Shipmaster:
one, two, one two three
Say "hey," say "ho"
this is Fettes Brot in Platt¹ in the Disco
Yo I'm the guy in the aft² with the turntable³
I shout a lot of Platt in the microphone
if you're not from the north, it's hard to understand
I lay the beats like the Störtebeker's⁴ crew
In the north, we don't call it a "disco" but instead "dans op de deel"⁵
I live on the water, we all do,
and there we all say "hummel hummel mors mors!"⁶
I'm out, the ship master is like the others: northern by nature
Gaze:
Tell me, do you know what life gives me here?
What it usually means when your destiny misleads you?
And in the morning you forget your sandwiches on the kitchen table
But you realize you lost them when you got to Blohm and Voss⁷
it's not as easy as you think, my boy
it's a shit work and makes your back crooked
it's hard enough, and we don't punch each other as much
And if we cut down our times, then a Holsten⁸ in the gut
Mao Tse Tung was never a subject with us
Mom said, "Politicians, they come and go,
importantly, my boy, being serious
those in the south eat fish sticks, and we eat salmon!
Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!
Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!
Tobi & Bo:
here come your heroes
Tobi & Bo please report
yo here comes disco like Saturday Night, as in John Travolta
helter-skelter the bass pumps to the Upper Volta⁹
hello people we are here in the one hand a micro
in the other a beer, we hear our music very loud
hey girly do you wanna be my bride?
night fever, night fever, here with us in the north uuh yeah!
always more night fever, night fever here with us in the north! uuh yeah!
Us in the north naturally seduce you disco-maniacally, panicked, fully enraged
with our ear drum massage, no embarrassment in this passage
'cause the disco ball Tobi-tob always runs
when I'm practicing at the mic and the laserdancer MK Bo steals the show
Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!
Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!
Hey Rabauke! Where will the the dance-leg swing?
(DJ Rabauke) with us Northerners!
Renz:
yeah, I was at a young age born at the water's edge
Moin!¹⁰ the stiff breeze from fore¹¹ always gives me cold ears
I go barhopping every evening
it comes first from the back, when all my money is gone
Hey dude¹², move out of my sunlight!
I am what I am, all the scalawags come after me
Come on up to see the North
There's always something going on behind the dikes
The taste's not great but I don't care
You're probably not a Schnimp¹³
Watch out, you weirdo, you'll get made fun of
König Boris:
I love the ships, the sea, and the harbor
I love falling asleep stoned on the beach of the Elbe after a party
I'm a Hamburg boy and I come in full-swing
when I bounce and jump and sing about Hamburg
Saturday night - a Schnapps and cool blondes
on the fly, another fish cake
Störtebeke already knew the north rocks
so he docked his boat here
You heard right, it's disco time
Why? Because everyone's screaming for disco
You wonder if I'm telling the truth?
Well of course, because I'm northern by nature!
Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!
Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!
Eißfeldt:
the disco beat is right up my alley
because I'm a disco-sixer
Oh, I sing, Eißfeldt of the water's edge
sends his disco vibration over the whole country
Northern Lights like me are none too keen
to comply with rules pronounced by any court
No, he breaks the norm and the laws skillfully
That's why it's just flat land but a wide horizon
not born in Jamaica but roll off the tongue
it's a no-brainer for a Hamburg boy¹⁴
bede bey bey bede bey bey come follow me!
I drink Holsten and I love St. Pauli¹⁵!
Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!
Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!
DJ Rabauke: dance with me, Marie!
Fischmob:
yo Koze and Kozmic are in the house
pull off your house shoes and pull on your dancing shoes
we got another funky rap for you
from the south to the west to the east to the north
come on fischmob go off an' go off an' go off an' go off!
here comes a rap in the cornfield
and if you fall to the front
know you hold the grain which he promises
Water does not promise to
because water can't speak, but break dams
Dams that break under the flooding of the North Sea
and I run away when I see a murder
"run run" calls behind my trainer
"you should not take up running with the guys from the dumpster!"
now we are behind the wheel and holding determined, not the beak
unless you pull it out the Mikrofonka
we got the fever! Saturday night fever, night fever, fever thermometer!
Saturday night fever, night fever, fever thermometer!
MK Cram:
No, hey, MK Cram, and let me start now,
Northern By Nature, do you understand that?
At the microphone with my words
I'm really quick, do you hear it fast?
I come to Germany, got an accent, but that's nothing
I am, in spite of everything, an entire man you don't know,
but he runs all day and all night,
still waiting a moment
Northern By Nature, and I'm gonna save your day.
Super Mario:
Hey hey hey all hands on microphone
bucking the king from his crown
give Renz a Flensburger¹⁶
And push the ship on a reef.
It's me, the engineer, meander 'round a maze
like a cable, I'm not dumb
Huh, I've got a cover like a crab and am researching as a cod
just Northerner at the mixing table
pure blossom & april fish are my ears
because I'm also born
in the country yeah and that's in the tabloids
my hometown Hamburg
yeah laugh quietly, but don't say anything when I mix up and you trick out
I'm only fix due to my northern nature
Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!
Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!
Tabula Rasa:
we're northern, not just northern but the northernmost
Tabula Rasa - this is he, he, I, who I am
locally literally defined by Flensburg
I hope it does not bother you if I took time from Hamburg
with the pitchfork in hand, we often stand at the the sandy Baltic beach
look at the blue gray waves - familiar country
the north the north the north turn it up,
watch me walk on the water, not drowning
I'm always cold, and always have the flu
blowing my nose, when it once again drips
got something you need to get out
both snot and the Danish language
We both - Danish rhymes, disco, Donnebrog¹⁷
Believe it, because we live south of the border
Tabula Rasa, we are here, we give you the chance
We give the song that extra something with our amazing rap
The rhyme flows, oh - you could feel the train?
Because what you enjoyed was Fettes Brot
Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!
Northern, uh uh uhhh! Northern by nature!