The Singles Jukebox

We don’t cover much German rap…

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Iain Mew: The combination of booming backing and some of the grandiose wordplay through repetition with Farid’s flexible emphasis is brilliant, and got me even before mostly understanding it. “Kaiserslautern/Kaisers laut AN” for one, but the prime moment is accusing others of copying Drake instead of doing their own work with lines ending “rap arbeiten/rapper biten”. Trying to find out more through translation sites isn’t helping me on everything here (Robben was given an unhappy penalty against Chelsea, but I fuck your mum because… it’s given unhappy?), but does tell me that alongside the “kleine bitch”es he’s using the same rhyming technique to play on women’s rights and hairy feminists. So yeah, maybe enjoying the sound of words at a remove of understanding is the best experience it can offer.
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Brad Shoup: I’m not German, but I can recognize endless words rhymed with themselves. I think he’s excoriating rappers studying Young Money, but from the name of his vanity label on up he owes MMG big time. “Trap” is a figurative term, dude.
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Patrick St. Michel: I can’t understand this naturally, so I have to turn to Google Translate (so obviously take all of this with caution) and the results are a ego-flexing/diss-firing track that seemingly cops its definition of “hip-hop” from Urban Dictionary. I’ll give him some benefit of the doubt, but I do know a junk-store Rick Ross beat when I hear it.
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Megan Harrington: Most lyrics sound more menacing sung in German, but Farid Bang negates the guttural accent by blowing the video budget on body oil. Close your eyes and it sounds like Right Said Fred rapping “Du Hast,” which is an acquired taste, but nonetheless a delicacy in small quantities. Unfortunately, “Bitte Spitte Toi Lab” is also two minutes too long. 
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Anthony Easton: The music-box bell sounds moving into that ratcheted up percussive bit, and then how it works through the rest of the track like a leitmotif, is smarter than the vocals, which could do with some variety. 
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Alfred Soto: The beat is House of Maybach Music, Farid’s nasality his own. Here’s hoping the parent album offers better treats.
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