Dis where I'm from

Dis where I'm from
Studio album by Samy Deluxe
Publication (s)	2009
Label (s)	EMI
Format (s)	CD, record
Genre (s)	Hip hop
Title (number)	16
running time	62 min, 11 sec
production	Samy Deluxe & Instruments for DLX Beats, Rhaatid, Tua, Max Herre & Samon Kawamura (Nesola), Papa Deluxe, Dead Rabbit, Dynamit, Tropf, DR Period, Samsemilia, Nils Wülker
Studio (s)	Samy @ home, Instrumens Lab, additional recordings (live instruments, vocals) at Off Ya Tree, Hamburg (Bente Faust), Boombox Studio, Hamburg (Nico Sieveking, Anton), Tower 54, Berlin (DJ Rocky), adventure music, Hamburg (Rouven), Ear Treat Studio, Hamburg (Nils Wülker)
chronology Damn it! (2004) Dis where I'm from Black and White (2011)
Single releases March 6, 2009 Until the sun comes out / Dis where I'm from July 24, 2009 Music to get through the day / mute

Dis where I'm from is the third solo album by the Hamburg rapper Samy Deluxe . It was released on March 27, 2009 on the EMI label . The album can be assigned to the music genre of hip-hop , but also contains influences from other styles. The lyrics focus on Samy Deluxe's ​​relationship to Germany. Topics are, for example, the focus on wealth, consumer behavior or, in Deluxe's ​​eyes, increasing surveillance of the population. The title song caused a controversy through Deluxe's ​​appeal to the population to be proud of Germany, as well as through his theses about a lack of national pride, in the course of which representatives of various media voiced themselves and accused the rapper of nationalism and ignorance of German history. Dis where I'm from rose to number 3 in the German album charts. In June 2009, the book "Dis wo I come from: Germany Deluxe" was published by Samy Deluxe.

History of origin

Album planning and production

Samy Sorge, the musician's real name, began work on the album four years before the release of Dis where I come from . First, he selected the first beat structures and wrote the texts for them. Since Samy Deluxe, Dynamite and Tropf decided in the meantime to prefer another album with TNT as the group Dynamite Deluxe , numerous texts were written, of which Sorge saved the most personal for his solo album, as he was of the opinion that it should not be a Dynamite album. Deluxe album fit. In the summer of 2008 he recorded the first demos for the album, which he further edited in the studio in the autumn of the same year and had Dynamite mixed them after completion. At the end of 2008, the hip-hop magazine Backspin approached him about the solo album, asking whether the work with a band was similar to that of the hip-hop and funk musician Jan Delay , who has recorded and played his pieces with a band since 2006 this had also completed tours. Samy Deluxe confirmed a comparable direction, but underlined that it was completely different musically and lyrically. He also stated that the title track was a counterpart to Wake me up . The original working title of the album was “Das neue Deutschland”, but after a discussion with Tropf and Jan Delay it was changed to Dis, where I come from , as the original title was too heavy and pathetic and the new one would sound more personal and weakened. In Delays opinion, Germany should n't appear in the album title.

The individual tracks on the album were written by Samy Deluxe, the producer duo Instrumens and the Dynamite Deluxe members Dynamite and Tropf as well as the hip-hop musicians Max Herre , Kawamura (Nesola), Rhaatid, Tua , Dead Rabbit, DR Period and Nils Wülker produces. Samy Deluxe recorded the majority of the pieces in his home studio. Individual, additional recordings for the instruments and vocals were made in different studios. The Hamburg studios Adventure Music , Boombox Studio , Ear Treat Studio and Off Ya Tree Studio as well as the Berlin Studio Tower 54 were involved . For the outro of the album, he worked with a jazz musician. The first 13 tracks from Dynamite were mixed in the Levelz Studio. The piece Blick vorwärts was mixed by Sebastian Winkler in the Instrumens Lab, therefore by Sebastian Winkler and Dynamite in the Instrumens Lab and Speech as I speak by Nils Wülker in the Ear Treat Studio in Hamburg.

The photos used for the artwork were made by David Königsmann together with the photo assistant Lutz Schneider. Sebastian Rohde from Typeholics designed the artwork and the logo.

Album presentation

Samy Deluxe presented the songs from the album for the first time on March 19, 2009 in the Lido in Berlin 's Kreuzberg district . It was the first concert at which the rapper was accompanied by a band and the background singers Alex Prince , Miss Marx, Nathalie Dorra and Mounir Brinsi.

