![]() Soon after, Fred Durst and Katy Perry were typing their praises on Twitter. But it wasn't until Boing Boing posted their music video for "Enter the Ninja" and a quasi-documentary called "Zef Side" on February 1 of this year that they shot ahead of acts like Animal Collective, Pavement, and Wilco on Google Trends. ![]() ![]() Made up of lead MC Ninja (Jones), singer-rapper-sexpot Yo-Landi Vi$$er, linebacker-sized mute DJ Hi-Tek, and progerian survivor and artist Leon Bartha, the group made their live debut a year ago. On the surface, Die Antwoord are simply the latest in a never-ending line of "did ya see that?!" blog-hopping music memes. And it's all happened in little more than a week. "Die Antwoord rap crew is going to perform live before the screening of Die Antwoord feature film at the Cannes Film Festival in the overseas."Īnd while Jones' latest identity-skewing art project has yet to get a nod from Cannes, these Capetown art punks are a hell of a lot closer to international acclaim than anyone could have expected a couple of years ago. ![]() " Die Antwoord will be presented to the world as a wild and savage rap crew from the deep, dark, depths of Africa," he said. In a September 2008 interview, South African hip-hop changeling Waddy Jones- performing with the conceptual act Max Normal at the time- made a prediction about an upcoming rap project he was concocting. ![]()
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