I have police

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I have police
POL1Z1STENS0HN aka Jan Böhmermann
publication November 26, 2015
length 3:47
Genre (s) rap
Author (s) Jan Böhmermann , Andreas Fabritius
Producer (s) Andreas Fabritius
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
I have police
  DE 10 04/12/2015 (4 weeks)
  AT 48 12/11/2015 (1 week)

Ich hab Polizei is a rap song that Jan Böhmermann released in 2015 under the pseudonym POL1Z1STENS0HN . The music video belonging to the song was shown on November 26, 2015 in the program Neo Magazin Royale on ZDFneo and then published on YouTube and download portals. The text and the use of Böhmermann's foreign sociolect sparked media coverage across Germany. The YouTube video was viewed several million times in the first few days. The song took sixth place in GfK Entertainment's download rankings in the first week. In the German single charts , the song rose to number ten on December 4th, where it stayed in the top 100 for a total of 4 weeks. In August 2016, Böhmermann released the song Blasserdünnerjunge doing his job again under the pseudonym POL1Z1STENS0HN and thus reached number 99 in the official single charts.

content

The lyrics of the song borrow style from rappers like Haftbefehl and Kay One . For example, Böhmermann takes over a text passage with “I have, I have, I have, I have”, which in the song Style & das Geld by Kay One and Bushido ends in “Style und das Geld”, but in Böhmermann it is alienated to “Police” .

In the video clip for the song, the protagonist leaves a building at night via the back exit and goes to his car. There a group of men confronts him with various weapons on display. The visibly intimidated protagonist dials the emergency number with his mobile phone , whereupon he is transformed into a gangster rapper with a bomber jacket (with the inscription "Cop Life", an allusion to the term "Thug Life"), hoodie and sunglasses , and is surrounded by police officers . In the style of typical videos of the genre (especially arrest warrant), the protagonist then praises the police in the form of battle rap and defames people who see themselves as gangsters in the sense of the genre. The superficially positive portrayal of the police is given a critical undertone by the exaggeration that is typical of battle rap. Among other things, the protagonist of the video raps: "If you break (the) law, the police will break your legs."

As the lyrics includes the video numerous allusions to artists and elements of gangsta rap - subculture . The protagonist has ACAB (“All Cops Are Bastards”) tattooed on the fingers of his left hand, but this is put into perspective by an N (“Not”) ​​on the index finger of the other hand. In a recurring scene in the video, the protagonist is also riding a motorcycle with a police officer in front of a sunset, with the officer sitting on her back in front of him. This is a parody of a similar scene from a music video for Bound 2 by Kanye West .

The pseudonym POL1Z1STENS0HN (“Policeman Son ” in Leetspeak ), which Böhmermann gave himself for the video, is an allusion to the fact that he is actually the son of a police officer. The digits represent the emergency number for the police in Germany (110).

The song Mein Gott, Walther (1975) by Mike Krüger is sampled as a reference to the Walther P99 service pistol used by the police .

reception

criticism

According to Katja Engelhardt on Bayern 2 , the video can be understood as a criticism of the gangsta rap genre , especially the linguistic stylistic devices and gang violence, as well as of the police , especially the abuse of the state monopoly of violence .

The journalist and former label owner Marcus Staiger accused Böhmermann on the music website Noisey of showing "arrogance in line with his class" and criticized: "You fool people because they have less education, because they have less money and because they are socially below you."

Böhmermann was confronted with the accusation that he mocked the language of migrants and poked fun at their subculture . Böhmermann replied to this criticism: “Oh, only a few social studies potatoes fell back on the street in horror from their self-made credibility nests. Nothing more happened. ”He called the criticism“ the dark side of the increasing academization of Germany as a poetry location ”and added:“ If hip hop is dead, you killed it, not me. And if something doesn't suit you, you can call the police at any time. "

On Zeit Online , David Hugendick commented that Böhmermann's “humorous approach” was “a thoroughly legitimate means of art reception”. This does not mean that the music is appropriated and made contemptible by the well-off “middle class milieu”. This music is just as open to discourse as any other mass cultural phenomenon. Böhmermann's critics, on the other hand, set up “subcultural house rules that prescribe how one has to listen to and produce this music if one wants to play along”.

