In the opinion of the city student council, the music and life of the Offenbach rapper arrest warrant should be discussed in class. “Arrest warrant is not a fringe phenomenon – it is part of the cultural DNA of our city and our generation,” said Luca Albert Dobrita, city school spokesman for Offenbach near Frankfurt/Main. His language, his career and his themes spoke of reality which many young people live in the city every day. The Hessischer Rundfunk reported first.
The Council called for the “conscious examination of his work and his life path in class – especially in the subjects of music, politics and economics as well as German.” The students even made specific suggestions on the city school council’s website:
- In music class: as an analysis of modern rhythm, speech rhythm and flow
- In German class: to investigate language variations, dialectics, multilingualism and social expression
- In politics class: as an introduction to topics such as social inequality, migration, opportunities for advancement and integration
“If school is to be a place where life is lived, then it should not only read Goethe, but also listen to an arrest warrant,” said Cengizhan Nas, deputy city school spokesman. Education should not ignore how young people really speak, feel and think. And they wouldn’t do that like Goethe did a good 200 years ago.
The students’ demands also come against the background of one new Netflix documentary about Aykut Anhan, who calls himself a rapper arrest warrant. The documentary spans the Offenbach high-rise district of Mainpark, where Anhan grew up, through his meteoric rise as a musician to psychological problems and drug use, which were almost fatal.