Just to make it clear like I said in the video, I don't think all censorship is bad or that Germany is doing anything inherently wrong. I just find it interesting to look at hip hops history through different countries viewpoints. ❤ my German viewers

Hi it's me the one British person watching this, I think a video about this same topic but with the UK government's history of abusing government powers to ban drill rappers from preforming could be interesting, it's a serious topic of discussion over here as many people blame drill for rising knife crime and use that as an excuse for censorship

Hi squash, I wrote a large part of that article in the German wikipedia. Funny to see it again on KZfaq and in English LOL Anyway, I enjoyed your video a lot. The crazy thing to me is that once the BZKJ indexes an album you will have no chance at listening to it (legally), even if you are an adult. Apple Music, Amazon etc all remove indexed albums completely from their databases for German users. Fucked up if you ask me, especially since all of the best albums were indexed back in the day.

After Engberding stepped doen there was a huge reform, which helped a lot of media. This mostly affected video games since it had a lot to do with the USK (German MSRB), but the higher standards also contributed to a decrease in indexing overall. The two main changes were: #1 video games were now considered art and thus were under the protection of the constitution and thus were allowed to display national socialist symbols as long as the games weren’t endorsing or relativized it. #2 A USK label now meant that your game is unindexable. Rap culture didn’t get milder in Germany, maybe even more extreme, but the general shift means, that the index more and more retakes the position that was intended for it, even though in my opinion it shouldn’t exist at all, or at least List B, the advertisement ban and display ban should all be abolished, especially because the original „mein Kampf“ cannot legally be restricted, because it’s preconstitutional

I lived in (West) Germany between 1981-84 when my step father was stationed in Burbach(Siegerlandkaserne). What's funny about this is that German radio stations used to play Hip-Hop music uncensored. This wasn't a big deal because very few commercial Hip-Hop releases had foul language in them back then. When I came back to the States, They had what they called "No rap workday" on the radio. They essentially banned Hip-Hop music till after 9pm. So Germany was more progressive about playing Hip-Hop music than the U.S.

I don’t know much about Weimar or pre-Weimar law, but I can tell you how the modern German constitution is supposed to work: a lot of articles have a clause that allows the government to restrict these rights, but restrictions need legitimation, which can only be another constitutional right. So one right can only get restricted by another right.

In Germany harsh language or sex isn’t really a reason for censorship or other restrictions. References to National Socialism on the other hand… so Bushidos Album wasn‘t censored, because of a few swear words, but because of references to National Socialism.

Glad to be of help 💪 Also I think Bushido used rheumatoid patient as an insult because people with rheumatoids often tend to be weak and therefore not manly enough 😭

Basically the lines in here in germany are drawn very wide nowadays, so not everything lands on the Index. And well you can get all those albums online, you just can't buy them officially. Same goes for movies and stuff. The Agency is just indexing stuff that is really really heavy stuff which promotes basically radical extremist stuff nowadays. You should look at the punk band "Die Aerzte" and how they got indexed... and got around the index with another album even though songs on that album were already indexed by the agency. After i think 30 years some of the albums on the index got released again, because the times changed.

I think it's a great thing, rap music is a curse here in Europe, teenagers are obsessed about thug culture here, especially among the immigrant community, they all dress and act the same way here, all inspired by what they see in rap videos

i like fleshlights too

Und ich ex' das Zyankali vor der BPjM lol

yeh...censorship...it does have it's purpose BUT it is so often abused.

also FAPCUP xdd lmaoo

Not only hiphop. Also Metal bands like Cannibal Corpse . Movies. Books. Computer games. We are treated like children here.

Censoring shit is just weak, if you're banning stuff you don't want to hear you're a tyrant lol

Because it's garbage?

The real reason they banned it is simply because rap fucking sucks. Germans have high standards. They even banned Bob Ross videos for being "devoid of artistic quality". But can you blame them? Bob Ross DID suck