This energy failed to slow throughout the group’s fast-paced, one-hour set. Keeping up with the Die Antwoord members’ ridiculous costumes and high energy, Parow wore a hat with an enormously oversized bill and maintained a commanding stage presence. Ninja soon had the crowd say “Wat Pomp,” a colloquial term for “What’s up,” to fellow South African rapper Jack Parow, who joined the band onstage for the song named after the same Afrikaans slang greeting. He and Vi$$er’s loud, energetic raps had the crowd jumping and dancing along. He returned quickly wearing a sleeveless “I Heart LA” T-shirt (although a gun replaced the usual heart symbol) and, surprisingly, dove into the band’s most popular song, “Enter the Ninja.” During the third song, “Wat Kyk Jy,” Ninja tossed the T-shirt to the side of the stage and dove into the crowd several times. After a short, crowd-pleasing verse, the rapper disappeared from the stage. He donned the same, frightening black robes and mask that he can be seen wearing on the cover of the group’s first album $O$. Ninja, the group’s main rapper, came out last. She kept her middle finger pointed at the crowd as she began yelling the song’s opening lyrics over the screams of excitement. Yo-Landi Vi$$er, the overtly rude and extremely high-pitched female member, was next to emerge. Botha also appears in the video for “Enter the Ninja,” the song that propelled Die Antwoord to international fame.Īs the curtains drew back, the beginning of the song “Fok Julie Naalers” played over the speakers, with a masked and hooded DJ Hi-Tek popped up from behind the DJ booth. The show began with an extended intro as the curtains displayed a projected image of Leon Botha, the South African artist and hip-hop lover that has progeria, a rare genetic disorder that causes people to age faster than normal. The anticipatory cheers and chants from the tightly packed crowd demonstrated that Die Antwoord has moved far past its original status as a confusing, occasionally comedic yet always entertaining meme on the “Interwebs,” as front man Ninja called it. Their performance was more a spectacle intended for some sort of shock value than a musical showcase, as androgynous back-up singer Gianna Gianna ripped off a blonde wig and the other members performed what seemed to be pre-rehearsed dances.Īs Blok left the stage and the curtain went down, the excitement level rose. Though a few members of the audience nodded their heads to the music, the Blok band members did little more than strangely contort their bodies and yell incomprehensible lyrics over loud, intense beats blaring from an unmanned laptop. Los Angeles-based Blok opened the show with its loud, overdriven brand of electronic hip-hop. Much debate occurred about the legitimacy of the videos, with many people guessing they were created for some strange viral marketing purpose.Īt the group’s sold-out show at The Music Box in Hollywood on Sunday, all that chaotic and grotesque weirdness was transformed into an energetic live show that was very much real. The South African hip-hop/rave hybrid captivated the Internet last year with a couple of strange videos that featured shocking images, strange rapping and ridiculous characters. The LP, perhaps unsurprisingly, boasts a track list that manages to give Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence a run for its money, featuring such numbers as: “Happy Go Sucky Fucky,” “Girl I Want 2 Eat U,” “Rat Trap 666,” “Cookie Thumper!,” “Raging Zef Boner,” and - because brevity remains the soul of wit - “Sex.If Die Antwoord is a joke, then people are falling for it. “Pitbull Terrier” will appear on the follow-up to their 2012 breakout Ten$ion, Donker Mag, which will come out June 3rd. The two engage in a chase that ends with a grisly fate and one member hocking a loogie into the mouth of the other.įind Out Where Die Antwoord’s ‘Enter the Ninja’ Ranked on Our List of 2012’s 50 Best Songs After scaling a giant wall, Ninja corners and attacks two women dressed as cats before Yolandi Visser drops in to fend him off. The absurdity of South African zef ambassadors Die Antwoord reaches new levels in the video for “Pitbull Terrier.” Directed by frontman Ninja, the clip finds the MC done up in some grotesque pit-bull makeup and follows the man-dog as he escapes from his owner and runs around town mauling (and humping the legs of) unsuspecting victims to the tune of the duo’s vicious dance rap track.
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