Critics
The CD says: 'Now is the time to oppose somehow the self-confidence of the English and the American.' Consequently, Krauts with Attitude became the starting point of a national music genre and furthermore contributed in creating 'an adopted musical style that became grafted onto a national identity, which de facto locked out many of its participants.' Their 1991 compilation of German Hip-Hop was seen as a nationalistic movement excluding the Turkish community and the immigrants of Germany. From the ethnic minorities' point of view, the rise of German Hip-Hop was chauvinistic and exclusive. Hence, as a reaction to the CD and to German hip-hop in general, Oriental hip-hop emerged with the primary purpose of forming an ethnic resistance against the dominant society and as a way to create a new Turkish identity. In 1991, the first rap vinyl in the Turkish language 'Bir Yabancimin Hayati' ('The Life of the Stranger') is released by the Nuremberg crew King Size Terror. Then, 'as a reaction to the hip hop nationalization the group Cartel tried to gather up the excluded parts of the hip hop community under the banner of an artificially constructed ethnic minority which was supposedly 'Turkish'.
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