I was listening to one of the Turkish Rap albums that I used to like back at high school. After almost 10 years, the lyrics seems unnatural and very racist to me. I thought to myself "Why do these guys react on stuff like the visits of foreign stars to Turkey?".
It's just like a psychologist trying to solve problems in the patient's childhood. The first Turkish rap albums started coming from the Turkish minority in Germany and most of the songs were about their isolation from the society and the neo-nazi attacks at the time (Solingen attacks, etc.) Karakan's Defol Dazlak (Eng. Fuck off Skinhead!), King Size Terror's Bir Yabancının Hayatı ( The life of a stranger)and Cartel's Türksün (You're Turkish!).
This can be understood to a certain degree but the way it shaped the Istanbul-based Turkish rap resulted in songs about the Ottomans and xenophobia.
Nothing has changed and whenever I hear some Turkish rap song, it still has those ridiculous references to past events and wars and hatred towards Greeks. German-Turks had a point in being highly nationalist. What the fuck is going on with the ones in Turkey?
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