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It's not only Britain that has a jihadist rap scene to contend with.
Eurabia Alert. "German Rappers Steeped in Anti-Semitism, Jihad," by Lizas Welt, translated by John Rosenthal, from Pajamas Media:
When an unknown assailant fired four bullets at German rap star Massiv in Berlin in mid-January — one of them grazing the rapper’s right arm — the initial outrage soon gave way to questions. Was the episode really an attempted murder, perhaps the opening salvo in an emerging turf war among rival rappers, or had Massiv staged the attack himself as a publicity stunt? Threats of violence are, in any case, commonplace among rivals in the German rap scene. Among Massiv’s most adamant foes, for instance, is the Stuttgart-based rapper Bözemann [roughly, “Badman”], who likes to appear in the persona of an armed Albanian guerrilla fighter and who makes a point of his Muslim faith, as does Massiv.
Last summer, Bözemann came out with a “diss” track titled “The Challenge,” the video for which has already been played some 340,000 times on YouTube. The challenge in question is addressed to none other than Massiv. In the song, Bözemann announces, among other things, his intention to chop his enemy’s head into four pieces with an axe. In the video, moreover, one sees him digging a grave for Massiv and setting up a wooden cross next to it. The cross does not only bear the name of Bözemann’s hated rival, but also — as the ultimate put down — a Star of David. The implication is clear and on his MySpace page, moreover, Bözemann has made it even clearer. Thus, last July, the German “Bad Blog” found the following message for Massiv on Bözemann’s page: “HEY MASSIV!! … I JUST WANT TO BOMB YOU AWAY I SH*T ON YOUR FAME AND YOUR LABEL ON YOUR TATTOOS YOUR MOUNTAINS OF FAT YOUR GAY SONGS YOUR GAY VOICE AND YOUR MUSLIM POSING BECAUSE THERE IS NO WAY YOU ARE A MUSLIM YOU ARE DEFINITELY A JEW AND YOU’RE DRAGGING THE QURAN THROUGH THE MUD!!!!”
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The pride expressed by Bözemann in the alleged exploits of his grandfather — namely, while fighting with Nazi Germany as a member of the Albanian SS division “Skanderbeg” — was likewise of no interest for Spiegel-TV. “MY GRANDPA WAS ALSO THERE!!” Bözemann has been cited as having written on a “pro”-Skanderbeg division MySpace page, “LONG LIVE THE 21. SS SKB [Skanderbeg] DIVISION!”
But as observer of the German rap scene Robert Peschke has explained in an interview with the website Hagalil, Bözeman’s anti-Semitism is hardly an exception in German rap anymore:
… since in recent years the word “Jew” has again become a general purpose insult, precisely among young people. Some German rappers also use the term “Intifada Rap” to describe their music and they see themselves as belonging to a “Generation Jihad.” They do everything they can to adopt the look and tone of Jew-haters. In videos that are accessible to anyone on YouTube, rap fans celebrate Hamas activists and other Islamist terror groups and challenge the right of Israel to exist. In these circles, Osama bin Laden has long since replaced Che Guevara as a symbol of emancipation.
The Violence Prevention Network is an association dedicated to counteracting extremism and xenophobia in German youth culture. In a recent lecture on anti-Semitic tendencies in German rap, Jan Buschbom of the Violence Prevention Network comes to the same conclusion as Peschke:
In the so-called “Underground Rap” milieu — which, despite the name, includes genuine hit parade stars like Sido and Bushido and which dominates German-speaking hip-hop — anti-Semitic remarks have become part of the consensus, or, at any rate, they are not perceived as scandalous. In light of the violent imagery, misogyny, sexism, and homophobia that are commonplace in recent German-speaking rap, it seems that hardly any of the young musicians and fans are bothered by the expressions of anti-Semitism. … In German-speaking hip-hop, the Islamist terrorist has become a metaphor for masculinity, toughness, and soldierly virtues. Thus in his rap “September 11,” the Berlin-based rapper Bushido describes himself as a “Taliban”: “I am the terrorist, whom the youth believe in,” he sings.
Massiv too, who always performs in a keffiyeh and proudly refers to his Palestinian heritage, has similar material in his repertoire. Thus, for example, his tune “Blood Against Blood” contains the following lines:
My lines are explosives, my hand is on the button! I put a dropkick on your head, your blood doesn’t stop! You all make pop sh*t, the bullet’s coming for you! Let’s stay real now, give me the money and don’t laugh! The climate is too hot, Palestinian heritage! I’m registered as unemployed, but I still buy a Beemer! I don’t stop, as if I were Al-Qaida!
In “Festival of Sacrifice,” a track in which Massiv “disses” the rap group Shokmusik, he says: “I’m planning a nasty terrorist attack with the Lebanese guy/I’ll be coming at you with a 100-day beard!/The Shokkers get bombed like the World Trade Attack!” And in “Homeland,” which he recorded with the rapper Basstard, he sings the praises of the suicide bomber: the “Shahid, who is born again in Heaven.”
