip Hop and Rap in Europe. The culture of the urban ghetto's   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Rap in Europe has grown with the second generation of immigrants, who have followed the American model but quickly differentiate themselves with their own social and personal specifics.
Indeed, rapping in their own language is probably the most important improvement in their quest for identity, which is the major asset of hip hop.
Hip hop and rap are going far beyond an immigrant kids' fashion, it is now the culture of a whole new and often multiracial generation who wants to find its own ways to adapt and finds its place in the society.
www.icce.rug.nl /~soundscapes/DATABASES/MIE/Part2_chapter08.html   (3081 words)

  
 German hip hop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
German hip hop is the German manifestation of hip hop music.
After the United States and France, Germany is the third-biggest hip hop nation, sales-wise.
Die Fantastischen Vier was the first hip hop crew to achieve commercial success, and they helped to popularize the field beginning in about 1992.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_hip_hop   (252 words)

  
 // Digital DJs // Respect Due Discussion Board : General Discussion : Introducing....Rap music and the far right: ...
The child of a German mother and an immigrant father is attracting, against all normal logic, a massive audience of neo-Nazis who love his hard-edged, racist and nationalistic lyrics.
Tame German rap has been popular here for years: groups such as Die Ärtze released non-controversial hits like: "Claudia's Got an Alsatian", but it was the kind of music that made 12-year-olds giggle.
The new wave of German gangsta rap, says Aggro Berlin, the most successful and notorious of the Berlin independent record labels representing German rap stars, is simply reflective of the hard times in Germany, a country whose economy continues to dip in and out of recession and where unemployment nudges 5 million.
www.digital-djs.com /talk/thread-view.asp?threadid=9856   (4060 words)

  
 For France and Germany, Still No Love Lost
ARIS, March 12 — When the Élysée Treaty binding French and German destinies was signed in 1963, one of its provisions was to spread the study of French by German schoolchildren and German by the French.
For German high school students, French is a language of culture and refinement.
German rap was bad, the French students agreed, probably because rap was little suited to the guttural German tongue.
personal.ecu.edu /conradtd/pols2010/spring2010/2010sp0389.htm   (1183 words)

  
 German hip hop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
They are among the most successful German rappers, with their skillful lyrics mixing verbal humor and politics.
Their raps are usually humorous and of late they have experimented with different crossover sounds.
They were the first German rap group to have commercial success and the first German band to appear on MTV Unplugged.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/german_hip_hop   (755 words)

  
 Non-whites peddle "nationalistic" (!) German rap - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
I mean you don't understand the German culture at this moment and the Nationaldemokratische Partei does.
Rap is fl music no matter what race is singing it.
Also, when it says "popular with neo-nazis", does it mean people who listen to rap and have become 'Nationalists', or Nationalists that have started to listen to this rap.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?p=2108438#post2108438   (769 words)

  
 Rap, the Word
Rap is first noted in the 14th century meaning both a serious blow with a weapon as well as a hard, but not serious blow, with a stick or something.
Rap also came to mean the sound of a hard object hitting a hard surface.
Rap has had many meanings, but since Shakespeare's time when it came to mean quick angry talk or swearing, it keeps popping up in different fashions of "talking", usually with elements of speed and sharpness.
www.bentarz.se /me/166_20010503.html   (659 words)

  
 RTE Business - IMF set to rap German government
The International Monetary Fund is to lower its economic growth forecast for Germany in 2003 to 1.75% from 2% and is critical of Berlin's budget policies, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported this morning.
The revised forecast is to be published in the coming days when the IMF releases a study on the German economy, the newspaper said.
For this year, the IMF continues to forecast growth of 0.5% for the German economy, the newspaper said.
www.rte.ie /business/2002/1029/germany.html   (168 words)

  
 Beginner -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
They started rapping in (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English and German with homemade beats, but later went over to rapping solely in German.
In 2002, after the German hip hop hype had abated, Mad, Eißfeldt and Denyo agreed to record an album together again, which became their 2003 hit album Blast Action Heroes, heralded by the TOP 10 single Fäule.
Their lyrics are also usually comical and a lot of their music is a tightrope walk between (Light and humorous drama with a happy ending) comedy and (The study of government of states and other political units) politics.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/be/beginner.htm   (968 words)

