Nina is lying in bed in Bangkok in her underwear and drinking beer. Kat sits in a white kitchen in Portugal and eats a bowl of pasta with pesto. “A cunt is a horny slut who loves herself,” she smacks her lips and grins into the camera. She needs to know: “Cunts in power” is the title of the album that the friends will release in February.
6euroneunzig is the name of the rap duo consisting of Nina Antonia Gessler and Katharina Hoffmeister (Nina & Kat). The genre: “Fotzenrap” – i.e. rap, techno-trash, new wave and electronic music, paired with female self-empowerment. “Fotzenrap is music that is fun, empowering, doesn’t mince words, is in-your-face and sex-positive,” says Nina Gessler in a video conversation with taz. For Hoffmeister, it’s about reclaiming space musically and attacking the patriarchy. Fotzenrap is always political. The goal: “Take men in their mouths.”
And that works: 6euroneunzig now has over 80,000 followers Instagram and more than 2.5 million streams on Spotify. Last summer, the two 26-year-olds played almost every week at festivals, such as Fusion or “Rave against the Zaun” in Görli. Her debut album “Fotzen an die Macht” will be released at the beginning of February. From March, the Berliners will be going on a tour of the same name.
Cunt is no longer considered a misogynistic insult. Flinta* (women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans and agender people) have adopted the term as an expression of community and self-empowerment. The cunt revival is thanks to the “Biggest cunt in town”: Mama Ikkimel. It was only with the success of the rapper from Tempelhof that the genre reached the mainstream.
Solidarity in the Fotzenrap gang
It’s not new. Almost ten years ago, the former rap duo SXTN went into the club with their “pussies”, Shirin David coined the appropriate adjective: “cunty”. But the narrative used to be: There can only ever be one cunt rapper, according to 6euroneunzig. Today they are just two of many cunt rappers. “We are often asked about competition, but we don’t want to compare ourselves,” says Hoffmeister. “We support each other in the Fotzenrap gang, there is a basic feeling of solidarity.” It was long overdue for Flinta* to become bigger in the music scene.
I observe that the misogyny trend is increasing sharply
Katharina Hoffmeister, 6 euroone and ninety
Rap is still male dominated. In an industry comparison from 2022 only around 13 percent of hip-hop titles by women, while in the pop genre about a third were from female artists. Gessler also reports: “When I was young, I heard a lot of misogynistic rap. At the time I couldn’t classify it, it was just normal. Nobody around me criticized it.” It was only later that she realized that the music did not match her values. Instead of Celo & Abdi or 187 Street Gang, she increasingly listened to SXTN. In 2017, Hoffmeister and Gessler were on their tour independently of each other. Today they are following in their footsteps.
6euroneunzig’s debut album is not only about sex, parties, horny bitches and sexist guys, but is also a sharp criticism of capitalism and society. “In fifty years people will say again “No one knew” / They just wanted no one to pollute our beautiful country,” it says in “Halz Maul”. Or: “Fi-fi-fuck Axel Springer, fuck Söder, fuck Lindner / Fuck all the victims who don’t prevent this shit.” In front of the CDU party headquarters they publish videos in which they sing “Eat the Rich” and comment: “The CDU makes politics for the upper class and doesn’t give a shit about social justice.”
“We want to name grievances in our texts in order to draw attention to them,” explains Hoffmeister. The starting point is our own experiences as white, German women. In their songs they also address sexism, sexual violence, consumer behavior, female self-determination and the rejection of common beauty and gender ideals. “Accepting yourself and shitting on the beauty industry is the most anti-capitalist thing you can do as a woman in this society,” says Hoffmeister. Her song “Tits Training” can be read as a counterpart to Shirins David’s “Belly Legs Po,” which reproduces a standardized ideal of beauty. In the counter-proposal by 6euroneunzig it says: “What stomach, legs, butt? I’m training my tits / Put your clerk somewhere else and go fuck yourself / I eat kebabs, burgers, fries and don’t shave my lips”.
Hate comments on social media
Hoffmeister says she has wanted to make music for a long time. “I always thought to myself: Rapping is an extremely cool way to channel anger.” However, the male-dominated scene put her off. For a long time, Hoffmeister only rapped at home on YouTube beats. It wasn’t until Nina Gessler moved into her shared apartment that the two took music seriously. They had met six months earlier at an audition for the Konrad Wolf Drama School in Potsdam – where they were kicked out in the third round.
I don’t hate men, I just hate what men do.
From one of the new songs
In 2023, the friends recorded their first tracks, set up Instagram and Tiktok profiles and gave themselves a name: 6euroneunzig – named after the happy hour price of the cocktails in the bar where the idea came about. “Our first videos quickly received over 100,000 views on Instagram,” says Hoffmeister. The reason: hate. Around 80 percent of the comments were initially hate, 99 percent from men. They were insulted as “whores” and “whores” and received comments like: “The name says it all, you can get them for the whole weekend for that price” or “I don’t want one of those anyway.”
How to deal with it: Turn the hate around. In “No Rizz No Fun” they sing something like: “We are the hottest, hotter than most / Eh-eh, don’t touch, these bitches bite / 6 euroone and ninety, you can’t afford that”. The motto: “Hate is the new love.” An as yet unreleased song from the new album says something like: “I don’t hate men, I just hate what men do.” Gessler explains: Men are not the problem, but rather their socialization.
“I am observing that the trend towards misogyny is increasing significantly,” says Hoffmeister. Women in public are almost always confronted with hate on social networks. She suspects that this is due to injured male egos who devalue women in order to enhance themselves. “Our progressive nature is so far removed from traditional role models that it irritates many men,” she says.
But these reactions would not only cause incomprehension, but above all fear: fear that they would ruin the youth, that all women could become like them, and the fear that they represent a threat to their own position of power. She still finds it incomprehensible “how armpit hair can be so bad for people that it makes us wish us dead.”
Women who rap about sex and denounce the patriarchy are considered provocative per se – including 6euroneunzig. “But our primary aim is not to provoke,” said the duo. “The lyrics are not intentionally provocative. They are exaggerated.” In rap, not everything has to correspond to reality. “It’s about us being able to do it if we want to.” One track also says: “If I want, I’ll take two guys with me tonight / If I want, I’ll show my tits to the whole city.” The goal: “To rap away our shame as women.”
On May 2nd and 3rd, 2026, 6euroneunzig will perform at SO36 in Berlin.