Ahmet Gündüz

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Ahmet Gündüz is a rap song by the group Fresh Familee from 1990 and 1991. In several sources, the song is named as the first relevant hip-hop production in German that was published on a sound carrier that was regularly on the market. Ahmet Gündüz first appeared on their debut Coming From Ratinga , which was only available on vinyl and was distributed by the band itself. The piece was released as a single by Phonogram / Mercury and on the subsequent EP album Falsche Politik 1993. The sequel Ahmet Gündüz II was then released on Alles Frisch in 1994. The singer of the rap lines was the German-Turkish Tahir Cevik .

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My name is Ahmet Gündüz, let me tell you
You have to listen carefully, I can't speak very much German
I come from Turkey, two years ago
I'm very happy, but life here is difficult.

This is how the rap story begins, as the story of the integration and exclusion of Ahmet Gündüz, who immigrated to Germany from Turkey and who says that “life here is difficult”. The content is intended to represent the experiences of many factory workers from Turkey in Germany (→ “ guest workers ”). While the first part of the song, which is rapped in broken German, gives a voice to the first generation - seemingly funny but seriously intended - the song deals in a second section with the view of the second generation, which Cevik, who grew up in Germany, is, so to speak presents his own - now in the best standard German.

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Bektas: Ali & Ahmet (2003)

The song is often mentioned as a pioneer, but above all as the actual original form of German-speaking rap . The follow-up song Ahmet Gündüz II tells of Ahmet Gündüz's life in Germany after ten years. As a stylistic device, his life in Germany is told again in broken German. The refrain is borrowed from a piece by the Turkish singer Sezen Aksu or based on a sample of the same. It's about the feeling of uprooting, about the conflict with children who grow up with values ​​other than traditional, about the threat of xenophobia, about skinheads. The magazine kulturnews was of the opinion that all of this is only “briefly touched upon, but not deepened. The sometimes very sensitive observations lead to the clumsy explanations of a school band. ”Daniel Bax described in detail the history of both songs for the booklet of Import - Export , a sampler with Turkish music from Germany, in 2007. In 2002 the track Ahmet Gündüz III appeared on the producer Plattenpapzt's Dreamteam album , on which Tahir Cevik describes the life of Ahmet Gündüz after 30 years in Germany. With the track Ali & Ahmet , the protagonist of the song is taken up again in 2003, on the album Unlimited Durable! the jazz canteen . Here “ Ali Baba ” (sung by Bektas ) meets Ahmet Gündüz, again rapped by Tahir Cevik, who has since performed as a solo artist under the name Tachiles.

Review notes

  • "Fresh Familee (...) with their song 'Ahmet Gündüz' (brought up) the whole problem of the second generation of immigrants." (Stern NEON on January 22, 2008)
  • “With their song 'Ahmet Gündüz' it was shown that music is an area of ​​everyday life in which German and foreign people have fun together, but also draw attention to grievances. So (...) in the first verse, which is rapped from the perspective of a Turkish father. "(AiD, 4/2006)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.goethe.de/ges/pok/prj/mig/fli/en1035865.htm
  2. ↑ a b c d  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.isoplan.de
  3. ^ A b Daniel Bax: Musicological commentary on the CD publication Import Export a la Turka. Turkish Sounds from Germany , 2007, p. 5.
  4. ↑ http://www.laut.de/lautwerk/hip_hop/index.htm
  5. ↑ Murat Güngör & Hannes Loh: Fear of a Kanak Planet. HipHop between world culture and Nazirap 2002.
  6. ↑ a b http://www.kulturnews.de/knde/index.php?id=2117&topic=platten&artist=Fresh+Familee&title=Alles+Frisch
  7. ↑ http://www.cdstarts.de/kritiken/85610-Unbegrenzt-Haltbar!.html
  8. ↑ http://www.neon.de/kat/frei_zeit/musik/225491.html