Lyrics
The lyrics enumerate the best and worst parts of Dutch history, in the form " are the country of..." ("Het Land Van..."), often listing a good and bad part in the same line. In the song, Lange Frans and Baas B elaborate that the Netherlands are the country ("het land van") Pim Fortuyn and Theo Van Gogh as well as of their murderers Volkert Van der Graaf and Mohammed Bouyeri
- Great marijuana and XTC consumption as well as legalised prostitution
- popular fastfood
- great soccer players like Johan Cruijff and Abe Lenstra, but also of bloody feuds between Ajax and Feyenoord (see Klassieker for details)
- rivalry between different clubs, but when the national team is playing, everybody watches together like one big family
- vicious plunderers (colonisation of e.g. Indonesia) and inventors of the word apartheid, but also a land which was liberated from Nazi Germany in 1945
- many regional dialects in a small area, rich culture, but also great problems with immigration and social problems in housing projects
- high taxes and a society filled with envy of those who make it big
- Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who supports the Iraq War as a "puppet of George W. Bush"
- great folk musicians like Andre Hazes, who still are popular in the Netherlands
In the end, both rappers state that despite all the faults, they love their country.
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