Die Antwoord - fake or not, they were the best thing on the Internet this week (videos)

nightmare

ho looks hot

genius

yeahhh! great to see an SA band creating massive buzz on the internet. On a serious note though, Africa has some amazing musicians and artistic innovators that the world is yet to be exposed to.

Dude's wearing a jersey with the # 88 on it

Eighth letter of the English alphabet = H
HH = short for Heil, Hitler

its like if chris cunningham started a music project

I've already seen Gummo.

they're like the Anvil of rap (or whatever this music is)

you have gotta be kidding me

great, more self-proclaimed rednecks ... kind of like the staff at Vanity Fair defending their recent, marginally-racist magazine cover. with so many attitudes like these, it's no wonder you don't see more talented black artists (and artists of other ethnicities) in movies, tv, press, etc.

This is better than anything happening in Williamsburg these days. By leaps and bounds. Even if it is fake. Perhaps especially if it is fake.

this is genius and theyre going to be HUGE

This is really fucking strange shit.
I like this

awful

I'm willing to bet $100 to anyone here that these guys will headline the final Pool Party @ the Williamsburg Waterfront this summer. Jay-Z, Dave Grohl, Flea and MF Doom will join them onstage. RJD2 will open. 50,000+ people will be in attendance. The gates will come crashing down. Security will be overwhelmed. Tear gas & mayhem will ensue. It'll be the most epic concert since Woodstock.

Bring back the gumby fade!

girl can rap
http://vimeo.com/7391501

Is the aborted fetus part of the band?

"Enter the Ninja" feels like the Fresh Prince intro

oh great the Hills Have Eyes family are now rappers?

"Dude's wearing a jersey with the # 88 on it

Eighth letter of the English alphabet = H
HH = short for Heil, Hitler"

No it stands for Hello Hipsters

Cause nothing is cooler than living with your Parents.

This should win a Grammy next Year.

It reminds me of Ali G and his sidekick trying to rap and be cool in their car, except this shit is serious. Terrible.

this is on a whole new level

love it.

isn't this old news yet?

that bitch is the only wigger that is allowed to use rapper arms in my book....

these guys are so for real this digital hipster rag dont even know how to digest....

......and dont you fucking dare make fun of LEON....

that guy, his art, his mind, his daily thoughts are so far beyond anything u 5th generation williamsburgers can comrehend.

^^^ damn someone is TUFF!!!!!!!!

Whoa, calm down.

nice to see Anton Newcombe working again...

Hey dummies talking about how 88 = Heil Hitler, just because some OTHER dummies, and a very small number at that, use 88 to mean that doesn't mean that every time you see 88 it's gonna mean that! It's a NUMBER: 86+2=88; 94-6=88; 22 years ago, a whole generation of people graduated from schools as "The Class of '88," and they weren't all neo-Nazis. Let it go!

I love this band. Fingers crossed their tour brings them to NYC!

If this is supposed to be funny (and it is, actually), I'm a bit astounded by that dude's commitment re: getting really horrible prison tattoos just to take it up to 100% (not that there aren't plenty of brooklyners that rock sarcasm to the same extreme degree, though).

that's a win for @ 2:38

also good to see the short guy from hot chip flexing his range

"also good to see the short guy from hot chip flexing his range"

THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!!!

and i thought there could be nothing worse than juggalos

this shit was on drunkenstepfather about 2 weeks ago. Hey BV little tardy to the party!

WHITE TRASH

Deze zuid afrikaans mensen zijn heel gek. Ik heb vragen.

Potty mouth.

Thanks white settlers in South Africa for really setting the tone. Completely dumb.

Afrikaner Ali G

"Is the aborted fetus part of the band?"

I think he has progeria.

Africanter no thank you.

better band name: Robbin' Island

huh. don't know if want. straddles the line of in-joke absurdity and cokehead techno rap to well to identify true identity. will take up later. maybe.

But what exactly does the deep little philosopher guy with the progeria condition actually do in the band?

he produces the music. he's a crazy bedroom turntablist and painter....and the photo exhibit he did was like his coming out party....he's not present in die's earlier videos, they had some big dude pretending to be him....

i get heated cause u guys make the most idiotic comments like you're better than this person, and thats exactly why the ny hipster attitude is destructive and has killed the scene. just sit quietly with yourself and let those comments sit deep in your heart and feel how much it hurts. sucks to b u.

oh, and this angry commenter in not a dude, its a bitch in heat!

Booyakasha! Respek.

bummer the whole thing is an ALI G stunt and gimmick.

i would love to bang that broad

why did they have the big dude take his place in the earlier videos? curious. mad respekt to leon yo. sorry these anon jerkholes got your goat!