  
 Modern Talking News
According to German newspaper Bild (November 02, 2000 issue) Dieter was "caught in the act" with a 21 year old sales clerk (Janina Y.) in the backroom of a carpet store in Hamburg (Germany).
This prompted German newspapers and TV stations to report about the alleged incidence, regardless of the fact that Bild is known to base stories on incorrect information.
German TV station ZDF broadcasted their performance of a medley consisting of "You Are Not Alone', "Sexy Sexy Lover" and "You're My Heart, You're My Soul" (all rap versions).
www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Heights/8073/news2000.html   (5260 words)

  
 Expatica's German news in English: Germany's wannabe public enemies: nasty is the new nice
A new wave of German rappers is worrying German liberals with nationalistic language.
Left-leaning German bands such as Tocotronic and Mouse on Mars have responded to this new breaking of decades-old taboos with an anti-nationalist initiative called 'I Can't Relax In Deutschland'.
Even places which the German middle class see as urban jungles, such as the Berlin district of Neukoelln, would, if transplanted to the U.S., be considered tame and have bohemians queuing round the block to move in.
www.expatica.com /source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=23524&RSS   (1068 words)

  
 1st Year German
The German teacher and the Computer teacher of the class collaborated in the preparation of these classes.
The students had created a German rap, to enable them to learn and memorise the German alphabet.
Click for a HTML monthly calendar in German, starting with Mai 2002, and ending in Mai 2003, but omitting the summer monthals when the students will not be at school
www.sip.ie /sip065/german2002.html   (716 words)

  
 VGMix.com - View Release - Meinde Fik Hunden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
While the raps are slightly short between choruses, they are clean and refreshing.
The actual melody in the background doesn't change much at all, but seeing as how this is both a rap remix and a remix of a rather short song, it doesn't get repetetive and has enough subtle variations to not become that way.
The German segment is excellent and I have to say that whoever actually rapped that portion outdid themselves since I for one never thought German would really make for a language that could flow in hip hop.
www.vgmix.com /song_view.php?song_id=2839   (1388 words)

  
 Censoring German Rap | Culture & Lifestyle | Deutsche Welle | 29.06.2005
German rappers from the underground label Aggro Berlin like Sido or Bushido relay the realities of their neighborhoods.
According to the label, their bands are simply rapping about the social realities in the high-rise ghettos.
German pop and rock music is suddenly making a comeback -- thanks to good bands and better media coverage.
www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,1564,1633143,00.html   (863 words)

  
 Aggro Berlin - Rap Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The independent label came straight from the underground in 2001 when everybody cried that German rap was dead because it had turned pop.
Their purpose was to establish a platform for Berlin rap acts who spit uncompromising lyrics.
They got mad props from the Berlin underground rap scene and the label´s name was the talk of town.
www.rapdict.org /Aggro_Berlin   (1131 words)

  
 RTE Business - EU ministers back German deficit rap
The ministers adopted the European Commission's recommendation that Germany's budget shortfall had grown to alarming levels and said far-reaching reforms were needed, according to a statement issued during talks in Brussels.
The ministers, including German Finance Minister Hans Eichel, agreed that 'the German government should put an end to the excessive deficit situation as rapidly as possible'.
The German public deficit shot up to 3.75% of gross domestic product in 2002, well over a 3% ceiling laid down in the euro zone's Stability and Growth Pact.
www.rte.ie /business/2003/0121/eu.html   (310 words)

  
 Entertainment News | German Rap Is Fantastischen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
LONDON (Billboard) - It has now been close to 15 years since German rap band Die Fantastischen Vier made its mark in Germany, and the act's popularity shows no signs of waning.
What the quartet brought to the local scene was the notion that homebred, German rap could be popular, and that it was possible to express oneself in the hip-hop genre using Germany's own language.
Since then, the German rap scene has blossomed, but the Vier occupy a special place.
www.entertainment-news.org /breaking/12753/german-rap-is-fantastischen.html   (320 words)

