Dope Smugglaz - Double Double Dutch

What this video is

Released in August 1999 on Paul Oakenfold's Perfecto Records, 'Double Double Dutch' emerged at the peak of British dance music's mainstream crossover moment. The track heavily sampled Malcolm McLaren's 1983 hip-hop/African-fusion classic 'Double Dutch', connecting late-90s rave culture back to early-80s post-punk experimentalism. Dope Smugglaz (Keith Binner, Chico Ijomanta, Tim Sheridan) charted at UK #15 and…

Why it matters

Represents the late-90s UK dance-pop crossover in which big beat, breakbeat, and sample-culture electronic acts achieved mainstream UK Singles Chart visibility. The song bridges 1983 hip-hop/post-punk (McLaren) and 1999 rave-inflected dance, making it a documented artefact of sampling as cultural…