OG Keemo – Mann Beisst Hund (2022)

Already after a few weeks in the new year the mass has already been read for German rap in 2022. The fact that OG Keemo would make the narratively most unrivalled German rap album in history with »Mann Beißt Hund« could already be predicted after the pre-release of the first tracks, but the matter-of-factness with which Keemo cements at least three perspectives together into a block prism, in which there are neither reliable narrators nor socio-pedagogical well-actually-s, is almost unique international. Of course, the rejected Kendrick comparison has to come somewhere at this point, but – warning, cliché – the cinematic attention to detail which Keemo uses to measure every square inch of his neighbourhood on the opener alone is really only found on albums of the magnitude of »Illmatic« or »The Infamous«. And that’s just the first three minutes. Gulp.