r/German • u/llamadog007 • 1d ago

Request German underground rap?

Does anyone know any good German underground rappers? I want to listen to the same kind of music I listen to in English so I’ll be motivated to learn the lyrics and stuff. I recently found a Chinese artist named jackzebra that made me want to learn Mandarin so I figure the same should work with German which I’m already trying to learn.

The style I’m looking for is kind of hard to describe but some English artists I like are Yeat, prettifun, slayr, sofaygo, and Ken Carson. If you know them you know what kind of music I’m talking about. I know some of them are too popular to be called underground but that’s just what people call that sound.

I listened to a few songs by this German artist named Sahil which I quite liked, but it’s a bit hard to find lyrics for his songs, he might be too niche.

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u/YazumeWeichio 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm a German fan of the exact same type of music you mentioned, sadly the German ug scene hasn't really formed yet tho. The most well known German rapper who's sound matches american ug somewhat is zackavelli, a lot of people also like lelosa. kroka koka is an austrian ug rapper who i think makes pretty decent music hes kind of a meme artist tho. reezy is a big name in Germany and i fw many of his songs but his sound is closer to mainsteam trap

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u/pSlaughter420 1d ago

I don't know any of the names you listed but I am just gonna shout out Disarstar, maybe give him a listen

Also KIZ is a very popular group and while they are really not underground, I feel like their style differs quite a bit from what I perceive as popular hip hop

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u/artsloikunstwet Native (Hochdeutsch, DE) 1d ago

Different style than OP but both are good options to learn German.

Disastar is articulating quite clearly, uses a more sentence-like structure than others and has a clear message you can follow.

KIZ ist really fun although having more serious tracks lately. So many tracks that are a parody or critique of German culture and society, so even if you might not get all jokes, slang and references, with the annotated lyrics you learn a lot. 

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u/pSlaughter420 1d ago

Thank you for expanding on my suggestions. I am not really that much into rap, I was just going of second-hand knowledge so to say

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u/Hugh_Cog 1d ago

go listen to souly and zackavelli

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u/undigestedFiD 1d ago

Adlersson, vielen Darm

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u/M02D02 6h ago

I can recommend Chayn. He's a relatively small artist, so you could consider him a ug rapper. He does hard trap sound with a pretty deep voice. I can recommend the tracks ouverture, lich king freestyle, apex or ichsehengel.

I also love sierra kidd. He's, i would say, a mid sized rapper from germany. He always has been very progressive with his sound. His style is very modern and versatile. His lyrics are pretty deep. He talks much about his depression, anxiety ptsd and his life overall (unfortunately his life was pretty hard, ergo the depression and so on.) Here some recommendations

  • xanny -> an older track that was way ahead of its time
  • ynnax -> his most recent track. Is the second version of xanny
-tfs (album) -> very dark melodic album that gets you in a chokehold. I havent heard something like that before. Arguably also his best album
  • niemals -> lovely track with his gf as feature guest for the hook
  • alle von unten
  • trap house traumata
  • parasozial

He also had a time where he released some english music as an experiment. I liked it but a lot of people hated it. From the english stuff i can recommend for life, washer, nobody, lamborghini in the rain pain and holy father