{"id":3495,"date":"2015-09-10T07:20:06","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T07:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2015-09-11T12:31:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T12:31:35","slug":"netherlands-hip-hop-nederhop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/dutch\/netherlands-hip-hop-nederhop\/","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands + Hip Hop = Nederhop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I was at a dinner party last Saturday with my husband&#8217;s cousins and we were listening to music. Riccardo is a BIG hip hop fan so he quickly put some songs he liked (especially after seeing &#8220;Straight Outta Compton&#8221; a week ago). People started commenting on hip hop and the most baffling term came up in the conversation&#8230;&#8230;..<em>Nederhop<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I had to interrupt the conversation to make sure I had heard (and understood) this right&#8230;.<em>Nederhop.<\/em>&#8230;as in\u00a0<em>Nederlands\u00a0<\/em>AND hip hop? This must be a\u00a0<em>misverstand!<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It turns out that it wasn&#8217;t a misunderstanding. There is such thing as\u00a0<em>Nederhop<\/em> and it is exactly like it sounds&#8230;hip hop in Dutch. My husband and his cousins quickly proceed to enlighten me with all sorts of names for artists of this legendary\u00a0<em>Nederhop<\/em>\u00a0music genre which wasn&#8217;t only popular in the Netherlands but also in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This strange but entertaining music genre began in the 80s. It wasn&#8217;t until the late 80s when the first\u00a0<em>Nederhop<\/em>\u00a0song made it to the top hits in Europe. This was a remake of Madonna&#8217;s &#8220;Holiday&#8221; song by the artists MC Miker G and DJ Sven. The song is actually still in English, but, because they are Dutch, it is considered to be part of the\u00a0<em>Nederhop<\/em> genre.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MC Miker G &amp; DJ Sven - Holiday Rap - BBC 1986\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yVR9JykPC-0?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 style=\"text-align: justify\">According to my research, the first true\u00a0<em>Nederhop<\/em>\u00a0song, meaning a hip hop song in Dutch, came out until the early 1990s and it was by Osdorp Posse. The album is titled\u00a0<em>Osdorp Stijl<\/em> and, according to the husband, the best song is\u00a0<i>Origineel Amsterdams.\u00a0<\/i>This song is about the Dutch spoken in Amsterdam and Osdorp Posse explains the difference in words with lyrics such as<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>Schorem moet\u00a0naar de bajes<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Dat is een grote teil met gajes<br \/>\nDe nor, de lik, de Bijlmer bajes<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u00a0<em>Schorem\u00a0<\/em>is a synonym of\u00a0<i>gajes<\/i> which translates to low-lifes. Jails are\u00a0<em>bajes, de nor<\/em>\u00a0and<em>\u00a0de\u00a0lik,\u00a0<\/em>just like the jail in the Bijlmer area of Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The song ends saying\u00a0<em>het\u00a0verschil tussen\u00a0<\/em><i>kennen kannen kunnen wij niet\u00a0<\/i>which is a play on words. In Amsterdam Dutch, people use\u00a0<em>kennen\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<i>kunnen\u00a0<\/i>interchangeably even though they are not synonyms. Osdorp Posse also makes up the verb\u00a0<em>kannen\u00a0<\/em>which is taken from the 1st person singular of\u00a0<i>kunnen\u00a0<\/i>which is\u00a0<em>kan.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Osdorp Posse - Origineel Amsterdams\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fxz04H2xS3c?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 style=\"text-align: justify\">There are plenty of other\u00a0<em>Nederhop\u00a0<\/em>hits; you just need to search YouTube to find a vast array of songs and artists of this genre. Here is one more:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/z-mKtyX8II0\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/z-mKtyX8II0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">If, perhaps, hip hop is not your thing, you might find the following song interesting. It is by Marco Borsato (very very Dutch artist) and Ali B (also Dutch), and it was for the charity organisation War Child. It is a little bit less gangsta but still maintains the feel of\u00a0<em>Nederhop<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marco Borsato, Ali B. - Wat Zou Je Doen\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vzpGXWe33Fc?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 style=\"text-align: justify\">What are your thoughts on\u00a0<em>Nederhop<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at a dinner party last Saturday with my husband&#8217;s cousins and we were listening to music. Riccardo is a BIG hip hop fan so he quickly put some songs he liked (especially after seeing &#8220;Straight Outta Compton&#8221; a week ago). 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