{"id":1615,"date":"2011-10-25T16:33:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2011-10-25T16:33:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:33:30","slug":"dat-ik-altijd-huiswerk-heb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/dat-ik-altijd-huiswerk-heb\/","title":{"rendered":"Dat ik altijd huiswerk heb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I continue to think that music is a good way of starting to understand a language. \u00a0It takes work, but parsing the lines to a simple song can be a fun way to get into some new, perhaps offbeat, vocabulary. \u00a0Sometimes songs are a good window into nonsense words, or idiomatic facets of language that even conversation neglects.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of my friends, I recently discovered a great Dutch gem from 1980 which could serve exactly this purpose. \u00a0It&#8217;s also, just, great to listen to. \u00a0The artist is Danny Boy, an adolescent rapper in suspenders, and the concept was inspired by early rap records (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wat.tv\/video\/joe-bataan-rappo-clappo-12fbt_2h8bg_.html\">particularly Joe Bataan&#8217;s &#8220;Rappo Clappo,&#8221;<\/a>) that were becoming more popular in the Netherlands at that time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Danny Boy Repper de Klep\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NsgSp9IrDUo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Danny Boy was, really, just around for the fun of it, but he hasn&#8217;t been forgotten. \u00a0A track on Dutch rapper Extince&#8217;s new record references the nonsense &#8220;Repper-de-Klep&#8221; chorus of Danny Boy&#8217;s almost-hit. \u00a0And&#8230;I&#8217;m pretty sure that might be Danny Boy himself in the video, in the blazer and glasses? \u00a0Then again, it could just be another blazered Dutchman. \u00a0You decide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ITIlxS_oX18\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ITIlxS_oX18<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I continue to think that music is a good way of starting to understand a language. \u00a0It takes work, but parsing the lines to a simple song can be a fun way to get into some new, perhaps offbeat, vocabulary. \u00a0Sometimes songs are a good window into nonsense words, or idiomatic facets of language that&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/dat-ik-altijd-huiswerk-heb\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[60713],"tags":[86135,115676,115872,2200,2446],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture-2","tag-86135","tag-danny-boy","tag-extince","tag-hip-hop","tag-rap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}