TS: Die Antwoord - Enter The Ninja VS. Vanilla Ice Ninja Rap - Go Ninja, Go Ninja GO!

i was wondering when we'd get a die antwoord thread. "rich bitch" is a fucking great song, btw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q77YBmtd2Rw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ij6MwqbgfQ

VIDEOS OF THE WEEK. I predict Fader cover. Vice cover. All the right toppings

Die Antwoord - Taking Over The Interweb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oef4xZaAmLk

Jou naai, poephol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifIUb9ovsis

ok, maybe the occurences of "ai ai ai" and butterfly and samurai are just coincidental.

reviews of a show last night:

http://www.mahala.co.za/culture/decapitate-a-hater/

http://www.thedailymaverick.co.za/article/2010-02-06-die-antwoord-pays-its-dues-for-the-last-time-but-internet-fame-isnt-cold-hard-cash

(Check out the links to earlier articles there for even more background)

yet more background (from 2008):

http://www.levis.co.za/MusicMag/Category/Detail/Detail.aspx?ID=790

LOL

http://www.google.com/trends?q=Die+Antwoord

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http://www.watkykjy.co.za/2010/02/interview-die-antwoord/

If you don't like them then that's just because you're a poes.

<3in' the gratuitous underwear shots.

Listening to the album A LOT. Dagga Puff, Beat Boy, Very Fancy, I Don't Need You are all good.

love the tom and jerry comix on the table.

"ninja's secret fairy forest"!!!!!

"Jones doesn’t grant interviews these days, and the Ninja character is either too cool or too stupid (or possibly both) to answer any meaningful questions. Even so, one can’t help but get the sense that, while Jones realises he’s on the brink of enormous commercial success, it scares the hell out of him. Backstage, after the show, I ask him whether it marked the end of an era, whether it will be the last time Die Antwood will be paying dues rather than rolling in the money. He nods a couple of times, nervously and distractedly. Then he gets up and writes “NINJA wa5 here” on the wall, finishing off the message with a crudely rendered penis half a meter long, taking particular care to ensure that the testicles are hairy."

But it's the ALI G of South Africa, it's not meant to be taken seriously. I guess if you like it you like it....

I kind of assume this is meant to be a gag (I think I'd be a bit more surprised if it was serious?) but the music is FUN, genuinely good times! It's certainly more balanced than Eminem's last album.

Yeah that first Zef video I saw was obv shot with some pretty nice equipment, which really helps the appeal. If it was shot w a shitty webcam wonder if it would have blown up like it did. They may be playing characters but if those people are actually making the music then really how fake is it? Not that it probably matters anyways.... The beats are pretty badass tho!

Vanilla Ice, I watched TMNT 2 the other day for the first time in a looong while and actually like it a little (particularly Vanilla is here with the New Jack groove). Too bad he is so embarrassed by this stuff, Ice could go on tour w Hammer to massively cash in on 2k15's 90's Hip Hop/New Jack Swing revival.

hey speaking of eminem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QcYxqvWCgg

that's the pre-die antwoord group maxnormal.tv. the rest of the stuff i've heard by them is more antwoord-like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VClrjHpHMR0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ziz-dUe5tWA

NSFW

the girl from Die Antwoord is awesome

looking forward to the Die Antwoord Puppies Tumblr

DID YOU KNOW: yo-landa and ninja have a kid?

that vid is pretty great.

Am I the only one who finds the speech at the beginning of Enter the Ninja a little o_0?

yeah i transcribed it in the LOL thread (?).

you just freaked out our director of LOLs

Ha, I didn't notice he said "fucked into one person"

http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7766-die-antwoord/

need your production, need your production

yeah, that's what i heard for the longest!

http://www.watkykjy.co.za/2010/02/die-antwoord-vs-enya-orinoco-ninja-flow-wedding-djs-remix/

did not know that yo-landi and ninja had a kid!!!!!

anyway i am really enjoying this shit bigtime.

ENTER THE NINJA IS GORGEOUS

I seriously like everything on the album (if the songs on their site = the album, that is) - and I have the added fun of speaking Dutch & understanding some of the hilarious Afrikaans :-)

Is any of it translatable?

