The “Hip Hop Bewegt” festival caused a stir in the run-up to the performance of Kollegah and Farid Bang. The organizer relies on a diverse community, the local fans move on a spectrum from irrelevant to latently anti-Semitic. A day with the gangstas.
“From Düsseldorf to Munich, come to lynch”, is an announcement from Farid Bang & Kollegah, the most controversial act of the “Hip Hop Bewegt” festival with 3100 participants, between two songs. It’s Saturday night, it’s raining, but this time nobody in the audience is fleeing to the interior of the Sugar Mountains. Everyone wants to see Kollegah and Farid Bang. They come “to make waves again,” as they say before the performance. They’ve done the wave before.