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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
Website	dieantwoord.com

Die Antwoord (Afrikaans: [di ˈantvuərt]; Afrikaans for 'The Answer') is a South African hip hop duo formed in Cape Town in 2008. The duo consists of rappers Ninja and Yolandi Visser (stylized as Yo-Landi Vi$$er), while their music is frequently produced by DJ Hi-Tek. They rose to international 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 follow-up albums Donker Mag (2014) and Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid (2016) became their most commercially successful releases in the United States, each topping Billboard's Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart. Their fifth studio album, House of Zef, was released in 2020.

Die Antwoord's image revolves around the South African counterculture movement known as zef. They are known for their music videos, which are often graphic and surreal, and for their defiant and provocative public image. They have faced controversy since their inception for what critics have described as cultural appropriation of numerous South African groups, namely gangs from Cape Flats, as well as their repeated use of blackface in music videos, homophobic behavior, and sexual assault allegations against Ninja.

History

2008–2010: Formation, virality of "Enter the Ninja", and $O$

Prior to starting Die Antwoord, Watkin Tudor Jones had fronted various English-speaking acts such as The Original Evergreen, MaxNormal.TV (in which he performed under the moniker Max Normal), Yang Weapon, and The Constructus Corporation, and had also previously performed using the name Waddy. He described his participation in those acts as "experimenting, messing around and trying to find Die Antwoord". He and fellow rapper Anri du Toit began making music together in 2004. Du Toit's father, Ben du Toit, worked as the director of communications for the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa in 2012. Jones and du Toit's daughter, Sixteen, was born in 2005 or 2006.

Die Antwoord formed in 2008 in Cape Town, then consisting of Jones, known as Ninja; du Toit, known as Yolandi Visser and stylized as Yo-Landi Vi$$er; and Justin de Nobrega, the group's producer who went by the name 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 person with progeria before his death in 2011 at age 26—was released in late 2009 along with a short promotional video titled Zef Side, which was directed by Sean Metelerkamp and featured interviews with the group as well as 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 and was one of 25 videos selected for the Guggenheim's YouTube Play exhibit, which showcased video art from YouTube.

Die Antwoord's plans to release their debut studio album through Dutch record label Magnetron Music fell through by mid-February 2010. Die Antwoord later signed a USD$10 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 2009 debut studio album, $O$, which had previously been released online for free, was reissued by Polydor Records in the United States on 12 October 2010 and peaked at number four on Billboard's Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart. It was preceded by the single "Evil Boy", which was produced by Diplo and released with a music video in October 2010. Ninja stated in 2010 that $O$ 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.

Die Antwoord performed at the London Electronic Dance Festival alongside Aphex Twin in August 2010. 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. By late 2010, they had become "arguably the first-ever pop phenomenon to spring out of Cape Town", according to Interview's T. Cole Rachel.

2011–2012: Ten$ion

Karin Nelson described Die Antwoord in W as "the biggest pop sensation ever to come out of South Africa" in 2011. Mathilde Boussion of Le Monde later wrote that they had become "South Africa's most famous musical group abroad" in the early 2010s. The duo starred as wheelchair-bound versions of themselves in Harmony Korine's short gangster film Umshini Wam, named after a Zulu protest song of the same name. It premiered at South by Southwest in March 2011 before being released online the following day. For Vulture, Amos Barshad praised the film as "a thoroughly engaging fifteen minutes" that "smartly stirs up the Die Antwoord argument". Also that month, a music video for their song "Rich Bitch" was released.

In November 2011, Die Antwoord left Interscope Records over disputes concerning their upcoming album, Ten$ion, including over the vulgarity of its lead single "Fok Julle Naaiers" and, according to Ninja, label executives' suggestions that they focus the album on collaborations with Interscope labelmates such as Lady Gaga, the Black Eyed Peas, and Far East Movement, to which they objected. Visser also stated that Interscope "kept pushing us to be more generic" in order to make more money. Die Antwoord formed their own independent label, Zef Recordz, and released "Fok Julle Naaiers" that same month.

Die Antwoord released Ten$ion on 7 February 2012 through Zef Recordz, in association with the Good Smile Company, which also collaborated with the group to release "Evil Boy" vinyl toys, and Downtown Records, which handled and distributed the record worldwide. Ten$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. They 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.

2013–2014: Donker Mag

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. It became their most commercially successful release in the United States at the time, reaching their then-highest peak on the Billboard 200 at number 37 and topping the Dance/Electronic Albums chart after selling seven thousand copies in its opening week.

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.

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.

2015–2016: Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid

Ninja and Visser moved to Los Angeles in 2015, despite initial hesitancy to leave South Africa, after a friend of theirs introduced them to DJ Muggs, a founding member of the hip hop group Cypress Hill and one of their musical idols, at a quinceañera. In February 2015, Die Antwoord announced that they had started work on new material with DJ Muggs. 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. It became their second release to top Billboard's Dance/Electronic Albums chart and surpassed the commercial success of Donker Mag, selling 11 thousand copies in its opening week, which gave it the fourth best-performing opening week of any album on the chart in 2016. The album's single "Banana Brain" peaked at number 30 on the Dance/Electronic Songs chart to become their first song to appear on a Billboard song chart.

