the sandman is also a popular children's character in germany, he basically helps kids fall asleep with his sand which he throws in their eyes every night
He blows "sand" in to the kids face and that makes thats why the eyes are ruff when you are sleepy and when you wake up the crusty stuff in the corner of the eyes is the sand from the sand man, at least thats what i was told as a child haha
Oh man, I hoped that you'd also mention the last part of "Ende", where he talks about his newborn child. I felt like it's a very sweet and concluding ending for such a sad and depressing album, especially how he connects that laest verse to his past.
Thank you so much for pulling through with this review. Some really interesting insights in there that I hadn't even thought about. I hope all your other German speaking viewers got as much out of this as I did. I would love to hear some examples of his genius rhyming on this album from everyone else, there are just so many great moments. A couple small things: 1. "Töle" doesn't really mean fool, although you could use it in that context, it's actually a demeaning term for a dog. 2. Being a little pedantic here but Saarbrücken actually isn't a state of Germany, it's the capital of the state Saarland.
wow, crazy to see you reviewing this album. it's probably by far my favorite deutschrap album. keemo really is goated. the album released on January 7th of 2022 and everyone knew IMMEDIATELY it will be the AOTY here in Germany. What I also love about Keemo (similar to Kendrick) is that he doesnt have a big (social) media presence and is just doing his stuff. "Mann Beisst Hund" barely had any big marketing rollout but crushed the streaming charts on release - solely because it was THAT good. Everyone was talking about it. Even though he said he wants to be seen as a unique artist, it's really difficult not to compare him to kendrick. Similarly to Kenny, Keemo also loves doing conceptual albums, is versatile, lyrically on point, more of an introverted shy virtuoso, raps a lot about gang life, and is both respected by the streets and "middle class white" audiences. interesting to hear you speak on the rhyme patterns. i feel like in german there is much more emphasis on multiple syllable rhymes than in the English language. keemo is also known to have unpredictable and intricate rhyme schemes. he utilizes LOTS of internal rhymes. often times he places his "major" rhymes later or earlier than expected, too. quite unique. his way of rapping and flow has also been compared to old school US-artists a lot (for example wu tang), he's really just floating over the beat and makes it seem effortless. has a very free form. funkvater frank probably the most daring and interesting producer in germany right now. he doesnt miss and is a huge music nerd. him and keemo are a great pairing and it perfectly shows on this album. Vögel and Töle to me will go down as two of the greatest deutschrap tracks OAT. Especially Vögel is giving me goosebumps every time, the writing and storytelling is INSANE on that one. overall the way he implemented the themes of dogs and birds throughout the album is super well-executed. "Töle" btw is a derogatory german term for "dogs". Music videos are also pretty creative and fit the album very well! I would've loved to recommend you other deutschrap artists but as of right now no one really comes close to Keemo IMO. He's one of a kind, also a great live performer. PS. loved to see my hometown Köln in the end there. Also shoutout to Saarbrücken, lovely place, I studied there lol
I AM SHOCKED! Professor Sky I am surprised (which I shouldn’t due to your openess towards music e.g. the Amewu review). But it makes my heart jump that you choose a fantastic artist from Germany. For future references if you need translation help, your little german community will gladly help you there. Thank you for being you
This is a great video, you managed to basically pick up nearly every subliminal message of the album, great work. OG Keemo also is a great live performer, his shows go absolutely wild.
Thanks so much for covering this album and hopefully exposing it to more non-German listeners, Prof Skye. I really enjoyed your discussion, as always. I’m an American conversationally fluent in German, but I had a difficult time picking up the intricacies in the narrative just from listening when I first heard this album. Gonna give it another listen now!
Was so surprised to see this in my subscription feed! So happy you reviewed this remarkable album, I hope some people will give it a shot despite the language barrier!
duude, thanks for your dedication! 'GEIST' is my favorite LP of his. Diverse sound, heavy lyrics, ma(a)d stories. Funkvater Frank is a beast of a producer. Big Up from western Germany 🤙🏼
I wanted to share some of my favorite Rhymes from OG Keemo: First of all i want to mention that his way of rhyming is unique! There isnt a single german rapper who has such a komplex pattern as OG Keemo does. For example: Der Hund bellte laut. Er heißt Atilla sagt er und lobt diesen Doberman so als wäre er sein eigener Sohn in this example you have a kind of AABA pattern but compromised in 3 lines and not 4 OG Keemo also work in A LOT of assonance (as u can see with the "o" and the "ä,ei")
the second part of big boy is actually about yasha and not malik if im not mistaken. on the instrumentals, the halves are split and the second one is named yashas song
The Zug in Anzug Comes from the verb 'ziehen' (to pull). So Anzug most of the times means suit but it directly translates to something that you can 'pull on' (anziehen)
The fact that your German pronunciation is so bad (no offense, how could it be any good if you don’t speak the language?) is made even funnier by how good your pronunciation is at 20:18 where you simply drop the "Kinski accent". If you do read this comment, I loved this review and many others, your channel is great, keep it up. Thank you.
