Freestyle «Gstanzl» battles are a crowd puller in rural Bavaria and Austria. The Gstanzl, a mocking song that consists of four lines, is sung in dialect and has a punch line. It dates from the 19th century from lower bavaria and was created to entertain the peasant population with its humorous but also political content.

As in rap battles opponents are using words as fists. The words are being improvised as quickly as they are spit. They rhyme, they are to a beat and they are aimed directly to a specific weakness of the opponent. And when you see these battles you see their dexterity with words and their use of words as weapons. In the heated atmosphere of the beer tent, the opponents face each other but they actually play to the crowd as it is the reaction of the crowd and the applause that determines the winner.

Walter Vasold is one of the big Gstanzl champions. He sings in A flat major, is a dairy farmer not far from Munich and a real Bavarian original. Asked how he so easily can improvise his answer is; I start to sing from the beginning, but start to think backwards. Means he concentrates on the last two words in the Gstanzl, the punch line. He also knows how to get the attention of 1000 people in a tent. Announcing to drink a Mass, a litre of beer, in one go always helps, he says.

Craig G , is a former member of «The Juice Crew» a hip hop collective of largely Queensbridge-based artists in the mid-to late-1980s. Queensbridge Houses is the largest public housing development in North America and has historically proven to be a hotbed of hip-hop musical talent. In 2008, Craig G and Marley Marl, the hip-hop producer, released a collaborative album titled> Operation: Take back Hip-Hop.

For the documentary we spend time with both artists and let their music worlds collide. Walter goes US and Craig G goes Bavaria.