No music genre is as successful today as German rap. Gangster rappers like Capital Bra, Bonez MC and Farid Bang win everything. But how gangsters are the rappers really? What is real and what is fake? And what's wrong with the supposed backers? The reporters Alena Jabarine and Manuel Daubenberger tried to look behind the scenes of the gangster rap business. We evaluated social media profiles for months, spoke to criminal police and prosecutors and to artists who are themselves big in the gangster rap business: Fler, Manuellsen and Sinan-G. And found out: Very few gangster rappers are real gangsters. But, many have close connections to organized crime.