@Anon12:07 a/k/a "bitch in heat"

I hope you're not directing your venom at me. I was seriously asking what the dude did in the band. As you point out yourself, Mr. 88 jersey wearing guy was touted as the beat maker in the videos above, so...naturally I was confused and, if anything, was hoping the little dude was not simply being used as some sort of twisted kind of mascot gimmick.

Who cares if it's fake or not? Well over half of the Brooklyn hipster shit is fake. Perhaps DIE ANTWOORD is just not trying to cover it up like the trust fund Brooklyn hipster set is. This is not to assume that DIE ANTWOORD are not wealthy 'art' kids doing an art project. Just saying... In modern hipster 'art', it's mostly all fake anyways. Let's just sort out what we enjoy out of the mess.

i would love to bang that dude with progeria.

ACTUALLY Leon is a close friend of the band and plays at some of their underground parties but is not their DJ. Hi-Tec is the big dude in the 88 jersey and he didn't go to the video shoot because he is afraid to fly so Leon went. I read an e-mail Yo-Landi sent to someone explaining this. Also last I heard Hi-Tech had been missing for like 6 days does anyone know if they found him?

I get heated cause u guys make the most idiotic comments like you're better than this person, and thats exactly why the ny hipster attitude is destructive and has killed the scene. just sit quietly with yourself and let those comments sit deep in your heart and feel how much it hurts.

Real. Fake. Who cares? I can't stop listening or watching.

If this is "fake", then what would be a good example of a band that's "authentic"? Trustfund hipsters dressing like homeless people and learning 3 power chords on guitar, like the Strokes??? Gimme a break.

Even uneducated "common" hillbilly rednecks are allowed to express themselves in public if they have something to say. Even better if they are fake

seriously? Saw this a few days ago and didn't believe anyone would actually enjoy this crap. It seems people really "like" this? Total shite. What is it that makes people think this is good? The raps are horrid, with delivery that reminds me of this kid i knew in jr high that everyone just felt sorry for.

All I can see is the girl is attractive in that "barely legal" sorta way, and admittedly the hook on enter the ninja is infectious. But above all that another case of hipster irony going too far and falling in love with an artist because it's obviously bad.

i hate (mostly) all of you

"But what exactly does the deep little philosopher guy with the progeria condition actually do in the band"

his function is to distract you away from the shitty redneck rhymes.

For all the philosophy, his art is just really cheezy sentimental portraits of rappers. High-school art style.

still fokken great stuff form sa...

love it...

Progeria dude is cute :-)

i'm what most would call "PC" but the people that post here crying about cultural appropriation and trying to make some sort of connection to nazis because of the 88 need to leave their bubbles before trying to communicate with the rest of the world. seriously, get your head out of your pathetically grad school asses, or your parent's house in long island

^^^make more sense

So there is obviously something very tongue in cheek and artsy about the whole thing, and that is what soooo much music and art is based on these days, right? This is the age of no holds barred cultural appropriation, sampling and irony, which is kind of gross but really what are "artists" left to do when there is nothing new under the sun and no honor to that title anyhow? You can only reference and comment on existing symbols, and perhaps place them under a microscope for crass refinement and purifying destruction.

Oh yeah and everything sucks anyway so fuck whatever dumb music scene you like and your stupid blogs too. your dad was right, go get a real job, do something useful for once.

btw, my ranting above about stupid blogs was not directed at this blog. this blog makes my ass hurt, in a good way :)
Love, Rose

Anyone other than an American would watch this for two seconds and realize it's a parody.

^^^ also if you were South African you would see the layers and layers of geniusly pointed cultural reference, including parodying the American rap scene in all its newfound uselessness, and how non-American nations are forced to swallow your over publicized artistic wanks. This is props to Die Antwoord for making fun of you.

Check out IMPROPER OPERA's interview with Die Antwoord, hot off the press and totally bizarre

fondly,
the Improper Collective

http://www.improperopera.com/2010/03/die-antwoord-interview.html

"parodying the American rap scene in all its newfound uselessness"

the "uselessness" that created a means for Die Antwoord to get paid?

"parody" is the cop-out for SUCK

they are in the states. they played LA last night and are coming to NY soon. but when and where? let the rumors swirl.

this is garbage and just another way for cali hipster douchebags to ride some dick. go listen to some slug. internet hype makes so much money....nice working class fake image. paris hilton makes dope music too right?? oh yeah weak ass fred durst likes the garbage too rofl.

my goodness...all the comments, good and bad.
regardless what anyone thinks, they have made it bigtime and making a lot of money......mmmmm ne'!! here in South Africa the Zef sound is catching on fast.

DIe ANtwoord put on a great show at Coachella 2010. hopefully they come back next year!

YES, kinda NOT 4WEAK BLADDERZ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwLp2SlApr0