Due to all the attention that Ali B has received, it is difficult to imagine that Petje Af is only his second CD. Because since his debut album Ali B Tells The Life Of The Street (2004), the Dutch-Moroccan rapper has not been out of the picture. Television, radio, newspapers and magazines, performances at festivals and also in the theater: he was everywhere. Even the royal family could not ignore
… the phenomenon Ali B, and Queen Beatrix received a hug from the rapper from Almere without mercy. Then there are the countless charities he devotes to, the prizes: a Silver Harp, the Popprijs, TMF Awards, not to mention the wax figure in Madame Tussauds. Almost entirely by produced Petje Af, Ali B continues with acting as the comedian and party animal on the one hand, and rapping slightly socially critical lyrics on the other. Maybe not always smoothly formulated or just as well thought out, but always sympathetic. Whatever the critics think of him, Ali B laughs in his sleeve, there is no other way. (IV)more