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Brothers Keepers is tagged as: hip hop, german, hip-hop, rap, deutschrap

Brothers Keepers is a German-based transnational anti-racism project, bringing together hip hop, reggae and soul musicians, headed primarily by Afro-Germans.
The idea for the project took root in the 1990s, and when a German of Mozambiquan origin, named Alberto Adriano, was brutally killed by neo-Nazis in Dessau (East Germany) in 2000, a group of musicians decided to organize and fight back. Brothers Keepers has local groups active in information campaigns, presenting teach-ins at schools etc. However the project primarily gained prominence in Germany through the collaborative album, Lightkultur. The title is a pun on conservative politician Günther Beckstein’s term “deutsche Leitkultur” (“German leading culture”), demanding that foreigners subject themselves to the Democratic state-organization of Germany. The album features German musicians such as Torch, Samy Deluxe, Afrob, Denyo from the Beginner and D-Flame. The proceeds of this album went to charity.
The lyrics on the album are influenced by Black Power rhetoric and are militantly anti-Nazi, proposing solutions to racism ranging from education to armed resistance. The militancy is especially well illustrated in the German TOP 10 hit “Adriano”, a seven minute tour de force produce...
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Top 10 Brothers Keepers Songs
Tierlieb (Interlude)
Peoples
Verirrte Seelen (Interlude)
So Gerne
Bereit
The Global Casino
El Rhouti
Opportunity
4 Minutes
Am I
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Top 10 Brothers Keepers Albums
Am I My Brother's Keeper?
Lightkultur
Adriano (Letzte Warnung)
Bereit
Will We Ever Know
Fantasy Killer
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Forver Never Ending
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