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Die Antwoord
Die Antwoord performing at Rock im Park in 2019
Background information
Origin	Cape Town, South Africa
Genres	Alternative hip hop EDM rave
Years active	2008–present
Labels	Zef Cherrytree Interscope Kobalt
Members	Ninja Yolandi Visser
Past members	DJ Hi-Tek
Website	dieantwoord.com

Die Antwoord (Afrikaans: [di ˈantvuərt]; Afrikaans for 'The Answer') is a South African alternative hip hop duo formed in Cape Town in 2008. The duo consists of rappers Ninja and Yolandi Visser (stylized as Yo-Landi Vi$$er). Their image revolves around the South African counterculture movement known as zef.

Die Antwoord rose to fame in 2010 through the virality of the music video for their song "Enter the Ninja" on social media and through blog posts, soon signing to Interscope Records and releasing their debut studio album, $O$, later that year. They parted ways with Interscope in 2011 and independently released their second studio album, Ten$ion, in 2012. Their albums Donker Mag (2014), Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid (2016), and House of Zef (2020) followed.

History

2008–2010: Formation and $O$

Prior to starting Die Antwoord, Watkin "Ninja" Tudor Jones had fronted various English-speaking acts such as The Original Evergreen, MaxNormal.TV and The Constructus Corporation. He described his participation in those acts as "experimenting, messing around and trying to find Die Antwoord".

Die Antwoord formed in 2008, then consisting of Ninja, Yolandi Visser, and DJ Hi-Tek. Their name is Afrikaans for 'The Answer'. They performed at the South African music festival Oppikoppi in 2009. The music video for their single "Enter the Ninja"—which starred South African DJ Leon Botha, who also opened for Die Antwoord's earliest concerts and was notable for being the oldest living people with progeria before his death in 2011 at age 26—was released in February 2010 along with a short promotional video titled Zef Side, which featured their song "Beat Boy". Both videos went viral online after being posted on their website, dieantwoord.com, and shared on blogs such as Boing Boing and Dlisted that same month, bringing them attention internationally on social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. By the end of 2010, "Enter the Ninja" had received over eight million views on YouTube and was named Myspace's Video of the Year, while Zef Side had over five million views.

Die Antwoord signed a USD$1 million deal with Interscope Records, which they announced in May 2010. Their debut extended play (EP) 5 was released on 12 July 2010 through Cherrytree and Interscope Records. Their debut album, $O$, was released in the United States on 12 October 2010. Ninja stated in 2010 that it was the first in a five-album plan.

Also in 2010, Visser and Ninja adopted Gabriel du Preez, a then-nine-year-old with hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia who they nicknamed Tokkie and who was featured in several of their music videos including "I Fink U Freeky", after Die Antwoord filmmaker Ben Jay Crossman took a photograph of him.

Shortly after, they joined the 2011 Big Day Out circuit, which took them to New Zealand and Australia, sharing back-to-back sold-out sideshows with M.I.A. Mathilde Boussion of Le Monde wrote that they had become "South Africa's most famous musical group abroad" in the early 2010s.

2011–2013: Ten$ion, record label dispute

In November 2011, Die Antwoord left Interscope Records over a dispute concerning their upcoming album and its lead single, "Fok Julle Naaiers". Visser explained that Interscope "kept pushing us to be more generic" in order to make more money: "If you try to make songs that other people like, your band will always be shit. You always gotta do what you like. If it connects, it's a miracle, but it happened with Die Antwoord." Die Antwoord formed their own independent label, Zef Recordz, and released their new album Ten$ion through it.

The release was in association with the Good Smile Company and Downtown Records, which handled the marketing and distribution for the record worldwide. Ten$ion included three more singles following "Fok Julle Naaiers": "I Fink U Freeky", "Baby's on Fire", and "Fatty Boom Boom". However, the album was met with average to poor reviews by many critics. The music video for "Fatty Boom Boom" also faced controversy due to Visser appearing in blackface, which she responded to by stating that she "doesn't know what blackface is". It experienced an uptick in views due to a feud between the duo and Lady Gaga, who is depicted in the video being eaten by a lion, on Twitter. The duo also fronted a campaign for Alexander Wang's T by Alexander Wang collection in February 2012.

