Die Fantastischen Vier ("The Fantastic Four"), often shortened to Fanta 4, is a German
hip hop band from Stuttgart. The members are Michael Schmidt (Smudo), Andreas Rieke, Thomas Dürr, janitor), and Michi Beck. They were, together with
Advanced Chemistry, an early group to rap in the German language. In the mid-1980s, Rieke and Schmidt formed the Terminal Team, which Dürr and Beck joined in 1989. Under the new name Die Fantastischen Vier they made German hip hop, or Deutschen Sprechgesang (German spoken-song) as they called it, popular in Germany. Although there were Germa…
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