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See Ninja and Vi$$er later this year in Chappie, the third feature from District 9 and Elysium writer and director Blomkamp. So rapped the band on their 2012 single ‘Baby’s On Fire’, and it has come to pass.
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Check their videos on YouTube and tell us you aren’t at least morbidly curious.ĥ ‘My bodyguard helps me get to the bar / Neill Blomkamp’s makin’ me a movie star.’ Their three albums so far ( $O$, Ten$ion and this summer’s Donker Mag) have been cult hits, and their brand of snotty rave-rap has as many fans as the head-clubbing subtlety of the fashions. ‘Cultural appropriation’ was a phrase used. The group comprises rappers Watkin Tudor 'Ninja' Jones and Anri 'Yolandi Visser' du Toit, a male/female duo, and producers HITEK5000 and Lil2Hood.Their image revolves around the South African counterculture movement known as zef and has incorporated work by. Are they, though? It’s been put forward online that Ninja (real name: Watkin Tudor Jones) is neither Afrikaans-speaking nor working class, unlike the milieu he mirrors. Die Antwoord (pronounced di antvurt, Afrikaans for 'The Answer') is a South African hip hop group formed in Cape Town in 2008. Their style – shellsuits, shaved hair and rat-tails, bold colours and flesh on display – makes obvious what they’re going for, though, and lends credence to the idea that a precise UK translation of ‘zef’ would be ‘chav’ or ‘ned’. It’s called ‘zef’, and debates over the precise translation are ongoing. Since then their combination of brash beats and even more aggressive visuals has built them a loyal, not to mention obsessive, fanbase.
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Following years floating about the lower reaches of their home country’s rap-rock scene in various bands, Ninja, Yolandi Vi$$er and DJ Hi-Tek blew up online with the 2009 single ‘Enter the Ninja’.
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Much of South African trio Die Antwoord’s (‘The Answer’ in Afrikaans) cultural capital has come from precisely that, getting people talking about them. As if you weren't already hyped, we breakdown the wild anticipation behind the South African phenom