Samy Deluxe Takes the Whole Genre From Behind

Step back. All of you. Samy Deluxe—Hamburg-born rapper, arguably the sharpest MC Germany has produced—dropped Perlen vor die Säue featuring Matteo Capreoli, and it lands exactly like the title suggests: pearls before swine, precision craft flung at an audience that can’t fully appreciate it, and he knows it, and he does it anyway. That’s the whole move.

There’s something in the air when a track like this shows up. Herbal. Can’t quite place it. Welcome back, your majesty.