After his visit to the concentration camp memorial at Auschwitz, the Rapper Kollegah seems to be purified. He’ll now be more careful “and respectful”. At the same time his first book appeared.
Rapper Kollegah on the Echo Party
Known, the German Rapper Felix Blume under the name of “Kollegah”. Notorious he is for discriminatory and hurtful texts. “The lyrics of my Rap Songs were often hard, antisocial and offensive,” he said now in an Interview with the magazine Stern, in which he distanced himself from the controversial Auschwitz and the Holocaust – text lines on his Album “Jung, brutal, handsome, 3” (JBG 3). The visit to Auschwitz changed him very much and was a disturbing and enlightening experience for him her flower.
From Gangsta-Rapper to a better people
Christoph Heubner (center) leads Kollegah and Farid Bang through the memorial
According to the anti-Semitism-allegations the Rapper Kollegah and Farid Bang had visited at the beginning of June the concentration camp memorial at Auschwitz. Preceded by an invitation of the Vice-President of the Committee Christoph Heubner was gone. The idea came from the musician Marius Müller-Westernhagen. Heubner saw the visit to the Rapper as a satisfaction for the Auschwitz Survivor and also as a gesture to the young Rap Fans “that hate, misanthropy and anti-Semitism should have in no art a square”.
The controversial nature of the song’s lines, “My body is defined as the Auschwitz inmates” and “Make time a Holocaust”. The Album had caused at the award ceremony of the “Echo” of a scandal that led to the abolition of the music prize. The Album is as harmful to minors on the Index, a criminal case was discontinued, however, as the Rapper on the right to the freedom of art professions.
Never again rapping about the Holocaust
Farid Bang and Kollegah in front of the death wall in the concentration camp memorial at Auschwitz
On the question of whether he would use terms such as “Auschwitz” and “Holocaust” even once, answered Kollegah in the Stern Interview: “I’m going to use it ever again. I have, also after the visit of Auschwitz, a great respect for that.” He’ll now be a lot of thought into whether something in his Songs could racially be understood, even if it was not meant to be.
An open question is the extent to which the concessions are also not a wise marketing strategy. Finally, Kollegah has not only a sportswear label and a concert Agency, but also his first book “This is Alpha! The 10 Boss-bids” on the market. “The time of the provocation is perhaps the first time over,” he says and points in the same sentence to the fact that it is now time to read his book.
There he was speaking as Felix flower, growing up without a father and to the drug-Milieu. In his book, he warns of the drug, dedicated to a healthy diet, and calls for respect for others. His Album “JBG 3” has reached the 200 000 sold shots, meanwhile, is platinum.