Neu Leonstein
24-08-2006, 13:26
Firstly: I realise not everyone likes rap music and hip hop in general. Others (including me) do. If you don't like it, no one is forcing you to post in this thread.
Now, after a thread about how pretentious your taste in music is, I think we should all take a step towards the most pretentious of tastes: music where the lyrics are not in English, so that not everyone understands them (since most NSers are in English-speaking countries). Not to forget that it is great to listen to foreign languages flow to music, even if you don't understand all the words. And rapping ultimately forces your language to take much more of a flowing nature than most singing does, IMHO.
In other words: I am looking for decent tracks where the lyrics are not in English, but still deep and meaningful. Not brainless pop, but songs with a message. Not 50cent, but Mos Def, in other words.
I'll start with a few great German tracks:
Afrob & Samy Deluxe - Hey du. (Hey, you.) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6_t1WoemOE)
Is about how people don't sit back and relax and think about themselves and their own lives. I like it a lot...very relaxed.
Samy Deluxe - Weck mich auf (Wake me up) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIrrURh8urk)
This is a bit older. Back then it was played everywhere around the clock, people got sick of it. But now, a few years on, I think we can recognise what a great track it is. It's Samy's rant about how wrong everything is in modern Germany - the people, the attitudes, the system itself.
Sido & G-Hot - Wahlkampf (Election Campaign) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGVe5HSB-Cc)
People are gonna hate me for it, but I like this song. It's angry, and it illustrates nicely how far some kids are disconnected from the politicians and the establishment.
Azad - Gegen the Strom (Against the Flow) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s1ZgIv91jY)
Hehe, I'm violating my own rule already. It's not exactly a deep song, but I like it anyways. Very raw...and with the whole debate about immigrants not fitting in - this guy is a Kurd, and he certainly seems to fit in just fine. To be honest, he is a lot more like the immigrant kids that I knew than the ones we always read about in the news.
Afrob & D-Flame - Öffnet die Augen (Open your eyes) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a7TOzVl4iI)
Much like the title says, it's a call for people to open their eyes and finally face the facts: There's plenty of black people in Germany, and both those people and the Germans need to sort out a way to live together.
And now, I'm sending out a call to you gurus of the search engines...I am looking for another track which I cannot find but which you must hear. It's by a guy called "Erci E" and the title is "Weil ich ein Türke bin".
Now, after a thread about how pretentious your taste in music is, I think we should all take a step towards the most pretentious of tastes: music where the lyrics are not in English, so that not everyone understands them (since most NSers are in English-speaking countries). Not to forget that it is great to listen to foreign languages flow to music, even if you don't understand all the words. And rapping ultimately forces your language to take much more of a flowing nature than most singing does, IMHO.
In other words: I am looking for decent tracks where the lyrics are not in English, but still deep and meaningful. Not brainless pop, but songs with a message. Not 50cent, but Mos Def, in other words.
I'll start with a few great German tracks:
Afrob & Samy Deluxe - Hey du. (Hey, you.) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6_t1WoemOE)
Is about how people don't sit back and relax and think about themselves and their own lives. I like it a lot...very relaxed.
Samy Deluxe - Weck mich auf (Wake me up) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIrrURh8urk)
This is a bit older. Back then it was played everywhere around the clock, people got sick of it. But now, a few years on, I think we can recognise what a great track it is. It's Samy's rant about how wrong everything is in modern Germany - the people, the attitudes, the system itself.
Sido & G-Hot - Wahlkampf (Election Campaign) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGVe5HSB-Cc)
People are gonna hate me for it, but I like this song. It's angry, and it illustrates nicely how far some kids are disconnected from the politicians and the establishment.
Azad - Gegen the Strom (Against the Flow) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s1ZgIv91jY)
Hehe, I'm violating my own rule already. It's not exactly a deep song, but I like it anyways. Very raw...and with the whole debate about immigrants not fitting in - this guy is a Kurd, and he certainly seems to fit in just fine. To be honest, he is a lot more like the immigrant kids that I knew than the ones we always read about in the news.
Afrob & D-Flame - Öffnet die Augen (Open your eyes) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a7TOzVl4iI)
Much like the title says, it's a call for people to open their eyes and finally face the facts: There's plenty of black people in Germany, and both those people and the Germans need to sort out a way to live together.
And now, I'm sending out a call to you gurus of the search engines...I am looking for another track which I cannot find but which you must hear. It's by a guy called "Erci E" and the title is "Weil ich ein Türke bin".