A number of prominent guests were among the 400 spectators of the evening. For example, the former Jusos chairman Björn Böhning and Cem Özdemir , federal chairman of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party , as well as rapper Afrob , MTV presenter Hadnet Tesfai and some actors watched Samy Deluxe's ​​appearance.

Track list

No.	title	Guest Posts	Involved	Min.
1.	Intro	Elijah Malik Russel (child's voice)	Music: S. Sorge, S. Winkler, F. Olszewski	3:02
2.	Dis where I'm from		Music: S. Sorge, S. Winkler, F. Olszewski; Bass: Keith Powell Junior; Strings: Stefan Pintev & Rodrigo Reichel	4:57
3.	Until the sun comes out	Choir: Alex Prince, Ms Marx, N'Gone Thiam	Music: S. Sorge, K. Powell Jr., St. Baader, R. Pfeffer, S. John, L. Bruckhorst, Ph. Kacza; Bass: Roughhouse; Keys: Ajani; Drumms: Michael; Guitar: Rudy Valentino; Horns: Johnny Blazers	3:32
4th	who I am		Music: S. Sorge, S. Winkler, F. Olszewski	4:18
5.	We are no longer children	Xavier Naidoo; Choir: Alexandra Prince, N'Gone Thiam, Miss Marx, Nadja Benaissa, Phoebe, Esther Cowens	Music: S. Sorge, S. Winkler, F. Olszewski; Bass: Keith Powell Junior; Strings: Stefan Pintev & Rodrigo Reichel	4:41
6th	Fathers day		Music: S. Sorge, S. Winkler, F. Olszewski, J. Bruhns; Rain, thunder, lightning: Hamburg City	4:35
7th	Grandma song		Music: M. Herre, S.Kawamura; Cuts: DJ Mixwell edits v. Samy Deluxe	5:27
8th.	superhero		S. Sorge, Dead Rabbit	4:03
9.	First		Music: J. Niemann, K. Wiens	3:07
10.	About money		Music: Divine Ruler Period	2:19
11.	Music to get you through the day	Afrob, Esther Cowens	Music: J. Niemann, K. Wiens	4:37
12.	Mute Xenja	Additional vocals: Arndis Halla; Choir: Alex Prince, N'Gone Thiam, Miss Marx	Music: S. Sorge, S. Winkler, F. Olszewski; Bass: Keith Powell Junior	3:24
13.	Hard anyway	Choir: Alex Prince, Miss Marx, N'Gone Thiam	Music: S. Sorge, K. Powell Jr. St. Baader, R. Pfeffer, J. Niemann; Brass: Johnny Blazers	3:24
14th	Looking forward		Music: S. Sorge, S. Winkler, F. Olszewski; Bass: Roughhouse	4:02
15th	That's why	Choir: Alex Prince, Miss Marx	Music: S. Sorge, S. Winkler, F. Olszewski	3:21
16.	Speak as I speak	Jennifer	Music: S. Sorge, N. Wülker, J.Dohle; Trumpet, Keys: Nils Wülker; Double bass: Dietmar Fuhr ; Drums: Jens Dohle	3:28

content

music

Some tracks on the album are based on hip-hop beats. In addition, there are other genres of music on Dis where I come from . The productions of Until the Sun Comes Out and Anyway Heavy use reggae style elements . This is expressed by the emphasis on the offbeat , which is characteristic of this music genre . In addition, guitar sounds and wind instruments are used in these titles. The piano was recorded for the beat to the piece Oma Song . Über Geld is characterized by stylistic elements of the radio , such as the characteristic bass line . The background music to Stumm is stylistically used in dancehall and speaking as I can speak , for example by using wind instruments, drums, double bass and piano, which can be assigned to jazz .

In Samy Deluxe's ​​opinion, the music is more appealing to adults because the sound is more mature and it has received positive feedback from people who are not hip-hop listeners. The framework for the live shows for the album would also be more appealing for adults. Due to the fact that the protagonists of German rap are growing up, the music will also grow up.

singing

Rapper Samy Deluxe

Samy Deluxe used for the presentation of his lyrics as in the hip-hop music rap labeled form of the chant . In addition, Deluxe, more than on his previous albums, used elements of melodic singing, which comes into play in the title Until the Sun Comes Out or in the chorus of Grandma Song , Therefore and Who I Am . According to the musician, sung pieces had already met with a positive response at concerts in the past. With his third solo album he could not do justice to a “ rap dogmatist ” who only expects spoken vocals. In the entertainment program TV total , the man from Hamburg also said that he had already taken singing lessons for two years.

