Rarely has there been such a buzz in the German rap underground: When Lugatti and 9ine gave the late 2010s their style mashup of hardcore hip-hop, trap, and nostalgic 808s, rap connoisseurs in particular began licking their fingers. The duo serves up tasty flavours with juicy samples, semi-ironic lyrics with triple bass, and nihilistic lines like a boss on the ‘Man kennt sich’ tapes. The response was not long in coming, and within a few years, the two became the hottest thing in the German rap game, which they continue to enrich and scrutinise with other level-ups to this day. But even solo, Lugatti has been firing off whole bunches of tracks, leaving scorch marks in the most important contemporary rap playlists. Whether confident battle tracks or socially critical hip-hop, whether sarcastic local patriotism in his native Cologne or beats on an international production level: Lugatti masters the game with all his flair and completes the circle from the biographical to the social and back again. This is rap music from life, for life.