Which can sometimes be mercilessly insulting, even hurtful. But rap gets to do that. MCs have a licence to spit and to diss each other – that goes with the territory. By the way, the German verb ...

after an outcry over its award to a rap duo with lyrics denounced as anti-Semitic. German rappers Kollegah and Farid Bang won the hip-hop/urban prize for an album featuring verses comparing their ...