THE DUTCH are sending this CONTROVERSIAL RAPPER to EUROVISION | Who the ** is JOOST KLEIN?
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Published 2024-01-01
The rapper grew up in Britsum, a quiet village in Friesland. His early life wasn't easy. Tragedy struck when he was just twelve, as cancer took his father away. The loss was immense, but it wasn't the end of his challenges. Within a year, he faced another heartbreak when his mother passed away from a heart attack.
Suddenly, Joost found himself an orphan. These early hardships in his life, though incredibly tough, shaped him into the resilient and creative individual he is today.
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Recently, Joost Klein stirred up some controversy, and it has been the talk of the town.
He collaborated on a song called “Jackass” with the Russian Village Boys. The lyrics? Well, they were all about his love for Russian women and his dream of marrying them.
But as you know, timing is everything, and this song landed just a month after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
So, not everyone was up in arms about it. There was a bit of a debate starting.
Some people, like a user on X, were jumping to his defense, saying that loving Russia or Russian women doesn't automatically mean you are cheering for the government or their actions. It's like saying if you are into Tolstoy's books or jamming to Tchaikovsky's tunes, you are somehow backing Putin and his Ukraine policy. Not the same thing, right?
Get ready, because he is gearing up to surprise everyone at the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden!
Joost, known for his electrifying performances and catchy tunes, has been handpicked from a pool of over 600 hopefuls to represent the Netherlands. That's right, our man is going international, and his fans, both at home and abroad, are buzzing with excitement.
Joost's unique blend of beats and clever lyrics is sure to set the stage on fire. The Eurovision dates are set! The first semi-final will be on May 7, the second on May 9, and the grand finale will be on May 11, all in 2024.
The anticipation is high, and we can't wait to see how Joost rocks the Eurovision stage!
All Comments (21)
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Hi Im dutch.. 1. He is not controversial 2. He is not a rapper. He is an artist.
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eenhoornjoost isn't controversial in the slightest. he's a great artist
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as a dutch, i'm happy to see we're finally not sending an average depression song
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The video is full of mistakes unforntunatly. As a Dutchie and being I believe only 1 year older then Joost, I got into YouTube around the same time he did. He was one of if not the only dutch creator I actually kept up with. His content was always refreshing and filled with comedy. But this video poorly highlights his early career and overstates his fame in my opinion. It was all very indie, unknown to most dutch people. and even his early fans could admit that he isn't know for his amazing singing voice or high quality production. His content is raw, just pure creativity. I believe one of if not the first song he uploaded "deze beat heb ik zelf gemaakt" was just a joke, his YT career wasn't going so well anymore. YT changed, it was now filled with other creators making more mainstream appealing content, vloggers where at a peak and Joost was absent from the platform for longer stretches of time with occasional videos that sort of felt "empty". It felt like he kinda burnout out on his older style of content and was struggling to adept to the new and changing algorithms. And that's when he suddenly dropped that song, loosely translating too, I made this beat on my own. showing to me that he was just experimenting, finding new ways to express his creativity. The vocals where bad, the quality was bad, the editing was worse then the early 2000 homebrew vids but yet it felt authentic. I seemed he was enjoying himself again and so did his old fans. The music video got bigger then he ever anticipated I think and he decided to keep uploading new songs. Every song slightly improved on the quality as we could see him growing in this new way of expressing himself. Most songs are full of memes at this point but that was always his style using comedy to cope with the struggles life can trow at you. At this point his career starts to slowly pick up again and with this new gained fame he gets the collab with Donnie who, at that point, recently broke trough in the mainstream dutch music scene. with his matured production Joost manged to capture a much larger public then before and suddenly his career really took off, getting bookings and collabs left right and center. and just as in his early video creator career he kept it refreshing, always collabing with others and being what could be described as genre fluid. He felt authentic, exploring his own creativity and expression without catering too the masses. I think it was that attitude that captured the attention of many younger people, he might not have been the greatest singer of his time but he was real, relatable... raw. To conclude, i am very curious as to how Joost will grow in the future, i have absolutely no clue to what sort of song he will be dropping for eurovision but i know one thing for certain, he will show all of those doubters who Joost is because he wears his soul on his sleeves. MUCH respect and Joost Klein, Droom groot This ended up wayyyy longer then I expected...
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Written by chatgpt 😂
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"controversial" proceeds to explain the tiniest twitter drama ever and massively blow it out of proportion wow great video
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Isn't this the guy who won Eurovision 2024? 12 points to The Netherlands! Joost Klein, droom groot :)
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Im from the Netherlands and I’ve never heart about this ‘controversy’…
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This title is so focused on just getting clicks, he isn't controversial at all and is more a carnaval musician than a rapper. I don't think I've ever heard somebody call him a rapper before
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controversial?! this guy is nothing but a legend! droom groot <3
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I am a Canadian that recently visited France, Belgium, and Holland; I first heard Europapa in a restaurant in Bruges and have been hooked ever since! It is my first time following Eurovision and this has to be the winner!!
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I'm sorry, he's got 120 million streams on spotify on his most popular song. He's not a small nobody
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why on earth would you call Joost controversial? He is pure fun and joy
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1:16 his YouTube channel started in 2008, a year before the death of his dad. In 2016 he made his first song.
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Love this background info!! Thanks! 👍
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collaboration was with CMH almost 8 month after invasion. collaboration with russian village boys came out only a year ago. Im from russia and I didnt listen about these collabs though. I think that collaborating with russian artists has nothing with position, its ridiculous
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He didn't start his channel in 2016, he has been on youtube since like 2009 or something, he's always made videos even before music and comedy.
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I am a Frisian....we do not know fear....his song is as good as it gets
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Great vid! hope you're channel grows. I subbed!
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Happy to see the Netherlands taking a different path this year. Curious about his entry🎉
