Juju 44, Apache 207, 187 street gang – that’s what the numbers of the rapper names mean.
207, 44, 361, 187, 257? Anyone who only sees blindly rolled numbers in this sequence is certainly not a fan of Germany’s rap elite. Because the numbers are part of the artist names of German rap stars like 187 Strassenbande. Not only the tracks of the Hamburg rap crew deal with drugs and violence. The members themselves have a lot on their plate. The number 187 in her name stands for the US police code for homicide. Ufo361 is the artist name of the Kreuzberg trap artist Ufuk Bayraktar. The number in his name is made up of the former Kreuzberg postcodes 36 and 61. The Berlin rapper Juju came up with her name suffix 44 in a similar way. Judith Wessendorf grew up in the Neukölln district. He used to have the zip code 1000 Berlin 44. And euro dance rapper Apache 207 chose the number of the federal constituency in his hometown of Ludwigshafen as part of his stage name. The Ruhrpott is the home of the rap duo 257ers. The rappers Daniel “Shneezin” Schneider and Mike Rohleder come from the Essen district of Kupferdreh, which has the postal code 45 and – you guessed it – 257.
Source: Stern
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