As a technical aid has been around for the title superhero and Grandma Song , the program auto-tune used. This is used for automatic pitch correction in music, whereby the voice gets an unnatural sound. Auto-Tune had been used particularly often in the previous months by the US singer T-Pain and Akon , who were able to celebrate success with it, so that subsequently numerous hip-hop musicians in the United States and Germany used the program. It is also used on the Dynamite Deluxe album TNT .

To reinforce the voice of Deluxes, a choir sang the chorus for some tracks with the Hamburg musician. In most cases, this was formed by Alex Prince and Miss Marx, who had also acted as background singers on the rapper's tours in the past . In addition, the soul and R&B musician Xavier Naidoo worked for the piece We are no longer children and the African-German rapper Afrob as accompanying singer for the title Music to get through the day .

Texts

The lyrics of the album are very different from older pieces by Samy Deluxe. As a reason, the rapper gave a personal change over the course of the four years during which the album was created. After the final concert of the tour with Dynamite Deluxe, he experienced a personal low: “The audience exaggerated what I was performing. And yet I couldn't be happy at all. […] It was always my dream to be this rough rapper guy for all these people, but I realized that I am not just that anymore . In the last few months I haven't been able to take myself that seriously in this role. There is simply more to it than just storming onto the stage, rapping blatantly and waving your hand. ”As a result of this impression, Samy Deluxe placed greater emphasis on the content of the album. The result was pieces in which Deluxe reflected on his own life and made reference to social issues in Germany.

The writing of the texts took a long time, as Samy Deluxe made successive textual additions to the individual titles. According to Deluxe, the consequence of this way of working is that the texts are more demanding after completing the work than those that would have been written in 10 minutes. The lyrics to the grandma song were originally only about Samy Sorge's grandmother, but were later changed after Deluxe remembered the fact that his own mother is also already a grandmother. This was similar with the piece Father's Day , since at first he only wrote about his father and later included the “ Father State ” and “Father in Heaven”.

Samy Sorges son Elijah Malik Russel speaks the first lines of the album in the intro, in which he announces his father. In the subsequent title song Dis, where I'm from , Samy Deluxe evaluates the situation in Germany and calls for more national pride. The man from Hamburg praises the opportunities that Germany offers to shape one's life, or the cultural diversity that has developed over the years. He also appeals to the audience to stop with “the old days” and thus end with the Nazi era, in order to enable a new national pride among the Germans. Samy Deluxe himself owes a lot to Germany, so that, according to the text, he would like to give something back, for example by getting involved in schools. He emphasizes that Germany is his home, but also states that he has hated the country for most of his life. Dis where I'm from is very different from the rapper's older titles in which he talks about the Federal Republic. Songs like Weck mich auf und Generation convey a negative image of the Federal Republic. In an interview, Deluxe stated that he became aware of the positive aspects of Germany in 2005 during a trip to San Francisco . He found that Germany has a good basis for cultural diversity and that there he has the opportunity to get involved and actively shape what he sees as greater enrichment than material prosperity.

With the title Until the sun comes out , Deluxe pleads for “more colors in the country”. According to the musician, Germany is a gray, cold and stiff country with an outdated culture and bad-tempered people, but which has the potential to become “colorful”. In an interview with the newspaper Die Welt , Samy Deluxe explained that with the title, in addition to people with a migration background, he also included homosexuals.

In the piece Who I am the artist deals with himself and expresses the difficulties of finding oneself and defining oneself as a person. On the basis of various characteristics, he describes how difficult it is to assign himself to groups. For example, he is “too white for the blacks [and] too black for the whites”, “too young for the old and [...] too old for the young” and “too stupid for the clever [and] too clever for them Stupid ". In addition, he is a foreigner to the Germans, but from the perspective of the foreigners speaks German too well. Samy Deluxe was finally able to develop a sense of belonging in the hip-hop scene. The affluent environment in which he grew up made him a "show-off" himself, but later learned not to define himself through valuables. At the end of the title, the rapper states that he is only slowly beginning to understand life and that due to the complexity of his own “I” he cannot make any statements about the future. The following song We are no longer children has a similar theme , in which Samy Deluxe takes up the difficulties of growing up. He describes it as a "hard way" to find meaning in life and to live up to the responsibility of an adult. As a child he wanted to be “free”, looking back, childhood turned out to be “much easier”.

