Artists like Genetikk

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Lukas Strobel, better known by his stage name Alligatoah, is a German rapper, singer, producer and DJ signed to the independent German hip hop record label Trailerpark. He also publishes music for his two fictional characters Kaliba 69 (rapper) and DJ Deagle (producer) under his stage name. His albums Triebwerke and Musik ist keine Lösung were certified gold while the single "Willst du" was certified platinum.

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.

The Media Control charts are record charts compiled by Media Control on behalf of the German record industry. They include the "Single Top 100" and the "Album Top 100" chart. The chart week runs from Friday to Thursday, and the chart compilations are published on Tuesday for the record industry. The entire top 100 singles and top 100 albums are officially released the following Friday by Media Control. The charts are based on sales of physical singles and albums from retail outlets as well as permanent music downloads.