They rap in both English and Afrikaans about getting wasted, getting laid and their own dumb magnificence. They have plenty to gawp at.Īs Hi-Tek glowers behind the decks in a cowl and horror mask, the gangling Ninja bares his torso and a riot of (possibly temporary) tattoos, while his tiny sidekick Visser, squeaking from her romper suit, resembles a hyperactive toddler on a sugar rush.
The joke has grown, and the Scala is rammed with cognoscenti who are in on the trio's ironic vulgarian shtick. None have travelled outside of his homeland, but this year the release of the shock-horror video for Die Antwoord's first single, Enter the Ninja, has attracted more than eight million views on YouTube. The band's co-founder and frontman, Watkin Tudor Jones, aka Ninja, has previously appeared in a host of similar conceptual art-rap projects and situationist pranks.
This over-the-top South African rap-rave trio, comprising rappers Ninja and Yolandi Visser and a hulking DJ called Hi-Tek, purport to represent "zef", a strain of working-class/underclass Boer culture that perhaps most closely equates to our own pejorative term "chav". I f Die Antwoord are a joke, they're a painfully acute one.
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