Juju 44, Apache 207, 187 Street Gang – that’s what the numbers of the rappers’ names mean.
207, 44, 361, 187, 257? Anyone who only sees blindly scrambled numbers in this sequence is certainly not a fan of Germany’s rap elite. Because the numbers are part of the stage names of German rap stars like 187 Street Gang. The Hamburg rap crew’s tracks aren’t just about 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 murder. Ufo361 is the stage name of the Kreuzberg trap artist Ufuk Bayraktar. The number in his name is made up of the former Kreuzberg postal codes 36 and 61. The Berlin rapper Juju came up with the suffix 44 in a similar way. Judith Wessendorf grew up in the Neukölln district. It used to have the postal code 1000 Berlin 44. And Euro dance rapper Apache 207 chose the number of the federal constituency of his hometown Ludwigshafen as part of his stage name. The Ruhr area is the home of the rap duo 257ers. The rappers Daniel “Shneezin” Schneider and Mike Rohleder come from the Kupferdreh district of Essen and it has the zip code 45 and – you guessed it – 257.
Source: Stern
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