Munich Vibe

When Aggro Berlin came out with Rap from the Berlin projects, everybody got all uppity about the types of lyrics they couldn't really understand, when listening to PE, NWA, Snoop Dogg or Eminem. Performed in blunt German that ghetto realism sounded all a bit too real. Well, for every Ice Cube there was always a Puff Daddy, so now there's Aggro Gruenwald named after the millionaires' suburb in Munich's South. Their group's called "Stehkrägen", which is the word for polo shirt collars turned up. Their first single is "Eure Armut kotzt uns an" (Your poverty grosses us out), with a hookline going "Don't you have a father or mother who achieved smoething?". Might be just sarcasm and political incorrectnes, but they sure give a quite acurate picture of Munich, the town of young heirs with Porsches, international boarding school educations, golf handicaps and unlimited trust funds. Funny enough, German Vanity Fair presented them as a refreshing antidote to the social realness of Berlin gangstas without a hint of irony. Well, that magazine is run by a rabid neoliberal hardliner, so he probably found some ideological brethren in the cartoon characters of Aggro Gruenwald.