Ahnma
| Ahnma | |
|---|---|
| Beginner feat. Gzuz and gentleman | |
| publication | 3rd June 2016 |
| length | 4:13 |
| Genre (s) | Hip hop |
| text | Beginner |
| music | Jan Eißfeldt , Dennis Lisk , Tilmann Otto |
| Label | Vertigo Berlin |
| Award (s) | Pop culture award |
| album | Advanced Chemistry |
Ahnma [ a: nmɑ: ] is a song of the Hamburg hip-hop - music group Beginner . The song is the first single from their fourth studio album Advanced Chemistry , which was released on August 26, 2016 on the Vertigo Berlin label. It is the first piece of music on the album ("opening track") and was recorded together with rapper Gzuz and reggae musician Gentleman . The music video shot for this was published on the Internet on June 3, 2016 .
Because of the "mixing of various styles" and unusual featureings , the song received controversial reviews . When it was released, the rap song reached number eight in Germany and stayed in the German single charts for over 20 weeks . For the lead single one was monochrome music video in Hamburg turned, in which the band and the two musicians involved in 15 locations in the vicinity of the Port of Hamburg and the same poses and rap. The music video had been viewed around 53 million times on YouTube by June 2020.
Emergence
According to Jan Eißfeldt, the American rapper Kendrick Lamar was the inspiration for Ahnma with his song The Blacker the Berry from the 2015 album To Pimp a Butterfly : “At some point in the song comes a dancehall artist with a deep voice and starts crazy to sing: I said they treat me like a slave, cah 'me black . And then the beat comes back and lets go of the energy, and you think: That's exactly what we need. ”The dancehall artist not named is the Jamaican singer Jeffrey Campbell aka Assasin .
In an interview with the hip-hop magazine Juice, he added: "We had this fat beat, two great verses, but no idea for a hook." Then he had the idea, "over a rough hip-hop beat such a Mavado - like dancehall guys roar. ”And so they asked Kristoffer Jonas Klauss alias Gzuz, because he was the only one“ in Germany who brings this brutality with him vocally ”. According to Dennis Lisk, the song and its hookline are not intended as a challenge to other hip-hop strongholds such as Berlin or Stuttgart, but rather as a "homage to their hometown".
The label uses the exclusively US-American formations Public Enemy , Lil Wayne , Rick Rubin , The Neptunes , Dr. Dre and Just Blaze called. The song was composed by Jan Eißfeldt, Dennis Lisk and Tilmann Otto and sung together with the Hamburg gangsta rapper Gzuz and the Cologne reggae musician Gentleman in a recording studio in Hamburg-Ottensen . Kaspar "Tropf" Wiens and Fiji Kris are named as co-producers of the album.
The song has a length of 4:14 minutes at a tempo of 81 beats per minute . The title Ahnma is a youth slang for the imperative "(Er) ahne das mal" in the sense of "Do you get it?".
content
Except for the refrain written by Gentleman in Jamaican-Creole language (patois) , the lyrics are in German. The introductory sentence in the intro comes from the German-Haitian hip-hop rapper Torch , whose band name is referenced in the album title: “Yes, Advanced Chemistry . Beginner ". In the first stanza Eizi Eiz outlines his instrumentation and exemplarily the cross-milieu addressees as well as their positive reaction to his renewed work. The rapper claims that his level of fame is the result of decades of historically significant lyrical work, the first hits of which in the late 1990s were prenatal for some and withstand comparison with a well-known 69-year-old Hamburg footballer. In the four-line hook line, Gzuz states that gestures and language tones typical of the scene from the Hamburg area have long since flowed into the mainstream and announces that the Hanseatic city will be repositioned more clearly. According to gentlemen in the chorus, the masses are still moving, from Hamburg to the south of the country. In the second stanza Denyo describes his physical and mental condition and how he meets the “crisis of meaning” of the rap scene with a positive attitude and “taste”, in which “every Jens-Peter makes a boss.” At the end of the song there is twice the audio sample "Still the beats bang" by US rapper Dr. Dre feat. Snoop Dogg from the song Still DRE .
Music video
The black and white music video was recorded with an aspect ratio of 16: 9 and uses well-known locations in the Hanseatic city as a rap backdrop.
