Artists like Bushido

Patrick Losenský, known professionally as Fler, is a German rapper and the CEO of Maskulin Music Group.

Michael Schindler, better known by his stage name Shindy, is a German rapper. He is currently signed to record label Sony Music Entertainment after leaving Friends with Money and ersguterjunge.

Felix Martin Andreas Matthias Blume, known professionally as Kollegah, is a German rapper. He releases his music via his own label, Alpha Music Empire.

Volkan Yaman, known professionally as Apache 207, is a German rapper and singer of Turkish descent from Ludwigshafen. He became best known for his breakthrough hit "Roller" in August 2019, which would be the first of several more Top 10 hits.

Sun Diego, also referred to as Sunny, is a German rapper of Ukrainian-Jewish origin from Osnabrück. He is known primarily through his activities as a battle rap artist under the formerly anonymous alias of SpongeBOZZ, a gangster rap parody of SpongeBob SquarePants. Since 2017, Chpakov primarily performs under the stage name Sun Diego using his natural voice instead of performing as SpongeBOZZ.

Die Firma is a German hip hop group formed in Cologne in 1996. It consists of Tatwaffe, Def Benski Obiwahn, and Fader Gladiator. To date, they have released six albums. Their second album sold over 80.000 copies in Germany and reached number 8 on the German album charts. They are best known for their 2005 hit "Die Eine", which peaked at number 2 on the German single charts. The band refers to its own style as "lyrics about beats that represent good and evil".

Mohamed El Moussaoui, known by the stage name MoTrip, is a German rapper of Lebanese descent. His stage name uses the first syllable of his name and plays off the Arabic word for "singer" or "lyricist". MoTrip came into his own with hits such as 2013's "Guten Morgen NSA" and his 2015 song "So wie du bist". Since 2011, he has been under contract with Universal Music.

SSIO is a German rapper and music producer with Afghan roots.

Friedrich Kautz, known professionally as Prinz Pi, is a German rapper. He is also known by the name Prinz Porno. He has performed at the FM4 Frequency Festival, Dockville, Hurricane Festival, Rock am Ring, Southside Festival, and Openair Frauenfeld. He has collaborated with producers and artists such as Beatzarre, Casper, RAF Camora, Nico Santos, Quarterhead, Kaizers Orchestra, Bosse, Capital Bra, Frank Zander, Adel Tawil, Sido, Bausa, and Mark Forster.

K.I.Z is a German hip hop group from Berlin consisting of the rappers Tarek, Nico and Maxim. Until 2018, DJ Craft was also part of the group but decided to leave the group to join an all girls KPOP band. Their lyrics often contain a lot of dark humor and irony as well as sociocritical content.

Samy Sorge, commonly known as Samy Deluxe, is a German rapper and record producer from Hamburg.

Giwar Hajabi, better known by his stage name Xatar, was an Iranian Kurdish-German rapper and businessman. He was the founder and owner of the labels Alles oder Nix Records, Kopfticker Records, Groove Attack TraX and Goldmann Entertainment. He studied Music Business at the London Metropolitan University.

Marten Laciny, better known by his stage name Marteria, is a German rapper. He has met with success in Germany and the single "Verstrahlt", featuring Yasha, was included in the video game FIFA 12.