Oublié quelque chose, faffie, faffie, oeh ah!

In 2005 the Dutch were intrigued by a weird song rapped in some near-indecipherable urban slang by a group of Amsterdam slackers called De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig (Today’s Youth). There was a national WTF-sentiment but before they knew it ‘Watskeburt?!’ (‘Whatsahappening?!’) became a gigantic hit and the new Dutch word of the year. The song was even played by BBC 1 radio DJ Pete Tong and was Devendra Banhart’s summer-theme for 2005 (“that weird Dutch song”).

Watskeburt?! had a weird hip-hop/electro-vibe and the dopest flow and streetest slang since Snow (you know; “Informer, you no say Daddy me Snow me I'll go blame, A licky Boom Boom Down”) but they were by many considered one-hit wonders. But music by De Neger Des Heils alias Seymour Bits alias Bas Bron alias Bastian alias Comtron and raps by P. Fabergé (“en een ‘e’ met een moeilijk streepje ‘gé’ ”), Willie Wartaal en Vieze Fur (Dirty Fur) proved to be a undefeatable combination.

Nobody expected their Album ‘Parels voor de Zwijnen’ (Pearls for the Swine) to have more good songs beside their hit-single but it actually did. Still, most Dutch still thought JvT were one-hit wonders before they heard their new single ‘Shenkie’.

Like their previous hit this song has a raw electro-sound and totally bullshit lyrics. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they were to conquer more than just the tiny country of The Netherlands.

Whatskeburt?! is their biggest hit. Understandably so.

Nog Lang Niet is from their album and has a brilliant electro/hip hop beat, you’ll be sold after the first 15 seconds.

The winner of the video-contest made this brilliant (?) video for the new single Shenkie.