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8/17/05

Rap music and the far right: Germany goes gangsta

Independent Online Edition

"Rap music and the far right: Germany goes gangsta
A new wave of rap music is sweeping Germany: sexist, violent, often racist - and adored by neo-Nazis. Ruth Elkins reports on the alarming advance of the shock troops of popular culture

"If it doesn't work out with hip hop," shrugs Bushido, Germany's most notorious rap star, "then I'll just sell drugs."

It probably won't come to that. The 26-year-old half Tunisian Berliner is turning the world of German hip hop upside down."

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