German rap still owns the room in Germany. Bonez MC and RAF Camora's PALMEN AUS PLASTIK and Ohne mein Team are the kind of tracks that fill a floor on sight, and JAILL's NARBEN IM GEBISS, posted by Hamburg Crhyme Media, has passed 180 thousand views. Berlin's internet-born strand is getting louder beside it. A "" night at Matrix Club pitches cloud rap and hyperpop across three stages, and SODA's Famous Friday runs five floors from 22:00 with R'n'B, 2000s hits and bangers. Rostock's C ARMA, a four-piece whose German-language electro-pop sits between synthwave and club culture, bring the other side: pop built for a dancefloor.
This month the WorldWidePop playlist holds five videos, and none were added in October, so the list is holding still rather than growing. At the top sit C ARMA's Gibi, the Bushido track Diese Zwei, and a Cyrillic-titled song by Mirzada Maichinova that stands apart from everything else here. The steady core is CrhymeTV's pairing of Bonez MC and RAF Camora, two tracks showing that German rap's established names still move a room. What the list says about the scene right now is that rap and electro-pop are sharing the same floor, and the most interesting part is where they meet.
Commenters are listening from Greece, Austria and Switzerland. Watch 17 October: Berlin's Matrix Club night and C ARMA's show at Carinerland, where the chairs get cleared and the room becomes a dancefloor. Hamburg's "Coming of Age" Gen-Z party at Molotow asks whether subculture has died with Gen Z, and the answer will probably be heard on the floor first.
