The fate of the city of Hamburg will always be that it is not Berlin. Small joke. But striking it already: Ahnma , the first after 13 years of absence new song the rapper Denyo and Eizi Eiz and their DJs DJ Mad, is not only a long-awaited remarks the Beginner. The accompanying video clip, it is also an acknowledgment of her hometown. As Hamburg had more to prove than his favorite band of the late nineties.
In Helikoptersinkflug the camera captures a style-conscious black and white images of St. Pauli and the harbor area. The Beginner rapping and posing in front of these scenes as incarnate sights of their city. Once Uwe Seeler is short in the way. At the end of the video a class reunion with message: Samy Deluxe, Afrob, D-Flame, Ferris MC and the other of Deichkind, a total of more than 20 seasoned Raptypen, come together on the roof of the World War bunker Flakturm IV. Hamburg and it: This is actually the same.
But horny song! The bass rumbles like the horn of a container ship, the confidence would however also suffice for an aircraft carrier. On supercooled stanzas of Eizi Eiz and Denyo each street gangs rapper Gzuz follows with his inimitable “Ahnma”. Gentleman sings the hook: the citizens of the world of reggae choruses, guardian angel of many now-resolved student flat and Honorary President of the Hacky Sack Bundesliga. Although he comes from Cologne, completes with usual measures Wortzerdehnungen but a song from the never must move beyond walking pace for his ground markings.
Always stoned, but functional
Ahnma is intrepid localism. The piece evokes a hamburger Spirit, the Beginner invoke the Also in recent interviews, without wanting to nail him so well. Critical questions about the recent developments in the cityscape he sees at least not before. Not a word about the gentrification of former hunting grounds, megalomaniacal construction projects or the general overpricing Hamburg. And yet opened Ahnma in its uniqueness still one of the more interesting perspectives on Advanced Chemistry. The fourth album of Beginner shows a band with difficulties in finding topics.
Six years of work have gone into the plate, with interruptions of course for family life and solo careers. The late nineties, it would have been unthinkable to leave it lying around a project so long. Rap from Germany overturned straight, there was competition and shoulder to shoulder, independent scenes in many cities and a few bands that were above it all. The Beginner were one of them. Studentenrap, somehow. Always stoned, continues operation. Greatest strength: the omission.
Selected Guest
Their second album Bambule , published in the winter of 1998, not least a reason classic, because it is better than most aged Deutschrap albums of its time. There is no filler on it, no spacers, only select guests. The Beginner were based on US models – the time did all – but they forced them their own twist on a local flavor. For their still successful single Love Song they adapted the G-funk of Dr. Dre and brought him with a casualness in line that would by as Udo Lindenberg Vibe today.
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