Ruhrpott AG (RAG) was a German hip hop group formed 1996 in Bochum.

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RAG first found recognition in the German hip hop scene in 1998, with the album Unter Tage. The second and final album Pottential followed in 2001. RAG's music was characterised by profound, poetical lyrics containing numerous similes, and by relatively restrained, often heavy and melancholic beats.

Ruhrpott is local slang for the heavily industrialised Ruhr Area of northwest Germany, and the abbreviation AG (Aktiengesellschaft) is equivalent to "plc".

Formation

RAG arose from two earlier (and still active) hip hop collectives in the Ruhr Area: Filo Joes (with the two MCs Pahel and Galla) and Raid (MC Aphroe and DJ Mr. Wiz). Mr. Wiz is from Oberhausen, rather than directly from Bochum, and Aphroe is originally from Herne. Both groups have been active in the hip hop scene since the early 1990s.

Raid and Filo Joes encountered each other at jams and other events – they discovered they were linked by a similar mentality, and decided to make music together under the name "Ruhrpott AG". One of their earliest recordings (although not actually released until it appeared on their second album) was the original version of Tief im Westen: a stream of emotions, associations, similes and metaphors concerning the band's native region, the "Ruhrpott", painting a multi-layered and often contradictory but nevertheless affectionate picture.

After two albums the members of RAG went their separate ways in 2003. Pahel and Galla released solo albums on different labels (entitled Natur des Menschen and Swing Kid respectively), while Aphroe, who has stated on his MySpace that there will not be a third RAG album, is also pursuing a solo career. His first solo album 90 was released in 2012.

Galla died in 2011 at the age of 38 after suffering from cerebral infarction.
Lyrics and music

RAG's lyrics and beats, particularly on Unter Tage, conveyed a fairly heavy and melancholic mood, with the band members expressing their feelings about their lives in the Ruhr Area. Their complex use of language, dense with imagery, excurred at times into fantasy. They frequently used metaphors, often relating to their self-knowledge and also their place in the world, for example in the hip hop industry. The second album, Pottential, expanded their range from the early heavy, dreamlike style towards a harder-edged, more concrete lyrical approach in which the storytelling was not always shrouded in indirect imagery.

Examples of this are Nackte Stadt and Pro & Contra (both from the second album). Nackte Stadt is a collage of thoughts and feelings from various city-dwellers, who are all connected by a web of relationships that none of them can see in full. Pro & Contra, another song with a noticeably harder sound than Unter Tage, is a wordplay which builds sentences through the association of words beginning with the syllables pro and kon.

Former members

Galla
Aphroe
Pahel
Mr. Wiz

Anchors Aweigh
RAG Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Anchors Aweigh' by these artists:

Audiostrobelight Drink caffeine to keep your heart beating You're the saddest…
Bouncing Souls Anchors Aweigh my friends, I'll see you another day I'm goin…
Drakeford There's a man inside your soul He knows exactly who you…
Frank Sinatra Saturday night is the loneliest night in the week 'Cause tha…
Herb Miller And His Orchestra The charm of you is comparable to a Christmas tree…
Killer Cadet Band Stand Navy out to sea, fight our battle cry! We'll never…
Michael Penn In her eyes the world began, The universe expanded In her vo…
Military Bands Stand Navy out to sea, Fight our battle cry We'll never chan…
Mormon Tabernacle Choir Stand Navy down the field, Sails set to the sky. We'll never…

The Bouncing Souls anchors aweigh my friends, i'll see you another day I'm goin…
The Military Band Stand Navy out to sea, Fight our battle cry We'll never chan…
The Sun Harbor's Chorus-Documentary Recordings Stand Navy down the field, sails set to the sky We'll…
The U.S. Marines Stand Navy out to sea, Fight our battle cry We'll never chan…
United States Marine Band Stand Navy out to sea, Fight our battle cry We'll never ch…
United States Navy Band Stand Navy out to sea, Fight our battle cry We'll never chan…
Various Artists Anchors aweigh my friends, I'll see you another day I'm goin…
Wax Eighteen I'd never been far from home A young lad seekin' …

We have lyrics for these tracks by RAG:

Automatic I don't gotta switch the gears its automatic Got a bad…
Fallen Thorn in a flesh, pain in your ass. more is…
Intro Woah woah Two a.m. hallucinogens Out of my mind new sensatio…
Kopf Stein Pflaster Sprengsätze für Fahrtkosten und Pennplätze, weil ich für sol…
Kreuzwortfeuer 1) Ich geb dem Lexikon das Wissen, nehm dem Nichts…
Ohne Gewähr Ah. Das macht einen doch kaputt ey. Wühl' mit Stil, mit …
Out of Orbit the sky! Ihr braucht uns nur einmal zu begegnen wie dem…
Rag Time Ich flieg' zurück zu den Siebziger Jahren, in denen zwei…
Ragtime Ich flieg' zurück zu den Siebziger Jahren, In denen zwei…
Requiem Engel weinen, schreien still ьber Ruhestдtten, seh durch Trд…
Stratego 1) Keine Verträge, keine Wege.. ....für wirklich rare Exe…
Taking Flight Got dreams right now That are bigger than life Motherfuckers…
Terrarist War mir noch nie egal, was passiert, weil ich das…
Tief im Westen Leb' im Ballungsgebiet, das an Druckpunkten wie Fallobst aus…
Unter Tage 1) Zwar keine BIs, doch wir MCs sind unsere…

Westwind Wenn Westwinde wehen, kanns Du Ultraschall sehen,wahrnehmen,…

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