Ich hab Polizei
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Ich hab Polizei (German for "I have police") is a rap song published in 2015 by Jan Böhmermann, a German TV presenter. For the song, he used the pseudonym POL1Z1STENS0HN (German for "policeman's son" in leetspeak). The song and the sociolect used in it caused a debate in Germany.[1][2]
According to the download rankings of GfK Entertainment, the song reached the rank of six in its first week.[3] It entered the German single charts on 4 December at rank ten.[4]
The song and the video met criticism by journalists and rappers as it was faced with allegations of appropriating cultural expressions of the lower classes on account of mocking them from a middle class point of view.[1] They also expressed the concern of the video condoning police violence.[citation needed]