Ten$ion was followed up with a non-album single, "XP€N$IV $H1T", in July 2012.

2014: Donker Mag and further touring

Following the release of "XP€N$IV $H1T", Die Antwoord set out on a brief tour across Europe from June to July. Soon after they began touring, snippets for a new single called "Cookie Thumper!", which was to be accompanied by a music video, were released. Around the release of their new single, Die Antwoord also announced the title of their third album, Donker Mag, which was released on 3 June 2014.

The video for "Cookie Thumper!" was released on 18 June 2014 on Noisey's YouTube channel. The video has over 37 million views as of February 2019. On 20 May 2014, "Pitbull Terrier", the second music video from Donker Mag, was released on Die Antwoord's YouTube channel. The video has over 49 million views as of December 2019. The third and final single "Ugly Boy" was released in November 2014. The song's music video, which was described as "grotesque" and "disturbing" by critics and featured cameos from Cara Delevingne, Jack Black, and Marilyn Manson, among others, also faced controversy for featuring a man in a mask resembling Aphex Twin, whose song "Ageispolis" is sampled on the song", in blackface.

2015–2016: EP release and Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid

In February 2015, Die Antwoord announced that they had started work on new material with DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill. On 19 May 2016 the duo released a mixtape titled Suck on This on SoundCloud. The mixtape features productions from DJ Muggs (known on the album as The Black Goat) and God (formerly known as DJ Hi-Tek, the producer of the group). The track list includes the previously released "Dazed and Confused" and "Bum Bum" as well as "Gucci Coochie", a collaboration with Dita Von Teese. A teaser for the song's video was released on 18 May 2016. However, the music video was never released as of February 2019, and is presumed to be scrapped.

The mixtape also includes remixes for some of the group's previous songs including "I Fink You Freeky", "Fok Julle Naaiers", and "Pitbull Terrier". On 22 July 2016, it was announced that the album would be titled Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid, originally called "We Have Candy". The album was released on 16 September 2016.

The first video from the album, "Banana Brain", was released on 31 August 2016. It has accumulated over 21 million views as of January 2017. The second video from the album, "Fat Faded Fuck Face", was released on Vimeo rather than on YouTube, due to its adult content, on 16 December 2016. The video has over 1.2 million views as of January 2018.

2017–present: House of Zef, 2024 tour

In early 2017, Die Antwoord announced via social media networks that they were to release their final album, titled The Book of Zef, in September 2017 and disband immediately after. Later the band revealed that the name was changed to "27". The first single, "Love Drug", was released on 5 May 2017. A second single "2•GOLDEN DAWN•7" was released on 22 June 2018. On 3 May 2019, Die Antwoord released the single "DntTakeMe4aPoes." The song features South African rapper G Boy. A second video published on the same day revealed that the title of the upcoming album would be House of Zef, and that it would feature several amateur guest rappers from South Africa. A U.S. tour was announced for late 2019. However, an unlisted video on Die Antwoord's channel revealed it was postponed to 2020 to finish the album as well as other projects.

In March 2019, Australian rapper Zheani released "The Question", a diss track against Die Antwoord, in which she accused the group of sex trafficking her to South Africa, that gained attention online. Visser responded to her claims in the song on Instagram, denying them while calling Zheani a "fan girl" who was "clout chasing" and "shooting herself in the foot". Six months later, Zheani filed a police report against Ninja in Queensland, accusing him of having violently sexually assaulted her in 2013 in Wilderness and of sharing revenge porn of her to his Chappie castmates. She alleged that Visser connected her to Ninja, with whom she began emailing frequently, with him writing that he loved her while comparing her to his daughter, sending her explicit photos, and arranging for her to visit him in South Africa. According to her, he continued to email her after the assault, which he described as a "ritual".

