Da Crime Posse was one well-known group in the genre of
Oriental Hip Hop in Germany.
[Brown, Timothy S. “‘Keeping it Real’ in a Different ‘Hood: (African-) Americanization and Hip-hop in Germany.” In The Vinyl Ain’t Final: Hip Hop and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture, ed. by Dipannita Basu and Sidney J. Lemelle, 137-50. London; A] The group was composed of one
Turkish
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people (M.Ali), one German person (Olcay/Ole), and one
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n person (Babalu).
In his essay addressing the development of hip-hop in Germany, author Timothy S. Brown suggests that many musical groups in Germany are adopting a sort of “
symbolic ethnicity
In sociology, symbolic ethnicity is a nostalgic allegiance to, love for, and pride in a Cultural history, cultural tradition that can be felt and lived without having to be incorporated to the person's everyday behavior; as such, a symbolic ethn ...
” which asserts that one “does not necessarily have to be Turkish” to assume the Turkish identity.
Furthermore, a scholar named Dietmar Elfein has cited Da Crime Posse as an example of how the “Turkish identity proposed is a mythological one” in the sense that one did not necessarily have to be Turkish to assume this symbolic ethnicity. Perhaps one of the most important musical collaborations that Da Crime Posse has taken part in has been that with
Karakan and
Erci E
Ercüment Ergün (born 1973), better known as Erci E, is a Turkish- German rapper. His parents were Turkish immigrant workers. He is best known for his work with the pioneering Turkish rap group Cartel
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. Cina-i Sebeke (of Da Crime Posse) was the individual who met fellow Turkish hip-hop artists Karakan and Erci-E and spurred their musical collaboration. Together, they established the legendary group
Cartel and released a compilation album in 1995. The only single from their
self-titled album, composed by
Big Porno Ahmet
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, brought the biggest success in the history of Turkish hip-hop. With this unexpected success, they achieved Gold and Platinum status (plus many more awards) by selling more than 2,250,000 copies.
It was being the hip-hop formation from Kiel.
References
German hip hop groups
Turkish hip hop groups
Musical groups established in 1993
1993 establishments in Germany
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