#deutsch hip hop

[missjess-e]

(DJANE Miss Jess-e)

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[gedankenrap]

"Es ist eine tiefe Geschichte hinter der Art, wie ich handle und denke."

[ballern-du-fotze]

„generation abgefuckt“

[62davut62]

[spilladabalia]

Miko - Kiss the Politicians (Waiting for the UFO) (Germany, 1983)

[randomvarious]

Falco - "Der Kommissar" 1981 Synthpop / Neue Deutsche Welle / Pop-Rap / New Wave

I think something that's lost on a lot of people when it comes to hip hop music is, really, just how quickly it managed to spread after scoring its first ever hit in 1979, with The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight"—which was also, remarkably, just the second song that the genre had ever released up until that point. There seems to be a general presumption that the music largely remained within the confines of the New York-metropolitan area, but as I'm about to show you, that notion is actually pretty false.

See, what I think most Americans have never really come to realize is just how deeply seismic of an event the release of "Rapper's Delight" was on a global scale. It was a modest hit in its home country, reaching #36 on the Billboard Hot 100, and it did prove to a lot of New Yorkers who frequented the hip hop parties that this hobby of rhyming rhythmically and extemporaneously over extended disco-type breaks could actually be successfully metabolized into dollars, which people originally had their doubts about. But where "Rapper's Delight" actually performed much better commercially was in Europe: it went to #5 in Austria; #3 in the UK and West Germany; #2 in Belgium, France, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland; and #1 in the Netherlands and Spain.

And for Europeans who were hearing that song in 1979 and 1980, with all its pervasiveness, the fact that it sounded pretty much unlike *anything* that they'd ever heard before, and that rapping was also easily replicable, there was no doubt that "Rapper's Delight" was going to then end up inspiring a whole lot of different musicians to try their hand at something like it too.

So, while we largely tend to think of some of hip hop's earliest records as being made solely by New Yorkers (actually, the Sugarhill Gang were impostrous nobodies from New Jersey), that's actually pretty shortsighted, because some European acts were quick to start incorporating it into their own music too.

And such was the case with Austrian pop sensation Falco, who released his country's first known hip hop record in 1981, with "Der Kommissar," which also served as his breakout single, managing to not just top the charts in German-speaking countries like Austria and West Germany, but the ones in Spain and Italy too. Now, "Der Kommissar" is certainly not hip hop as we've come to know it; there's no DJ or record scratching, or a sampled or re-created beat; and first and foremost, it's a Neue Deutsche Welle (German new wave) tune. But there is clearly a lot of rapping on this record, and there's little doubt that the sudden Euro-popularity of "Rapper's Delight" is what initially sparked that fuse. I mean, this is before Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five even released "The Message" in 1982, mind you—another very early hip hop cornerstone. That's how early we're talking here. So, pretty fascinating when put into that context, no?

Now, maybe if you're an American, you're far more familiar with the 1982 Anglicized cover of this song by UK band After the Fire instead, as the video for it received heavy rotation on MTV, which then led to significant radio airplay, and then eventually a peak at #5 on the Hot 100. But Falco's German-language version is the one that came first.

And while Falco's only really rippled in the US, managing to reach just #74 on the Cash Box chart and #10 on the Billboard dance chart, the success of After the Fire's version appears to be what actually helped propel it into a very minor US hit in the first place. And that's just sort of funny, right? Like, the only reason that your record's even selling a little bit in such a huge market as the US' is because some other band who covered your song in English the following year is getting almost all of the limelight for it? That's a fun dynamic, huh? But Falco would still end up making *serious* inroads in the US a few years later anyway, with his terrific chart-topper, "Rock Me Amadeus," which also happened to have a bunch of rapping in it too.

So, ultimately there were two videos that were shot for Falco's "Der Kommissar" and this is the one that was released in the US. It's a very low-budget affair, in which Falco performs in front of a screen that shows footage of police cars traveling with their blue lights on, as he continuously makes like he's running away from them. And the song's about a couple who are on the run from the law—the titular 'kommissar'—so this very literal depiction certainly fits.

And actually, there were a lot more records from outside the US that both incorporated hip hop and also predate the release of "Der Kommissar" too. I came across this very enlightening list recently on RateYourMusic that shows what the earliest known hip hop release is for a bunch of different countries, and a lot of them happen to be from way earlier than you've probably ever thought! 🤯

Evidently, hip hop's been a global phenomenon for a bit longer than many people seem to realize 👀.

More fun videos here.

[cahirsmommy]

und antisemitischer als die afd ist das nicht toll

[mellanoace]

[missjess-e]

(DJANE Miss Jess-e)

[gedankenrap]

"Denk nicht so viel nach. Sonst hast du plötzlich Probleme, die es garnicht gibt."

[meroswelt]

[musikblog]

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[thepoeticshawty]

the love of my life will dedicate 90s rnb songs to me and I'm patient, 'cus I know he's still working on that mixtape.

thepoeticshawty

[mynameizace]

[idiotcoward]

OG Keemo - Geist

OG Keemo is one of the best rappers in Germany right now and deserves way more attention in the US then he gets. A lot of his production is so much darker and more intense then what we expect from trap in the US. My German isn’t what it used to, but from what I understand from the lyrics there are some fucking great bars in here. OG Keemo’s voice too just has such a nice smooth tone to it that makes listening to this thing worth it alone. If you’re looking for fresh feeling trap music this is a great place to start.

[randomvarious]

Falco - "Rock Me Amadeus" 1985 Neue Deutsche Welle / Synthpop / New Wave / Pop-Rap

The success of this 80s synthpop-new wave classic from brilliant Austrian pop star Falco seems to have been at least partially fueled by the 1984 Best Picture-winner Amadeus, which was a fictionalized biopic about Mozart. The song itself wasn't part of the film's soundtrack or anything like that, but with Amadeus causing Mozart to be top of mind for many folks at the time—Falco's included—it looks like it left an ample opportunity for such a catchy and quirky German-language tune about the composer to really hit big.

And "Rock Me Amadeus" ended up smashing in a lot of different places, including the US, where it's still, to this day, the only German-language song to have ever topped the Billboard Hot 100. And being that its verses are clearly rapped, I think it's also arguably one of the first hip hop singles to reach #1 in the US as well, rather than Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby," which came out in 1990, and is usually referred to as hip hop's first ever #1. Some people may even count the Pet Shop Boys' 1984 single, "West End Girls," as another one of the first hip hop tunes to go to #1 in the US, but I think "Rock Me Amadeus" is a lot more deliberately hip hop than that one. And even before both of those was Blondie's "Rapture," a 1981 smash that saw Debbie Harry rapping inanely for around 90 seconds about a man from Mars who eats cars, bars, and guitars! 😨

Anyway, this very 80s video that went along with "Rock Me Amadeus" was pretty fun too, as it employed that oft-used trope of unexpected unity among people of widely different social classes. Modern, slovenly bikers and bewigged 18th century people decked out in formal wear all getting down together by the song's end! You just love to see it! 

More fun videos here!