The bit where he tries to prove that he's not a psycho by saying "but look at me now" - you've seen the video, right? - is surely worth a grin? No? OK, how about when he, in all seriousness, brags about being "all up on the interweb", like that's a knighthood from the Queen? How about when he says "don't ask for kak or you'll get what you ask for"? Just me? I dare ANYONE to listen to the breakdown without at least smiling. It's the furious delivery of the (deliberately?) cheesy lyrics, hammered home as if they are nails of pure truth, piercing the armour of lies and badness, and slaying the dragon of, y'know, things which Ninja doesn't approve of. Those are central to the hip hop experience, as any fool knows. It's not the bragging, or the self-justification. Even though the sung choruses are fairly eerie, we're still a long way into the gigglezone. You've got to admit, even if you take out the cultural differences - the girl singing "protection" in such a thick accent it sounds more like "production" being a BIG one - this goes way beyond the scary, threatening bleakfest it seems to want to be. Which does beg the question.is this a gag? Are Die Antwoord essentially Grumpy Lookin' Chain.
He is played by Chris Lilley, who will be 36 in November. He can't stop himself from swearing and he's a bit of a thug, but only because he wants a bit of attention. If you've not seen it, Jonah's a 13-year-old with a rough background, and he just wants to be a rapper and breakdancer when he grows up. I dunno if it's the accent, but there's an uncanny sonic resemblance between Ninja here and Jonah from BBC Three's high school comedy Summer Heights High. This is SERIOUS BUSINESS! I MEAN IT! STOP LAUGHING! Clearly what he has to say is coming straight from the heart, and it is cruel to mock someone when they are speaking honestly.Īlthough, if you take into account that his real name is Watkin Tudor Jones, that he's been involved in South African hip hop for years, under various different names, and he will be 36 years old in October and rapping as if he's a hot-headed, super-violent young mega-thug, maybe 'honestly' is the wrong word to use. One of the most disturbing and controversial things about the video is that Yolandi can be heard in the background cheering on the fight and shouting things like “Run, faggot, run!” Toward the end of the altercation, she can even be heard laughing hysterically after Ninja hit Butler - that is, until Ninja tells her to stop.Stop giggling! Stoppit! Ninja - Die Antwoord's scaryfaced rapper - does NOT look like the kind of man who will take kindly to the idea that his breakthrough moment, his one chance to settle the score with all the haters, is in ANY WAY COMICAL. The 11-minute video shows bits and pieces of an altercation between members of Die Antwoord and gay musician Andy Butler. The group’s former cameraman recently came forward with a video he shot during a festival in Australia back in 2012. We all know what’s been going on with them lately and the more likely motivation behind this tour “postponement.” In case you haven’t been following along, here’s the gist: He goes on to list all their current projects, including a new album and a “feature film,” that are dropping in 2020 before continuing, “Our people booked this tour for us in America before then, and we’re like … fuck.”īasically, that they’re too busy to come all the way over to America right now and would rather us be the first to hear them perform material from the new album scheduled for next spring.īut let’s be real here. In the video, titled “A MESSAGE FOR U,” Ninja states: “We’re busy with so much fucking shit at the moment.”
The show will now take place in May 2020, but ticket holders needn’t distress - their tickets are “still good,” according to the email.ĭie Antwoord, whose main members are Watkin Tudor “Ninja” Jones and Anri “Yolandi Visser” du Toit, uploaded a video to their website shortly after this announcement. 24 show at Toyota Music Factory was “still on, but has been rescheduled.” Thousands of fans woke up to an email from Ticketmaster early in September informing them that South African hip-hop collective Die Antwoord’s Sept. A post shared by Die Antwoord on at 3:04pm PDTĭie Antwoord News Die Antwoord Reschedules Dallas Show Amid Controversy.
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