![]() ![]() They were suddenly the toast of the music industry, being courted by record companies, including Interscope, which flew the band to Los Angeles and offered them a $1 million contract. In early 2010, their wild music videos for “ Zef Side” and “ Enter the Ninja” hit YouTube-the latter causing their site to crash. The following year, they released their debut album, O$, for free on their website. Ninja met Yo-Landi a decade ago, and they began work on a rap group five years ago, before finally unveiling Die Antwoord in 2008. The group’s music combines the mile-a-minute, expletive-laden rap flow of Ninja with the squeaky-filthy schoolgirl hooks of Yo-Landi-song titles include “Evil Boy” and “U Make a Ninja Wanna Fuck”-and incorporates elements of South African gangster culture, as well as a style known as “Zef”: a derogatory term of sorts describing poor people from the streets who act fancy by souping up their cars or rocking gold. “I heard this thing from a kung-fu Zen master: the epitome of vitality is when a 4-year-old boy has an erection but he doesn’t know what sex is… that’s kind of like our style.ĭie Antwoord (Afrikaans for “The Answer”) is comprised of the masked DJ Hi-Tek and two halves of an outrageous couple-Ninja (born Watkin Tudor Jones), who sports gold-capped teeth, homemade tattoos, and a flat-top chop, along with his companion Yo-Landi Vi$$er (born Yolandi Visser), whose extraordinary hairstyle resembles an ultra-blond undercut-mullet hybrid. ![]() “Creative energy is sexual,” muses Ninja, one-half of the id-gone-haywire South African rap-rave duo Die Antwoord.
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