Heiliga Tatzschai (song)

"Heiliga Tatzschai" (ᚻᛂᛁᛚᛁᚷᚨ ᛨᚨᛏᛉᛮᚨᛁ Sacred Zusea) is a song by Zusian rapper Kindisch Gaia, released on 20 May 2019. Gaia wrote the song in collaboration with renowned Zusian composer Markus von Geschka and rap artist Jakob Walter, and recorded it with several prominent rappers as background vocalists. The song addresses longstanding, , and in Zusea, contrasting the nationalist chant Heiliga Tatzschai with references to , , and. The song satirizes the ultranationalist "Heil Tatzschai!" salute with sharp, guttural Heils in the backing vocals, and also references the Zusian colonialist song "Heia Safari."

The song’s music video was directed by Zusian filmmaker, and frequent Gaia collaborator, Kenzaburō Mukai. For the cover art, the record company commissioned digital artist Franz Schmidt, who created a piece titled "Artefakt" for the song. Depicting an abstract, crumbling Osovan relic in the shape of a face, "Artefakt" was featured as the cover of an issue of Das Tempo, and won several awards.

"Heiliga Tatzschai" topped the Neonmusik Sharp-Hundred for five weeks, and remained in the top 10 for another six weeks after that. The song, and its music video, was also the first rap song to win three different Rhapsody prizes: Best Record, Best Song, and Best Musical Short. Controversy erupted when roughly 200 voting members of the Räich Academy of Music (RdM) boycotted the final round of voting, publishing a joint statement criticizing the song as "anti-Zusian propaganda," and claiming that "propaganda has no place in art."