  
 German rap music Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
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 German Music for the Classroom Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Using German music in instruction can be a motivator, is culturally appropriate, and can either be addressed directly or just played in the background while students work to get used to something different.
My kids split their sides laughing at the sound of the song (German with a thick Danish accent and comical voices).
For German teachers: Uwe Kind developed SingLing, a language learning technique based on familiar tunes, which he later refined as a graduate student at Harvard University.
sps.k12.mo.us /khs/german/germany/music/dtmusicinclass.htm   (643 words)

  
 german hip hop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
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When Colleen Schuetz left Cape Town to au pair in Germany she never imagined her passion for dancing would evolve into an exotic career that would take her around the world.
www.rap-lyrics-online.com /german-hip-hop   (463 words)

  
 Your Rap Resource
Although "Wanksta" was never meant as a radio single, under the barrage of 50 Cent albums and the buzz over Eminem's words of praise and subsequent deal with 50 Cent, "Wanksta" quickly became the most requested song on New York radio.
With the buzz built, a hit single that just wouldn't go away, and legions of rap fans eager to hear new material, 50 Cent was destined for great things, or at least plenty of dough.
This section is intended to make it easy for you to browse through the many types of rap, and hiphop artists.
rapcityonline.com /rap-hiphop55.html   (637 words)

  
 SuicideGirls > News > Music > German Neo-Nazi Gangsta Rap?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Four rap titles have been added in the last year, joining seven others recently added to the more than 450 songs or albums the department has put on its list since the 1980's.
so i figure that the "klan rap" track is probably the 21st century version of the "gay rapper" spectre that haunts mainstream hip hop.
I'm pretty sure that rap is one of the things that the Klan is dead set against.
suicidegirls.com /news/music/10846   (1135 words)

  
 Online Dictionary for French English, Spanish English, Italian English, and more.
A form of vocal music in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; SYN: rap music.
To strike sharply; "rap him on the knuckles"; SYN: knap.
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www.ultralingua.net /?service=ee&text=rap   (163 words)

  
 IUMA: Browse Results, Hip-Hop/Rap - "D"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
i listen to many rap artists and each of them have influen...
German rap from people who can't speak any german...
D.A.W.G. is the prmier rap artist for the next millinium....
artists3.iuma.com /Genre/RA/index/D-3.html   (153 words)

  
 This is simply beyond my comprehension. | MetaFilter
For more serious german underground rap, see epoxweb.de's hiphop traxx.
Admittedly German does sound a bit scary in rapper form, but this band doesn't sound like a joke.
It's actually mostly in Plattdeutsch, which is not a German dialect, but a separate language (with similarities to German, Dutch and English) which is spoken in Northern Germany.
www.metafilter.com /mefi/37653   (638 words)

  
 german rap plus better The Industry Yellow Pages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
They are among the most successful German rappers, with their skillful lyrics mixing verbal...
German countryside, Greek mythology, healthy German bodies, strong German youth, happy German families, hard-working...
Rap Music in Germany: If you are interested in German Rap Music or would like to hear samples of it, you can visit the following Websites...
www.theindustryyellowpages.com /th/german-rap.htm   (2442 words)

  
 SuicideGirls > Boards > Music > NEWS: German Neo-Nazi Gangsta Rap?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Aug 10, 2005 09:58 AM Allow me to enlighten you, sir: the explicit theme of New York Times article to which I linked is the purported neo-Nazi/"gangsta" connection, which I describe as "tenuous" and "alleged." Hence the question mark in the title.
Aug 10, 2005 10:48 AM I'm pretty sure that rap is one of the things that the Klan is dead set against.
Aug 10, 2005 11:19 AM some right-wing skinheads are abandoning jackboots and bomber jackets for the baggy pants and sneakers of the rap scene.
suicidegirls.com /boards/Music/78418   (902 words)

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