Arrest Warrant, the eminently important man of pain in German rap, dismantles himself at a kind of concert in Frankfurt.
Arrest Warrant wants to deny something right from the start. Lately, he says, he keeps hearing that “I’m somehow broken.” But that’s not true at all. Which, at first glance, he might actually be right about. He actually seems tidy and clear on this Sunday evening when he celebrates his 39th birthday in Frankfurt’s Jahrhunderthalle. He wears John Lennon memory glasses (vision correction, not sunglasses), light-colored jeans with a hole and a gray-green sweater in the pattern of something like Berlin public transport upholstery from the mid-1990s.