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

In May 2017, Die Antwoord announced on Instagram that they planned to release their fifth studio album, then titled The Book of Zef, as their last, and released its planned lead single, "Love Drug". They then announced in June 2018 that the album would instead be titled 27 and would feature 27 songs released over the course of the following year. The scheduled lead single of that album, "Golden Dawn", was released in the summer of 2018, though 27 was never released. In April 2018, shortly following calls from the African National Congress for South African artists not to perform in Israel in order to show solidarity with the oppression of Palestinians, Die Antwoord announced that they would be performing there in August after having last performed there in 2016, which received backlash from users on social media. They canceled the performance in June 2018. They posted a freestyle diss track against Eminem to their YouTube channel in September 2018 as a response to his diss of them on the song "Greatest" from his album Kamikaze, a continuation of their feud that began after Eminem mispronounced the duo's name on his 2017 single "Untouchable".

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". Following this, American singer Dionna Dal Monte, who became known in the Italian media for having a swastika tattooed on her breast, also came forward to allege that Ninja had sexually assaulted her in Italy in 2014.

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 American music festivals Life is Beautiful, Louder Than Life, and Riot Fest, the last of which saw them replaced with Wu-Tang Clan. 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. Die Antwoord's House of Zef Tour, which was scheduled in the United States from September to October 2019, was postponed in September 2019, ostensibly due to their occupation with other projects. Chelsey Norris of the Dallas Observer surmised that the tour's postponement was instead due to the resurfaced video involving Butler. Their gqom single "Baita Jou Sabela", featuring South African rapper Slagysta, was released in November 2019 with a music video, depicting Ninja and Slagysta as South African prisoners.

Die Antwoord's fifth studio album, House of Zef, was released on 16 March 2020. It received little media attention. 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.

Die Antwoord created the song "Baruch in Jou Oeg" as part of their performance with the nonprofit musical organization Baruch at the annual South African minstrel festival Tweede Nuwe Jaar in January 2023, which social media users criticized as a form of cultural appropriation. A documentary about the duo's origins, Zef: The Story of Die Antwoord, was directed by Jon Day, narrated by their daughter, Sixteen Jones, and released in March 2024. They also toured through the United Kingdom and the EU in 2024.

Artistry

Musical style and lyricism

Die Antwoord's lyrics, which are known for their obscenity and sexual themes, are performed in Afrikaans and English. Their music is a fusion of hip hop with rave production that has routinely been referred to as "rap-rave". $O$ involved elements of crunk, grime, and techno. Their music became more pop-leaning with the release of their album Ten$ion in 2012 and they incorporated trap music into 2016's Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid. Visser's rapping voice has been regarded for its high-pitched, childlike qualities.

Visuals and fashion

Die Antwoord have identified their visual and personal style as zef, a subculture largely inspired by the "trashy" style of post-apartheid working class Afrikaners and "rednecks" and "white trash" of the United States. Ninja called it the "underbelly" of "very conservative and stiff" Afrikaner culture and compared it to "apocalyptic debris", while Visser has described it as being "poor but...fancy" and "sexy". Vogue's Liana Satenstein likened Ninja's fashion style to that of a "weird dad", describing it as "laze-about, slightly sleazy, and sand-strewn". 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".

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." Die Antwoord's music videos are known for being absurdist, disturbing, violent, and intentionally shocking. They have faced controversy for the repeated appearance of blackface in their music videos, including in "Fatty Boom Boom", "Ugly Boy", and "Banana Brain".

Authenticity

Upon their rise to popularity in 2010, critics and audiences, particularly in the United States, frequently questioned whether Die Antwoord were a real group or a joke. 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." In response to the question of their authenticity, Visser described their work as "documentary fiction" while Ninja described it as "hyperreality".

Die Antwoord is known for their cult following, in particular the unusually prolific creation of fan art by their followers.

Controversy

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. Following the release of their music video for "Baita Jou Sabela" in 2019, fellow South African rapper Emile YX? stated, "Die Antwoord's success in South Africa or in the world is to steal or appropriate others' cultural stereotypes and make the most money from it."

The duo has also come under fire for their use of the word "faggot" and other instances of homophobia, such as in the lyrics to their song "Fok Julle Naaiers" and in a 2015 Instagram post from Visser, in which she referred to Canadian rapper Drake as a "massive faggot". They also included the homophobic South African slur "moffie" in the music video for their song "Fok Julle Naaiers" and, in response to a negative review of $O$ by South African journalist Chris Roper, included his personal phone number with the words "4 Hot Bum Sex Call". Ninja stated in a 2011 video interview titled "Faggot" following the release of "Fok Julle Naaiers" that the duo was entitled to use the word as their producer, DJ Hi-Tek, is a gay man, and that they were not homophobic. Due to their assault of Butler and Zheani's allegations of sexual assault against Ninja, Chelsey Norris of the Dallas Observer wrote in 2019 that they had developed a reputation for "acting like terrible human beings".

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)
• DJ Hi-Tek (2008–present)

Tours

• $O$ Tour (2010)
• Sonar on Tour (2012)
• Blonde All Over Tour (2013)
• Mount Ninji and Da Nice Time Kid USA Tour (2016)
• Love Drug World Tour (2017)
• House of Zef Tour (2019, cancelled)
• Reanimated Tour (2024)
• Flame On Muddafucka Tour (2024)
• Zef Winter Wonderland Tour (2024)

See also

• Little Big

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External links

• Official website

• 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