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Posted by Marisol at March 3, 2008 12:09 AM
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Oh what a wonderful article.
"Among Massivs most adamant foes, for instance, is the Stuttgart-based rapper Bözemann [roughly, Badman], who likes to appear in the persona of an armed Albanian guerrilla fighter and who makes a point of his Muslim faith, as does Massiv.
"In the video, moreover, one sees him digging a grave for Massiv and setting up a wooden cross next to it. The cross does not only bear the name of Bözemanns hated rival, but also as the ultimate put down a Star of David.
"The pride expressed by Bözemann in the alleged exploits of his grandfather namely, while fighting with Nazi Germany as a member of the Albanian SS division Skanderbeg
"Bözemann has been cited as having written on a pro-Skanderbeg division MySpace page, LONG LIVE THE 21. SS SKB [Skanderbeg] DIVISION!
Note: The 21st Skenderbeg recruited almost exclusively from ethnic Albanains from KosMet.
I'm shocked, SHOCKED
Serb's foes are glorifying the SS.
And to think that NATO went into partnership with these "SS and Proud" lads.
That's really made my day.
Happy day readers.
Posted by: ewha1![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/nav-commenters.gif)
at March 3, 2008 2:16 AM
"...Ill be coming at you with a 100-day beard!..."
I was frightened when he said he was planning a nasty terrorist attack...and then this..
Posted by: champ at March 3, 2008 2:56 AM
Rap music huh? I updated my page on Tagged. Check it out. Even have a article by Hugh with a link back to Jihad watch.
This is the kind of rap music I like and I hate rap. http://www.tagged.com/havekoranwilltravel
Posted by: havekoranwilltravel at March 3, 2008 7:30 AM
Paraphrasing Tertullian: "See how these Islamorappers love one another'.
at March 3, 2008 7:54 AM
Rap music? Neo-Nazis? Islamic Jihad?
These are not a few of my favorite things..........
Posted by: tanstaafl at March 3, 2008 8:30 AM
"In the song, Bözemann announces, among other things, his intention to chop his enemys head into four pieces with an axe."
No, no, no--steal a Stryker saw. An axe will only leave fragments. If goal is precision, you have to use the right tools!
Rap Music--an oxymoron.
Posted by: Abscedere at March 3, 2008 9:43 AM
Wasn't Hitler a rapper as well ?
Well let's see: he was an inveterate vegetarian (natture pure), he hated the bible and things Christian (too Jewish), tried to reinvent the Germanic legends of superheroes, railed at the history of the many times the Romans (and later the Christianized Romans) beat their butts.
He too swallowed the myth of the nature as pristine, fouled by non pure non aryians - a variation of the nature worshipping environmentalist movement which requires us to go green to "save the earth".
And here the German rappers champion and ape the islamics - more Jew killing please.
And didn't Hitler also love the Muslim Brotherhood through the Mufti of Jerusalem, Husseini (who else is called 'Hussein' and running in the current U.S. presidential election ?), and had an islamic army contingent out of the Balkans fighting with his armies ?
Let's see - if one does not learn one's history, isn't one then compelled to repeat its mistakes ?
Posted by: dgene
at March 3, 2008 10:01 AM
Wasn't Hitler a rapper as well ?
Well let's see: he was an inveterate vegetarian (natture pure), he hated the bible and things Christian (too Jewish), tried to reinvent the Germanic legends of superheroes, railed at the history of the many times the Romans (and later the Christianized Romans) beat their butts.
He too swallowed the myth of the nature as pristine, fouled by non pure non aryians - a variation of the nature worshipping environmentalist movement which requires us to go green to "save the earth".
And here the German rappers champion and ape the islamics - more Jew killing please.
And didn't Hitler also love the Muslim Brotherhood through the Mufti of Jerusalem, Husseini (who else is called 'Hussein' and running in the current U.S. presidential election ?), and had an islamic army contingent out of the Balkans fighting with his armies ?
Let's see - if one does not learn one's history, isn't one then compelled to repeat its mistakes ?
Posted by: dgene
at March 3, 2008 10:04 AM
European Muslim teens are the worst of the worst. They're a bunch of gangs and thugs and should be sent packing back to Africa, or the middle east where they belong, along with their rap music.
Rap music was always bad news, it's just degenerated as this younger culture makes me sick.
Posted by: Sneakyzionistcrusader at March 3, 2008 10:23 AM
The German antisemites (and there are many of them) can allow the dregs of the uncivilized world--"Palestinians" (read Moslem Arabs) and Albanian Musulmans spout their sentiment to the German listening public.
It amazes one that a people so obsessed with "racial purity" can allow these "non-aryans" not only settle in the Fatherland--but set the tenor of German Culture.
