Ninja: Yeah, we took all these firecrackers to our friends house who had never had firecrackers before, and they were like shooting them around and luckily no one got blinded. Yolandi: firecrackers on new year’s, and my friend Mace he almost killed us. Do you guys have any New Year’s resolutions?
Die antwoord enter the ninja weird guy skin#
He really loved his dog and a snake bit it and he was upset and we told him we would make the dog live forever and we just needed to take the skin off and make a carpet and put it in the video and then it’s gonna be famous.Ĭale: Nice. He’s got the best shit ever, like a whole lion skin and stuff.Ĭale: Why did he keep the dog in the fridge? Ninja: Oh and, what’s his name, Roger’s dog died, a German Shepard, and he had it in his refrigerator, so we asked him if we could like use the skin, so we like skinned the dog, I mean it was dead, I didn’t kill it, I’m a vegetarian, but it was dead already so we like made a thing, you know like a carpet. Ninja: And I found 8 cock-a-roaches, you know those fucking huge ones that hiss, Madagascar cockroaches. We’re going to use them in this new music video that we’re doing. Yolandi: Yeah today we went hunting, we got 3 ducks, 40 rats, and about 33 pigeons. Ninja: We are staying on our friends farm, and he’s kind of mental, he le’s us fucking draw all over his place, we’ve just been drawing all over the walls and everything, it’s kind of fucked up but we want to make a music video on his farm. And again, I have no idea if they were fucking with me or not… but who cares? I love these two.Ĭale: Hey guys, not much – what are you guys doing besides interviews today? The technical issues aside, it was a great interview they were talkative, funny, and as weird as I had hoped. Luckily the recorder was able to pick up what they said a lot clearer than my actual ear was so I got most of it down, but I’ve added some notes in brackets. In the end I had to disengage a bit as I simply had no idea what they were talking about, and just let them ramble on hoping for the best. They were barely coming through as I was hunched over my desk with my ear as close to the phone as possible trying to follow Ninjas stream of consciousness rants while Yolandi mumbled in the background. Let me set the stage just a bit – I was dreading trying to understand these guys, the thick accents and slang were tough enough, but over a cell phone speaker on the other side of the planet it became near impossible. Sure, I was still cracking up at the spectacle, and had no idea how authentic these larger than life personalities were on stage, but like Exit Through the Gift Shop or Lana Del Rey, if the product is this good who gives a shit? The quality of the put on is as good as the reality. The energy on stage made up for the lack of weird ass visuals in their videos. I went to their show at 9:30 Club not knowing what to expect, and was given one of the best performances I had seen in a while. Was this a calculated effort to exploit people like me who find great entertainment in clueless overseas assimilation of American pop culture? At this point I didn’t care, as I started to actually enjoy the songs. As the internet began to delve into the phenomenon, it became apparent that the duo of Ninja and Yolandi had been involved in various music groups and art projects over the years. Some of their lyrics suggested they were a bit more clever than you might think.
After a while though it began to seem that it was all an elaborate hoax. Like most people, I discovered their music through their strange viral videos, at first laughing at the unintentional hilarity of their apparent foreign naivety. When the offer came in to interview Die Antwoord, to say I was excited would be an understatement. To get in the mood, here’s our memorable interview with the duo, originally published in 2012. Die Antwood performs at Echostage tomorrow night.
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