Overview
- The rapper, long known as Kollegah, released the song under his birth name alongside a new album titled “Kanzler (Frührentnertape Vol. 1).”
- The lyrics paint Germany as collapsing and include the line “Wär’ ich Kanzler, würd’ ich für Deutschland kämpfen bis aufs Blut,” signaling declared political ambitions.
- AfD lawmaker Maximilian Krah praised the release on X, saying the cultural shift will come from rap, the internet and the street.
- The video assembles found footage of homelessness, knife-wielding men and U-Bahn violence to depict social breakdown.
- The hook borrows from Heinrich Heine’s Nachtgedanken, which commentators say is lifted out of context to serve patriotic messaging.