Posted by: unicorns62000 at March 3, 2008 4:49 PM
One thing should be made very clear. These are NOT German rappers. These are mahometans who are in Germany due to the pressures of the UN, the German Socialist-liEberal establishement and the general moral browbeating of Germany which these moslem cretins know how to exploit to perfection..
Just like one wouldn't consider moslems in Holland or in Denmark or in France as natives of these countries I wish to remind you that native Germans should in no way have to take the blame for these foul Mohamedan residents in the country.
Maybe they should take a closer look at whom they are alowing into office via the ballot-box but to be honest, there is not a single political party which opposes the moslem tide swamping Germany and the other European countries.
If Germany is guilty of one thing then it is that we have no produced a figure like a Geert Wilders or a viable political party which I believe to be operating in Denmark.
But all the countries in Europe are moslem-enablers to some degree. Just have a look at Britan, Sweden and Norway.. Spain.. You name it.
Maybe if there wasn't this constant German-bashing when there is really nothing Germans as a country can do on our own re. the moslem invasion.. maybe just maybe the population would be a little bit more open about confronting and owning up to how they really feel about islam?
The very taboos of the past and the repeated harping on them is what causes to German paralysis when it comes to islam.
We are damned if we do and damned if we don't.
Imagine Germany were the first to expel moslems en masse.. jailing moslems who are criminals.. censoring and prosecuting these anti-Semitic rappers..
I can only imagine the media feeding frenzy led by the YT and the A-Guardian..
So we are nazis if there moslem rappers freely ply their disgusting trade in the country and we are nazis if we do something about it.
Not very helpful for the overall picture, don't you think?
Just one thing. These rappers are no Germans. They are fascists all on their own.
Posted by: Allah Schmallah at March 3, 2008 6:37 PM
Read Claire Berlinski's chapter on Rammstein in "Menace in Europe." Massiv's Nazi innuendo is a more direct version of the congenital, militaristic, pseudo-fascistic aura of the (mainstream) group Rammstein. It's a good thing that because of Germany's ethno-centric identity, delusional and violent upheavals by minority interests will (hopefully) never be universally excepted as justified revolts, as they are by pop-multiculturalists in America and the UK.
Sincerly,
Futureman, pbuh
Posted by: Futureman at March 3, 2008 10:20 PM
I'm a rapper and a lover of rap music and culture, so it perturbs and disgusts me to see such support for jihad in rap. But it doesn't surprise me. Hip-hop culture is broadly anti-authoritarian and hugely skeptical of the American establishment, usually seeing it as a tool for white supremacism and oppression of innocents. Islamic iconography and thought have permeated hip-hop from the early days-- both Sunni Islam and the American indigenous versions, the Nation of Islam (racist) and the 5% Nation of Gods and Earths (not racist, but a little kooky.) In any case, Osama bin Laden and jihad terrorism generally haven't been condemned in rap. Because there's such a strong element of mainline Islamic believership, with so many rappers being observant Muslims, no one really comments overmuch on terrorism or connects it to Islam. When terrorism is discussed, the problem is usually blamed on America or on the Illuminati, as with the far-leftist Peruvian-American rapper Immortal Technique. There's no market for an anti-jihadist rap song, otherwise I would have recorded one by now.
Posted by: Funky Child at March 3, 2008 10:51 PM
Funky Child-
So you are kowtowing to the narrow-minded Rap Establishment and grovelling to the craven Lickspittles of the Jihadi scum?
Isn't that worth a rap?
(Sample the opening beat from "Hey Joe" by Hendrix as a loop, countered with isolated bass accents from John Entwistle's opening of "Won't Get Fooled Again":)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfDE-ZvfOwU&feature=related
_______________________________________
"Jihad Fool"
Jihad,
Don't you think your kissing *ss
Is kinda lame?
Jihad,
Won't you ever grow some b*lls
and claim your name?
A man...
will never let unholy pimps
decide his fate.
It's time...
to stand up for your freedom, yeah,
and conquer hate.
Jihad,
sacrificing babies and the human
mind.
Jihad,
nothing but a loser's path
for going blind.
(You can take it from there...)
Posted by: profitsbeard at March 3, 2008 11:25 PM
My!
Those Neo Nazis really do have a thing against the Serbs.
http://www.thelocal.se/10210/20080302/
You can judge someone by the enemies they keep.
Posted by: ewha1 at March 4, 2008 1:22 AM
"It amazes one that a people so obsessed with "racial purity" can allow these "non-aryans" not only settle in the Fatherland--but set the tenor of German Culture."
Germans are not more obsessed with "racial purity" than anybody else. When they are talking about "race" it's Jews they are talking about and they will gladly embrace all those who promise to finish what they were forced to abort 63 years ago and everything else is a smokescreen.
It's as simple as that.
Posted by: The Editrix at March 4, 2008 3:07 AM
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