Ruhrpott AG (RAG) was a German hip hop group formed 1996 in Bochum.
… Read Full Bio ↴Ruhrpott AG (RAG) was a German hip hop group formed 1996 in Bochum.
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
… Read Full Bio ↴Ruhrpott AG (RAG) was a German hip hop group formed 1996 in Bochum.
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
This Land is Your Land
RAG Lyrics
We have lyrics for 'This Land is Your Land' by these artists:
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Arlo Guthrie Pete Seeger This land is your land, this land is my land From…
Arlo Guthrie & Pete Seeger This land is your land, this land is my land From…
Bob Dylan This land is your land, this land is my land From…
Bruce Springsteen Well I rode that ribbon highway I saw above me…
Bruce Springsteen & Pete Seeger This land is your land, this land is my land From…
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Well I rode that ribbon highway I saw above me…
Charlie and the Bhoys This land is your land, this land is my land From…
Counting Crows Well I roll down that ribbon of highway, I saw above…
Derric Johnson's Vocal Orchestra This land is your land this land is my land This…
des & dawn This land is your land This land is my land From the…
Elvin Byrds This land is your land This land is my land From…
Everclear As I Was Walking A Ribbon of Highway I saw above…
Flatt and Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys This land is your land and it's my land from…
Guthrie Arlo & Pete Seeger This land is your land, this land is my land From…
Guthrie Woody This land is your land, and this land is my…
Harry Belafonte Well I rode that ribbon highway I saw above me the…
Jill Sobule As I was walking a ribbon of highway I saw above…
Jim Croce This land is your land This land is my land From Californi…
Jimmy Sturr This land is your land, this land is my land From…
Las Cafeteras This land is your land This land is my land From California…
Lee Greenwood [Chorus] This land is your land, this land is my land From…
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs This land is your land and it's my land from…
Liberty Voices This land is your land this land is my land This…
Little Feat This land is your land. This land is my land…
Little Feat And Friends This land is your land, this land is my land From…
Little Red School House Chorus Pete Seeger Sweet Honey in the Rock Doc Watson [Chorus] This land is your land, This land is my land, Fr…
Milck This land is your land, this land is my land From…
Neil Young & Crazy Horse This land is your land, this land is my land From…
New Christy Minstrels This land is your land, this land is my land From…
Odetta Arlo Guthrie And Company & Will Geer - Narration This land is your land, this land is my land From…
Old Crow Medicine Show As I was walking that ribbon of highway, I saw above…
Old Crow Medicine Show;Joel Rafael;Jimmy LaFave;Donovan;Rosanne Cash;John Leventhal;Sweet Honey In T This land is your land, this land is my land From…
Oscar Brand This land is your land, this land is my land From…
Paul and Mary Peter This land is your land, this land is my land From…
Pete Seeger (Children's) This land is your land, this land is my land From…
Pete Seeger Tao Seeger & Bruce Springsteen Well I rode that ribbon highway I saw above me…
Peter Paul And Mary This land is your land, this land is my land From…
Peter feat. Paul & Mary This land is your land, this land is my land, From…
Peter Paul Mary This land is your land, this land is my land From…
Peter, Paul & Mary This land is your land, this land is my land, From…
Raffi This land is your land, this land is my land From…
SONOS ROAM - Bruce Springsteen Well I rode that ribbon highway I saw above me…
Sue Dodge This land is your land, this land is my land From…
Tanglewood Festival Chorus Boston Pops Orchestra/John Williams This land is your land, this land is my land From…
the dap-kings This land is your land, this land is my land From…
The Hit Crew This land is your land, this land is my land From…
The Kingston Trio Woody Guthrie Chorus: This land is your land. This land is …
The Liberty Voices This land is your land this land is my land This…
The Mike Curb Congregation This land is your land This land is my land From…
The New Christy Minstrels This land is your land, this land is my land From…
The Originals - 1.01 - Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings This land is your land, this land is my land From…
The Seekers This land is your land, this land is my land From…
the the kingston trio Woody Guthrie Chorus: This land is your land. This land is …
The Waterboys This land is your land, this land is my land From…
The Weavers This land is your land This land is my land From…
Trini Lopez This land is your land. This land is my land…
Various Artists Pete Seeger---This Land Is Your Land Words and music by Wood…
Wanda Jackson This land is your land this land is mine land…
Weavers The This Land Is Your Land Performer：The Weavers Composer ：Woo…
Woody & Arlo Guthrie This land is your land, this land is my land From…
Woody Guthrie This land is your land, and this land is my…
Woody Guthrie;Arlo Guthrie This land is your land, this land is my land From…
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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@Skorpio420
From the "Together In Concert" album! I just got the CD in the mail yesterday; and have been listening to that version of it over and over. Man, I may have been born in late '76, but how true that song is (not only to then, but now as well)!
@Jonney1932
What happened back then,,,,is only a prelude of things to come,,,,,,,unless we change! Peace! Love this song, man!!!
@Samariterstrasse
@Skorpio420 well, for us who lost their older brothers in Vietnam or botched invasions of Cambodia and the likes, it is really a heartbreaking song.
@dencarter8077
it could be about Blair tbh.....I bought this album the day it came out - still as relevant today....
@Jbrownefan
It painfully is about our system......originally about Nixon but it fits ALL of our fucking politicians today
@Johngalt43
A song that needs to be heard after each election.
@jazzcoffeefreak
and before each election, too!
@doctorpsycho1960
I remember Guthrie telling his audience that he felt guilty about never writing a Watergate song, and then finally writing this one. He observed that the day after he wrote it, Spiro Agnew resigned. "I've been writing a lot since then...."
@whiskey56
I just heard that version, I had never heard the pre-song, I'll call it ad libing, or Arlolibbing for this song, and I was around then also, 64 yo as I type this. .
@Samariterstrasse
@Skorpio420 Well, 1976 is a long time ago. The hurt of those days may be put behind somewhen. But for many those who served that nightmare is quite present.