A German rapper has been added to America's terrorist watchlist because of his alleged links to Islamic State.
The US says Denis Cuspert, known by the stage name Deso Dogg, has appeared in numerous IS recruitment videos, including one in which he held the severed head of a man apparently executed for opposing the group.
The 39-year-old began performing in Berlin around 2002 and appeared in self-produced music videos, including one called Wilkommen In Meiner Welt (Welcome To My World) in which he is flanked by fighting dogs and raps "welcome to my world full of hate and blood".
Cuspert achieved modest success and toured briefly with hip-hop star DMX in 2005.
Reports in German media say he began associating with extremists in 2010, converted to Islam, and pledged his allegiance to IS, also known as ISIL.
The US State Department says Cuspert now goes by the name of Abu Talha al Almani.
He is said to be "emblematic of the type of foreign recruit ISIL seeks for its ranks - individuals who have engaged in criminal activity in their home countries who then travel to Iraq and Syria to commit far worse crimes against the people of those countries".
In a statement released on its website, the State Department describes Cuspert as a "willing pitchman for ISIL atrocities" who "appears to serve as an ISIL recruiter with special emphasis on recruiting German speakers to ISIL".
Cuspert has reportedly renounced his life as a musician, describing himself as a "sinner surrounded by music, drugs, alcohol and women".
There had been a number of recent unconfirmed reports that Cuspert had been killed in Syria but the decision to designate him a global terrorist indicates that the US believes he is still alive.
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