New album from Nura: For the vibes and towards the hate

“All of your bros are in my DMs / Who’re you calling Hoe? / Ensure that I don’t leak,” Nura raps in “Sidebitch,” a music from her new album “Periodt.” When the Berlin rapper opens her Instagram direct messages, she opens a bottomless pit. Sexist insults like “half-naked prostitutes,” requests like “May you ship a voice message for 30 euros the place you say: please swallow your sperm for me?” or nasty racist insults are simply as commonplace of their messages as dying threats: “You little Whore, we’ll burn you, then fuck you, then kill you.”

It’s no secret that social networks with giant person bases present a platform for problematic content material. Nura due to this fact determined a while in the past to now not share non-public content material on Instagram. The channel is especially about her work as an actress and rapper. Resignation in direction of abusive males? By no means. Moderately, it might have been the impetus to course of these experiences musically. Nura received’t let anybody maintain her mouth shut. Your album “Periodt” (Common), which might be launched on Friday, proves this.

Deep darkish blood. Your blood. Interval blood. Nura kneels bare and smeared as much as her neck in an enormous crimson pool. The quilt alone is a message to all these male creatures who’ve false position fashions of their heads and would like ladies to be behind the range.

Nura additionally makes use of this precise illustration within the video for the one “A Good Lady Up”. She raps: “Get off the bed, go to the kitchen / My final marriage fell aside due to feminism / Bi-bitch, I don’t pay little one help even when you say I’ve to / Nn-na-, after.” the third little one went downhill like your breasts”.

Hägi produced all tracks

Within the opener “Kreiskollabs” Nura then takes concern with the nonetheless male-dominated rap scene. Stylistically, Nura not solely raps within the music, but in addition merely expresses some ideas in a freestyle method. In a pinch, this additionally works with none rhyme if it serves the aim of claiming: “Each dick rapper appears the identical / At most, take a bathe earlier than the present / Put on the identical soiled designers, drive the identical shitty vehicles – it’s completely different from individual to individual.”

In “Playground” she additionally works on rappers who’re on stage with full playback. “Zodiac signal NRW / I puke after I see rappers / Pull out a can of pepper spray from my cleavage”. There are some allusions to German hip-hop historical past. Nura, for instance, takes up a well-liked line of lyrics by Kool Savas from his music “King of Rap”.

Whereas Savas as soon as rapped “I wish to rule rap like Torch, your circulation is sadly weak, Horst / Name me earlier than work, I’ll battle you in shorts”, Nura varieties the next assertion: “Pores and skin brown, eyes crimson, pussy pink / Name me earlier than work, I’ll see you with out make-up too.”

Nura has proven that she has perspective since 2016, when she popped up on the chart radar with SXTN – along with Juju. She rapped traces like “I’ll fuck your mom and not using a dick / I’ll smoke your complete life in a blunt / Each hater is one click on extra / You ain’t price multiple fuck.” Songs have been referred to as “Contemporary Meat” or “Now the Cunts are Again”. Nura likes to polarize. However that’s solely the half reality.

She repeatedly defined that she used sexist traces primarily as self-empowerment. Sentences like “Now the pussies are again” are precisely the sayings that haters consistently put in her face. How are you going to insult Nura when she makes use of these phrases herself? Sadly, your Instagram messages present that that is attainable.

Nura additionally offers with different subjects on “Periodt”. In “Drowned,” for instance, she talks about ideas circling tirelessly in her head, and in “Obsessed” she talks in regards to the finish of a relationship and the try to put it aside.

The truth that Nura, Hägi, has chosen a single producer for the whole album doesn’t imply that there’s a uniform sound to be heard. Partly hypnotic and highly effective entice and drill instrumentals mark the idea, songs like “Für die Vibes” or “Don’t make a scene”, however, are rather more digital and lean in direction of home.

After which there’s “Diego”. Which Diego? Nicely, the one who loves each girl – it doesn’t matter what physique kind she has. Only a actual gentleman. Nura sings about him on this music. So there’s undoubtedly hope.