At his first concert after the Netflix documentary, arrest warrant announces that he is clean – and calls on his fans to do the same.
Millions of people watched the arrest warrant documentary “Babo – The Arrest Warrant Story” – and for just as many, after 90 minutes full of descriptions of cocaine addiction and the drug swamp, there was one question at the end: Is the arrest warrant still consuming or not?
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Arrest seems to have answered this question himself during his appearance in Osnabrück, the first concert since the documentary was published.
“Fuck drugs!”
“You’ve probably all seen my documentary. I just wanted to tell you, I’m clean,” the musician called out to his fans from the stage on the night of November 15th – loud cheers erupted. “And I hope she stays that way too. Screw drugs!”
In the Netflix documentary, which follows arrest warrant’s life story, the German rapper talks about his experiences consuming and dealing drugs. While his criminal past has long been known to fans, the film shows for the first time how close the rapper came to death in his worst moments.
“The more money you have, the more you do coke”
Arrest Warrant, whose real name is Aykut Anhan, got into the drug business as a child. “I started taking cocaine when I was 13,” he says in the documentary. Instead of going to school, the Offenbacher dealt drugs on the market square. Even his success as a rapper initially didn’t change anything: “The more money you have, the more you do coke.”
After the collapse: “I slept for eight days”
In 2022, the rapper suffered a collapse at a concert in Mannheim. “I slept for eight days. Eight days!” he remembers in “Babo – The Arrest Warrant Story”. His therapist warned him that he would perish as a result. But he ignored this warning.
“One gram on the left, one gram on the right, every 20 minutes”
The decisive turning point came a year later: As arrest warrant tells in the film, he reached his lowest point after an argument with his brother Cem, who raps as Capo. “One gram on the left, one gram on the right, every 20 minutes,” is how he describes his cocaine consumption. That night he collapsed and had to be resuscitated. “I was practically dead,” Arrest Warrant says in the documentary.
Brother Capo then had him forcibly admitted to a clinic in Istanbul. “I would have died if I hadn’t gone in there,” says the arrest warrant, looking back. Whether he has now given up drugs remained unclear – until now.
Federal Drug Commissioner praises the documentary
Experts praise the rapper’s open approach to his drug problem in “Babo – The Arrest Warrant Story”. “Huge respect for Aykut” for discussing his addiction in such a way and having the courage to speak about it so openly, said Federal Drug Commissioner Hendrick Streeck (CDU).
According to “Deutschlandfunk”, Streeck said the scenes were violent but also touching. The documentary not only shows the consumption of drugs, but also “how drugs ultimately consume people”. Cocaine in particular is often portrayed as harmless or cool in rap music.
The film “Babo – The Arrest Warrant Story” has been shown on Netflix since October 28th and was produced by Elyas M’Barek and Pacco-Luca Nitsche. In addition to the arrest warrant’s personal story, rap greats such as the now deceased Xatar, but also Celo & Abdi and Jan Delay also appear.
If you or someone you know is facing drug problems, there are several points of contact for help and advice. The nationwide addiction and drug hotline can be reached at 01806-313031 (charges apply), the telephone counseling service at 0800-1110111 or 0800-1110222 (free and anonymous) and the number against grief at 116111 for children and young people and at 0800-1110550 for parents.