Samra
With his moody, shadowy beats, Samra came strutting on to Germany's gangsta rap
scene in 2016 as a protégé of Bushido, before his big hit 'Cataleya' became his
first number one single as a solo artist in 2018.
Born in Berlin to Lebanese parents, Hussein Akkouche idolised the new wave of
German rap such as Fler, Azad and Xatar and first started making appearances on
songs by Alpa Gun and Mert, initially under the moniker Samra45. That was later
shortened just to Samra (a feminine name in Arabic meaning 'the dark ones'), and
he started lighting up the scene with early undergroun...
