De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig (The Youth of Today) is a Dutch hip hop and R&B group based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, renowned for their musical approach of irreverent, humorous lyrics and electronic beats.

Their humorous style is characterized by their frequent use of word play, lyrical flirting with languages other than Dutch and the propagating of neologisms, such as "Watskeburt?!"

The group originated from a project coordinated by Bas Bron to produce tracks with rapping from different Dutch rappers.

Bron worked together with Pepijn Lanen to produce Dutch rapmusic under the name De Spaarndammerbuurtkliek.

After watskeburt became a popular slang in Amsterdam, the two of them decided to create a song on it, which at first this was meant to stay between friends.

Freddy Tratlehner, who knew Lanen as a rapper and was part of the group that popularised the word, brought a mutual friend to the studio to record and they eventually decided that he would be rapping in the song.

The inspiration for the name De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig came from a T-shirt that Lanen's brother wore with that phrase printed on it.

!, De Jeugd Van Tegenwoordig liked to spread ridiculous stories on the origin of the song.

These statements where picked up by a few media outlets, usually the three would change the story to make it sound more ridiculous in other interviews.

The phrase 'Watskeburt' derived from a text message that the Dutch rapper Heist Rockah send to his cousin.

In the same week De Jeugd were scheduled to perform the support act for Snoop Dogg at Ahoy.

!, the online youth magazine Spunk translated the lyrics to German with the title Watspassiert?!

[citation needed] In 2005 their debut album Parels Voor De Zwijnen released with 20 songs.

On 17 October they received their own show named, Hard Gaan, on the TV channel The Box Comedy.

Their DVD Tarrels voor de Zwijnen was released with videoclips, every episode of their miniserie Hard Gaan and never before seen footage.

The music video for Hollereer was broadcast for the first time on 4 April on TMF and was the debut of IM Creative Productions (IMCP).

[7] They were the opening act on the Belgium music festival Rock Werchter On 18 August 2012, they performed at Lowlands.

Among others Guus Meeuwis, Nielson, Glennis Grace, Raymond van het Groenewoud, The Kik and Frank Boeijen gave their cooperation.

They still released the single Ik kwam haar tegen in de moshpit with their announcement of a new album on 2 November 2018.