Dutch rap from 1986

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1986: Hilversum's favorite sons MC Miker G (Lucien Witteveen) and Deejay Sven (Sven van Veen) perform "Holiday Rap." (Thanks, Gabe Adiv!)

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http://logicblog.info danski

So awesome this is on Boing Boing! Woot!
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By the way, Deejay Sven’s name is Sven van Veen.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_MS4NVX7OCKTG67R7RTHQ572KCY andy

The Graphics at the beginning are pretty high-tech for 1986.
- nosehat
  
  Yes! The song was cute and all, but I must admit that my favorite part of this was the vintage mid-80s 3D CG animation in the title: the wireframe cassette tape, the saxophone that morphs into different abstract shapes and back again.
http://www.facebook.com/thepig John-Paul Piggy Garrigues

Are they using a sample in this song? If not, the internet is turning in on itself: http://youtu.be/gx-NLPH8JeM
- PaulDavisTheFirst
  
  its a remix of madonna’s “Holiday” with a chorus from the cliff richard song “summer holiday”.
arne heijenga

+1
M S

Well, if Boing Boing considers this Dutch Rap (featuring interludes of “Summer Holiday” by Cliff Richard & The Shadows and “Holiday” by Madonna) worth publishing, then how on earth can they ignore the following great classic from 1992? Fast, sharp, excellent video, tells in less than 4 minutes what “An Inconvenient Truth” tries to explain in 100. And you can dance to it!

Tony Scott – “The Greenhous Effect”

http://www.wat.tv/video/tony-scott-the-greenhouse-effect-2nop5_2nosd_.html

For more information (in Dutch, of course)

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Scott_(rapper)
http://thebeatdown.disqus.com Franklin

they can bring me a little piece of amsterdam anytime
http://www.facebook.com/jonabechtolt Jona Bechtolt

My favorite Dutch Rap, and one of my favorite songs of ALL TIME is Watskeburt!? by the amazing De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjER3EX948w

Learn more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watskeburt%3F!
dculberson

Sven of the magnificent eyebrows.
andrew lux

I had the single of this when I was like 12, picked up at a thrift store with my older brother. I listened to this waaaaay too much! Thanks for posting, I had almost forgotten about this song.
FreakCitySF

I was hoping to hear some of Madonnas vocals from Holiday earlier in the song, that would just done it perfectly for me. But good song! thanks BB!
Dermot_Hunt

Yeah, thanks for that. Like it wasn’t bad enough the first time round, I now have to deal with people going “look! The 80s! ha ha ha ha ha DJ Sven isn’t that FUNNY!”, more than 20 years later.

NO IT ISN’T BLOODY FUNNY. IT WASN’T THEN, AND IT ISN’T NOW. This song was played on a constant loop on British radio for two months solid in the summer of 1986, and it makes my fists itch.

Love

Someone who had to live through this shit.
Martijn Vos

Wait, is it okay to like this again? I used to like it a lot back in the day, and I’m pretty sure it was the first single I ever bought. I even figured out the lyrics and learned them. But this song quickly became a symbol of bad taste and a target for ridicule, and remained so for about 20 years.

I just blame it on my youth. Most people had even worse taste back then.
http://evilbobdayjob.blogspot.com/ Deidzoeb

How can you resist the call to ring rang a dong for a ha lee day?
Trent Hawkins

Ok the intro music sounds like it’s from Turtles in Time.
Andrew Dalan

Can someone please explain to me the hat that the shorter one is wearing? it appears to be the mullet version of a black satin cycling cap?