Samy Deluxe was born to a German and a Sudanese son. Therefore, he grew up as one of the few dark-skinned children in Hamburg-Eppendorf . The title Superhero came about after Deluxes son had expressed to him the wish to want to be white, since all "superheroes" also have a white skin color. Samy Deluxe describes in the title that he had the same experiences of being an outsider as is now repeated with his son. With the development of a stronger self-esteem he was finally able to cope with his own situation: “ I know that sometimes it is not easy to be brown when the majority here are white, and you look around and compare yourself, you feel alone and is desperate. I've experienced it firsthand, but I've learned over time that the doubts and the pain pass over the years and you recognize your own worth. “Until his son achieves this, Samy Deluxe explains in the chorus that he wants to be his son's superhero. Although he does not have superpowers, he promises to "be there" for him and to love him.

Father's Day reports on Samy Deluxe's ​​relationship with his father, who left the family early. In the first stanza, Deluxe expresses his incomprehension about how a father can leave his family alone and tells about how he visited him in Sudan when he was 14 years old. After a three-week stay, he flew back and then received no more news from him. It follows that Deluxe does not hate anyone as much as his father. In the second verse, the rapper relates the term father to the "father state". Even this does not care about the citizens who are badly off. Finally, Samy Deluxe turns to God, who is also often referred to as "Father". He asks him for advice and asks, for example, how he can learn without a father how to become a man, how he should know what is right and what is wrong or how he should deal with the "pressure" that results from his awareness . The first stanza of the text was written after a session with a psychotherapist. In the course of his therapy, Samy Sorge had spoken frequently about his father. While writing the text, he cried for the first time during the writing process. As a counterpart to Father's Day , the title Grandma Song was created because Deluxe had a good relationship with it. In the title he assigns emphatically positive attributes such as patience, experience or cooking skills to the person of his grandmother and thanks her for the time together.

In the first piece , Deluxe speaks about the fact that people meet him with hate out of envy. He applies this primarily to people from his circle of friends who want to sabotage him. The result is that the rapper has to break off contact: “It seems that it's always the people who are closest to you, who hate you the most, then want to prevent you from going your way. […] We were just best friends, today we are the greatest opponents. I treated you like a brother. Dude, think about it now. But in retrospect it seems to be better and you have lost a 'friend and not just an' enemy. ”In the chorus, Samy Deluxe emphasizes that he remains“ first ”despite the envy and hatred shown towards him and“ won't let himself get down ”. The idea for the first goes back to the musician's personal experience. With this title, he dealt with the disappointment of a person around him in particular.

Music to get through the day is aimed at working people, to whom Samy Deluxe conveys the importance of giving their "best" in every job. He himself has a “job” that he enjoys, which he regards as a success. In addition, Deluxe emphasizes the importance of every profession and also emphasizes that no one should be ashamed of their profession. The media also have an influence on the career aspirations of young people, so that the “plumber would rather be a dancer” and girls strive to work as “supermodels”.

Samy Deluxe expresses criticism of the "system" in Stumm . He appeals to politicians to cut taxes and criticizes the fact that success is only measured in financial prosperity. Furthermore, political decisions are not made “in the interests of the people”. In the refrain he also attacks the surveillance of citizens and the “consumerism”, which manifests itself in the use of computers and television consumption, which keeps the people “stupid”, “dumb”, “poor” and “down”.

Anyway difficult to thematize the relationship of humans to material wealth and the striving for such. According to Samy Deluxe's ​​lyrics, people always compare themselves with richer people, which leads to them feeling bad and striving for "more". Even he, as a relatively wealthy person, could not absolve himself and do not consider that most people have less money. The hamburger criticizes this way of thinking by raising the question of whether it is necessary to "achieve" a lot in order to be happy.

