the greatest that never was

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Heinek'n

Heinek'n is an OG rapper from Rotterdam, Holland. This guy got his first buzz around 2004/2005 when he released his first street mixtape. There was a lot of ppl talking about this guy coming up. Dude was basically an actual street hustler making his way into music.

His earliest music video from 2004, rappin on classic Who Shot Ya


So a year or two passes by and the hip hop genre in Holland was gradually fading away from copying 50 Cent / The Game style and were more focused on their own lyrical, down-to-earth aesthetic style. Heinek'n hasn't dropped any new stuff in the midst but his name was still ringing in the underground scene and dropped his now classic street anthem "Loyal To The Game" it reached the urban charts and was frequently seen on the urban MTV channel back then.

Loyal To The Game



Even though he was around for a few years around this time in 08, i truly believed this guy was destined for "hip hop stardom" or whatever that meant at the time, this guy was in a lot of featurings and generated a lot of views at the time back when a youtube video was big when it had 100k views. This dude even had his own NPO (imagine like a dutch PBS) documentary in 08. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGe0czzQdPg

2008


...and after that, nothing lol. Literally this guy just got quiet and didn't make shit. He would be in a random featuring of other newcomers every year or there but every year that passed those newcomers climbed up higher, got bigger and did eventually better than him. I seriously remember he'd have 1 song in 2009 and then another in 2011 and it wouldn't even go up more than 20k views. Forget about charts lmao. After that it was as if he either got locked up, dead or just went and did his own thing. I'm guessing the latter because a year ago I recently found his instagram and dude was just living life, seemingly has his own restaurant/cafe and just chilling. He did a featuring one song a year ago which was dope.

2017


I'm saying, this guy could've been a major player and was promising for a while but imho was never quite there.