the next great meme

[Post Modern]

rappin' in a taxi cab.

http://vimeo.com/7391501

[Jeremy]

Will listening to the song ruin this for me?

[gold and glass]

It will make it awesome for you.

[piper]

they must really like gummo over there

exactly what i thought when i was watching these videos.

[machinist]

rappin' in a taxi cab.

http://vimeo.com/7391501

good find

the Afrikaans street, the Afrikaans people, the language, next level

[haywood]

That zef side video has like 66k hits now, blowin' up.

Where did you see this macseries?

oh my god that taxi video.

[acapelli]

saw it linked on nymag this morning, seems to be picking up steam

[machinist]

saw it linked on nymag this morning, seems to be picking up steam

this stuff has been out there for many many months collecting internet dust, no real buzz

are we driving this, via certain people who write for magazines and media lurk this forum? when I first started trying to dig for stuff a few days ago, there was nothing to be found, had to dig really deep to find ancient connections based on facebook stalking, etc;

searched to see if other message boards had discussed it via board reader and google groups and the like, and no discussion anywhere (other than an xboxlive forum that had a 2 page thread on it); few days later and I'm seeing a lot more discussion and their hits on youtube are skyrocketing

YoLandi Visser seems to be getting an inordinate amount of new friends on facebook too the past 1.5 days

hipinion will launch them

[Mirror//Mantra]

I've been forcing everyone I know to watch the fuck out of their videos in hopes I can find another next-level ninja like myself to get down to this shit with.

[Dennis Moore]

Is that Moritz Bleibtreu in the back? Incredible stuff.

[crooked]

guys i'm starting to legitimately enjoy this wtf

Also I linked one of my friends to it and he said that there's a giant thread on it on 4chan's music board. Fuck.

[machinist]

guys i'm starting to legitimately enjoy this wtf

Also I linked one of my friends to it and he said that there's a giant thread on it on 4chan's music board. Fuck.

yeah i legitimately like (love) it in a non ironic manner, thats what is so fucked up about this for me

and this is my first time trying to find something on 4chan, and wtf, I can't navigate this place to save my life; looking for the thread and what a clusterfuck this website is

do you have a link to the thread? wanna see what theyre saying

edit: on a side note, 4chan is neither as trollish or puerile as I had expected

[the_village]

couple of really good tracks on the album

[machinist]

guys i'm starting to legitimately enjoy this wtf

Also I linked one of my friends to it and he said that there's a giant thread on it on 4chan's music board. Fuck.

yeah i legitimately like (love) it in a non ironic manner, thats what is so fucked up about this for me

and this is my first time trying to find something on 4chan, and wtf, I can't navigate this place to save my life; looking for the thread and what a clusterfuck this website is

edit: found it, http://boards.4chan.org/mu/res/7330629

4chan is neither as trollish or puerile as I had expected; I mean it is, but not as much so as people say

couple of really good tracks on the album

Other than the obvious 'Enter the Ninja' and 'Beat Boy', which are your favs; I'm huge on 'Wat Pomp'; Yolandi raps so well on it

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Someone on 4chan opines

Some dude from a forum I go on proved they're a hoax. Well apparently the chick and dude are married IRL and had this old band where they tried to do the same thing (cheesy comedy rap) but failed. They made a new band and got sponsored by Puma and other companies now and have therefore gotten money and promotion.

Think that forum he's speaks of is 'hipinion' and some dude is 'me', but Im not trying to call no one a hoax

[Mirror//Mantra]

http://boards.4chan.org/mu/res/7330629

It was in /mu/ as I suspected.

But I also am legitimately way into this album. How could this have happened?

[sonicgabe]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc3f4xU_FfQ

This is the best thing since Shine On Me

"don't fuck with my gameboy or i'll boost you"

[Mirror//Mantra]

Which one of you? This is why we don't have nice things.

[machinist]

For once 4chan is feeding off hipinion and not the other way around

also

the blog, http://mhambi.com/, which is some South African music blog (or something), possibly associated with them, is reporting their traffic is going through the roof

Genugtig, my traffic is going through the roof.

America has discovered Die Antwoord.

Just this week I tweeted that my traffic is going to be far over 5000 visits for the month. I was clipping away at 200 visits per day, but that was before the world got the hots for Die Antwoord.

Just look! I’ve got Wordpress Super Cache installed, so my server should be ok.



Do yourself a favour and do a Twitter search – every minute there is a Die Antwoord Tweet.

seems we're right at the tipping point of pure viral meme explosion; these guys are about to blow

[sonicgabe]

how could this be a hoax? thats way too much work to put in to a hoax.