marketing

Videos were made for five tracks on the album. The first clip, rotated completely in black and white, can be assigned the title Dis where I'm from . This was published in February. This was followed by the video for Until the sun comes out , which was created under the direction of Felix Paul and David Königsmann. The title was also released as the only single on March 6, 2009. Originally, until the sun comes out should not appear as a single release. Samy Deluxe and his record company wanted to release the song Dis, which was made in late 2004 / early 2005, as a single, but decided on Until the Sun Comes Out , because Dis, where I'm from, probably wouldn't have been played on the radio. Still, Dis is included on the single where I'm from . In an interview, Samy Deluxe stated that the reason for this was that he wanted a single for fans of hip-hop music as well as a radio-grade single. Two more videos were filmed for the songs Musik to get through the day , which was also implemented in black and white and starred in the rapper Afrob, as well as Mute . A video about Superhero followed in February 2010 . The original title of the album was not used for the implementation, but rather the text performed by Samy Deluxe was superimposed on an alternative melody. The video was made under the direction of Felix Paul and David Koenigsmann. Ingo Stroot was the assistant director. Lars Paukstat was responsible for the set design and Felix Leiberg for the camera work. David Mohn acted as executive producer . A multi-part making-of documenting the work on the video appeared parallel to the publication of Superhero .

Samy Deluxe organized a tour for the album in May 2009, during which he was accompanied by a band. This began on May 8th with a concert in Leer and ended after eleven concerts on May 20th in Tübingen . Several appearances at festivals such as “Summerjam Cologne” and “Open Air Frauenfeld” followed.

A continuation of the tour ran under the title “Dis wo ich hinkomm” tour from September 16, 2009. The rapper was accompanied by the “Tsunami Band”. In total, the tour consisted of 25 concerts, with Deluxe being accompanied by Tua in part and Afrob in the other half. In addition to appearances in Germany, the rapper also played three concerts each in Switzerland and Austria. The final concert took place on December 6th in Hamburg.

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  Cover of the single Until the sun comes out

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  Cover of the single Musik to get through the day / mute

reception

Chart successes

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Dis where I'm from   DE 3 04/10/2009 (8 weeks)   AT 13 04/10/2009 (7 weeks)   CH 4th 04/12/2009 (9 weeks)

Singles

Until the sun comes out / Dis where I'm from   DE 38 03/20/2009 (9 weeks)   AT 60 03/20/2009 (2 weeks) Music to get through the day / mute (Xenja)   DE 87 08/07/2009 (1 week)

Where I'm from went to number 3 in the German album charts in the 16th week of 2009. In the following weeks the album dropped to number 16; 23 and 35. After eight weeks, Samy Deluxe's ​​third album left the charts.

The single Until the Sun Comes Out reached number 38 in the singles charts. This was followed by placements in positions 58, 65, 57 and 64. Overall, the single was able to stay in the German top 100 for nine weeks.

controversy

The theme song Dis where I'm from sparked controversy. The following lines were decisive:

And we have no national pride, and all because of Adolf -
yes, great, beautiful shit, the guy was actually an Austrian.
I wonder what this is about, as if I were Herbert Grönemeyer.
The Nazi era ruined our future,
the old are frustrated, so the youth are bathing it off.
And we are tired of suffering, ready to show,
we like to start over, put an end to the old days.
Look at it this way:
This is our Germany.
This is your Germany.
This is the country where we live.
This is the new Germany.

The first criticism came from Daniel Erk in the so-called "Hitler Blog" of the taz . He described the verses of Samy Deluxe as "stupid, stupid and simple-minded". He also accused the rapper of lacking knowledge of the story and contradicted Samy Deluxes statements in detail. The lack of national pride, for example, was not due to Adolf Hitler , but was related to Germany's late becoming a national state. Furthermore, the fact that Hitler was born in Austria is unimportant and does not change anything in the approval of the Germans for the dictator at the time. The future of Germany was not "messed up" by the Nazis, which he attached to the Marshall Plan and reunification . In summary, Erk showed no understanding that Samy Deluxe, without having the necessary knowledge, raps about politics. In a comment on the website Verbbreches.net, the editor stated that Samy Deluxe covered “everything from the Greens to the right wing of the CDU with his national utopia”. The rapper is not a “Nazi”, but he sounds like one, which was established in the line of text “ I will prove that I do more for Germany than the state ”. The Süddeutsche Zeitung also sharply attacked Samy Deluxe. The rapper provides a reason to be proud of Germany, which is "hard to beat in nonsense".

