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    Time Online: Her new album is called Diasporaund, Abdi, Rappen in title piece: “On question of wher I am German, I can in any case say that I am happy in Germany.” What prevents you from denoteing yourself as a German?

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    Abdi: The Germans. Because you don’t want to give me feeling that I’m a German. The Moroccans in Morocco say that I am a German.

    Celo: He is a German with a migration background. Finished. Erist no German. He’s Moroccan with a German passport.

    Abdi: I’m Moroccan.

    Celo: He’ll never be a German.

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    Abdi: I can’t do it.

    Time Online: Warumnicht?

    Abdi: The Germans want to keep German being for mselves, it also wants to leave m somehow. You want something for yourself, something that you can personally identify with. I don’t want to say that all that’s why y’re Nazis.

    Celo: The problem is that every culture is afraid…

    Abdi: … to be eaten by anor culture.

    Celo: Exactly. But we live in a globalized world, mixed in cultures. Now re is…

    Abdi: … a half-Iranian and half-Mexican with an American passport…

    Celo: … but in a third place. You don’t meet m in Mexikooder in Iran…

    Abdi: … but in Bahamas…

    Celo: … and re is a whole andereKultur.

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    Time Online: Verystraight came from Bosnia and Morocco. They are both born in Germany, but designate Germany as a place for foreigners. Why do you feel sign foreign?

    Abdi: Because we are called strangers and Unseingetrichtert was. We are in conflict about wher we are now Fremdesind or not.

    Celo: As soon as I am in any authority and my rolling Rrauskommt…

    Abdi: … or in Disco…

    Celo: … people think, “This is not German.” DieGesellschaft is biased.

    Abdi: You have to accept it and be able to handle it.

    Time Online: On one hand y describe serious issues such as migration, n rappen Sie199 seconds via Rillé – a Frankfurt idiom for drug UndAlkoholrausch. How does that fit toger?

    Celo: Rap Beschreibtverschiedene life situations, wher diaspora or Rillé. Both belong to us. The question is: would we be so if in had grown up in our homeland? No. This is diaspora.

    Time Online: Only in Diaspora do you loiter with a whiskey-Cola can on DenStraßen?

    Celo: Exactly. Wirbeschreiben lives of immigrants here in Germany.

    Time Online: Is that also life of your audience?

    Abdi: We are like our listeners. We live for you. If Abdi is in video clip on alcohol and turns on wheel, n look at, from laptop, sip your cocoa, go to sleep and think: “Abdi has already drunk for me, that’s enough for me too. I myself would make it, for I am sensible. “