Propaganda
Sido & Fler
How to study this song
The card for “Propaganda” is built from 126 study entries at B2: 69 German words, 13 adjectives and 44 verb forms. Start with the glossary: Eskapaden, Mitternacht and Dachschaden come up again and again, so they are the ones to know first. This one leans on its verbs: 44 distinct forms against 13 adjectives, so conjugation is where the effort goes. At this level the words on their own are not the problem — it is the way they are put together that takes the work.
The words of this song, in several languages
Every word below is taken from this song and translated by us. Nothing here is the lyric itself — these are the individual words you need in order to follow it.
Vocabulary
| DE | EN | ES | IT | FR | PT | NL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eskapaden | escapades | andanzas | scappatelle | frasques | aventuras | escapades |
| Mitternacht | midnight | medianoche | mezzanotte | minuit | meia-noite | middernacht |
| Dachschaden | screw loose | chifladura | rotella in meno | case en moins | parafuso a menos | tik van de molen |
| Wachphasen | waking phases | fases de vigilia |
What this song teaches you
Level · B2
- Vocabulary words
- 69
- Adjectives
- 13
- Word combos
- 15
- Expressions
- 14
- Verb forms
- 44
- Quiz questions
- 35
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Background
About the song
«Propaganda» is a 2026 single by the Berlin rapper Sido together with his fellow Berliner Fler. It came out at the very end of October 2026: streaming services date it 29 October, and the regional news site ms-aktuell reported that it would be released in the night before Friday, 30 October, a few hours after Sido had presented the full track list of his new album on Instagram. An official video was published on Sido's own YouTube channel, and its title credits the production to The Younginz and Yanek Stärk. The track is short and dense: it lasts just under two minutes and forty seconds.
«Propaganda» is one of the singles from «Frieden», which means "peace", Sido's tenth solo album, announced for 27 November 2026. According to ms-aktuell, the record contains 15 songs, and eleven guest artists appear on nine of them, among them Shindy, Kontra K, Gzuz, Sarah Connor, Marteria, Nico Santos and Montez. The first single from the album, «Issa», had been released in August 2026 and showed a calmer, more reflective Sido. «Propaganda» sounds very different: it goes back to the hard, provocative street rap that made both artists famous.
The pairing has a long history. Sido, whose real name is Paul Würdig, was born in 1980 in East Berlin and grew up from the late 1980s in the Märkisches Viertel, a large housing estate in the north of the city. Fler, born Patrick Decker in 1982 in West Berlin and later named Losenský, grew up in a housing estate in the south-west of the city. Both were signed in the 2000s to the label Aggro Berlin, which turned rough Berlin street rap into a commercial success all over Germany. Fler joined the label in October 2003, and his first solo album, «Neue Deutsche Welle», came out on 1 May 2005 and entered the German album chart at number five. In 2007 Sido rapped on «Was is Beef?», a track from Fler's mixtape «Airmax Muzik».
Later their paths split. According to the German Wikipedia, Sido changed a line about Fler in his song «Mein Testament» on his 2010 live album «MTV Unplugged Live aus'm MV», and Fler answered with several songs that attacked his former label mate. The quarrel is considered over since October 2017, when the rapper Mortel recorded «Nie mehr broke» with both of them for his mixtape «Racaille». «Propaganda» puts the two together again on a Sido single, almost twenty years after their years at Aggro Berlin, which closed in 2009.