"Habibi" and other words from foreign languages, we're actually brought in by the different immigrants and are pretty prominent in german hood/teenage slang, like in other countries like France too.
52:50 i'm not there yet, but Souls of Mischief is the craziest good ear considering the beat for Töle later on sampled 93 til infinity by these artists
Up to a certain point the definition of eastern Europe is always one country further to the east and people get offended by it. Austrians will tell you it starts in Czechia, Czechs will tell you it's Hungary and Hungarians will tell you it's Romania and they I think are cool with it, but don't quote me on that.
Very happy that this is happening right now. I just discovered this record recently and it made listening to german rap fun again. Idk if you are going to adress this in this video yet, but Keemo says that he doesn't support beeing compared to kendrick btw ;)
38:00 idk if you noticed the metaphor/reference he used there. The whole line being: "Die einen knacken Fenster, die anderen Jungs spiel'n Jenga Und pushen Bricks in sechzehn Bundesländer" meaning his bros are playing jenga cuz they're pushing bricks, y'know? Just wanted to point out if you didn't notice (you probably did lol)
54:17 He talks about basketball a lot because he used to play, that's why he says "I should have been a pro, but that's a different story" on 2009 38:15 And Töle is a derogatory term for a dog, so you got it right that Vögel is Yasha's and Töle Malik's statement
Im a bit late but thanks for this reaction. Btw the word "Töle" doesn't (just) mean idiot, it's a derogatory term for a dog. A "Töle" would be like an old, annoying, unwanted dog. In this case Malik would by the "Töle". Also you should support 1. FC Köln instead of bloody Mainz 05
Keith Haring makes art in which people look like outlines drawn by cops around a dead corpse - so keemo just states with this comparison that he leaves a crime scene behind him, a dead man basically Keemo also calls himself ghost or Poltergeist that often, because his previous album was called 'Geist' Trainingsanzug means tracksuit - the word 'Zug' as 'train' is in the word but its read together as 'Anzug' which you could translate as some noun to 'pull on' ('anziehen' in German) - as you put on a training suit Why the German word 'Zug' is in there? It is just like the noun to 'ziehen' (English pull) in German and functions as a homonym Maybe trains are called Zug here, because the vehicles are kinda pulled over the railway
Sandmann as far as I can tell is more about the Sandmännchen. It's a daily German TV show that runs at quarter to 8pm. The Sandmännchen puts dust in kids eyes to make them fall asleep. It is supposed to send children to bed, so the parents can than watch then news at 8 and then a movie after. So a more kid friendly version of the Sandmann.
I think one of the misconceptions of german as a language, is that it is super rough. I will admit, that it might be a bit more rough than other languages, but what people assume is, that german functions like english, where you pronounce every letter somewhat equally. In german a lot consonants are flattened when spoken. An ER at the end of a word will turn into a barely spoke UH sound or if a word ends on EN you often don't even open your lips for it. This makes it so much more fluid to speak, than it might appear written.
"töle" doesn't really mean "fool". it is a downgrading synonym of "dog", so malik is the "töle" who is getting crushed by the "siedlung" (og keemo is the only german rapper using this word as "hood")
Another album that reminds me of GKMC is an album by Bambu called 'Exrcising A Demon - Article I: A Few Left' Bambu grew up in the Filipino-American gang Sathanas in LA before he served the US Marines but came out deep into MLM political ideology. About 20 years into the rap game, he started a 5-album series to document not just his upbringing but the Filipino diaspora. Honestly one of the most insightful hip-hop albums out there, but completely slept on in the underground
You are missinterpreting some things, which is obvious when you dont speak the language / know the culture. I personaly think for example that Regen is about malik showing first signs of becoming tired of streetlife, but he will never be able to escape it (see Tölle). The song sandmann is called like this because there is a kids show featuring the sandman. He puts Sand in the eyes of people to make them fall asleep. Keemo uses this as a metaphor for killing people. This is why he calls himself the sandmann
I just want to add Töle isnt just fool its also a derogatory term for dogs. Kind of like bitch but genderless. So instead of saying that damned dog you say that Töle
Listen to one Kollegah song and you’ll be impressed how many „Nomenreime“ there are, in Germany sometimes we humorously call polysyllabic Rhymes „Kreuzworträtsel Rap“
As a german I can say there‘s not really much to offer in rap except for og keemo and kwam.e, these two are killing it on a whole other level of great music, btw I saw Keemo live last year and he is literally incredible
I don’t think that’s true. Sure, there’s a lot of trash in German mainstream rap (as there is in American) but there are definitely more great rap artists in Germany than just these two.