The song begins "dark and massive with ship horn fanfares" and after four drone aerial shots in the extreme long shot of the Hamburg harbor and the city center , in which a zoom effect stretches and compresses the image, the music video starts at the museum harbor Oevelgönne on the northwestern edge of the harbor, where Denyo and DJ Mad stand and Eizi Eiz intones the first verse . A tracking shot in time lapse leads to the fishing port a little further east . The third location is further up the Elbe in a small alley on Grosse Elbstrasse next to the Hafenklang club . The next stop is a small flight of stairs to Park Fiction next to the Golden Poodle Club . In the park under the tin palms, Eizi Eiz describes himself as “the veteran of the Reeperbahn, I've got Hamburg behind me, as if I were Uwe Seeler , man!”, While this same legend of Hamburger SV stands next to him. The camera continues to roll in fast motion along the edge of the harbor to the baumall . At the ferry canal on the south side of the Norderelbe, Gzuz raps the first bridge with the Überseebrücke in the background , which ends with the hookline : "We're putting Hamburg back on the map."
Then a gentleman sings the refrain in patois on the bunker at Heiligengeistfeld . Denyo raps first at the foot of the Baldwin staircase on Hafenstrasse and then 24 meters deeper in the east tube of the St. Pauli Elbe tunnel before the camera jumps to the Neuhof ferry terminal with the Köhlbrand Bridge in the background. At Waltershofer Damm, the beginners first stand on a pedestrian scaffolding bridge and then on the flood protection wall in front of the Burchardkai container terminal . In a covered track harp with track systems that have now been dismantled between the goods halls on Stockmeyerstraße in the Oberhafen, the partially undressed Gzuz raps the second bridge, which closes with another shot on the Kirchenpauerkai on the Baakenhafen in front of the Freihafenelbbrücken . In between, Gzuz is shown briefly - oversized - standing on the head of the Bismarck monument .
The video ends with a stance setting ( "Pose-shot") of the band along with Gentleman, Ferris MC , Samy Deluxe , D-Flame , DJ Stylewarz , Afrob , five-star deluxe , Deichkind and other musicians on the roof of the anti-aircraft bunker IV on Feldstrasse above Club Uebel & Hazardous .
The video was produced by Noyz'r'Uz and Paul's Boutique on behalf of the major label Universal Music , director was David Aufdembrinke and executive producer David Mohn. In September 2016, the music video was awarded a prize for pop culture in the “Favorite Video ” category.
reception
Commercial win
Charts
Ahnma reached position eight in the single charts in Germany and was able to stay in the top 10 for a week and 39 weeks in the charts. In Austria the single reached position 55 in four chart weeks and in Switzerland in one chart week position 65. For beginners, Ahnma is the eighth chart success in Germany as well as the fourth in Switzerland and the third in Austria. Across all countries, the beginners made it into the top 10 for the first time. The previous record was set by the single Liebeslied with position eleven in Germany. After the love song and rot , the beginners were able to place themselves in the single charts of all DA-CH countries for the third time . In addition, no single by the band has been able to stay longer in the German single charts. Here Ahnma also replaced love song , which at the time stayed in the charts for 18 weeks.
For Gzuz, Ahnma is the tenth chart success in Germany and the first in Austria and Switzerland. It is his first top 10 success in Germany. To date, no single from Gzuz has been able to rank higher or longer in Germany. Ahnma is still Gzuz's most successful long-term hit in the German charts. The highest chart price was surpassed with the publication of What did you think (position five) in 2018. In Austria and Switzerland, Ahnma is one of the less successful Gzuz releases.
Gentleman reached the German single charts for the 24th time, the charts in Austria for the 13th time and the Swiss charts for the twelfth time. After the guest posts İsyankar and Do They Know It's Christmas? (German version) his third top 10 success in the German single charts. To date, no single by Gentleman has been able to make it into the German single charts for longer, so Ahnma replaced his predecessor İsyankar (24 chart weeks).
