0815 (song)

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0815
Kollegah & Farid Bang
publication 1st December 2017
length 2:48
Genre (s) Gangsta rap , battlerap
Author (s) Farid Bang, Kollegah
Producer (s) Juh-dee , Miksu
Label Alphamusic Empire , Banger music
album Young, brutal, handsome 3 (§185 EP)

0815 is a song by the German rappers Kollegah and Farid Bang from 2017. It is included exclusively on the bonus CD called §185 EP included with the box set of their third collaboration album Jung, brutal, gutaussehend 3 and was written by and written by the artists themselves Juh-Dee and Miksu produced. In 2018, lines from the text and the album's nomination for the Echo music prize sparked a discussion about anti-Semitism .

Music and lyrics

0815 belongs to the hip-hop sub-genres of gangsta rap and battlerap . To a gloomy song that mainly of hard beats and snare drums and a consistently looped choir sample is, the two performers rap using polysyllabic rhyme schemes , compare , homophones and other rhetorical stylistic devices provocative, brutal or exaggerated lines that follow typical for the genre mostly the scheme, To stylize yourself positively and the listener negatively. The display of various illegal activities (violence against men and women as well as sexual violence specifically against (including 16-year-olds) girls and women, drug trafficking) suggests a certain harshness and unscrupulousness on the part of the artists. There are also swipes on the song at the German musicians Bushido (“Complete Zerfickung für Anis Ferchichi”), Ali Bumaye (“None of us can piggyback Ali”), Marcus Staiger (“son of a bitch”), MOK , Jennifer Rostock (“ swings the saucepan after a bell ”), Sido (“ I give Sido's sisters hardcore ”) and Sierra Kidd (“ looks like he has Down's syndrome ”); The rapper Sinan-G and the hip-hop duo Genetikk are mentioned neutrally .

In the chorus, which both musicians rap together, they address their listeners directly: "This album is coming because you need announcements again Fuck me and I'll fuck your pregnant wife (ah) Then I'll fuck your ma, the refugee slut JBG 3 , no run-of-the-mill gang This album comes because you need announcements again. Fuck me and I'll stuff a pump gun in your mouth. Thirty kilos in the back seat, bitch JBG 3, no run-of-the-mill gang. "

Criticism and reaction

0815 was widely discussed by the German-speaking media and other musicians in the course of the nomination of the album Jung, brutal, gutaussehend 3 at the 2018 echo awards in the hip-hop / urban national category . It was about the harshness of the texts of the work and possible anti-Semitism as well as the question of how far artistic freedom should go. The ethics committee of the Echo Prize checked after the first cry of the album to the effect and concluded, still qualified for the competition to leave it. Campino , lead singer of the German punk rock band Die Toten Hosen , addressed the two rappers in his speech on the evening of the award ceremony before the winner of the category in which the album was nominated was announced. According to him, provocation is an "important stylistic device", but it takes on a "misogynistic, homophobic, right-wing extremist or anti-Semitic form" if his "personal limit has been exceeded". In fact, the album later won the award. Marius Müller-Westernhagen , Klaus Voormann , Igor Levit , Enoch zu Guttenberg and the Notos Quartet returned the Echo trophies they had won in protest. The long-lasting media scandal of the award ultimately went so far that the event, which was considered the largest German-speaking of its kind, was completely canceled for future years. Although 0815 was not a commercial success and is only included on the §185 EP included with the box set for the main album , it received the greatest media attention of all the songs in the work and is considered its most controversial title. In particular, Farid Bang's line of text “My body is more defined than by Auschwitz inmates ”, which was wrongly attributed to Kollegah several times, was largely rated as particularly serious and tasteless and cited in the majority of the articles about the incident. Whether the line is actually anti-Semitic or just provocative was rated differently. Der Spiegel or the International Auschwitz Committee recognized hatred of Jews in it. The successful Jewish rapper Spongebozz , who was in a beef with the two performers at the time of publication , saw no anti-Semitism in the song, just bad taste. The German rapper Ben Salomo , who is also Jewish from Israel, justified his complete withdrawal from hip-hop music with the Echo scandal: “But in the Echo scandal, anti-Semitism suddenly received an award. And for me that is a signal that hops and malt are really lost - even outside of the rapeseed scene. Because this prize was awarded by members of the jury and by an organization that had an ethics council. The end of the flagpole was reached especially outside of hip hop. "

In a study by the German scholars Sven Bloching and Jöran Landschoff , the infamous line of text was seen as more of a taboo than structural anti-Semitism, even if the entire work reveals the glorification of violence and sexism . According to the Frankfurter Rundschau , hip-hop experts would argue that the song was a contribution to the battlerap and as such should be viewed more as a sporting duel, which outsiders would find difficult to understand.

0815 was one of a total of four songs in the box set that were indexed on list A by the BPjM in September 2018. Farid Bang called the negotiation "fair". In addition, because of the line of text that had become a scandal, a case of sedition was initiated against the two interpreters , but a decision was made in favor of the accused - the work was vulgar, but not punishable.

Individual evidence

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  6. JBG 3 by Kollegah and Farid Bang comes to the index. In: Musikexpress . September 7, 2018, accessed February 23, 2020 . Caroline Torres: Kollegah and Farid Bang are no longer being investigated for sedition. In: Bento . June 16, 2018, accessed February 23, 2020 .