As reported in The Independent, Fler also later accused his producer of being a 'money-grabbing Jewish pig.' 'Those who accuse me of being a neo-Nazi don't have a clue about rap,' was Fler's answer to critics Image: Universal Music Indeed, Berlin rapper Fler was accused of promoting neo-Nazism and nationalism with his 2005 album, 'Neue Deutsche Welle' (New German Wave), which celebrated patriotic East Berliner youth, and was promoted with an amended quote from Adolf Hitler.

In 2005, UK newspaper The Independent published an article, 'Rap music and the far right: Germany goes gangsta,' that described a new racist and heavily misogynistic music genre that was fueled by Germany's then-struggling economy and high unemployment. In Germany, the rap subgenre has been on the rise since the mid 2000s when it was modeled on American rappers like Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent who routinely derided women as 'bitches.' But the Teutonic variant soon developed a distinctly political flavor. Purveyors of provocative, politically incorrect and macho gangsta and battle rap music built around violent, misogynistic, homophobic and even racist rhymes are topping the album charts around the world.

When controversial rappers Kollegah and Farid Bang won the award for best rap album at the German Echo music awards - despite the record including a song containing anti-Semitic lyrics that compared the singers' ripped bodies to Auschwitz survivors - it was, in ways, no great surprise.

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