Since their debut album Supervisie (2004), Dutch hoppers Lange Frans and Baas B from Diemen-Zuid have achieved success after success, with two number-1 hits and multiple prizes such as an Edison and TMF Awards to their name. Lange Frans (Frans Frederiks) and Baas B (Bart Zeilstra) have become pop stars, 'Well-known Dutchmen', who are asked for commercials from Postbus 51 and perform on the main
… stage of the Uitmarkt. Their second CD, Het Land Van, is mainly a pop album that reminds little of the Street Remixes with which the duo and their D-Men broke through on the internet. The first single and title track of the CD immediately took first place in the charts and is a kind of rapped version of 15 Million People by Fluitsma & Van Thijn. The other songs on Het Land Van are also so accessible and hit sensitive, with the side effect that real hip-hop is rarely heard, with the exception of Testament, a solo track by Frans. It is characteristic that this song is the best of the CD. (IV)more