[atomicbombshell]

man i have had way too many of those ciders that yo-landi is always drinking, yeesh

[Lampwick]

Who cares if this is a hoax/gimmick

tons of great band were half gimmick anyways (not that this band is 'great', but)

[crooked]

and this is my first time trying to find something on 4chan, and wtf, I can't navigate this place to save my life; looking for the thread and what a clusterfuck this website is

edit: found it, http://boards.4chan.org/mu/res/7330629

4chan is neither as trollish or puerile as I had expected; I mean it is, but not as much so as people say

It honestly baffles me how many people go there considering the layout is incredibly unorganized and impossible to navigate. And it's not that trollish, just a stupid website filled with really stupid people. Like the internet's trailer park.

Which one of you? This is why we don't have nice things.

Commence hpn witch hunt

[machinist]

The Guardian in the UK just put up a blog about them in their music section a half hour ago; that's the biggest publicity yet; today is officially the day they're 'blowing up all over the interwebs'; congratulations Ninja/Waddy Jones, you've deserved this for a long time now; theyll be on MTV by April

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/fe ... -heard-zef

Scene and heard: Zef

This is a sweat-stained South African cousin to the UK's own white, working-class rap variant. It's District 9 donk

Language reveals a lot about the culture it springs from, as anyone grappling with more than 40 Finnish variations on the word "snow" can attest. Zef is a lurid form of South African rave-rap that has grown from the ramshackle Afrikaans suburbs of Cape Town. An online glossary of zef slang contains 10 words for "masturbate" and 12 for "vagina". At the forefront of this scene is Die Antwoord, whose moniker is Afrikaans for "the answer". But if they're the answer, what's the question? Judging by the x-rated trio's super-stylised videos, it's probably "what do you get if you cross Gummo with Scooter?"

The band is led by Ninja, the latest incarnation of Watkin "Waddy" Tudor Jones, a wiry, tattooed MC and veteran of the South African rap scene. In an interview with Vice magazine he translated zef as "fucking cool" and described his band as, "like, 2Unlimited, C+C Music Factory kind of thing … but a bit more gangster, with a street edge". An unhinged hotchpotch of Euro dance, snap beats and rapid-fire rapping, zef is a sweat-stained South African cousin to the UK's own white, working-class rap variant. It's District 9 donk.

Ninja's partner in rhyme is the astounding Yo-landi Visser, whose eerie singing voice and potty-mouthed rapping pitches her somewhere between Liz Fraser and Peaches. The synth-heavy ringtone rave that underpins their songs is provided by DJ Hi-Tek, though sadly not the same Hi-Tek who produced for Mos Def and Talib Kweli during the 1990s heyday of New York backpack rap. Satellite members include a number of local gangsta rappers and a DJ with progeria syndrome.

Die Antwoord are not alone in exploiting the hip-hop potential of Afrikaans patios. Jack Parow, who fills his songs with funny tales of slum strife, has been dubbed the Afrikaans Eminem. But while Parow has been praised for his authenticity, Die Antwoord's credibility is more open to interpretation. I contacted Tudor Jones for this feature and, to begin with, he willingly answered questions about the band and their background. That changed when I broached the subject of his previous projects. During the 90s, Tudor Jones was a member of Original Evergreens, South Africa's answer to Cypress Hill, but left to explore more conceptual territory as part of the Max Normal.tv (MNTV) crew. Bottle-blonde Visser was also a member of MNTV. According to the band's Wikipedia page they, "perform[ed] live wearing three-piece suits while frontman Max Normal [Tudor Jones] delivers his motivational-speaking-style raps to the audience". I asked Tudor Jones if Die Antwoord was another conceptual project, if he and Visser had taken on new, more subversive roles. He declined to answer and politely withdrew his co operation.

They may be the answer, but it seems Die Antwoord is not necessarily the truth.

[junebuggy]

really trying not to lol hard in class right now. not doing a real good job. more gifs of the little one please.

[squall and boats]

this yo-landi character is captivating. the hair, the style, yes please. i had a bizarre obsession like this not long ago with yelle, i don't regret it. enjoy the ride.

[apostrophe]

Machinist is going crazy, but if this becomes a thing it'd be interesting to have heard about it early.

[Duke]

Coming back to read this thread after finding it the other day is pretty much deja-vu of my evening Saturday . My roommates and I got high and went from laughing at this to being immensely interested to listening to the whole album while getting higher.

[machinist]

DieAntwoord is up to 260 followers on twitter [up from 120 like yesterday]; with all the press that came out today [nymag and guardian and 4chan], any predictions on his followers by the end of the week?

http://twitter.com/DieAntwoord

another dilemma for Waddy Jones is, he's been linking to stuff, but I don't think he wants to twitter link to the guardian or nymag piece, as they discuss his past in previous hip hop acts and kind of deconstruct the gimmick, and as the guardian piece said, he dodges any questions regarding it

nm:

also, that's Cape Town, not Connecticut, you idiot.

[deadwolfbones]

what the fuck is wrong with machinist

I mean, what variety of autisim is this?

[deadwolfbones]

also, that's Cape Town, not Connecticut, you idiot.