Hard disagree, there's artists out there like elo, Retrogott, even people like SSIO or Ski Aggu have their merit and purpose in the rap game. The great thing about Hip Hop in all places is its versatility. But yeah Keemo and kwam.e are fantastic
the sandman is also a popular children's character in germany, he basically helps kids fall asleep with his sand which he throws in their eyes every night
Ehrlich bisschen creepy der Sandmann
He blows "sand" in to the kids face and that makes thats why the eyes are ruff when you are sleepy and when you wake up the crusty stuff in the corner of the eyes is the sand from the sand man, at least thats what i was told as a child haha
Ain’t no way this just happened . I hoped for so long that you would review this but never thought it would happen. Thanks Professor Skye
And thank Boden!
This is honestly the best german album ive ever listened to
Oh man, I hoped that you'd also mention the last part of "Ende", where he talks about his newborn child. I felt like it's a very sweet and concluding ending for such a sad and depressing album, especially how he connects that laest verse to his past.
I didn’t pick up on that, thanks!
viel liebe an den der es angefragt hat
ich glaub das war frank selber xD
@@xmplusw9243warum denkst du das?
@@xmplusw9243 hahaha wäre schon sau witzig falls wahr
Thank you so much for pulling through with this review. Some really interesting insights in there that I hadn't even thought about. I hope all your other German speaking viewers got as much out of this as I did. I would love to hear some examples of his genius rhyming on this album from everyone else, there are just so many great moments. A couple small things:
1. "Töle" doesn't really mean fool, although you could use it in that context, it's actually a demeaning term for a dog.
2. Being a little pedantic here but Saarbrücken actually isn't a state of Germany, it's the capital of the state Saarland.
Im shocked. I followed your channel for a while now and never would i have thought that you would review my favorite German Hip-Hop record
The „la Hain“ reverenz is direct in the viedeo for „Töle“ , it s a reinacting of the Movie With keemo in it , Watch it
Wow, that is cool! Thanks.
wow, crazy to see you reviewing this album. it's probably by far my favorite deutschrap album. keemo really is goated. the album released on January 7th of 2022 and everyone knew IMMEDIATELY it will be the AOTY here in Germany.
What I also love about Keemo (similar to Kendrick) is that he doesnt have a big (social) media presence and is just doing his stuff. "Mann Beisst Hund" barely had any big marketing rollout but crushed the streaming charts on release - solely because it was THAT good. Everyone was talking about it.
Even though he said he wants to be seen as a unique artist, it's really difficult not to compare him to kendrick. Similarly to Kenny, Keemo also loves doing conceptual albums, is versatile, lyrically on point, more of an introverted shy virtuoso, raps a lot about gang life, and is both respected by the streets and "middle class white" audiences.
interesting to hear you speak on the rhyme patterns. i feel like in german there is much more emphasis on multiple syllable rhymes than in the English language. keemo is also known to have unpredictable and intricate rhyme schemes. he utilizes LOTS of internal rhymes. often times he places his "major" rhymes later or earlier than expected, too. quite unique.
his way of rapping and flow has also been compared to old school US-artists a lot (for example wu tang), he's really just floating over the beat and makes it seem effortless. has a very free form.
funkvater frank probably the most daring and interesting producer in germany right now. he doesnt miss and is a huge music nerd. him and keemo are a great pairing and it perfectly shows on this album.
Vögel and Töle to me will go down as two of the greatest deutschrap tracks OAT. Especially Vögel is giving me goosebumps every time, the writing and storytelling is INSANE on that one.
overall the way he implemented the themes of dogs and birds throughout the album is super well-executed. "Töle" btw is a derogatory german term for "dogs".
Music videos are also pretty creative and fit the album very well!
I would've loved to recommend you other deutschrap artists but as of right now no one really comes close to Keemo IMO. He's one of a kind, also a great live performer.
PS. loved to see my hometown Köln in the end there. Also shoutout to Saarbrücken, lovely place, I studied there lol
I AM SHOCKED! Professor Sky I am surprised (which I shouldn’t due to your openess towards music e.g. the Amewu review). But it makes my heart jump that you choose a fantastic artist from Germany. For future references if you need translation help, your little german community will gladly help you there. Thank you for being you
This is a great video, you managed to basically pick up nearly every subliminal message of the album, great work. OG Keemo also is a great live performer, his shows go absolutely wild.
