Die Antwoord

Growing from Cape Town, South Africa, the electronic hip-hop duo Pass away Antwoord struck Internet viral platinum using their video strike “Enter the Ninja,” but they’re really conceptual performers Watkin Tudor Jones and Yo-Landi Vi$$er showing their “inner zef.” Before presuming the tasks of Ninja and Yo-Landi for Die Antwoord, both were associated with satirical tasks like MaxNormal.Television — which found them putting on three-piece business wear and delivering motivational hip-hop — as well as the Constructus Company: a hip-hop dream group based about a comic publication called the Ziggurat. The theory for a far more vulgar rave-rap group started in 2008, nonetheless it wasn’t until a yr later on that Die Antwoord — which is definitely Afrikaans for “The Solution” — started playing live. Their early stage displays had been outrageous, with Yo-Landi baiting and flipping from the target audience, while Ninja rapped and danced, putting on only his brand Dark Side from the Moon boxer pants. That same calendar year they documented their debut record, SOS, and presented “Zef,” which fused hip-hop, electro, and rave music. A calendar year later, the movies they designed for the monitors “Zef Aspect” and “Enter the Ninja” became viral strikes. The latter highlighted Leon Botha, an experimental South African musician and among the globe’s oldest survivors from the early maturing disease progeria, who made an appearance as the group’s DJ. “Enter the Ninja” damaged the British Best 40, and major-label Interscope shortly authorized the group and released their 5 EP in July of 2010. That Oct, the label released a modified SOS with a global tour pursuing. The group remaining Interscope another yr when both parties couldn’t arrive to terms on the following album’s lead solitary. Left with their personal products, Die Antwoord select “Fok Julle Naaiers” to business lead up with their sophomore recording, released by their personal Zef Recordz and written by the Diplo-associated imprint Downtown. The entire year 2012 saw the discharge from the non-album solitary ‘XP€N$IV $H1T,” as the singles “Cookie Thumper!” and “Pitbull Terrier” got on the 2014 recording Donker Mag, which topped the Billboard Dance graph and peaked at quantity 37 at the top 200. The duo came back in 2016 with Suck upon this, a mixtape meant as an appetizer for his or her then-titled LP WE’VE Candy. Featuring creation by Cypress Hill’s DJ Muggs, G.O.D. (aka DJ Hi-Tek), as well as the Dark Goat, Suck upon this included the solitary “Bum Bum” as well as the rave-house “Gucci Coochie” with Dita Von Teese. Later on that yr, they released Support Ninji and Da Great Time Child, their 4th full-length. With creation from G.O.D. as well as the Dark Goat, the LP presented looks by Cypress Hill’s Sen Puppy, Lil’ Tommy Terror, and Jack port Dark.