600PK
Lijpe & Mula B
How to study this song
Learning “600PK” means 109 entries at C1- — 44 Dutch words, 20 adjectives and 45 verb forms, every one taken from what the song actually says. Begin with bankpas, leeuw and millie: get those and most of the lines stop being guesswork. This one leans on its verbs: 45 distinct forms against 20 adjectives, so conjugation is where the effort goes. At this level the words on their own are not the problem — it is the way they are put together that takes the work.
The words of this song, in several languages
Every word below is taken from this song and translated by us. Nothing here is the lyric itself — these are the individual words you need in order to follow it.
Vocabulary
| NL | EN | ES | IT | FR | PT | DE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bankpas | bank card | tarjeta bancaria | carta bancaria | carte bancaire | cartão bancário | Bankkarte |
| leeuw | lion | león | leone | lion | leão | Löwe |
| millie | million | millón | milione | million | milhão | Million |
| badjas | bathrobe | albornoz | accappatoio |
What this song teaches you
Level · C1-
- Vocabulary words
- 44
- Adjectives
- 20
- Word combos
- 14
- Expressions
- 15
- Verb forms
- 45
- Quiz questions
- 35
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Background
About the song
«600PK» is a Dutch street-rap track by Lijpe with Mula B. It came out as a single on 19 December 2024, lasts just under three minutes and was later included on Lijpe's album «Rode kaart» (2026). The title is read as «six hundred pk»: «pk» is the Dutch abbreviation of «paardenkracht», horsepower, so the title boasts of a car with six hundred horsepower.
Lijpe is one of the most successful rappers in the Netherlands. He is of Moroccan descent, his parents come from a village in the Rif mountains, and he grew up in Maarssen, near Utrecht. He first performed as «Lijpe Mocro» and later shortened the name. In 2014 he released the EP «Van de bodem naar de grond» on his own and signed with the label Top Notch; his debut album «Levensles» followed in 2015, and with «Zandloper» (2017) he reached number one in the Dutch album chart for the first time.
Mula B, whose real name is Hicham Gieskes, was born in The Hague on 18 May 1991. He started in 2009 with the Wilde Westen collective and the hip-hop platform 101Barz. His first chart hit was «Challas» (2016), recorded with Bizzey and Louis, and his debut album «8-9-17» came out in 2017, followed by «Meesterplusser» in 2018. He later shortened his artist name to Mula, which is how Spotify credits him on this track. The two rappers had already worked together before, for example on «Buurt heet», and on the tracks «Hyena» and «HVB».
The song is a typical piece of Dutch street rap: hard beats, fast rhymes and a mix of standard Dutch with straattaal, the street language of the big Dutch cities. The verses are full of status symbols. The narrator has money both in notes and on his bank card, wears expensive watches and calls himself a lion of the Atlas, the mountain range of Morocco. He contrasts the power of a very fast car with the small, ordinary cars that everyone in the neighbourhood knows.
Behind the boasting there are harder themes. The lyric speaks openly about drugs, illegal money and the police, and about the pressure of a life in which nobody may talk. One of the best-known lines says, in other words, that you only find out who your real family is when life gets heavy. Silence is a rule: you keep your mouth shut and you do your job. The narrator says he no longer wants to run, that money should now do the work for him, and that he keeps everything as small and discreet as possible.