Reyhan Şahin
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| Lady "Bitch" Ray | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Reyhan Şahin |
| Born | July 3, 1980 |
| Origin | Bremen, Germany |
| Genre(s) | Porn rap, hip-hop |
| Occupation(s) | Rapper |
Reyhan Şahin (*July 3, 1980 or 1981 in Bremen, Germany), also known as Lady "Bitch" Ray, is a German-speaking rapper and radio host of Turkish ethnicity.
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[edit] Education
Şahin was born into a so-called guest worker family from Anatolia in Bremen's neighborhood of Gröpelingen, where she graduated from Gymnasium. She studied linguistics and German Studies at the University of Bremen, where she earned a Master's degree with distinction[1]. Her diploma thesis, which investigated "Youth Language in Hip Hop Culture" has been published in an anthology with the German publisher Brockmeyer-Universitätsverlag. She is currently working on her Ph.D. thesis on the "Semiotics of Clothes".[2]
[edit] Media career
Şahin gained her first experience with public broadcasting with Funkhaus Europa, a station co-produced by two well-renowned public broadcasting companies, Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Radio Bremen. She joined the station as a part-timer and freelancer in 2002, but was sacked in May 2006, because the lyrics of her hip hop songs published via MySpace were considered to transport "pornographic contents", which was not in line with the station's content policy.[3]
[edit] Reception
Şahin's opus has received controversial reviews. According to Süddeutsche Zeitung, the entries in her internet guest book vary from "You are the shame of every Turkish woman" to "You are totally powerful, sexy, I'm frightened of you. Respect!!"[4] In one of the episodes of her show Raywatch, which was broadcast over the internet, she revealed her vagina and masturbated; this show was hotly debated even among her hip hop following.[1]
[edit] Discography
- "Ich hasse dich" ("I hate you") (release date unknown)
- "Du bist krank" ("You're sick") (unknown)
- "Suck It" (unknown)
At this time released EPs
- "Fick mich EP" ("Fuck me EP") (2006)
- "Vorhang auf!" ("Curtains open!") (30 March 2007)
- "Mein Weg" ("My way") (6 December 2007)
[edit] References
- ^ a b Doğan, Kemal: „Hip hop'ta Reyhan rüzgarı“, Hürriyet, January 12, 2007.
- ^ Irler, Klaus: „Keine ist so krass wie ich“, die tageszeitung, July 3, 2006, p. 5.
- ^ Buettner, Julia: „Die Parallelgesellschaft von nebenan: Wie mit den Mitteln des Fernsehens versucht wird, die starren Migranten-Klischees der Deutschen aufzubrechen“, Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 12, 2007, S. 17.
- ^ Buettner, Julia: „Die Parallelgesellschaft von nebenan: Wie mit den Mitteln des Fernsehens versucht wird, die starren Migranten-Klischees der Deutschen aufzubrechen“, Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 12, 2007, p. 17; Translation User:Fossa; italics denote English language in the original.
[edit] Literature
- Şahin, Reyhan (2006): „Jugendsprache im Hip Hop“, in Possession, Quantitative Typologie und Semiotik: Georgisch, Irisch, Türkisch, edited by Thomas Stolz, Bochum: Brockmeyer. ISBN 3-8196-0674-2
[edit] External links
- (German) Lady „Bitch“ Ray at MySpace
