“Bitches need rap”
Shirin David: Who were Alice Schwarzer and Kanye West again?
The days as a Youtuber are forgotten. Singer and rapper Shirin David has arrived in hip-hop.
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A new musical serve for Shirin David. And what a. With her second studio album “Deutschraps Barbie” reaches the musical greatness that she always pretended to be.
Shirin David released her second studio album “Bitches need Rap” on Friday. After the success of “Supersize” the new record is much harder and darker. Even long-established hip-hop lovers should now realize at the latest that a change of power in the male domain Deutschrap has long been underway.
Feminism and Shindy
On her new album, Shirin David deals not only with the usual declarations of love for glittering consumer goods, but also with numerous serious topics. The 48 minutes are bursting with feminism and female empowerment. On “Bad Role Model”, the Hamburg woman impressively addresses her supposed role as a woman in society and everyday sexism. On “Not today” she then shows herself from an unusually vulnerable side.
Besides her processing of fears and listlessness on “Depressions in Paradise”, there is still enough space for the usual badass attitude that fans of Barbara Schirin Davidavicius are used to. Ultimately, however, it is probably also the public reconciliation with the rapper Shindy on “NDA’s” that Shirin David should secure the hearts of many listeners. She had fallen out with him when she refused to play a muse in his music video.
Shirin David: A superstar is arriving
With “Bitches Need Rap”, Shirin David makes her past forget. Gone are the days as a Youtuber when she spooned Nutella out of a glass together with homophobic rappers. Gone are the days when Shirin attracted attention in the media for blackfacing and cultural appropriation. On the last album it was said “She can sing, but does that also work on album length?”, Shirin now gives us the proof that she is an artist who can do album length without dropouts. “Bitches need rap” seems like a liberation from an artist who knew what she wanted early on, but later discovered how it all might sound.
The rapper Shirin David loves it when men carry their handbags
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Shirin David’s second album is a stylish record full of lavishly produced noughties hip-hop and trap beats, neo-feminism story-telling (“Man`s World”) and aggressive rap passages (“Be a Hoe”). The Hamburg resident succeeded in making the transition from chart-topping to rock-hard rap album with dirty beats and loud basses and reached its late climax on “Bramfeld Stories”. In almost nine minutes, the outro deals with the 26-year-old’s career to date, from the youth as a child of refugee parents, to her YouTube career and golden records, and in between tells in-depth scraps of history about a mother who went cleaning to a family to nourish.
It’s an album made, not just for their Shirizzle fan base, but for everyone who wants to hear German rap at the highest level. Musically reinvented and yet familiar, thematically somewhere between Alice Schwarzer and Kanye West: “Bitches need rap” should definitely leave an impression on the German hip-hop scene. How do we find the album? – “We love”.
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