Overview
- Offenbach’s city student council urged lessons on the local rapper’s life and lyrics to reflect students’ lived reality.
- The council posted detailed ideas for Music, German, and Politics & Economics, focusing on rhythm, language variation, migration, and social inequality.
- Hesse’s education ministry rejected the plan, arguing his texts and public conduct contradict the educational and upbringing mandate and are unfit as role models.
- The ministry said hip-hop could be taught through other examples if schools want to address the genre or German-language rap.
- The call comes as a new Netflix documentary, “Babo – Die Haftbefehl-Story,” draws wider attention, with no curriculum change announced.