In August 2019, a video of Die Antwoord filmed by Crossman in 2012 resurfaced, showing the duo at Future Music Festival physically assaulting Hercules and Love Affair frontman Andy Butler, who is a gay man, and chasing after him while yelling, "Run, faggot, run," before telling a fabricated story to festival security about Butler groping Visser in a bathroom stall. Soon after the video resurfaced, they were dropped from the lineups of the Life is Beautiful and Louder Than Life festivals. Ninja wrote in a Facebook post that Crossman "cleverly edited" the video to make it look like a homophobic hate crime despite his own participation in assaulting Butler. Gqom single, "Baita Jou Sabela" was released on 30 November 2019, featuring South African rapper Slagysta. House of Zef was released on 16 March 2020, without any previous announcement by the band. Die Antwoord were scheduled to perform at the British music festival ALT + LDN in 2021, but were taken off of the lineup in May of that year after Zand and Bob Vylan, both acts on the lineup, spoke out against their performing there due to what they described as their history of abuse.

In May 2022, du Preez, Visser and Ninja's adoptive son, appeared in a 45-minute-long video interview published by the South African news organization News24 and conducted by Crossman, in which he described his childhood growing up with them. He stated that the duo adopted him "to be a slave"; exposed him to drugs, gang activity, and weapons; convinced him that he was "the king of hell"; encouraged violent behavior between him and his brother—including when du Preez stabbed him three times and they congratulated him; abandoned him with a babysitter for two years in Johannesburg while they lived in Los Angeles; and sexualized his older adoptive sister. He added that he had cut off all contact with them two years prior. Die Antwoord denied the claims and called them fabrications in a statement posted to their website. Later that month, social workers investigated the wellbeing of their biological daughter in Cape Town in response to du Preez's allegations. In June of that year, American rapper Danny Brown appeared on an episode of the podcast 2 Bears 1 Cave, where he accused Ninja of having sexually assaulted him at a nightclub in Paris, describing Ninja's behavior as "aggressive" and stating that he sat on his lap and tried to kiss and have sex with him while propositioning him for a threesome with Visser.

In 2022, Die Antwoord made a comeback to the music industry following a prolonged hiatus with the release of several non-album singles. In 2023, they announced a 2024 tour that took place across Europe inclusive of countries including Italy, Switzerland, England, France and Hungary.

Other ventures

In 2014, it was revealed that Die Antwoord would appear in the Neill Blomkamp film Chappie. In an interview, Ninja states that "Neill is, like, our favorite director, so when he asked us to be in Chappie, it was like a complete freak-out". In the film, Die Antwoord star as two gangsters (also named Ninja and Yolandi) who act like the parents of Chappie, a sentient robot, and teach him how to be a gangster. The film was released on 4 March 2015.

In 2019, Die Antwoord started releasing an online reality web series called ZEF TV. There are currently 8 episodes which make up the first season. Later that year, it was revealed that they would be releasing a documentary called Is It Real? that had been in the works for 10 years, as well as a feature film called The Flower from the Outside World.

In 2024, the documentary film ZEF: The Story of Die Antwoord was released. Director Jon Day pictures the band's history from the perspective of Die Antwoord's daughter Sixteen.

Artistry

Die Antwoord's musical and visual style incorporates elements of "zef" culture, described as modern and trashy, appropriating out-of-date, discarded cultural elements. Yo-Landi said, "It's associated with people who soup their cars up and rock gold and shit. Zef is, you're poor but you're fancy. You're poor but you're sexy, you've got style." Their lyrics are performed in Afrikaans and English. Ninja stated in 2010 that their artistic style is inspired by "the art of children, and the criminally insane" because of a lack of "that hard barrier between their conscious and subconscious minds".

Die Antwoord have stated that journalists and critics, particularly in the United States, frequently ask if their creative output is a joke or a hoax. When asked if he was playing a character, Ninja said, "Ninja is, how can I say, like Superman is to Clark Kent. The only difference is I don't take off this fokken Superman suit." They have described their work as "documentary fiction" and "exaggerated experience" designed for shock value. Ninja told Spin:

People are unconscious, and you have to use your art as a shock machine to wake them up. Some people are too far gone. They'll just keep asking, "Is it real? Is it real?" That's dwanky. That's a word we have in South Africa, "dwanky." It's like lame. "Is it real?" You have to be futuristic and carry on. You gotta be a good guide to help people get away from dull experience.

Die Antwoord is known for their cult following, in particular the unusually prolific creation of fan art by their followers. Their music videos are also known for being bizarre and shocking.