Also also his previous album "Geist" was really good as well
Thanks so much for covering this album and hopefully exposing it to more non-German listeners, Prof Skye. I really enjoyed your discussion, as always. I’m an American conversationally fluent in German, but I had a difficult time picking up the intricacies in the narrative just from listening when I first heard this album. Gonna give it another listen now!
As a person from a ghetto in Austria who grew up with German rap music this is my favourite album of all time across all genres and time periods
this review made me so happy and you even explained stuff that i didn't even understand myself about the album! thank you so much for this video
My Heart jumped when I saw this pop up. This Album got so important to me over the last year and your Thoughts were amazing to listen to. Tank you!
wow, really excited to watch this. danke for making this vid!
Was so surprised to see this in my subscription feed! So happy you reviewed this remarkable album, I hope some people will give it a shot despite the language barrier!
duude, thanks for your dedication! 'GEIST' is my favorite LP of his. Diverse sound, heavy lyrics, ma(a)d stories. Funkvater Frank is a beast of a producer. Big Up from western Germany 🤙🏼
Great review. Would love to listen to the other patreon commissioned reviews as well :)
No way, he reviewed this amazing album! I loooove it!
wtff im so hyped to watch this later!! as a german viewer i wanted you to review this so bad! his live performance is incedible btw
Dope review! This album is incredible even if I can’t understand a word he says haha. Flee Lord and Crimeapple both dropped today professor
haven't even finished watching it an this video is already going into my "favorites" playlist
I wanted to share some of my favorite Rhymes from OG Keemo:
First of all i want to mention that his way of rhyming is unique! There isnt a single german rapper who has such a komplex pattern as OG Keemo does. For example:
Der Hund bellte laut.
Er heißt Atilla sagt er und lobt diesen Doberman so als wäre er sein eigener Sohn
in this example you have a kind of AABA pattern but compromised in 3 lines and not 4
OG Keemo also work in A LOT of assonance (as u can see with the "o" and the "ä,ei")
Commenting for the algorithm, keep up the great work
Looking forward to hearing you break down the great new National album.
Hey professor! just giving some translation feedback. The Hood in German is "Block" or "Viertel". Siedlung is a term for smaller village ❤
Correct however Keemo, it is used as a term for a hood. "Die Siedlung", maybe more his hood specifically.
the second part of big boy is actually about yasha and not malik if im not mistaken. on the instrumentals, the halves are split and the second one is named yashas song
The Zug in Anzug Comes from the verb 'ziehen' (to pull). So Anzug most of the times means suit but it directly translates to something that you can 'pull on' (anziehen)
Danke Professor Skye
The fact that your German pronunciation is so bad (no offense, how could it be any good if you don’t speak the language?) is made even funnier by how good your pronunciation is at 20:18 where you simply drop the "Kinski accent". If you do read this comment, I loved this review and many others, your channel is great, keep it up. Thank you.
"Habibi" and other words from foreign languages, we're actually brought in by the different immigrants and are pretty prominent in german hood/teenage slang, like in other countries like France too.
52:50 i'm not there yet, but Souls of Mischief is the craziest good ear considering the beat for Töle later on sampled 93 til infinity by these artists
The really high note in Anfang is indicating his dogs barking. Thank you for this Review
Up to a certain point the definition of eastern Europe is always one country further to the east and people get offended by it. Austrians will tell you it starts in Czechia, Czechs will tell you it's Hungary and Hungarians will tell you it's Romania and they I think are cool with it, but don't quote me on that.
it’s funny that ziller reminded your kids of souls of mischief, because the next song töle uses the same sample by billy cobham as '93 til infinity
I must have remembered wrong and it just have been that song that they were thinking of. I’m pretty impressed with my kids!
töle actually means something like old, mean dog
which plays really well into the story i think
Very happy that this is happening right now. I just discovered this record recently and it made listening to german rap fun again. Idk if you are going to adress this in this video yet, but Keemo says that he doesn't support beeing compared to kendrick btw ;)
Ok nevermind 😂
Professor skye just is the goat!!!! Btw As a german rapfan i think mbh Is THE best german rap album
„Doch ich steh nicht hinter dem kendrick vergleich“
38:00 idk if you noticed the metaphor/reference he used there. The whole line being: "Die einen knacken Fenster, die anderen Jungs spiel'n Jenga
Und pushen Bricks in sechzehn Bundesländer" meaning his bros are playing jenga cuz they're pushing bricks, y'know? Just wanted to point out if you didn't notice (you probably did lol)
Poltern means to Rumble so a Poltergeist is a ghost who specifically makes loud noises to annoy you :)
54:17 He talks about basketball a lot because he used to play, that's why he says "I should have been a pro, but that's a different story" on 2009 38:15
And Töle is a derogatory term for a dog, so you got it right that Vögel is Yasha's and Töle Malik's statement
Im german and a big raphead.
