Lost in Music – Rap & Söhne

Lost in Music – Rap & Söhne is a German TV documentary by Uwe Klinkmann and Markus Schneider. The film has a duration of almost 60 minutes and was first aired in 1998 (ZDF) and again on 29 May, 1999 (3Sat). The film is part of a series of German music documentaries, which were all produced in the 1990s and all had "Lost in Music" in their title.

The documentary accompanies the hip hop scene in Germany in the summer of 1998, showing the protagonists in their studios, offices, concerts, flats or in exclusively created music sequences.

The film features Stieber Twins, Fischmob, Fünf Sterne Deluxe, Eins Zwo, Doppelkopf, MC René, Spax, Smudo, Hausmarke, Freundeskreis, Massive Töne.

"Rap & Sons" is a journey to the three biggest centres of German hip hop: Hamburg, Cologne and Stuttgart. The video documents the quality of a Germany-wide collaboration, both economically and artistically, as well as the regionally different perceptions of German-language rap music.

There are two scenes in which the human beatbox is used to accompany rap.

At 27 minutes, 27 seconds the two members of Fünf Sterne Deluxe are performing what is subtitled as "Penthouse Freestyle". The artist Tobi is beatboxing whil Bo is freestyle rapping.

https://youtu.be/_WzXr7dTeYs?t=1645

At 36 minutes, 20 seconds the Stieber Twins are performing an a cappella version of their song "Schlangen sind giftig". Martin does the beatbox while his brother Christian is rapping.

https://youtu.be/_WzXr7dTeYs?t=2177