Summer Cem orbited Germany's hip-hop scene for years before finding his groove—but when he did, he exploded like dynamite. His 2012 album, Sucuk & Champagner, was a hit across German-speaking Europe and finally pushed his eerily calm flow twinned with foreboding beats to the forefront of the genre. And he just kept unfurling music in rapid-fire fashion throughout the 2010s, peaking with the smash Cemesis in 2016. Hits like "Nimm mich mit" sound like the calm before the storm; intensity bubbling beneath a surface of conversational rhymes, haunting vocal samples, piano and ghost-march beats.