#EVIL BOY ENTER THE NINJA FREE#

ItвЂ™s like if you look at вЂ™70s movies, everythingвЂ™s like slick and like good looking and fokken pretty and stuff.

The thing is, the word kind of started transforming about 10 years ago. Zef has been an insult for long in South Africa. N: Zef is South African underdog kind of style. MJ: You guys get asked a lot about вЂњzef,вЂќ which as best I can tell is kind of like вЂњbling.вЂќ Our music comes out of a very dysfunctional thing that weвЂ™re trying to make sense of with our music.

N: ThatвЂ™s our experience of being South African. MJ: And thatвЂ™s what youвЂ™re trying to project? Like we absorb all these things, but theyвЂ™re not harmoniously flowing together through the air in this pretty rainbow picture. ThatвЂ™s why we say itвЂ™s, like, вЂњfokked into one person.вЂќ вЂCause thatвЂ™s how we feel on a certain level. вЂCause all those things donвЂ™t mix that well together in the real world. But itвЂ™s actually like this fokked-up, kind of broken fruit salad. They refer to themselves as coloreds, not вЂњblacks.вЂќ The PC-version people try and promote this image of South Africa as a rainbow nation and make it all like pretty and stuff. And then thereвЂ™s the colored culture, which is a whole other thing. ThereвЂ™s things about the Xhosa culture that we love, and we love things about the Afrikaans culture thatвЂ™s very amusing and interesting to us. Ninja: We like to absorb all the different elements of South Africa that we find interesting and attractive and unique. Mother Jones: You guys like to say that you represent South African culture.

In part two, I talked to Ninja and Yo-Landi about the meaning of zef, the documentary that changed their lives, and why they plan to kill Die Antwoord after five albums. In the first part of our interview, which you should read, Ninja discusses the record deal and the story behind the groupвЂ™s startling new вЂњEvil BoyвЂќ video. This launched a bidding war that culminated in a record deal and the release, this week, of $O$, their much-anticipated debut on Interscope. They were largely unknown outside of South Africa until this past February, when their video for вЂњ Enter the NinjaвЂќ suddenly went viral. Last week, I posted the first part of my interview with South African rave-rappers Die Antwoord, which means вЂњthe answer.вЂќ Talented and profane, Ninja (nГ© Waddy Jones) and Yo-Landi Vi$$er-who have a daughter together, although they arenвЂ™t a couple-have concocted a surreal musical chemistry, tag-teaming in a hypercharged mix of English, Afrikaans, and even tribal languages.

#EVIL BOY ENTER THE NINJA FREE#

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