SSIO about Xatar: friendship, legacy and a finished album.
At the beginning of the year, German rap lost one of its most important voices: Xatar, whose real name is Giwar Hajabi. Hardly anyone has had such a lasting impact on hip-hop culture – as a rapper, entrepreneur, label boss of Alles or Nix Records and as a symbolic figure between the street and the mainstream. His rise from the Bonn underground to the big screen in Fatih Akin’s “Rheingold” made him…
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