Lukas Rising mixes German freestyle rap with automotive craftsmanship. How the “Mechatrap” genre went viral.
Luxury cars, car parts, tuning packages and counterfeits – these terms have probably been on everyone’s lips in the past few days. After the Brabus CEO’s fiancée, Mili Umicevic, sparked a major argument with PA Sports and his wife Luna with a sharp comment about a Mercedes G-Class with a fake Brabus tuning package, the internet hardly seems to know any other topic.
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There are countless memes and AI-generated videos circulating online that take on the scandal in a humorous way – but one clip in particular stands out from the flood: Lukas Rising’s “Mechatrap”. The musician combines freestyle rap with his job as a car mechatronics engineer and is going viral.
Brabus scandal inspires the internet
With PA Sports and Brabus, two worlds come together that bring joy to many people: German rap and cars. It is therefore hardly surprising that some users were inspired by the drama. While the last few days have been dominated by posts that made fun of Mili Umicevic and the tuning company Brabus, a car mechatronics engineer and rapper Lukas Rising from Grettstadt recently attracted attention.
In his most-clicked video, the 26-year-old, trained automotive mechatronics technician shows how he replaces car parts while rapping along with every move. “Hey, if your engine is vibrating, then candles have to be put in, you have to understand that,” says the clip that he published on his Instagram channel at the beginning of September. In the past few days, Lukas Rising has collected over 200,000 views. He calls the self-created genre “Mechatrap” — a combination of mechatronics and rap. Rising, whose real name is Lukas Lommel, is actually more in the American rap area; There has not yet been a German-language publication.
Automotive freestyle is going viral
He seems to share the Mechatrap videos for fun, and with success: the videos on his social media accounts are very popular. The rapper has now released several “Mechatrap volumes” — and his fans are thrilled. “That’s honestly not bad,” one commented, and “more of it!” writes another.
The beats on which Lukas Rising lays his lines are neither particularly catchy nor are they particularly recognizable. His freestyle isn’t necessarily outstanding either; he sounds almost bored as he raps about broken motor lines and contact spray (“for contact, hey”). But that doesn’t seem to bother anyone: demand is so great that the Grettstadt automotive mechatronics engineer has now published seven “Mechatrap volumes”. The dry formulations, flippant rhymes and the rather poor audio quality give the videos a charming, shabby character – something that seems to be well received online. Humor, like that shown by Luna Rabea in dealing with the Brabus scandal, is well received by the audience.
Lukas Rising’s clips follow an already popular freestyle phenomenon. OG Berger, also a rapper, had previously drawn attention to himself with these types of videos. There he combined his passion for cooking with freestyle rap – “cooking rap” was born. With this, OG Berger laid the foundation for the automotive offshoot of this format online.
While the Grettstadt rapper did not specifically use the Brabus scandal as a source of inspiration, German rapper PA Sports is consciously taking advantage of the media hype surrounding the tuning company. Most recently, he teased a new song that he wrote to his wife Luna as an alternative gift – after his original present, the Mercedes G-Class with a fake Brabus tuning package, was “ruined”.