Samy Deluxe commented on the allegations in a conversation with Ingo Scheel for the star . He explained that the line "We have no national pride, and all because of Adolf - yes, great, beautiful shit, the guy was actually an Austrian" should be an "ironic approach". The controversial lines were not discussed in discussions with Austrian journalists. He did not consider Daniel Erk's allegations to be justified, but would have been willing to discuss his text and the criticism made by Erk with him on the Internet program Mixery Raw Deluxe , which he refused after being invited. Despite the criticism of Dis, where I'm from , he was pleased that the song sparked a discussion.

Erk commented on Samy Deluxes' position in the "Hitler blog" by saying that it could not be accepted that "missteps and ignorance as humor, even better: as" irony "[...] are excused and veiled". The editor also assumed that journalists were interested in portraying Hamburg in a positive light. He also noted that Samy Deluxe, who is a popular person, "dismisses the Nazi era as banality, small mistakes and trifles" through his statements. The television channels MTV , VIVA and ProSieben threw Erk ago, they left Samy Deluxe play to the gallery without the lyrics to question critically, and called in addition to the support of a letter to the editor on where the rapper sedition is accused and the broadcasters will be asked Samy Deluxe no longer has a forum to offer.

Under the title I diss the place where I come from! Members of the Antifa organization Redical M distributed leaflets to the visitors of a Samy Deluxe concert in Göttingen on May 11th, 2009. There, too, a condemnation of the rapper's handling of German history takes place. Samy Deluxe later expressed his incomprehension about the fact that antifa activists accuse him of racism, even though he goes on tour with a band made up of dark-skinned people and is black himself. He also accused them of only criticizing negatively, but not actively campaigning to implement something positive in Germany.

The rapper Curse and the music journalist Falk Schacht expressed a different point of view than the aforementioned critics . Curse pointed out that recipients need to view the criticized verse in the "overall context" rather than highlighting a line. In his blog, the man from Minden said: “You can discuss every sentence, but you have to respect every sentence.” Falk Schacht wrote an article on the subject under the heading “Dis (s) where I come from” in his column The last word . In it, he accuses the editors of the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Hitler blog of having insulted Samy Deluxe from the start and assuming nationalist motivations for the rapper. The discussion about national pride and historical responsibility is difficult to lead, since young people who want to deal with the topic often encounter "elitist-arrogant and professionally affected discussion deadbeats", which means that there is pressure on this topic and the young people's need to talk is not taken into account. Furthermore, Dis where I come from is worthy of criticism, but his intention is clear. In contrast to the bloggers' comments, Samy Deluxes text is constructive and "with its relativizing statements at the end of the day is closer to a serious discussion of the topic [...] than the employees of the supposedly serious media who criticize him below the belt. "

Reviews of other artists

Other rappers, including Curse , Farid Bang and Grim104 , also commented on the content and musical direction of the album . Curse was asked about Dis where I come from by an editor of Jetzt.de , a youth magazine belonging to the Süddeutsche Zeitung . He explained that the album was Samy Deluxes most personal release so far, which distinguishes it from his earlier music, which stylistically was more to be assigned to battle rap . Curse sees this “change process” as positive and said that he wanted “[Samy Deluxe] to be rewarded for this step with success and positive reviews”. Nevertheless, Curse also assumed that the Hamburger wanted to reach a broad mass of listeners, which he justified with the fact that many songs are sung and the hooklines are particularly catchy. The use of the auto-tune effect, for example on Superhero , also takes away some of the album's “sound homogeneity”.

Farid Bang from Düsseldorf was disappointed with Samy Deluxes third album and expressed this in various interviews as well as in the form of verbal attacks on the album Jung, brutal, good-looking . In his opinion, Dis where I'm from is a reggae album. Since he respects Samy Deluxe and he is one of the most important German rappers, the disappointment with the album is particularly great. Due to the stylistic realignment, the man from Hamburg no longer stands for hip-hop culture.

