11. Warten

The rose of Sharon makes you happy, nutmeg addicted and the scent of flowers can only be smelled by women. Yip. In the mean time, the Blumentöpfe (flower pots), use said word as their band name. However, you are more likely to find the musicians to be entertaining than the actual thing bearing the same name. Like when was the last time you wanted to spend an hour with a pot? Exactly. However, the five cats are back, meaning that Roger, Heinemann, Kung Shu, Holunder and DJ Sepalot, grew 19 plants to show to us, with the whole thing getting labeled "Eins A".

And so we start with the "Intro", that is a jazzy little something, and it has us reminisce of drinking Gin Tonic in a lounge. However, this polished start up is quickly replaced by "T.O.P.F.", as here we are getting some of those good old 'yo, am I not quite a nifty feller' rhymes. Meaning we are getting punchlines like "bleiben unsere Texte so herausragend wie Nasen" [our lyrics stand out like noses] or "die meisten stehen für gar nichts, ihnen fehlt nur das Sitzfleisch" [most stand for nothing, they just lack the ability to sit still]. That's all pretty good and gets the matching beat. "Medizin" is then analyzing your bad qualities, and we are laughing whole hearted and full malicious joy about this loser, that has nothing in common with us. Well,.... Anyways, the Töpfe intent do play drug store keeper, but the decor of the store, meaning the beat, is not really to our complete liking. Afterwards, there's the title track "Eins A", that is progressing interestingly, as the beat has a couple of wholes, making this constantly stop and going again.

Holunder then tries to find the microphone in the fog of smoke on "Nur dass Ihr wisst", where he expresses, that smoking pot and hip hop should not always be mentioned in the same breath. Hence he advises his colleagues: "warum haltet ihr's mit dem Kiffen nicht wie mit dem Wixen? Macht ja auch fast jeder, aber kaum einer rappt davon". [why don't you keep it with smoking weed the way you keep it wanking: almost everyone is doing it too, but you rarely rhyme about it]. However, finally Holunder concludes "doch alles was ich durchzieh' ist mein Ding, und Emcees durch den Kakao" [that's a wordplay that can't be translated]. Next there's "Die Jungs aus dem Reihenhaus", where the emcees practice understatements. Lyrically this is pretty interesting, as we are learning more about the artists. The beat on the other hand is monotonous, what means it's rather boring. And while many people fail doing a worthwhile "Interlude", the Töpfe are growing with the challenge, as they are asking the questions: 'what's worse, this or that?'. And there are a couple of real nice rhymes featured on here. The album continues musically satisfying with "Flirtaholics" and "Purer Stoff", with both borrowing elements from jazz. The first track is also featuring very funny rhymes, what makes the song one of the best on the album.

Continuing on we get "Neben dem Ton", where a guitar is keeping this crisp, and the lyrics make this a manifest of alternatives. And about halfway through the track, things change and get even better. And once again we can add a cut to the list of best songs of the album. "Warten" [to wait] is reminding us where we are actually doing that: to wait. The voices are unnecessarily altered, but the music is making a comfortable leap, about ten years back in time. More ironic is "Blues", that's like the anti-thesis to "Medizin", as now we hear about someone that can't do wrong, who has everything, but that still isn't content with himself. More characters are being analyzed on "Ich bin so", where the main person is being described on the level of 'I'm so hip hop, that...'. But don't forget to hear between the lines, but at the same time to enjoy rhymes like "ich bin so heiss wenn ich rappe, bei mir fall'n die Heizkosten weg" [I'm so hot when I rhyme, I don't have any heating costs].

Kung Shu is handed a solo track with "Shu's Quiz". Here he is having us do a quiz, that isn't too hard to solve though. And the piano is making this sound very comfortable. There's some crackling at the beginning of "Schönen Gruss", that is combined with more piano sounds, and everything together is resulting in a good beat. This track is featuring a truckload of punchlines, just about one every line. So this is very, very good. Part two of the cut is featuring more critical, however also more stereotypical rhymes, and in part three we are treated to more creative disses. The Persuaders are opening up "Liebe & Hass", that is giving us a list of things the Töpfe love, or hate. Of course always with a sarcastic undertone. The beat of "R'n'B" is once more really original and good, while in contrast the one chosen for "Ihr kriegt uns nicht still" is not. But wait, we shouldn't forget to mention that "R'n'B" does some Las Vegas quality voice impersonations of other German rappers. Dope. And well, finally, there's only "Danke" left, that's pretty much an elaboration on the sleeve notes thank youse.

And so we shall now help to wrap things up. But we will not bother too much when it comes to some of the beats. Also in today's time of groomed flows, some of the ways the cats rhyme sound old school. However, if you take a look at the actual content, it will be one of those things that we will carefully wrap up, as the content is ill and hence the best part of the album, it giving us wordplay, humor, punchlines and honest opinions. So it's fair to say that the lyrical pots are growing the most beautiful plants.