Nobody in Germany Was Meeting the Standard, So She Set It Herself

After SXTN—Juju and Nura—cracked open German hip-hop with tracks that sounded like a dare (Fotzen im Club, roughly "Cunts in the Club," became an unlikely anthem; Bongzimmer was exactly what it sounds like), a new masked figure appeared from the north: Antifuchs. She’d been a hip-hop kid her entire life.

She told Rap’n’Blues: With the entire hip-hop culture I’ve identified my whole life—I danced to it, sang to it, rapped to it, and I stayed with rap in the end. Foxy Brown, 2Pac, Capone-n-Noreaga, the Neptunes, Eminem—but also German artists like Kool Savas, Olli Banjo, Favorite. Female artists only really convinced me in American rap. In Germany I heard good tracks here and there, but none ever met my own listener standards long-term.

So she decided to meet them herself. The debut album Stola dropped in spring 2018—the fox mask stayed on throughout, which was smart, because it kept the focus on the music rather than whoever was making it. And the music was sharp and unapologetic. German hip-hop had cracked open recently, but there was still room for someone approaching it with this kind of seriousness. Antifuchs arrived knowing that.