Jordan Darville and Raphael Helfand of The Fader wrote that Die Antwoord "have always been polarizing artists, criticized as derivative shock artists since the start of their collaborative career as Die Antwoord in 2008". Their music has been referred to by critics as "shock-rap", with the Chicago Tribune writing in 2012 that they were "clearly aiming to offend people". Since their inception, their visual aesthetic has been criticized, particularly by South African critics, as appropriative of various South African groups, including Coloureds, street gangs from Cape Flats, speakers of Kaaps, and working-class white South Africans.

Discography

• $O$ (2009)
• Ten$ion (2012)
• Donker Mag (2014)
• Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid (2016)
• House of Zef (2020)

Members

• Ninja (2008–present)
• Yolandi Visser (2008–present)
• HITEK5000 (formerly known as DJ Hi-Tek and God) (2008–present)
• Lil2Hood (2019–present)

Collaborators

Roger Ballen is a frequent collaborator of Die Antwoord, who say their artwork is heavily inspired by his photography. Ballen helped design the set for their music video "Enter the Ninja". Ballen co-directed the "I Fink You Freeky" music video. The Erdmann Contemporary Photographers Gallery in Cape Town featured some works of Ballen from the video.

Bitter Comix's creator Anton Kannemeyer released some work featuring Die Antwoord in 2011. He described the song "Doos Dronk" with the words "if ever there were a song that sounded like Bitter Comix, this is it."

$O$

• "Wat Pomp?" – features Jack Parow
• "Enter the Ninja" – music video features a cameo from former disc jockey Leon Botha
• "Wie Maak die Jol Vol" – features Knoffel Bruin (Garlic Brown), Isaac Mutant, Jaak Paarl and Scallywag
• "My Best Friend" – features The Flying Dutchman
• "Doos Dronk" – features Jack Parow and Fokofpolisiekar
• "Orinoco Ninja Flow" – remix of Orinoco Flow, arranged by Wedding DJ

Ten$ion

• "Fatty Boom Boom" – Die Antwoord turned down an offer by Lady Gaga to perform the opening act for her South African "Born This Way" tour. The music video is meant to be a parody of her. It shows a male drag queen lookalike roaming through the streets after experiencing a carjacking, going to a gynecologist who finds a parktown prawn while examining her, and ending by her getting brutally killed by a lion.

Donker Mag

• "Ugly Boy" – In 2014, the group sampled Aphex Twin's "Ageispolis" for their "Ugly Boy" single. In the music video, a man wearing a mask resembling Aphex Twin in blackface can be seen with a hoodie that reads "Hello, My Name Is God" and his symbol can also be seen on a hoodie worn by Yolandi Visser in certain shots. Aphex Twin and Die Antwoord also performed together at London Electric Dance Festival in 2010. The music video features cameos from Cara Delevingne, Charlotte Free, Marilyn Manson, Dita Von Teese, Jack Black, Flea, and the ATL Twins.
• Rat Trap 666 – produced by DJ Muggs

Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid

• "Shit Just Got Real" – features Sen Dog
• "Gucci Coochie" – features Dita Von Teese
• "Rats Rule" – features Jack Black
• Certain tracks were also produced by DJ Muggs

House of Zef

House of Zef features several South African rappers, who were included to bring a spotlight onto them.

• "DntTakeMe4APoes" – features G-BOY
• "Baita Jou Sabela" – features Slagysta

Former touring members

• Vuilgeboost (Cameryn Clarke) – DJ (2010)

See also

• Little Big
• Leon Botha

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Further reading

• Claire Scott (2012): "Die Antwoord and a delegitimised South African whiteness: a potential counter-narrative?" 26:5, 745–761

External links

• Official website
• Die Antwoord at Watkykjy
• "Die Antwoord Interview with ION Magazine July 2010". ionmagazine.ca.
• Analysis of the $O$ album from South African magazine Mahala
• Roger Ballen/Die Antwoord exhibition

• Die Antwoord
• Alternative hip-hop groups
• South African hip-hop groups
• South African electronic music groups
• Cape Town culture
• Musical groups established in 2008
• South African musical quartets
• Interscope Records artists
• Male–female musical duos
• Electroclash