"Das Urteil" is a diss track

Diss track

A diss track or diss song is a song primarily intended to disparage or insult another person or group. While musical parodies and attacks have always existed, the trend became increasingly common in the hip hop genre as part of the hip hop rivalry phenomenon...

 by Kool Savas

Kool Savas

Savas Yurderi also known as Kool Savas , is a German rapper and hip hop artist. Savas is mostly referred to as "King of Rap" or "King of German Rap"."Savaş" is the Turkish word for "war"....

, against former partner Eko Fresh

Eko Fresh

Ekrem Bora , better known as Eko Fresh and also as Elektro Eko, is a German rapper of Turkish descent.- Early life :...

. The diss was a response to Eko Fresh's "Die Abrechnung". The track was offered as a free download on the website MZEE.com. It was downloaded 100.000 times and became the most known diss track in Germany.

Background

Kool Savas and Eko Fresh began to dispute in 2002, shortly before Eko Fresh left Optik Records

Optik Records

Optik Records was a German hip hop label, which located in Berlin. On May 2002 founded by Kool Savas, until beginning 2008 the label had an contract with Sony BMG. On February 2009 it got closed, because of financial troubles....

. In 2004, Eko Fresh released the diss "Die Abrechnung", where his main target is Kool Savas, but he also attacked his former labelmates and other rappers. In the verse against Kool Savas Eko Fresh became very personal and accused his former colleague of being jealous of his fame.

50 Cent

50 Cent

Curtis James Jackson III , better known by his stage name 50 Cent, is an American rapper, entrepreneur, investor, record producer, and actor. He rose to fame with the release of his albums Get Rich or Die Tryin and The Massacre . Get Rich or Die Tryin has been certified eight times platinum by...

 had a short cameo in the opening with the words, attacking Eko Fresh and his label: "Ey yo whats up. It's the kid 50 Cent. You are now tuned in to my man Kool Savas. Optik Boom. Destroy the German Dream, ya heard? G-G-G-G-G-Unit".

Style

A characteristic and exceptional feature of the song is the fact that it has no chorus. It is only one verse that lasts five minutes. For this reason Kool Savas stated he was usually getting too exhausted while rapping this song. Also because he was willing to drop the feud, he decided to not/occasionally perform the song on stage.

Kool Savas performed the song on MTV TRL.

Music video

The video features a mocking look-a-like Eko Fresh. It starts with Eko Fresh walking in a forest and suddenly discovers a grave, which carries the dates of his careers beginning and ending. He runs through the forest to escape, but he crossed Kool Savas way, who drives a Chrysler 300 C. Then Kool Savas climed out of his car and put Eko Fresh in trunk. In the next shoot pulls Savas the crawling Eko Fresh with a big chain to a grave field and forces him to grub his own. After Eko finished he laid into the coffin and Savas closed it.

Watch video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLll2lD4iE4

External links

• :de:Kool Savas/Diskografie#Disstracks Kool Savas' diss tracks at German Wikipedia
• Kool Savas - Das Urteil at YouTube
• - German and English lyrics at LyricWiki