, you get your penis circumcised with a kitchen knife. He’s under pressure because he’s from the ghetto and he had to go to the bush to get circumcised to become a man. He caused a stir because his verse is about African tribal circumcision. (Watch the video below.) What’s the back-story on that? Your video for “Evil Boy” has sparked controversy for heavy phallic imagery and guest rapper Wanga shouting about how he’s not gay. Even times when they don’t get it, they still say, “I get it.” “I get it.” Yeah, “I get it.” Americans like to “get” everything. It looks like there’s something wrong with all their eyes and Harmony told me they all drank cough medicine.Īny American slang that you’ve picked up on?
Well, we’re making a short form movie with Harmony Korine and he started playing me Lil Boosie’s video “We Out Chea.” It’s pretty fuckin’….I’ve never seen something like that. What American hip-hop have you’ve been getting into lately? And you get caramelized onion and it’s pretty much my favorite thing in the world. I get the cheese one, not the normal one. They open at 11 and I had to wait this morning and I was getting a bit shaky waiting for them to open. I had this hamburger, and I didn’t know it was vegetarian until I tasted it and I’ve become, like, addicted to it. Like, in Europe, they don’t explain things that good. What are your impressions of the country?
You’ve only performed in the States a handful of times. trek, caught up with Ninja to talk about his impressions of American culture, the trio’s phallic-saturated video, and why he wants Die Antwoord (South African for “The Answer”) to be bigger than Mickey Mouse. With their debut album $0$ out this week and the group in the middle of their own U.S. and controversial, crazily NSFW videos for tracks like “Evil Boy” (watch below). In one short year, the trio (which also includes DJ Hi-Tek) have become pop stars, with a major label deal at Interscope, tours with M.I.A. South Africa’s Die Antwoord blew up last year thanks to a viral video for their song “Enter the Ninja” – not to mention their freakish looks, including frontman Ninja’s lean, heavily-tatted torso and singer Yo-Landi Vi$$er’s punk waifishness.