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German Hip Hop

German hip hop is rap from Germany, mostly performed in German and widely known at home as Deutschrap.

The scene began in the 1980s, and Die Fantastischen Vier scored the first big German-language rap hit with Die da!?! in 1992. Advanced Chemistry rapped about immigrant identity in the same year. In the 2000s the Berlin label Aggro Berlin, with Sido and Bushido, made a harder gangsta rap style popular.

Artists it is known for: Die Fantastischen Vier, Advanced Chemistry, Sido, Bushido.

Family
Hip-Hop & Rap
On Spotify
A current genre
What it is
A scene
From
Germany, 1980s
Also called
deutschrap, deutscher hip-hop
Trackify listeners who play it
3%

About 2,200 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have german hip hop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.

German Hip Hop artists

The german hip hop artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.

Sources

The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.