Grim104 responded to the album by releasing their own song entitled Dis is Where I'm From . At the end of 2013 he stated that, in his opinion, Samy Deluxe was in its " FDP phase " at the time of the album release . In particular, the piece of music to get through the day , in which Deluxe encourages the listener to work with “ his musical whip ”, is “ neoliberal shit music. "

criticism

Samy Deluxe on the cover of the April issue of Juice (2009)

The reviews of the album were very different. For example, the editors of the German hip-hop magazine Juice could not agree on a rating, so that Dis where I'm from in the "Battle of the Ear" category was independently discussed by two reviewers and given different ratings. In the first meeting, Samy Deluxe received five out of six possible “crowns”. The rapper recognized that hip-hop musicians that transcend genre boundaries such as Peter Fox or Jan Delay had the greatest success, so it was time to “reposition them in terms of content and music”. The greatest achievement of Samy Deluxes is that he has started to record "real music" that is influenced by jazz and reggae. In terms of content, he deals with topics that affect everyone. Taken together, Dis where I come from is the "best, because bravest album that Samy Deluxe has ever recorded". The critic of the second review has a different point of view, who only awards the album two and a half "crowns". Samy Deluxe's ​​music is objectively good, but does not fit into a “credible artist biography”. He tries to approach the more successful musicians Peter Fox and Jan Delay in a calculated manner, which fails due to a lack of similarly good ideas. The personal pieces were successful, but the rapper puts himself “on the sidelines of content” in a “socio-critical analysis”.

Another review was done by the editor Dani Fromm for the e-zine Laut.de . They awarded three out of a possible five evaluation points to the phonogram. In the explanatory statement, Fromm describes that Samy Deluxe was considered "the most technically skilled rapper" in the past, but has now been overtaken by numerous hip-hop musicians. Despite many “mediocre to completely talented rappers”, German hip-hop was “never more multifaceted, more sophisticated, more entertaining and more interesting than today”, which makes Samy Deluxe's ​​technique seem so yesterday. In contrast to the manner in which he presented, Fromm praised the rapper's choice of topics, which appeared mature and grown up. The title Superhero is particularly emphasized , as the declaration of love for one's own son differs from thematically similar titles because Samy Deluxe describes in a close manner how his fate repeats itself in the role of an outsider with his son, which according to Fromm opens up a new dimension . The productions, including the pieces Father's Day , Music to Get Through the Day , Grandma Song , Anyway Hard , Stumm and Over Money , received positive praise. On the other hand, the co-productions of Samy Deluxe and the instruments are kitsch and melodious.

The editorial team of the website Rap.de also dealt with Dis where I come from , whereby a rather negative criticism arose. The sound of the album sounds inappropriate for the rapper. One of the best titles is Superhero , which is annoying due to the use of the Auto-Tune effect, reminiscent of T-Pain , but is packaged in an appealing and comprehensible way and stays in the ear. The editor describes the song Father's Day as impressive , although she only relates it to the text of the hamburger. On the other hand, Grandma Song is heavily criticized. It is nice to thank relatives for their support, but in the case of this title it is unpleasant or involuntarily funny, so that the piece cannot be taken seriously. At the end of the review, the editor suggests that Samy Deluxe has simply grown up for the German hip-hop scene and expresses her regret.

Tobias Rapp drew a comparison for Spiegel Online from Dis where I come from to the publications Nothing happens to the band Silbermond and Stadtaffe by the musician Peter Fox with regard to their socially critical text content: “When the songs [by Silbermond] criticize the politicians' unworldliness, this applies What you might as well say for Samy Deluxe and Peter Fox: The amazing thing about this music is how sensible, how moderate it remains even when angry. This is pop that still carries trace elements of rebellion, but bypasses the populist temptation. "

Further projects

Cover of the live album

Samy Sorge also dealt with the themes of the album in a book that was published by Rowohlt Verlag in June 2009 under the title Dis where I come from: Germany Deluxe . In it he describes the memories of his childhood, life as an outsider and the beginning of his activity as a musician in Hamburg as well as the fame that resulted from it, his view of Germany and the problems of youth. The editors of Laut.de call Dis, where I'm from, a “reflective, intelligent, interesting book”, because Sorge really wants to communicate. Other reviewers said the book release did not go beyond the content of the album.

Furthermore, the organization Crossover e. V. organized a trip to Germany together with Samy Deluxe under the motto "This is where I'm from - the trip to Germany". Young people could apply to participate. In the end, five young people accompanied Deluxe on his two-week trip across Germany. Deluxe stated its intention “to learn more about Germany, to arouse cultural interest among young people and to approach people and foreign content openly”. The ZDF accompanied the trip with a camera crew and broadcast the five-part documentary from 5 to 9 October 2009 on the ZDFinfokanal out.

