Die Antwoord News
Zeflings News archive
- 18.01.2012 / New Die Antwoord song online; I Fin...
- 07.11.2011 / New Die Antwoord Video - Fok Julle ...
- 17.10.2011 / HOW A TACKY, EMBARRASSING AFRIKAANE...
- 12.07.2011 / Jeannie D Braais With Die Antwoord
- 09.06.2011 / Die Antwoord LIVE @ The Voodoo Expe...
- 07.06.2011 / RIP Leon Botha, Die Antwoord DJ And...
- 31.05.2011 / OppiKoppi 17 - 'Unknown Brother' Fe...
- 25.05.2011 / Die Antwoord Awarded SAMA Award ......
- 25.05.2011 / Die Antwoord Recognised as The Best...
- 16.05.2011 / Zef Wine for ALL!
- 16.05.2011 / Die Antwoord nominated for a South ...
- 09.05.2011 / BEAT Interview
- 05.05.2011 / DIE ANTWOORD EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WI...
- 29.04.2011 / Exclusive Die Antwoord Interview - ...
- 21.04.2011 / Spoeked
- 18.04.2011 / Interview with Interview Magazine
- 14.04.2011 / Die Antwoord In US Short Film
- 14.04.2011 / iafrica.com entertainment features ...
- 14.04.2011 / Interview with Vice Magazine - Zef ...
- 13.04.2011 / Interview with W Magazine
- 11.04.2011 / Die Antwoord LIVE! @ Barcelona
- 12.01.2011 / Die Antwoord Zeflings needs Zefling...
- 12.11.2010 / Ninja and Yo-landi searching for da...
- 08.11.2010 / Die Antwoord, Rye Rye @ Stereo Live...
- 01.11.2010 / Meet a Zefling Part 1 - Michael fro...
- 01.11.2010 / Evil Boy, behind the scenes with Ni...
- 28.10.2010 / Die Antwoord prompts a big question...
- 27.10.2010 / Zef side video makes it into Guggen...
- 20.10.2010 / $O$ album review by Spectrum Cultur...
- 19.10.2010 / Die Antwoord @ The Music Box
- 12.10.2010 / Zeflings shop online with fancy mer...
- 12.10.2010 / Interview with Ninja by COS reporte...
- 07.10.2010 / Evil boy video premiere feat. xhosa...
- 06.10.2010 / Interview with Ninja and Yo-landi (...
- 04.10.2010 / Die Antwoord joined by Evil Boy Wan...
- 30.09.2010 / Very Fancy Lyric with fancy transla...
- 28.09.2010 / First trailer footage new Evil Boy ...
- 23.09.2010 / Die Antwoord VIDEO with answers all...
- 21.09.2010 / Politics n South African Hip Hop
- 20.09.2010 / Vuilgeboost Times Live article abou...
- 17.09.2010 / $O$ album Die Antwoord released oct...
- 14.09.2010 / Die Antwoord: Awful or the best thi...
- 13.09.2010 / The zef sound of South African art-...
- 30.08.2010 / Die Antwoord performed with Aphex T...
- 27.08.2010 / Aphex twin meets Die Antwoord in Lo...
- 24.08.2010 / Live performance in Amsterdam Die A...
- 23.08.2010 / Die Antwoord at Pukkelpop (INCL INT...
- 28.07.2010 / Interview: Lets talk about ZEF by I...
- 23.07.2010 / Zefling review: Die Antwoord @ Toro...
- 20.07.2010 / LA Times review Die Antwoord @ El R...
- 07.07.2010 / Yo-Landi turned down Hollywood acti...
- 01.07.2010 / Yo-landi Vi$$er casted for a David ...
- 30.06.2010 / SuperEvil song lyric translated by ...
- 22.06.2010 / Zefling report: South Africas Big 5...
- 18.06.2010 / Zef report: Die Antwoord Brings The...
- 09.06.2010 / Die Antwoord: "Whats in my bag" @ H...
- 07.06.2010 / Die Antwoord: Next-level zef in the...
- 03.06.2010 / Die antwoord by Elsevier Magazine (...
- 26.05.2010 / Mandy de Waal deciphering Die Antwo...
- 25.05.2010 / Rappers update the image of South A...
- 19.05.2010 / Die Antwoord GIG - Saturday 5 june ...
- 11.05.2010 / Interview Die Antwoord by Beeld.com...
- 08.05.2010 / Interview with chommie and rising s...
- 06.05.2010 / NINJA and his vuilgeboost poes groo...
- 02.05.2010 / Zefling report: Die Antwoord + Leon...
- 27.04.2010 / Die Antwoord NEXT GIG - Friday 30 A...
