Music
2025
Def
Rhymz is no more, but the young Def keeps hip-hop sharp and sexy
It is 2025, and so you could already call it nostalgia to long for Nederhop pre-New Wave. The young rapper Def considers himself a nostalgia enthusiast and meticulously revives a period he was hardly part of. ‘Hoekie van me bedje’ and ‘Alleen Deze Avond’ are hits that could have been your ringtone. No wonder ‘Social Anxiety’ picks the chorus from ‘Hey Schatje’. Between Y2K and ‘Drank & Drugs’, the charming Hoorn resident shines, slips, raps, sings, and bops - with the crucial difference that Def is very eager to play with his own live band.
