Hip hop Music of Germany

Apart from the United States, Germany generates the most sales for recorded hip hop, and has one of the more vibrant scenes in the world. Hip hop came in the early 1980s, and graffiti art and breakdancing became popular quickly, with hip hop crews appearing soon thereafter.

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The huge commercial success began in the year 1992 with the hit Die Da from Die Fantastischen Vier from Stuttgart. This band makes rather funny and sophisticated hip hop. The Rodelheim Hartreim Projekt tried to initiate a more USA like gangster rap. An early very powerful orchestra was Advanced Chemistry including Torch.

Advanced Chemistry was very significant to the German hip hop and powerful to German listeners. They sparked a huge interest in speaking out for the youth of Germany, especially the settlers. Advanced Chemistry exploded onto the German hip hop scene in November in the year 1992 with their first combined single entitled Fremd in eigenem Land (Foreign in Your Own Country). This single was the first of its kind to go beyond simply copying United States rap and addressed the recent issues go the time, which as the widespread racism that non- white German citizens faced. Settlement was a big issue in Germany and prompted hip hop musicians, who were children of settlers, to use rap and hip hop as a way to defend them in their country. Advanced Chemistry frequently rapped about their lives and experiences as children of settlers exposing what was experienced by most ethnic minorities in Germany, and the feelings of frustration and resentment that being denied a German identity can cause. Fettes Brot, a hip hop orchestra from Hamburg, has been very successful since their beginning in the year 1992. They are well versed in pop-culture and sing about funny topics, such as infidelity and boasting about their ability with women.

Whereas hip hop had a peak of success in the early first era of the 21^st century, with bands from Hamburg taking over the scene, gangster rap became a significant and controversial part of German music and youth culture just as late as 2004 with Aggro Berlin.

German hip hop was an adopted pattern from many different areas. There is often debate as to whether or not German hip hop is authentic or just a gathering of mimicry. German hip hop began out as a transnational and cosmopolitan youth subculture that was mainly English raps. Rap was also used by settler youths to make a kind of exaggerated outsiderism as a mechanism of self-defense in German society. It could be ventured that the genuineness of German hip pop only obtains its innovation once the German language flows seemingly naturally with the music.