Krauts with Attitude

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Krauts with Attitude
Compilation album by various artists

Publication
(s)

1991

Label (s) Boombastic Records

Format (s)

CD, record

Genre (s)

Hip hop

Title (number)

15th

running time

66:10

Krauts with Attitude was a compilation album released in 1991 and is considered the first German hip-hop sampler. The album was put together by the DJs Michael Reinboth and Katmando as well as the journalist Chris Maruhn and is considered an “inventory” of German hip-hop and a “somewhat representative cross-section of the West German hip-hop scene” of the early 1990s.

background

The title Krauts with Attitude refers to a cover story of the music magazine Spex from March 1990, in which the Californian hip-hop group NWA (Niggaz with Attitude) and the term " Krauts " were summarized as a stereotyping name for Germans.

All 15 musicians and bands represented on the sampler come from West Germany. Despite the claim to offer 100% German Hip Hop, only three musicians rapped in German, eleven in English and one musician in French. Musically, too, the pieces were strongly based on American models such as NWA, Ice Cube , Dr. Dre and Public Enemy , who at the time were the most important identifying figures of the West German hip-hop scene.

Cover design

The cover shows the title Krauts with Attitude in the colors black-red-gold in front of a gray wall and the subtitle German HipHop Vol.1 . The cover design and the text of the liner notes , in which it a. means: “It is time to counter the self-confidence of the English or American. [...] It was hard enough to be accepted as a non-American and pale face in hip-hop. I think that the blame here lies clearly with the big record companies who claim to be unable to sell hip-hop without a Negro . ” This was sometimes understood as a problematic“ nationalist statement ”.

Track list

  1. LSD : Accompagnato (Jazzy Muv Part 2) - 5:11
  2. N-Factor : Rebelz In Rhythm (AUA Vers.) - 6:36
  3. Controversial Unique Style : Jungle Philosophy - 3:21
  4. State Of Departmentz : Better World - 4:24
  5. Dub Invaders featuring Ras Anna : Bad Woman Skank - 3:58
  6. Original Kick : I Can't Stop - 3:27
  7. Mentally Black Alliance : King Of Pimps - 3:41
  8. End Two : My Name Is End Two Producer - 7:37
  9. Al Rakhun featuring Bunker Youth : Gimme What Ya Got - 4:24
  10. Brothers Moving Germany : Brothers On The Slide - 4:27
  11. Exponential Enjoyment : Style Introduction - 4:04
  12. Raw Deal : Mellow Poet Over The Top - 4:30
  13. Lyrical Poetry : Poetry Of An Alien - 3:47
  14. The Fantastic Four : Now it's off - 3:24
  15. The Individual Concern : Hey, Hey Mama (What Shall We Do) - 3:19

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Krauts with Attitude ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2008 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 diefantastischenvier.de, accessed on May 8, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diefantastischenvier.de
  2. ↑ a b c d Dietmar Elflein : From New German Spoken Song to Oriental Hip Hop - some thoughts on the history of Hip Hop in Germany. , 1996, online at Wahreschule.de , accessed on May 8, 2012
  3. ^ Sabine von Dirke: Hip-Hop made in Germany: From Oldschool to the Kanaksta Movement. Page 102, online at press.umich.edu (PDF; 94 kB), accessed on May 8, 2012
  4. ↑ Hannes Loh : 1000 Years of German Hiphop: Nazi Metaphors, Racism and New Hardship in the German Battlerap online at alhambra.de ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2011 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. , accessed May 8, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alhambra.de