When this album was released I instantly guessed it will be album of the year and I were right
OG keemo himself stated he doesnt like to be compared to Kendrick Lamar :/
Hat aber auch gesagt, dass es nichts schlimmes ist
Fun fact: Last year in October a man actually bit a police dog in a neighbouring town of Mainz
Im a bit late but thanks for this reaction.
Btw the word "Töle" doesn't (just) mean idiot, it's a derogatory term for a dog. A "Töle" would be like an old, annoying, unwanted dog. In this case Malik would by the "Töle".
Also you should support 1. FC Köln instead of bloody Mainz 05
I did enjoy the gondola and Cathedral in Köln
Keith Haring makes art in which people look like outlines drawn by cops around a dead corpse - so keemo just states with this comparison that he leaves a crime scene behind him, a dead man basically
Keemo also calls himself ghost or Poltergeist that often, because his previous album was called 'Geist'
Trainingsanzug means tracksuit - the word 'Zug' as 'train' is in the word but its read together as 'Anzug' which you could translate as some noun to 'pull on' ('anziehen' in German) - as you put on a training suit
Why the German word 'Zug' is in there? It is just like the noun to 'ziehen' (English pull) in German and functions as a homonym
Maybe trains are called Zug here, because the vehicles are kinda pulled over the railway
Sandmann as far as I can tell is more about the Sandmännchen. It's a daily German TV show that runs at quarter to 8pm. The Sandmännchen puts dust in kids eyes to make them fall asleep. It is supposed to send children to bed, so the parents can than watch then news at 8 and then a movie after. So a more kid friendly version of the Sandmann.
NO WAY!!!
My favorite story in Hip Hop is Captain Murphy
wiiiie was ich checks grad gar nicht 🥹
I think one of the misconceptions of german as a language, is that it is super rough. I will admit, that it might be a bit more rough than other languages, but what people assume is, that german functions like english, where you pronounce every letter somewhat equally. In german a lot consonants are flattened when spoken. An ER at the end of a word will turn into a barely spoke UH sound or if a word ends on EN you often don't even open your lips for it. This makes it so much more fluid to speak, than it might appear written.
Good points, thank you
Slugggy is Not the german Word for slut, it s made up by keemo, it does mean the Same
This album was in my top ten of the year !
"töle" doesn't really mean "fool". it is a downgrading synonym of "dog", so malik is the "töle" who is getting crushed by the "siedlung" (og keemo is the only german rapper using this word as "hood")
Another album that reminds me of GKMC is an album by Bambu called 'Exrcising A Demon - Article I: A Few Left'
Bambu grew up in the Filipino-American gang Sathanas in LA before he served the US Marines but came out deep into MLM political ideology. About 20 years into the rap game, he started a 5-album series to document not just his upbringing but the Filipino diaspora. Honestly one of the most insightful hip-hop albums out there, but completely slept on in the underground
You are missinterpreting some things, which is obvious when you dont speak the language / know the culture. I personaly think for example that Regen is about malik showing first signs of becoming tired of streetlife, but he will never be able to escape it (see Tölle).
The song sandmann is called like this because there is a kids show featuring the sandman. He puts Sand in the eyes of people to make them fall asleep. Keemo uses this as a metaphor for killing people. This is why he calls himself the sandmann
Its not the same sandmann than in E.T.A. Hofmanns story
Ich bin einfach nur glücklich
I just want to add Töle isnt just fool its also a derogatory term for dogs. Kind of like bitch but genderless. So instead of saying that damned dog you say that Töle
did we deserve this?
Listen to one Kollegah song and you’ll be impressed how many „Nomenreime“ there are, in Germany sometimes we humorously call polysyllabic Rhymes „Kreuzworträtsel Rap“
As a german I can say there‘s not really much to offer in rap except for og keemo and kwam.e, these two are killing it on a whole other level of great music, btw I saw Keemo live last year and he is literally incredible
I don’t think that’s true. Sure, there’s a lot of trash in German mainstream rap (as there is in American) but there are definitely more great rap artists in Germany than just these two.
Hard disagree, there's artists out there like elo, Retrogott, even people like SSIO or Ski Aggu have their merit and purpose in the rap game. The great thing about Hip Hop in all places is its versatility. But yeah Keemo and kwam.e are fantastic
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