On March 26th 2010 the live album Dis where I'm from - Live was released via EMI. The album contains recordings of two concerts by Samy Deluxe and the Tsunami Band that took place in Kampnagel in Hamburg at the beginning of December 2009 . There is also a bonus song with Snoop Dogg (I Wanna Rock Remix) on the album. Which should lead to the promotion of Snoops album in Germany. Samy was chosen for this.

Web links

• Samy Deluxe website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Samy Deluxe Interview. In: hiphop-jam.net. Retrieved September 12, 2009 . 
2. ^ Dennis Kraus: Tua, Ali A $ & Samy Deluxe; Last men standing . In: Backspin . (December / January 2008/2009), 2009, p. 10-14 (interview with Samy Deluxe).
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Dennis Kraus: Samy Deluxe, Das Bob-Marley-Ding . In: Backspin . (April / May), 2009 (report on the album; pp. 40–42).
4. ↑ Ina Brzoska: Music for Grandma . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 21, 2009
5. ↑ Samy Deluxe: Is Till the Sun Out the Summer Hit of 2009? ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , March 20, 2009, accessed September 3, 2009 
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Laut.de: Samy greets relaxed in the direction of Rio Reiser. Retrieved March 19, 2014 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Welt.de: "I love you all". In: The world . April 2, 2009, accessed May 20, 2015 . 
8. ↑ When rap comes of age . ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Rap.de  
9. ↑ Samy Deluxe at TV Total . 16bars.de
10. ↑ Samy Deluxe - Dis where I'm from Hip-Hop-Jam.net
11. ↑ ^{a b c} Criticism of Dis where I come from ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Rap.de  
12. ↑ December issue of Juice. 2008, p. 49 - Cover story "The world speaks Auto-Tune"
13. ^ April issue of Juice. 2008, p. 10.
14. ↑ ^{a b} April issue of Juice. 2009, p. 22.
15. ↑ April issue of Juice (2009) - page 21
16. ↑ ^{a b} crisis? What crisis? Mirror online
17. ↑ ^{a b} April issue of Juice (2009) - page 24
18. ↑ Video interview with Samy Deluxe 16bars.de
19. ^ April issue of Juice (2009) - page 26
20. ↑ Video to Dis where I'm from 16bars.de
21. ↑ Video to Until the sun comes out 16bars.de
22. ↑ Video for Stumm 16bars.de
23. ↑ Video to music to get through the day 16bars.de
24. ↑ Samy Deluxe on tour  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
25. ↑ Chart sources: DE ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. AT CH 
26. ↑ Chart tracking from Dis where I'm from ( memento of the original from April 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Musicline.de 
27. ↑ Chart tracking of Until the sun comes out ( memento of the original from December 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Musicline.de 
28. ↑ Daniel Erk: "Just because of Adolf": 1001 years of German rap . ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: taz.de , February 17, 2009, accessed September 3, 2009 
29. ↑ New new new German wave . ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Criminal.net  
30. ↑ Philipp Mattheis: Hitler was an Austrian . Jetzt.de, February 18, 2009, accessed September 3, 2009
31. ↑ ^{a b} Fuck it, I'm not scared . Stern.de
32. ↑ "Just because of Adolf", II . ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. taz.de  
33. ↑ I diss the place where I come from! . (PDF)
34. ↑ "Today's kids are grosser" - Interview with Samy Deluxe . ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Cicero.de  
35. ^ ^{A b} Daniel Schieferdecker: RapRendezvous. Today: Listen to new records with Curse . nun.sueddeutsche.de, May 6, 2009, accessed September 3, 2009
36. ^ April issue of Juice (2009) - page 130
37. ↑ July issue of Juice (2009) - page 25/26
38. ↑ Interview with Kollegah and Farid Bang - Part 3 Mixery Raw Deluxe
39. ↑ Laut.de: "When I hear Xavas, I go crazy". Retrieved March 19, 2014 . 
40. ↑ May issue of Juice (2009) - page 111
41. ↑ Samy Deluxe: Dis where I'm from: Germany Deluxe . Rowohlt Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-644-44711-0 ( preview in Google book search).
42. ↑ Reading: Samy Deluxe '"Dis Wo Ich Herkomm" Laut.de
43. ↑ Samy Deluxe - Dis where I'm from (book)
44. ↑ Dis where I'm from - the trip to Germany ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Crossover e. V.  
45. ↑ Dis where I'm from (Live) Hip-Hop.de

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