A year or two ago I saw this hilarious video online of some German kid rapping on Star Search. In trying to find it for a coworker, I first came across this campy as hell page full of boy German singers and then finally found my way to Lil’ O, the 11-year-old German rapper who won that Star Search competition. I ran babelfish to translate some of his page and got this: The video for this clubbigen TRACK with clear hit potential already is in the box and saves so some surprise. Clubbigen! Tee hee.

I never could find the Star Search video, but apparenly Lil’ O got a record deal and released an Eminem rip-off single called “Party.” Here are some of the lyrics:

Nobody else makes a hard and fist fight as me
I just wanna say one thing, I don´t take E
If I could I just really introduce myself
I´m like the rapper who has drugs laying on his shelf
If any motherfucker says: This is the geatest shit!
Then you can look in the charts, bitch, this is a hit!
And if you wanna sing go on, you can make it fit
But don´t worry my little Pistols are gonna make you quit!

The video is pretty funny — but I’m mostly just fascinated by the fact that it’s totally ok for an 11 year old to rap about smoking huge amounts of weed, murdering people, and taking pills. Is it because he raps in English so it’s sort of cute to the Germans? I’m certainly not offended by it, but why is it that in America kid rappers tend to rap about kid-appropriate things? Li’l Bow Wow (nee Bow Wow) raps songs with titles like “Basketball.” I wonder if this is like the difference between European and American babystrollers…that’s a topic for a different day.

Related topic: Boyz to Men — A guide to prepube soul stars. Or, does success stop when the nuts drop?

(lyrics to “Party” after the break — I lifted them from some german site, and the spelling reflects transcription by a non-native English speaker)

Lil´ O- Party

Said
OJ is coming at ya (hohe)

Chorus

Said
Do you really wanna Party?
Lil´ O
Damn
Said
All day all night
Come and Boogie Down with Said
Lil´ O
DJ Tomekk, that´s right
Said
That´s right, so get down
Do you really wanna Party?
Lil´ O
Damn
Said
Show love don´t hate
Everybody move your body
Lil´ O
That´s me
Said
Come on OJ

Verse 1

Lil´ O
Nobody else makes a hard and fist fight as me
I just wanna say onething, I don´t take E
If I could I just really introduce myself
I´m like the Rapper who has drugs laing on his shelf
If any motherfucker says: This is the geatest shit!
Then you can look in the charts, bitch, this is a hit!
And if you wanna sing go on, you can make it fit
But don´t worry my little Pistols are gonna make you quite!

Chorus

Said
Do you really wanna Party?
All day all night
Come and Boogie Down with Said
Just right so tight
If you really wanna Party
Show love don´t hate
Everybody move your body
Say come on OJ

Verse 2

Lil´ O
Fuck beats, I can do motherfuckin´ accapella
I went in the Kingdome, dance with and rave Ciderella
Or with Joe Baily, jumped up in my cellar
The cops came and peddle with Sarah Michel Galler
I´m the typ of feller that soup myself in the arm
Can´t slep the people it doesn´t due in a harm
My Bro´ trip the alarm, now we can´t get a juice
Oh fuck, we just keep runnin´ befor someone check we brake the rules
Don´t the tools, shutguns, I got enough
I got enough palms when it comes to beatin´ ruffs
So they can blow up the cops, when they actin´ funny
They turn around with bunnycups and say
He honey!

Chorus

Verse 3

Lil´ O
We all killers, natural bloodspillers
Broke out the klinik and smoke cannapillers
We´ve all murdered and all took pills
Just like Lauren Hill when she has sex with Gorillaz
And Michael Mayers, you very admire
I´m inspired by you the way you tire people and cut then through
And the way you do is the way I never knew
Someone must have taught you, so please tell me who?!?
´Cause I´m sick, too a human with no soul
Have you knowen Joe? Ey, he´s an asshole (that´s right!)
That´s why I killed him, sliced him of that wool ???
Because I never call

Chorus