Rogier & me saw Brainpower‘s theater show in Eindhoven the other day. HiphopNederhop and theater, it seems a weird match. Even worse, thanks to several progressive “improvements” in education, high school kids are supposed to go to several things in a theater per year. We realised we were in trouble when this 45+ year old lady ordered 27 cola in the intermission…
Anyway, short synopsis: Brainpower is nice, the crowd sucked. The crowd sucked harder than Brainpower’s power to start a party — to bad, especially for him. He did his best, did have some nice points, but all in all, a half-filled small theater with someone actually picking up their phone, with someone interrupting Da Brain to ask for post-show autographs for his class, well… no amount of Nederhop coolness can live up to that.
In that light (Nederhop == cool?), I am now reading the following (in Dutch):
Ice Cube zelf was een tijdje terug in Nederland voor een concert en na vier zinnen was ik al banger voor hem dan ik ooit zal worden voor die blozende boskabouter Baas B.
— Nico Dijkshoorn (column at nu.nl)
PS: Sjouke’s inauguration approaching :)