Ikkimel

german Deutschrap electronic techno Hip-Hop

Ikkimel (bourgeois Melina Gaby Strauß) is a German rapper from Berlin-Tempelhof. Her texts are mostly provocative and shaped by explicit, often sexualized content and often deal with atzentism, parties, drugs and sex, Whereby she incorporates the background word games and questioned ironically traditional masculinity pictures. Musically, it combines hyperpop and jersey club elements with chopped beats as well as trance and house samples. She describes her style as "Fotzenstyle." She completed a combination bachelor in German philology and social and cultural anthropology with a focus on linguistics at the Free University of Berlin. In the meantime she worked in the laboratory for brain and language research (Brain Language Laboratory). In 2021 she received a promotion of the Music Initiative. In the same year she was heard as a feature on "Spice Pappen Parts" by DJ Reckless and MC Bomber. She had more features on "Mine are good" (2022) from TIS L, as well as on "Your Ass" (2023) by Yung FSK18 and rat boy. Her first own single "To get out" also appeared in 2023, followed by a feature on Pavelo & Schnells "Amicelli", which is rather atypical for Ikkimel from the genre (new Neue Deutsche Welle). On May 5, 2023, her debut EP "Aszendent Bitch" appeared. In 2023, the Four Music (Sony Music) label signed it. Her first release under this label, the single keta and riot produced by Barré, reached 89th place on the German charts. A year later, her song “Pay” from the EP did n...