Comments on: Die Vraag

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:45:17 +0000

This is what I want to do, their is so
Much more to the colored race. We to
O hve a culture, their is this certain
Charm that the community has that
No matter what class colord you are
It brings out the pride.

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By: Amsterdammer

Amsterdammer — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:10:51 +0000

Hurray for GhibliFan. Totally agree. It might feel uncomfortable to have an artist appropriate your subculture if he’s not a member of it, especially if he’s not very complimentary, I understand that. The music and videos (and personas) that Die Antwoord come up with are so good and enjoyable as works of art in themselves, and they seem so dedicated, it’s hard for an outsider to feel offended by this appropriation and not to just completely enjoy them. Totally mesmerizing stuff.

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By: GhibliFan

GhibliFan — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:32:21 +0000

Right…so Waddy Jones, born and raised in South Africa has a..um…fake South African accent, and him being a man who has smoked more ‘dagga’ than most would know what to do with doesn’t know how a dagga deal goes down? Right…um…OK.

Also, I am a white working class person from the area that Ali G, Sacha Baron Cohen’s infamous satirical parody character hails from in the UK…so I take it I have to take offence to Ali G? Worry that the rest of the world thinks people like me a wannabe black street ‘gangstas’? No thanks….he is funny as hell, and I grant others of my colour and class the intelligence to see him for what he is. Just as I grant people from your walk of life the same.

I’ve been a fan of Waddy for years…since The Original Evergreens, Max Normal TV and The Constructus Corporation…the man is a total genius. He isn’t trying to convince anyone that Ninja’s the real deal…he openly discusses his previous work in several interviews on Youtube. The next logical step for any self respecting Youtuber is to watch a Max Normal video…and BAM….even the dumbest poes in the room knows that Die Antwoord are just a satirical parody act. So what?

More power to him…and white middle class school or not, I reckon he can handle himself…so let your cousin’s friends pay him a little visit. I reckon Anica (Yolandi) could take at least half of them.

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By: Die Antwoord is maaifoedies!

Die Antwoord is maaifoedies! — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:18:52 +0000

[...] complaints. That they were disparaging Afrikaner culture. That they were appropriating and exploiting coloured culture. Snot, I said. They were a wonderful fusion of the [...]

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By: Kameraad Mhambi

Kameraad Mhambi — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:10:20 +0000

Your making the same point as Dan Roodt, except he got upset about the portrayal of Afrikaners by Die Antwoord.

http://mhambi.com/2010/06/die-antwoord-is-the-answer-to-the-end-of-afrikanerdom-dan-roodt/

I’m a huge fan of Die Antwoord, but I have to agree with you though – the recent – aggressive slant in their music is off-putting. I prefer the humour of their older stuff.

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By: Die Antwoord – Ruminasie #1 (“I am a fucking coloured…”) | Johan Swarts

Die Antwoord – Ruminasie #1 (“I am a fucking coloured…”) | Johan Swarts — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 06:36:20 +0000

[...] uitbeeld. Een van die beste ontledings in laasgenoemde kamp behoort myns insiens aan Mungo Adonis, wat skryf: The interweb is eating [Ninja] and his Zef-rap up whole. I just wonder when it will get full and [...]

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By: Die Antwoord: South Africa’s zef, hi-NRG hip-hop | Oregon Music News

Die Antwoord: South Africa’s zef, hi-NRG hip-hop | Oregon Music News — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:02:39 +0000

[...] and funny to white people smells like plastic and opportunism to coloured people.” Cape Flats writer Mungo Adonis continues, Waddy has always ninja-stepped the razor line between irony and sincerity, with many [...]

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By: Ned Seagoone

Ned Seagoone — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 09:25:39 +0000

Janifa: love your comment – vivid and insightful

I hope you’ll consider putting these thoughts into an article for Mahala and contributing to recording the era. Think it’d make an interesting read.

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By: janifa

janifa — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:05:54 +0000

Die Antwoord is a marketing and creative strategy and its working for sure. i think of cabaret work in the 80′s when things were really boiling and bleeding and we didn’t have to fabricate for shock because we were living it…Cabaret work dense with brilliant satire and shocking in your face, so close you couldn’t breathe in the Black Sun. I think of Matthew Krouse’s and Robert Coleman’s ‘Famous Dead Man He’ll Fuck You Up’ which was banned, based on Tsafendas and Verwoerd, and Kentucky Fried Chickies of Ferguson and Kruskal( which was the name for the tyre around the neck immolation so popular at the time)…When they sang *Drop Kick me Jesus, thro the goalposts of life…* for Ray McCauley and *Naai my Nasie naai my* a dedication to Naas Botha and The Nation, and Pik Botha was a climax in the kitchen scene::PikPikPik BOTHA!!! and it was devoid of light and yet life lines of truth when news/papers were blacked out for real….it was real pressure cooker time and the steam was blistering. But it was an unrecorded time. imploding like meteors in the gravitational field. there was no Utube and no tomorrow and boys who weren’t getting fucked up on the border were getting fucked up in bed by the girls who wanted them to be heroes and maybe that’s why The Answer is not..because there no more real quest/ion/s anymore. …?

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By: OG

OG — Mon, 31 May 2010 20:25:24 +0000

Haters gonna hate.

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