ZEF SIDE! You can hear their entire album streaming on their website here. So Pitchfork did this great interview with Die Antwoord who as y’all know I am now obsessed with. Futurista Enter the ninja Yolandi Visser DJ Hi-Tek Die fokken Antwoord I, I, I (Im. Like a ninja Hook x2 Fuck, this is like The coolest song I ever heard in my whole life Fuck all of you who said I wouldnt make it Who said I was a loser Said I was a no-one Said I was a fuckin psycho But look at me now: All up on the interweb World-wide, 2009.
Long story short: Die Antwoord are a completely manic rap-rave group from South Africa that have gained more than 30,000 fans on Facebook in about two weeks, thanks to a couple amazing music videos. No fuckin around I’m cutting down Anyone in my path Tryna fuck. I’m a ninja, yo My life is like a videogame I maintain when I’m in the zone One player one life on the mic I’m in the dark. Die Antwoord Enter The Ninja Lyrics Hook I, I, I I am your butterfly I need your protection Be my samurai I, I, I I am your butterfly I need your protection Need your protection. If you don't believe me Take your dirty hands off my umthondo wisizwe Ninja: Everybody go. The song is about ritual circumcision in South Africa.
We started getting about 1000 emails per day. We just stared at the computer screen. In the following interview, Ninja and Yo-Landi talk about their surging fame, their idea for an upcoming Die Antwoord film, Katy Perry, smoking weed out of coconut bongs, and so much more:Pitchfork: When did you realize Die Antwoord were reaching a big international audience via the internet?Die Antwoord: We noticed on the 3rd of February. In souf afrika I sleep wif both my eyez openHookVerse 3: NinjaSo we sent an e-mail to the address on their website and someone called Dirk the Oracle got back to us saying Ninja and Yo-Landi might answer some written-out questions. Are they paying tribute to or making fun of zef culture? (For a longer version of this story, check out our recent article, “Who the Hell Are Die Antwoord?”)View lyrics FOK JULLE NAAIERS (Gods Wicked Jungle Remix) by Die Antwoord and watch.
But Ninja’s parents don’t trust him to look after the house while they go to Sun City. Ninja has this big plan to throw a fat-ass rave at his parents’ house. In two weeks’ time.DA: The plot it this: Ninja, Yo-Landi and DJ Hi-Tek live in a kak little white hood called Sunnyside (the hood in the “Zef Side” clip). This feature film is part of the reason why some people are flying Ninja and Yo-Landi to L.A. We would compare it to District 9, but just with more rave and more rap. We actually are making a high-energy, totally next-level, rap-rave feature film about this called The Answer.
It’s going to be pretty next-level.Pitchfork: Are you guys going to play yourselves in the film or get famous actors to play you?DA: We starring in the film. The lyrics to “Beat Boy” describe this scene to the T. The end of film is actually just going to be the full-length music video of “Beat Boy”. This final scene is going be sort of like this hallucinogenic erotic nightmare that Yo-Landi experiences. Only about eight people come to the rave, and everything is going pretty cool ’til Yo-Landi starts to fuck out from smoking too much of the coconut bong that somebody mixed with tik. Just after Ninja’s parents fuck off to Sun City on holiday, Ninja forces Yo-Landi to steal money from her mom to hook up a fuck-off heavy sound system, a smoke machine, a strobe light, a phunky 3D visual mix on VHS to play on the TV in the chill room, tiger balm, party decorations, dop and a lot of zol.
Pop singer Katy Perry posted lyrics to “Enter the Ninja” on her Twitter. It’s cool, we don’t mind.Pitchfork: The U.S. But maybe if other people had to star as us: Yo-Landi could be played by Charlize Theron and Ninja could be played by Bruce Willis.Pitchfork: What do you say to people who think you’re making fun of zef culture?Pitchfork: Would you call Die Antwoord performance art or do you think that demeans the group?DA: We do perform live and we do make art, so you can call it what you want.
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Hip-hop?DA: Ja we like Sensational from NYC cos he’s so fuckin raw and also slightly mental. (Translation: poes/doos– lady’s shy part.)Pitchfork: Are you a fan of U.S. I’m still trying to work out how to block his fuckin’ mails, but he keeps e-mailing me. Then the doos mentioned that he was not actually Mike D, just some other Mike D from Brooklyn. We were fuckin’ really excited about this and we started making all these big plans to come visit him in Brooklyn NYC and to swop him our album for a sack of weed. Did she write all the lyrics out? Fok! Dis hectic!Pitchfork: Have any famous pop stars or producers gotten in touch with you yet?DA: Ja, this fuckin poes from New York told me he was Mike D from the Beastie Boys the other day.
Ninja and Yo-Landi do hang out in the Cape Flats now’n again to rap at ghetto parties and just to hang with their chommies, like Kimpossible and Isaac Mutant. Don’t believe everything you read on the interweb. Is this true?DA: No, this is not true. I wish he wasn’t dead.Pitchfork: I read that Ninja moved from Johannesburg to Cape Town suburb Durbanville to get closer to the center of zef culture in the Cape Flats a couple years ago. My favourite is Ol’ Dirty. Yo-Landi likes that one song by 50 Cent called “I Get Money”, cos she like getting money.
In Alex you can buy a shopping packet full of weed for like 50 bucks. Me and my chommies drove in to Alex one day to buy some cheap weed. He stayed with his rasta homeboy Asher down in Number 19, next to the river.Pitchfork: What was your experience like in the Alexandra Township?DA: It was fuckin’ weird. Ninja did live in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg for six months though.
The rastas don’t smoke spliffs. You just have to be careful of those booming taxis crafted the evil fires of Mordor that scream around corners, weaving skillfully around the animals and children playing in the streets.The rastas who sell the weed live in the bushes next to the actual ghetto. You don’t have to stop at the stop streets. In the ghetto there are no traffic rules, which is quite fun. In South Africa, most white people are too scared to go into the ghettos cos they are mostly all paranoid sissies.
But the thing is, he started cleaning all the weed, like the whole fokken shopping packet. Then the one of the rastas started cleaning all the seeds out the weed using a metal tray (that you usually serve tea on). So we bought a shopping packet full of weed and the rastas said it was irie if we blaze with them.
I loved staying in Alex a lot. The next day I drove back into Alex and moved in for six months. I got slightly lost driving out of the ghetto which now felt like an alien planet.
Then you had to take a shower. The only weird thing about the Hare Krishna temple was, they were not into using toilet paper, so you had to take a jug of water to the toilet with you. We had to wake up at four in the morning and clean the temple, but then later we would sneak out, get stoned and eat like motherfuckin’ kings. There were even more gunshots at night in Hillbrow, but the cool thing was the food was much nicer. Every morning we ate cabbage and smoked the rest of the newspaper zol we smoked before we passed out the night before.But then I got bored of this and moved to a Hare Krishna temple in Hillbrow.
Yo-Landi’s best friend is Kimpossible, who is a coloured. How aware are you of the political ramifications of Die Antwoord? Do you care about that sort of thing?DA: We not really that into politics. He lives with his gran.Pitchfork: Some critics are describing Die Antwoord as a post-racial group, and lyrics like “I am a fuckin’ coloured if I wanna be a coloured” seem to back that up.
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