It was all throwaway." ĭie Antwoord observed that journalists and critics, particularly in the United States, frequently ask if their creative output is a joke or a hoax. Ninja told Rolling Stone, "Everything I did before Die Antwoord was me experimenting, messing around and trying to find Die Antwoord. In the album, multiple tracks are sampled from, or are exact copies of songs on Good Morning South Africa, such as the "Rap Rave Megamix" (where the first glimpses of Jones's Ninja character was seen) were later reformed into the "Zef Side" video, featuring a few verses from "Beat Boy".
Their debut album $O$ relates to their earlier work, specifically Good Morning South Africa. 2.4 2015–2016: EP release and Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kidĭie Antwoord's male vocalist, Watkin Tudor "Ninja" Jones, was part of the South African hip-hop scene for many years, fronting acts such as The Original Evergreen, MaxNormal.TV and The Constructus Corporation.2.3 2014: Donker Mag and further touring.2.1 2008–2010: Formation and release of debut album $O$, 5 and Ekstra.
And if they got the Durban crew suddenly listening to Afrikaans-infested rap and gooing a bit of their own taal, then that’s a good thing. The jury’s out – all we know is that are a wicked brew of intentional deflection and arch interweb-savvy manipulation. I think the coolest thing is that it’s got people seriously talking, and seriously paying attention, speaking about the Afrikaans and identity debate raging on, and opinion split between them being awesomely cool media wranglers and zeitgeist monitors or flash in the pan hucksters. And there’s an interesting balanced dig into their supposed zef-ness here. OK, OK, broad generalisation I know…Die Antwoord are not without their critics – check out Koos Kombuis writing about them here.
There’s a weird thing going around with a lot of dignified Afrikaans journos taking up their case and bemoaning the fact that a lot of us English-speaking peeps are suddenly converts (not caring that some of them have recently just twigged while we’ve been listening and watching since they first popped up early 2009 and made most of their album available on the website wat kyk jy) – and dissing them for liking, and “looking down” on their zef shenanigans. And they rock out – this is the band we introduced to the masses at Al and Claire’s wedding last year and got the floor heaving. They’re big, uploads and views of their zef stylee such as “Enter the Ninja” now mushrooming over the million and a half mark, and they’re getting bigger with international tours etc upcoming.Īnd they seriously funny, with a huge bulge of ironic tongue in cheek.
#DIE ANTWOORD ENTER THE NINJA WEIRD GUY FULL#
They’ve basically taken over the interweb airspace, particularly in the last few weeks, as the full glare of national and international focus has turned on them. I guess you’d have had to be dead or locked away somewhere not to have heard of Die Antwoord, the zef-rave crew from the northern ‘burbs in Slaapstad. About the best thing we can do right now, just before something serious needs to be done about the idiots. In fact, Hitler offers some constructive criticism of the AWB logo. In many ways Silber’s version is particularly apt because of the similarity between the Swastika and the red and black “777″ symbol of the AWB. It’s even become what is known as a “meta-meme”, because the meme itself is parodied in one of the videos.
#DIE ANTWOORD ENTER THE NINJA WEIRD GUY MOVIE#
The scene from the movie has become the staple of internet viral videos, spawning hundreds of parodies world-wide. “The original excerpt from the film is of Hitler launching into a furious tirade in his Berlin bunker upon finally realising that the war has been lost. This Hitler parody has been around a while (I remember the version on the 2007 Super 14 final with joy), and here it resurfaces again, courtesy this time of Gus Silber, with dear old Adolf responding to the AWB calling off their machete race war. Thanks to Matthew Buckland for posting this. Thankfully, the interweb spins off its parodies, exposes such idiot behaviour, and allows us some moments of lightness in what could probably be a pretty dark and kak time for all. What a week – from murders, Energade-spraying court stand-offs, E-TV outbursts, touching on studios, bloody bastards and agents…it truly is, as M&G put it, belly-flopping into “idiocracy”. These people are just morons, without the grace and naiveté of clowns the world over, through history and present. I wish they’d stop calling Malema, Terre’Blanche, Visagie et al “clowns” – it is a flippen insult to clowns, if you ask me.
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