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Awards for music sales
For more than 400,000 copies sold, the single was awarded a platinum record in Germany, making Ahnma one of the best-selling rap songs in Germany . In addition, Ahnma is the best-selling sound carrier in Germany for all three performers.
| Country / Region | Award | Sales |
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| Awards for music sales (country / region, Award, Sales) |
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 Germany (BVMI)
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 platinum
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400,000 |
| All in all |
1 × platinum |
400,000 |
Reviews
“A beat blows around your ears, as if you were standing close to the foghorn of a container ship, damaging your health. Jan Delay, who is now called Eizi Eiz again, poses at the harbor and raps: For the Obernerds and the boozing proles / The altar boys, crack dealers, old 68ers . The beginners want to dissolve the opposites again, everything from Eppendorfer Weg to Beat Street in one flow, in a rhyme, a cool pose and one word, the title of the track: Ahnma . "
“The basses roll through the room, Ahnma rolls up like a threatening, beautiful monster. Goosebumps form under the beads of sweat. The beginners never need a new show opener again. This song has everything to get people going. "
“With the beat and the gentleman hook you tend to please the old fans. But that's exactly where the problem lies: Ahnma could just as well be a song on Blast Action Heroes , on an album that was released almost 13 years ago. The beat does not sound timeless, but out of date. The patois hook from Tilmann Otto alias Gentleman is especially true. "
“Gzuz shoots the hookline so inimitably authentic and cool that your blood freezes in your veins and then you just celebrate. [...] The beginners' rap parts are clever and classy. Jan Delay delivers in the old manner just like Dennis Lisk aka Denyo perfectly. Maybe even better than ever. "
“The song comes across as somber and threatening: alarming brass sounds, harpsichord-like clinking, high-pitched dumbbells. Keeping it extra simple. A board of a beat, the hip-hop lover would say. If you can compare classical and hip-hop, the song is a bit the opposite of Edvard Grieg's 'Morgenstimmung' . Not promising, but frightening - you get goose bumps. "
Critic Awards
In September 2016, Ahnma was awarded the Pop Culture Music Prize, an alternative to the Echo , in the Favorite Video category . The song was also in the category favorite song was nominated, but lost there Long live the death of Casper . On November 23, 2016, Ahnma was also awarded the HANS - Der Hamburger Musikpreis in the Song of the Year category. The beginners also won the categories Album of the Year for Advanced Chemistry and Best Imageing for the music video for Once Upon a Time .
In addition, the song took top positions in several annual critics' lists. Intro magazine named Ahnma the best song of 2016 in its annual charts . Ahnma was ranked 24th in the annual best list of the e-zine Laut.de. The hip-hop magazine Juice named the song the second best single of 2016 after Bianco in its annual review by Yung Hurn and RIN .
In response to the Jan Delay text line “The test winner raps again” on June 3, 2016, Stiftung Warentest rated the song via Twitter with the “grade: Very good (1.0)”.
Cover versions & use in other media
The song and the music video have been covered and parodied several times, including by the moderators Joko and Klaas in the late-night show Circus HalliGalli and the musician Dendemann in Neo Magazin Royale . The director Simon Verhoeven shot a commercial for the music streaming service Apple Music in the fall of 2016 , in which the soccer player Mats Hummels heard the song while running in the forest.
Web links
- Beginner - Ahnma feat. Gzuz & Gentleman (official video) on YouTube
- Gesa Ufer: Test winner in terms of hip hop . In: Deutschlandradio Kultur . June 9, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tom Jentsch: Mama, we talked with Absolute Beginner… In: SOKO Mag. September 1, 2016, archived from the original on November 12, 2016 ; accessed on September 23, 2019 .
- ↑ a b jdr: This is how beginners report back. In: DerWesten . June 3, 2016, accessed November 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Clark Senger: The successful comeback: The test winner raps again. In: Juice / hiphop.de. June 5, 2016, accessed November 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Selim Baykara: Ahnma (Beginner): What does that really mean? Here you read it. In: GIGA . June 6, 2016, accessed November 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Ahnma . In: German single charts . November 2, 2016.
- ↑ Sebastian Heit: We noted the locations of the beginner video on a map . In: blogbuzzter.de . June 7, 2016.
- ↑ Philipp Holstein: The Fantastic Three are back. In: Rheinische Post . August 6, 2016, accessed November 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Karo Hellmich: The beginners explain their idea behind the Gzuz feature. In: Juice / hiphop.de. June 23, 2016, accessed November 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Katja Kiessling: The story behind the song. In: N-Joy . July 4, 2016. Retrieved November 4, 2016 .
