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History of creation

Watkin Tudor Jones, aka Ninja, previously had many pseudonyms and collaborated with a whole string of colleagues from different musical directions, although hip-hop was always in the first place for him. Jones is the initiator of the creation of the group; he also considers all previous projects to be experiments and childishness, and only “Die Antwoord” is real creativity and a serious matter.

Yo-Landi Vi$$ ( Yolandi Visser, birth name Henri Du Toit) began breaking into show business at the age of 16. The meeting with Ninja's future husband allowed us to take a qualitative step forward in terms of creativity. Ninja was delighted with her unusual vocals and proposed cooperation.

The date of birth of Die Antwoord, which means “answer” in Afrikaans (a mixture of Dutch and English, which is native to 6 million Africans, including residents of South Africa), is considered to be 2008, although before this project Ninja and Yolandi were together worked on the project “The Constructus Corporation”, then founded the group “Max Normal TV”. Ninja had even more musical experience - in his youth he rapped in the group “The Original Evergreens”, famous for the song “Puff The Magik”.

The third member of Die Antwoord is officially DJ Hi-Tek (also called Bit-Boxmonster). However, his identity is shrouded in secrecy: he does not appear in the videos and does not appear as a media person. In all the group's videos, his face is hidden by a mask. However, in the end, fans figured out what the DJ of their favorite band looked like, and were very surprised by the discrepancy between his stage and real images.

Before DJ Hi-Tek, Leon Botha, a creatively gifted young man with progeria, performed with Die Antwoord. Patients with this disease age an order of magnitude faster, and few of them live to be 13. Leon lived to be 26, remembered not only as a DJ, but also as an artist and musician. He appears in Die Antwoord's video for the song "Enter The Ninja".

The main stages of creativity

Die Antwoord – Enter The Ninja

The demand for the team has increased sharply, as has the interest in their personalities. Ninja and Yolandi began to be called the progenitors of the new Zef-Rap style, close to rave and hip-hop, but with its own distinctive features. In Afrikaans, "zef" means "ordinary, dirty, boring."

Zef is when you are poor, but fashionable and sexy. You don't have money, but you have style.

Die Antwoord – I Fink U Freeky

After the success of the album, which debuted at number 37 on the UK national album chart, Interscope Records signed a contract with the group, but the collaboration was short-lived. The producers insisted on softening the provocative image of the group, in particular, on reworking the lyrics of the song “Fok Julle Naaiers” (the name alone in Afrikaans sounds unprintable - it can be translated into English as “Fuck You Fuckers”). The musicians were categorically against interference in the creative process and in 2011 broke off relations with the label.

That same year, the musicians went on tour in support of the re-released album and also presented new songs at concerts. In 2012 they released their second album, Ten$ion. He was accompanied by a number of concerts abroad, mostly in Europe. By the way, during the band’s concert in St. Petersburg in 2013, the guys from “ Little Big“- for them it was the first concert in their lives.

Between the albums Donker Mag (2014) and Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid (2016), Die Antwoord starred in the feature film Chappie (2015) by fellow countryman Neill Blomkamp. They played the main roles - essentially themselves. Their heroes take custody of a lost intelligent robot and save it from its previous owners.

In 2017, Sistine, daughter of Yolandi and Ninja, starred alongside Jack Black in the short film Tommy Can't Sleep. Visser acted as director along with the team's longtime friend Roger Ballen, who helped them during the preparation for the filming of the first video.

Die Antwoord – Tommy Can't Sleep

Collaborations with other artists

• "Wat Pomp" (feat. Jack Parow)
• "Wie Maak Die Jol Vol" (feat. Knoffel Bruin, Isaac Mutant, Jaak Paarl and Scallywag)
• "My Best Friend" (feat. The Flying Dutchman aka Ne0SA)
• "Doos Dronk" (feat. Jack Parow and Fokofpolisiekar)
• "Rat Trap 666" (feat. DJ Muggs)
• "Shit Just Got Real" (feat. Sen Dog)
• "Gucci Coochie" (feat. Dita Von Teese)
• "Wings on My Penis" (feat. Lil Tommy Terror)
• "U Like Boobies?" (feat. Lil Tommy Terror)
• "Rats Rule" (feat. Jack Black)

Scandals

So, in 2012, the group released a video for “Fatty Boom Boom”, where the central part of the plot is occupied by a rather evil parody of Lady Gaga. They had previously spoken negatively about her work, but now they launched a frontal attack. But the singer ignored the attack. Three years later, Yolandi repeated her attempt to drag the American singer into a showdown, posting a collage of her and her photos online, hinting at imitation of the style. But even that time, Gaga refrained from commenting.

Ninja and Yolandi take issues of identity very seriously. They jealously ensure that no one even indirectly tries to copy their appearance or simply be like them. In 2016, after the release of Suicide Squad, the artists criticized director David Ayer, who allegedly adopted some elements of the group's style. They even referred to confirmation of this from the outside

Invents the “Zef” culture, creates new hip-hop and conquers the “interweb”.

