The main rap dude is Ninja, teaming up with Yo-Landi and DJ Hi Tek. To understand who they are and how they came to be as well as why they are called Die Antwoord, its best to get the story straight from the ninja’s mouth – watch the Zef Side interview on YouTube.
They sure have caused a stir and made the world aware of South Africa for a whole different reason amidst all the usual World Cup stuff. While many websites have simply copied and pasted the press release sent out (which presented itself in my inbox or via google alerts about six times, from different sources, last week), there were a few websites which did some investigation into the interweb whirlwind to get to the bottom of the ninja story.
– NME (New Musical Express), a popular weekly music magazine which has been going in the UK for nearly 60 years, ran an article entitled ‘Die Antwoord and ‘zef’ – South Africa’s biggest non-existent scene’. They went back to the days when ‘ninja’ started out as Max Normal amongst other endeavours Read more…
– Pitchfork, a Chicago-based site focused on independent music and devoted to music criticism and commentary, said ‘these Cape Town art punks are a hell of a lot closer to international acclaim than anyone could have expected a couple of years ago. And all this happened in little more than a week. When they posted their videos for Zef Side and Enter the Ninja on 1 February, they shot ahead of many acts on Google Trends and Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit as well as Katy Perry were typing their praises on Twitter.
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