When Milad Nejad was just a newborn baby, his parents fled mid-’80s war-torn Tehran for Hamburg in search of a new beginning. But as he grew up, Milad found himself a stranger in Germany; he slipped from school to the streets, and was behind bars when he decided to forge a new path through music. Taking the moniker Milonair, he signed to Frankfurt label Azzlackz and dropped his debut album AMG in 2014. From the rapid-fire pop-culture puns in “Risiko” to the raw reality of “Umsatz”, the rapper’s propulsive flow drives his street-smart sound.