W hen Die Antwoord checked their emails on 2 February this year, among the 5, or so messages the group had received overnight was one from Neill Blomkamp, the District 9 director and a fellow South African.
The subject line read: "Oh my god. Since then, their fame has travelled further. David Lynch loves their videos so much that he invited them round for coffee. So how did this South African "zef" rap-rave outfit, from "a tiny fishing village in Cape Town", come to be championed by hipsters the world over?
They'll also be familiar with an infamous close-up of his genitalia flapping in exuberant slo-mo beneath a pair of Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon shorts. Die Antwoord's name is Afrikaans for "the Answer" and at the end of the "Zef Side" video the narrator asks: "The answer to what?
Ninja, joined by the teeny Yolandi and the tubby, mute DJ Hi-Tek, slouches against a wall, squinting. He raises his arm and lets it fall to his side. After the website Boing Boing seized on the video at the start of February, it was sent zipping round the globe, "taking over the interwebs", in the band's parlance, and increasing their YouTube views from around to , almost overnight.
Each posting was invariably accompanied by some combination of "wtf? But for the huge crowd rammed into Berlin's Magnet club to see them, Die Antwoord are no joke. Neither, it turns out, is their live show.
I hate being confused. Why should we collaborate? There was this weird pressure. It was more important to us to make something we believed in. We had always loved that dark shit.
Cypress had those beats that were so warm and cosy and dark and hard. I always joke with Muggs that he is the same breed as us. He wanted them to play themselves in a world of his creation. Yo-landi and Ninja are not influenced by the external forces that derail most artists and make them put out very benign, boring work.
I think that is by far the most interesting and refreshing thing about them. At the time, Visser and Ninja had already started work on a film in South Africa documenting their life story, but they decided a TV show would afford them more latitude to tell their story.
About the night we blew up. About our kid. About the wild-wild-west adventures we have had. I have a tenderness for it. But Zef is just, like, easy. And Zef is fucking easy. Then you'll love our feature on Die Antwoord too — read it here. Chappie is released in the UK on March 6. Die Antwoord's latest album, Donker Mag, is out now Subscribe to Dazed magazine here or pick up your copy from newsstands now. Aphex Twin Confirmed for First U. Performance in 8 Years.
But now, it definitely feels like we've passed that test, and we're ready for the final one. It feels like fucking showtime. There's five lanes on the highway, and we stared off at lane one, lane two, lane three. We're in lane four now, and this is shit turbo-boosted, fucking nitrous, fucking everything's tricked the fuck out in this illegal fucking Zef-mobile, and we're about to drop a gear and go waaaaah, just switch lanes.
We're in the fifth lane, that fast lane, it doesn't have a speed limit, and that's what we're about to go into. Muggs hooked the group up with a weed deal, and fans can look forward to Zef-brand strains, vapes, and THC candies. With the album officially out, the band readies for a North American tour, all the while holding down at Muggs' studio, writing the fifth and penultimate chapter in a never-ending story. Chapter four was hard, but it's finally over. Die Antwoord climbed, jumped, and there's nothing left but to fly.
I'm singing it every day, smiling like a retard driving down the street on the way to the studio … I'm fucking excited, like aahhh, but I'm also digging the day to day shit, you know? Patience, like the stalker. Search term. Billboard Pro Subscribe Sign In. Top Artists. Top Charts. Hot Songs. Billboard Top Videos. Top Articles. By Kat Bein. Copied to clipboard. Is Die Antwoord a couple? Who is the girl in Die Antwoord? Is Die Antwoord evil? What is Die Antwoord net worth? Is Die Antwoord an act?
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