Haftbefehl

Haftbefehl is the kind of artist I gravitate toward instinctively. A Turkish-Kurdish kid from Offenbach who climbed to the very top of German hip-hop, widely named among the greatest the country has produced. What earns my admiration is that he built it on his own terms, founding his Azzlack label rather than waiting to be discovered. His street slang shreds standard German and turns lived experience into rhythm. The stage name meaning arrest warrant reads less like posturing and more like a refusal to sand off where he came from. That authenticity is what makes him matter.

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Name (English)

Haftbefehl

Name (Japanese)

ハフトベフェール

Reading

はふとべふぇーる

Born

December 16, 1985 (age 40)

Origin

Bergkamen, Province of Westphalia, Germany

Occupation

rapper / recording artist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Ox

• Official sitehttp://www.baba-haft.de/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/haftbefehl85/
• Xhttps://x.com/haftoffiziell
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haftbefehl
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96679

Tags

• Province of Westphalia
• rapper
• recording artist

Last updated

September 28, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.