Sido's World
“Screw you! – Screw all of you!” With these words, Sido – Germany's best-known gangster rapper, who hails who from Berlin – greets his fans at a concert. When he pulls out all the stops for his most famous number, the “Fucked up the Ass Song,” he has most of his young fans at his feet. Sido is not just a famous rapper: he is a phenomenon. Adults in particular regard him popularity as inexplicable, but he is the hero of a generation of disadvantaged ghetto-dwellers, of young people without opportunities who see no perspectives for a better life. Sido came up from the bottom, and has worked his way to the top through hard work and ambition – combined with astute marketing. Sido was the man with the mask, a person who didn't want to show his face: “I wanted to be like Superman, the man no one would recognize.” Pornographic, aggressive, and misogynist: from the very beginning, he styled himself as the rapper who simply takes what he wants. And it worked. Through his rap music, Sido has become a millionaire, and the hero of a socially disadvantaged milieu. Typically for countless young people today, he dropped out of school, failed to complete a teacher training course, had problems with the police – and despite everything, ended up making it big. Sido – whose real name is Paul Würdig – is the protagonist of the 45-minute documentary “Sido’s World” – he is hero, lead actor, and rapporteur of life on the street. The film accompanies him at rehearsals, concerts, backstage, and shooting a video. We watch him engaging in experimentation with “The Magic Flute,” and in his tattoo studio, where he tells us about his dreams. So much has changed in the life of this former school dropout: today, Sido is engaged, his business is working out, he no longer has so much to prove. “I'm older now, I have a new life. I don't want to lose that.”