Musical history remembers many cases when a young group became famous throughout the world within a month. Two videos on a popular blogBoing Boing in a couple of days they made the South African group Die Antwoordtwice as popularthan Animal Collective, their website was visited by about three million people, and the group received about fifty thousand offers from promoters.

February 1st on the website Boing Boing two videos of the group appeared Die Antwoord with minimal comments about the composition of the group and links to the official page Facebook and website. Both clips were of excellent quality, which immediately cut off all thoughts of handicraft production. The first video was watched by more than a million people in two weeks - it introduced viewers to the group - rave hip-hop was replaced by interviews with the participants (vocalist Yo-Landi and leader Ninja):

• Do you live together?
• No, I live with my mom and dad (Ninja points to a small house opposite)

• So what does your name mean?
• Die Antwoord translated as “answer” - the group relies on its exotic origins, tying a “new culture” to this Zef. In this context, the band's name sounds especially ambitious.

The peculiarity of this interview is that there is not a word of truth in it, as in the entire image of the group - in their interviews, videos and texts Die Antwoord talk about their street origins, use slang words to describe themselves, their work and surroundings "Zef"(which in Afrikaans means "white trash", "hillbilly" or "redneck"), humor in the spirit of the golden times The Offspring and give an interview against the backdrop of a marijuana bush.

In fact, Watkin Tudor Jones ( Ninja) and second vocalist Yolandi Visser are a couple of quite respectable citizens from wealthy families: they have been married for many years, moreover, they have a daughter, Sixteen, who will go to school very soon.

Their second video copies all the pop culture features of the late nineties and early 2000s: samurai, the yin-yang symbol, tattoos, pathos in the spirit of Eminem and Fred Durst. To match all this there is a simple text: “I am a ninja! Yo! I live like in a video game":

In the lyrics of the songs, the guys use two languages: English and Afrikaans, diluting them with slang Zef. Without a dictionary published on their other website, it will not be possible to parse the interviews and texts.

Fred Durst tweeted about Die Antwoord

The members of the group have been practicing hip-hop for about ten years and have managed to cut their teeth on various projects - a couple of years ago, as part of the project MaxNormal.tv Jones wore a three-piece suit and performed white hip-hop while his drawings were projected onto the screen, illustrating a particular track.

“White trash” is familiar with the principles of modern marketing first hand – in the coming weeks Die Antwoord they will start giving away their album $0$ for free. Already now on their page you can listen to the album in full, while simultaneously paying attention to the expensive shell of the site and promotional photographs of the group.

Before they became world famous, the group already acquired big sponsors: Puma and Jagermeister.

WITH Apparently, Die Antwoord are more than serious: Ninja’s immediate plans include shooting a film in 3D format, and in his interviews the rapper says that he would not mind at all if his group was signed by some major label. In their dreams, Die Antwoord see “Zef” as a new subculture and a symbol of the emergence of South Africa as one of the centers of musical culture. As Ninja himself says in the song “Enter The Ninja”: “They told me that I was a sucker, that nothing would work out for me... So look, we conquered the Interweb!”

Ah, love... Love-love-love-love-love..
She makes such a buzz!
It's like you're stoned and drunk at the same time -
Stoned! All day long, honey.

With you, every new day is a day off, friend,
I go to bed and wake up – it’s a day off again.
I'm a busy man, moving all over the globe,
But I was particularly struck by this little beauty.
And now all I really want is
It's getting on a plane and flying to you.
I'm flying towards the sun, Lord, what's going on?

Smoked and drunk. Holy shit.

I'm away from everything and I'm sitting in the room alone,
Staring at that damn phone.
Are we for real, or are you just playing with me?
I haven't heard anything from you for three whole days.
You told me that you want me to be your girl
He looked me in the eyes and promised to throw the whole world at my feet.
Tell me is this really love?
Or are you just trying to get into my panties?
There's a party today, everyone is gathering and inviting me along,
Just close the door, turn off the light, leave me alone, I don’t fucking want to go anywhere!
Fuck your sweet promises, playboy, 'cause you stole my heart and disappeared
Just leaving me in despair, so alone!

Oh my God, I'm so stoned
Smoked and drunk. Holy shit.
Help me, God, I'm so stoned.
Just to death. Love is intoxicating.
Oh my God, I'm so stoned
Smoked and drunk. Holy shit.
Help me, God, I'm so stoned.
Just to death. Love is intoxicating.

Love will take you to the skies like an eagle, baby.
You are so cool, so sweet, so natural, so sexy.

Love will fuck you away like the Angel of Death.
You're so cold, cold as ice, but playboy, you fuck me.

Oh my God, I'm so stoned
Smoked and drunk. Holy shit.
Help me, God, I'm so stoned.
Just to death. Love is intoxicating.
Oh my God, I'm so stoned
Smoked and drunk. Holy shit.
Help me, God, I'm so stoned.
Just to death. Love is intoxicating.