That Tick

I’ll be straight: I’m not some huge Marsimoto fan. I could live without most of his stuff. Marteria’s voice thing, the recycled rap moves—take it or leave it. But he’s still better than 99 percent of what German music is putting out right now, which is basically just machines to separate stupid people from their money. So I’m waiting for the next Marteria album. He’s probably my favorite German rapper these days. Maybe. Who knows, really.

There’s this new track though, Zecken raus—Ticks Out—and the video is just a small tick bouncing through a dark forest without a care, doing its thing, while everything else seems pissed off about it. And watching this cocky little insect navigate the trees at night, you find yourself rooting for it. You actually want it to be your friend. Like, genuinely, you want that tick in your life.