- 27.04.2010 / Coachella 2010 outro: Die Antwoord,...
- 26.04.2010 / Zefling report: Die Antwoord and th...
- 23.04.2010 / Zefling adventure: Zefling sneaked ...
- 21.04.2010 / Die Antwoord, the world is yours......
- 18.04.2010 / Pics Die Antwoord Coachella 2010
- 16.04.2010 / Tomorrow will be booming!..US fest ...
- 15.04.2010 / Die Antwoords' Ninja is the new Ja...
- 15.04.2010 / Zeflings report: How Die Antwoord z...
- 11.04.2010 / Reason Die Antwoord is NOT playing ...
- 09.04.2010 / Zeflings report: Kings of the Alex...
- 07.04.2010 / Die Antwoord and its Roots, back in...
- 06.04.2010 / Die Antwoord next to the South Afri...
- 02.04.2010 / Ninja Die Antwoord v.s.The Realist ...
- 01.04.2010 / Translated next level interview aft...
- 01.04.2010 / (AFRICAN) Die Antwoord interview af...
- 01.04.2010 / Die Antwoord zeflings robbed by old...
- 31.03.2010 / Report of Die Antwoord gig @ Alexa...
- 30.03.2010 / Die antwoord in another 20 funny fa...
- 28.03.2010 / Die Antwoord also loved in the Cape...
- 24.03.2010 / 15 Minutes with a NINJA, back to th...
- 24.03.2010 / Reports that Die Antwoord signed re...
- 22.03.2010 / Die Antwoord in 24 short little fac...
- 22.03.2010 / Die Antwoord South African words of...
- 21.03.2010 / How to take over the interweb
- 21.03.2010 / Die antwoord - interview before US ...
- 20.03.2010 / Die Antwoord pays its dues, but int...
- 19.03.2010 / The return of the Ninja and Yo-land...
- 18.03.2010 / Die Antwoord to sign with Interscop...
- 18.03.2010 / Interview Die Antwoord - Pitchfork
- 18.03.2010 / Interview Die Antwoord - Zef so fre...
- 17.03.2010 / Die Antwoord Zeflings.com online
Zef report: Die Antwoord Brings The Weird
First of all, there might be some good news for the zeflings from the Netherlands. The Antwoord just announced to discuss an extra fokken liveshow in Amsterdam for those who failed to get tickets for Lowlands. More info on that to follow and meanwhile some parts of the world are already enjoying the zefgigs of Ninja and Yo-landi Visser. But first, some point of view by Kevin Douglas Grant. South Africa is a country still working through its wounds, thrust onto the main stage perhaps before it is ready, but thrust all the same. –Richard Poplak
Die Antwoord’s April performance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival was the white South African dance-rappers’ first performance in the United States and the product of months’ worth of Internet buzz.
In Cape Town, the group’s home base, Die Antwoord (“The Answer” in Dutch-derived Afrikaans) is known as a key but relatively new act representing Zef, a South African cultural movement. Headed to New York City next week to kick off their first North American tour, the group brought their insane energy to the Cape Town International Convention Center Wednesday night.
Zef combines 80’s-era conspicuous consumption, rave culture, spliced African sounds and rhythms, and tongue-in-cheek parody of white South African elites. The genre echoes early American hip-hop while fitting comfortably into the international pop pantheon. It is strange, vulgar, and distinctly Afrikaans.
As a couple of my white colleagues at Media24 put it, “We were brought up for most of our lives to believe that black people were inferior.” With the implicit understanding that this kind of indoctrination is a great way to fuck people up for life, they said, “we have to have some sense of humor about it.” Zef, therefore, is a type of cultural reconciliation.
Though arguably a novelty act, Die Antwoord carries the weight of South African problems behind it, including dire poverty and the remnants of race warfare. At the same time, their party-centric approach the music keeps things light, bizarre, and always moving.
The group is raunchy, grating, yet technically excellent. To an American ear, the sound is fresh if abrasive. The accents are distinctly foreign, the raw confidence of MCs Ninja (the dude) and Yo-Landi (the little sprite) impressive.
The poor "white trash" aesthetic is familiar, but without the shrill whine of Eminem or the emo-pessimism of Atmosphere.
In Cape Town, fans of various backgrounds lauded Die Antwoord for mashing up the musical traditions of different races and classes. All the fans I spoke with agreed: the group, and the Zef culture it represents, is part of the healing process of the young democracy of South Africa after apartheid. At the same time, the music is a good excuse to go out and get crazy on a Wednesday night.
Hey you, zefling, leave your message!
Zeflings comments
