Cora E.

Cora E. (born Sylvia Macco; 1968 in Kiel, West Germany) is a former nurse turned hip-hop artist who emerged in the early underground German hip hop culture.

The social criticisms based on personal experience in her music link her to other hip-hop artists in Germany, such as Advanced Chemistry.

[2] Her old school sound interested EMI; they signed her and another female artist, Tic Tac Toe.

The song featured a relatively unpolished production style and traditional delivery, with lyrics that attempted at social criticism via her personal experience by linking a description of her own childhood to the problems of children of working parents.

[2] The song was a tribute to the transformative power of hip-hop and directly refers to its country of origin, the United States: I almost drowned but was lucky the wave from the United States threw me back onto land/ Started to live, became active, and dreamed for the first time without being asleep/ There was something waiting for me and I went for it/ Something that I could get and I stayed on it and that's how it began that I was able to achieve something/