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Samy Deluxe
When his self-titled debut album went to number two in the German charts, rap
artist Samy Deluxe found himself at the forefront of a rapidly growing hip-hop
movement of German rap, a style which blended US style rap with western European
influences. He was born Samy Sorge, the son of a Sudanese immigrant who had
moved to Hamburg in the late 1970s. Sorge had a conventional German education
and was brought up in a middle class district of the city where he often felt
out of place with the mainly white residents of his neighbourhood. At the age of
ten he became aware of rap and hip-...