- ↑ a b The test winner raps again. In: Universal Music Group . August 26, 2016. Retrieved November 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Matthias Greulich: Jan Delay meets Uwe Seeler. In: Elbe Wochenblatt . June 10, 2016, archived from the original on November 4, 2016 ; accessed on September 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Stephan Rehm: Interview with Beginner: “And that's where today's boom comes!” In: Musikexpress . August 25, 2016. Retrieved November 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Stephan Szillus: "Everything in a single melting pot". In: The daily newspaper . August 26, 2016. Retrieved November 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Ahnma . In: songbpm.com , accessed November 14, 2016.
- ↑ Felix Disselhoff: Meaning of "Ahnma": That's what Gzuz wants to tell us in the new beginner song. In: Curved. June 3, 2016, accessed November 2, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Frederike Arns: Comeback after 13 years! This is the new song of the "beginner". In: Express . June 3, 2016, accessed November 11, 2016 .
- ^ Christian Meyer: Direct Sample of Vocals / Lyrics'. In: whosampled.com. Retrieved November 12, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c Jan Pries: Test winner raps again. In: Norddeutscher Rundfunk . June 14, 2016, accessed November 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Sirany Schümann: 11 music videos in which Hamburg is more than just an extra . In: With pleasure .
- ↑ Axel Weidemann : There is a magician in every beginning. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . August 22, 2016. Retrieved November 6, 2016 .
- ^ Daniel Peters: 10 Hamburg photo spots and locations in the music video Ahnma the Beginner . In: hamburger-fotospots.de . 15th August 2016.
- ↑ Thomas Andre: Beginner-Video: In is whoever is in there. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . August 15, 2016, accessed November 2, 2016 .
- ^ Martin Sass: HipHop class reunion in Hamburg. In: blogbuzzter.de. May 25, 2016. Retrieved January 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Sarah Stendel: This is what the new beginner song sounds like. In: Stern . June 3, 2016, accessed November 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Beginner: Happy about the success of the new single "Ahnma" . In: Yahoo News . June 4, 2016, Retrieved November 4, 2016.
- ↑ Source chart placements: Ahnma . In: hitparade.ch , accessed on November 3, 2016.
- ↑ Top 100 Signle annual charts 2016 . In: officialcharts.de . Retrieved January 22, 2017.
- ↑ Platinum for “Ahnma” in Germany. In: Federal Association of the Music Industry . Retrieved July 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Lars Weisbrod : A happy turn. In: Die Zeit , edition 25/2016. June 9, 2016, accessed November 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Hanna Zobel: Beginners are back! The new album is that rough. In: Hamburger Morgenpost . August 26, 2016, accessed November 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Jonathan Nixdorff: The Beginner Comeback - Is There Anything ? In: splash! Mag. June 3, 2016, accessed on November 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Jan-Christopher Sierks: Beginner, Gzuz and Gentleman are killing the web. In: Medialotse. June 5, 2016, archived from the original on November 2, 2016 ; accessed on September 23, 2019 .
- ↑ Fabian Soethof: These are the winners of the “Prize for Pop Culture” 2016. In: Musikexpress . August 29, 2016. Retrieved December 21, 2016 .
- ^ Heinz Block: Hans Music Prize for Udo Lindenberg and Beginner. In: Norddeutscher Rundfunk . November 24, 2016, accessed December 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Hamburger Musikpreis HANS: Awards for Lindenberg and beginners . (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on September 23, 2019 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Intro : Our annual charts: The best songs of 2016 ( Memento from December 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Best of 1016: The Songs of the Year . In: Laut.de . December 9, 2016, accessed December 19, 2016.
- ↑ Juice No. 178, January / February 2017, p. 48
- ↑ Tweet of the Stiftung Warentest . In: Twitter . June 3, 2016 at 10:59 am, accessed November 5, 2017
- ↑ Klaas Heufer-Umlauf , Joko Winterscheidt : Socio-critical satire hits of the past summer. In: Circus Halligalli . August 29, 2016, accessed December 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Dendemann : Ahnma Cover . In: Neo Magazin Royale . August 25, 2016, accessed on November 13, 2016. (Video; 1:52 min)
- ^ Felix Disselhoff: Ahnma! Apple sends Mats Hummels through the forest with the beginners. In: Curved. November 24, 2016. Retrieved November 26, 2016 .