Alligatoah’s “Nachbeben” throws you head-first into an information overload. The narrator doom-scrolls jihadi videos, war headlines and bondage clips, keeps working endless overtime, and fights in a toxic relationship that fires off insults like live ammo. On the surface he brags about having a “head of steel,” yet each grotesque image and each soul-crushing workday chips away at him. Irony, dark comedy and pop-culture name-drops turn the song into a chaotic carousel that mirrors our own late-night online binges.
The title means “aftershock,” and that is the warning hidden beneath the punchlines. Even if we feel numb in the moment, the quake of constant stress, violence and self-medication keeps rumbling inside us long after we close the laptop. Hearts compared to “porcelain shops” remind us how brittle we really are. Alligatoah invites us to dance through the rubble, but he also whispers a final piece of advice: pass auf deine Seele auf – take care of your soul.