More reactions

The rapper Haftbefehl, whose style Böhmermann caricatured with Ich hab Polizei , published the title CopKKKilla with a corresponding music video shortly afterwards . Many media see this as a direct reaction to Böhmermann's song.

The rapper Fler claimed to be the actual addressee of the song: “He wants to show with the song: Fler threatened me. I have the police, nobody can tell me. ”He tweeted to Böhmermann:“ I'll find you and fuck you. ”In response to the song, Fler renewed his earlier threat to do violence to Böhmermann. He said, "If I see him, I'll hit him in the face."

In his parody with the title #WirHamInternet, the YouTuber Marti Fischer (The Clavinover) made fun of Böhmermann as a "television face " whose ZDF audience was sitting in a nursing home.

The rapper Kollegah said he found it “sad” that the rap scene had presented itself as so weak and sensitive because of its “ hate ” on Böhmermann. To attribute such relevance to his comedy shows his own weakness. As the “strongest youth culture”, German rap need not feel threatened, regardless of any articles in newspapers and magazines. In addition, Böhmermann is not an opponent of rap. One should not see him as an enemy and “leave the church in the village”.

Other versions

In addition to the original title, there are two other official versions. The first version, Ich bin Polizei, with the addition of a patrol car edit, contains a changed audio track, in which the statements are made from the point of view of a police officer and the text has in part been made considerably more precise by the author. For example, in the official video As some talk that the police a "doctor" has (meaning: "doctor"), while in I am Police say that the police for blood drawing a "doctor" calls .

An instrumental version of the song has also been released.

In episode 48 , a musical revue by Neo Magazin Royale , a live version of Ich hab Polizei is performed, interpreted by Böhmermann, the live band Die Freie Radikal, and editorial member Max Bierhals as a background singer and William Cohn as a motorcycle policeman.

Nominations

  • 2016: German web video award in the category "Best Video of the Year"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Official German Charts - I have police . Retrieved January 12, 2016.
  2. ↑ "You're kidding people because they have less education" - the rap debate about Böhmermann's "Ich hab Polizei" video , meedia.de
  3. ↑ Böhmermann buries the German gangsta rap. In: Jetzt.de . November 26, 2015, accessed December 3, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b David Hugendick: I have cultural criticism. In: Zeit Online . November 30, 2015, accessed December 3, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Christian Stöcker: Reactions to Böhmermann video: "That's not true". In: Spiegel Online . November 29, 2015, accessed December 3, 2015 .
  6. ↑ a b Katja Engelhardt: When the Biodeutsche speaks like a Kanake. (No longer available online.) In: Bayern 2 . November 27, 2015, archived from the original on December 1, 2015 ; Retrieved December 3, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.br.de
  7. ↑ a b c d ame / spot: Jan Böhmermann pulls Justin Bieber off. In: n-tv . November 30, 2015, accessed December 3, 2015 .
  8. ↑ a b DPA : Böhmermann "has police" - but they have something against it. In: The world . November 27, 2015, accessed December 3, 2015 .
  9. ↑ André Görke: Böhmermann & Co - almost as beautiful as Wedding's police rapper. In: Der Tagesspiegel . November 28, 2015, accessed December 3, 2015 .
  10. ↑ a b Jan Böhmermann im stern: "People just have too much Abitur" . In: Stern.de , December 2, 2015.
  11. ↑ "You're kidding people because they have less education" - the rap debate about Böhmermann's "Ich hab Polizei" video , Meedia from November 30, 2015
  12. ↑ Jan Böhmermann defended "Pol1z1stens0hn" . In: n-tv . 3rd December 2015.
  13. ^ "Copkiller" arrest warrant against "Policeman" Böhmermann . In: SWR3 . December 1st, 2015. Archived from the original on December 4th, 2015. 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. Retrieved December 5, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.swr3.de
  14. ↑ Nadine Lange: Arrest warrant against Böhmermann: Greetings from prison . In: Tagesspiegel . December 2, 2015. Accessed December 5, 2015.
  15. ↑ "I have police": Fler threatens Böhmermann . In: Bento.de , December 7, 2015.
  16. ↑ Answer to Jan Böhmermann: YouTuber satirizes "I have police" . In: Spiegel Online , December 7, 2015.
  17. ↑ Jonas Lindemann: Kollegah comments on Jan Böhmermann and the reactions to German rap . Article from December 10th in the portal hiphop.de , accessed on December 26th, 2015.