Most of it is very dirty :-) and some of the translation will get rid of some of the subtleties of Afrikaans/Dutch

"Je kijkt zo mooi met mijn piel in je keel" = "you look so nice with my p*nis in your throat" -> one of the Dutch slang words for penis is "piemel" but Afrikaners use a short (!) version of that, "piel"

that octopus pic is kinda errrrrrr

(that was at 1:47 in Wat Kyk Jy , btw)

4:38 in "Wie Maak Die Jol Vol" : "ik misbruik diere voor mijn pleziere" = "i abuse animals for my pleasure" :-)

It's best not to translate any more, IMHO. -_-

Not with emoticons, no.

beat boy is the one i like most of what i've heard

Ned OTM about emoticons - I actually hate them as well but I use them way too much.

the ravier it gets the better it gets also

Yeah, Beat Boy is my fave. IKR OTM re: ravier

Dammit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1DhjnrrNl4

Finally got around to the Watkin Tudor Jones albums and they're pretty good.

errrrrrrrr...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIXUgtNC4Kc

the wrong goddamn song won!!

that video...I used "wtf" a lot, but really...WHAT THE FUCK

i am enjoying this song!

problematic video though, yeah

Song's good, yeah. I don't when exactly I acquired a taste for Die Antwoord, but it happened and I'm not sorry about it.

for those who just want the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-po14C8lH2s

sweet video. made my afternoon

I tired of them relatively quickly after the newness of ETN & Beat Boy faded, but everything I've heard from their latest album is p dope.

sounds great to me

on first watch it's my favourite thing they've done.

hope they go more in the calling people out direction.

new album surprisingly good.

sans skits Ten$Ion is my favorite album this year. the video is just about as problematic as it needs to be.

video...kinda made me wish I had eaten some shrooms before watching

videos for "I Fink U Freeky" and "Fok Julle Naaiers" are also amazing

really annoyed at this band, as lots of people's only little view into south africa, running around saying that racism and homophobia no longer exist in SA therefore saying nigger and faggot are fine. fuck you.

not you, sleeve, but them. haw

Yeah, appreciation of Die Antwoord is definitely something I wrestle with. If they went away, I wouldn't miss them at all. However, when a track is playing, I kinda get caught up in it.

i hate i funk u freaky but fatty boom boom is interesting to my ears. also their takedown of lady gaga's tour offer was classic. "that would seriously fuck up our cool"

haha no problem Roxy... yes this band is problematic to say the least, I was just amazed at the quality and strangeness of the videos.

i have no real beef with their music except that sometimes their lyrics are corny

running around saying that racism and homophobia no longer exist in SA therefore saying nigger and faggot are fine.

Not doubting you on this, but cite? Curious about the context...

there's been a couple instances in print interviews iirc, but here's a video where he lays it all out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Bt1cMEupQ

always worth bearing in mind that this is layers of meta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watkin_Tudor_Jones

Yeah, I've only ever seen him break character in an interview once, and it was basically to holler at an idiot interviewer who insisted on a yes/no answer to "is it a joke?"

Regardless of whether or not he is fronting, it is extremely socially irresponsible as he is something of a mouthpiece for SA. Having seen the glee with which assholes run with this kind of stuff, I find it really gross.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2hq9HEtKRU&feature=plcp

"get over the notion of racism"

IN CHARACTER.

cool character bro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuGa0wfKfho

lol, these fucken guyz

Went to this event last night: http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2012/11/die_antwoord_meltdown_november_13_2012.php - weird to see Ninja and Yo-Landi out of character for so long and just talking about how they put all this together. Boing Boing interviewer was terrible though - felt like all she (and the audience) knew about South African culture was what they saw in District 9.

The whole event is supposed to be archived on a video stream soon.

I went to south africa recently its a p fucked up place

"duds seemingly from the slums"

holy shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvMXVHVr72A

ninja put on some muscle weight

so is it a deliberate joke that the dude who gets mauled at the beginning looks like Pitbull?

I thought it was him at first

i just got back from the african art museum in DC and they have a viewing room for the "i fink u freeky" video

lol I was there in March! missed that.

also missed this, wau:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB4vFItDg3Q

1 year ago in Paris: Pitbull Derrière
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVZgyK4nIhk

and if you can stand Xeni Jardin for long enough, this looks interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W1RmnyBNlI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXwichuGW28

Yolandi and Ninja are in the new Blomkamp joint

makes sense

http://moviepilot.com/posts/2015/03/08/the-cast-crew-of-chappie-claim-die-antwoord-s-ninja-was-a-total-nightmare-to-work-with-on-set-2760817

Die Antwoord's Ninja replies to fan questions on CHAPPiE internet tabloid rumors

http://www.stereogum.com/1791548/karen-o-sky-ferreira-duran-duran-and-a-dozen-more-artists-paid-tribute-to-david-lynch-and-die-antwoord-heckled-the-whole-time/photo/

Should we be upset that a world-famous actor-musician who is starring in a movie partially based on his aesthetic is drinking campaign and offering to try to get his friends laid?