Time Online: Her new album is called Diasporaund, Abdi, Rappen in title piece: "On question of wher I am German, I can in any case say that I am happy in Germany." What prevents you from denoteing yourself as a German?
Abdi: The Germans. Because you don't want to give me feeling that I'm a German. The Moroccans in Morocco say that I am a German.
Celo: He is a German with a migration background. Finished. Erist no German. He's Moroccan with a German passport.
Abdi: I'm Moroccan.
Celo: He'll never be a German.
Abdi: I can't do it.
Time Online: Warumnicht?
Abdi: The Germans want to keep German being for mselves, it also wants to leave m somehow. You want something for yourself, something that you can personally identify with. I don't want to say that all that's why y're Nazis.
Celo: The problem is that every culture is afraid...
Abdi: ... to be eaten by anor culture.
Celo: Exactly. But we live in a globalized world, mixed in cultures. Now re is...
Abdi: ... a half-Iranian and half-Mexican with an American passport...
Celo: ... but in a third place. You don't meet m in Mexikooder in Iran...
Abdi: ... but in Bahamas...
Celo: ... and re is a whole andereKultur.
Time Online: Verystraight came from Bosnia and Morocco. They are both born in Germany, but designate Germany as a place for foreigners. Why do you feel sign foreign?
Abdi: Because we are called strangers and Unseingetrichtert was. We are in conflict about wher we are now Fremdesind or not.
Celo: As soon as I am in any authority and my rolling Rrauskommt...
Abdi: ... or in Disco...
Celo: ... people think, "This is not German." DieGesellschaft is biased.
Abdi: You have to accept it and be able to handle it.
Time Online: On one hand y describe serious issues such as migration, n rappen Sie199 seconds via Rillé – a Frankfurt idiom for drug UndAlkoholrausch. How does that fit toger?
Celo: Rap Beschreibtverschiedene life situations, wher diaspora or Rillé. Both belong to us. The question is: would we be so if in had grown up in our homeland? No. This is diaspora.
Time Online: Only in Diaspora do you loiter with a whiskey-Cola can on DenStraßen?
Celo: Exactly. Wirbeschreiben lives of immigrants here in Germany.
Time Online: Is that also life of your audience?
Abdi: We are like our listeners. We live for you. If Abdi is in video clip on alcohol and turns on wheel, n look at, from laptop, sip your cocoa, go to sleep and think: "Abdi has already drunk for me, that's enough for me too. I myself would make it, for I am sensible. "