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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.However, in recent years, they have been involved in many controversies. On the other hand, their 2016 album peaked at a higher chart position in nearly every country than their previous 2014 album. One of their earliest songs, "Enter the Ninja", did well in Australia and the UK, while later songs like "Pitbull Terrier" and "Ugly Boy" did well in the US.

Their music has been featured on best-selling video games in the Far Cry franchise as well. Their image revolves around the South African counterculture movement known as zef and has incorporated work by other artists associated with the movement, such as photographer Roger Ballen.ĭie Antwoord has had much mainstream success worldwide their albums and singles have charted in the top 50-if not top 10-in countries in Europe and North America, and also Australia. The group comprises rappers Watkin Tudor "Ninja" Jones and Anri "Yolandi Visser" du Toit, a male/female duo, and producers HITEK5000 and Lil2Hood.

HITEK5000 (formerly known as DJ Hi-Tek and God)ĭie Antwoord ( pronounced, Afrikaans for "The Answer") is a South African alternative hip hop group formed in Cape Town in 2008.

Colour me green, but please put this band down now.Ĭlick here to get your copy of Die Antwoord’s ‘$O$’ from Rough Trade Shops. And actually that instrumental hidden track is OK, as is the pared-down rave-hop ‘ Rich Bitch’ and ‘ Evil Boy’, a kind of synthy fanfare rap hybrid produced by Diplo.Ī common theme across the album is that any haters are jealous (check ‘ In Your Face’’s opening couplet’s rumination: “ Jealous-eee makes you nasteee/In your face, in your face”). The silence between the final track and the hidden track is the most welcome silence you’ve ever not heard. Lyrically, meanwhile, it’s all drunk 14-year-olds-style abuse and fronting. ‘ $o$’ sounds like the most half-baked efforts of Hadouken!, LMFAO and Eugene Hutz and is peppered with needless nursery rhymes, aimless ‘fucks’ and in the case of tracks like ‘ Fish Paste’ would sound half-arsed back in ’94.

Which would be fine if Die Antwoord had the goods to back it up, but like Fischerspooner and ultimately The Darkness before them, their shit fell off the back of a lorry with a bump. And 12 months later, we woke up to Radio 1’s terminally unfunny bladder Comedy Dave singing along to ‘ Enter The Ninja’, Katy Perry tweeting the track’s lyrics and Poly-fucking-dor reissuing an album the band already gave away for free. Ninja, Yo-Landi Vi$$er and other dude tickled the zeitgeist’s fancy for three days in September 2009.īut then it carried on.

Vanilla Ice’s gold-toothed gypsy thief half-brother, a square fringed boy-girl sidekick thing with a chipmunk voice, some other guy and a video featuring a DJ with progeria (the genetic condition which makes its young sufferers look like they’re in old age) pedalling a new Afrikaans genre called Zef. At first, for half a crack-addict’s heartbeat, it was kind of intriguing.