We just want to see our luck and keep our hearts pumping. But we don’t want to tell this fuckin’ sad story around the world. There’s a lot of this energy in our music. So I’m influenced by it, because I don’t want to be a victim of _that _looking after us and _that _coming after you in the dark, and everything in the middle. And when he became president, he pulled all these moves-it was like this real freak-mode thing. The president was involved with all these dodgy arms dealers and was being investigated by the Scorpions, which police the government. And in the press statement, he said he had a shower afterwards, so he wasn’t worried about it. Our president was charged with raping a chick before he became president, and she had AIDS. And now the new regime has come and they’re just completely bad people. The government was supposed to change everything and make it better Mandela fought and did all this hectic stuff for so long-went to prison-and he came out like Gandhi, flipped it around, made it all nice. And it’s not just in a particular area-the ghettos or suburbs or wherever-it’s really fucking buck wild. In South Africa, you don’t really have a choice.
If you’ve got a woman and children and stuff, you can’t be a fuckin’ runaway. There’s this samurai saying, "Become the enemy." And I didn’t understand it at first, but is kind of based on that. It’s nice, but our juice comes from there. It’s like a militaristic presence-that’s just the day-to-day, and we’re used to it. No one calls the police you call private security. It’s kind of weird: you’re a victim or, like, not a victim. **Ninja: **I mean, South Africa’s very dangerous. **GQ: You said one of the new songs, "Money and the Power," was about how you’re squashed between two scenes in South Africa. On the verge of completing their next album, called_ Ten$ion_, Ninja and Yo-landi discussed Die Antwoord’s five-year expiration date, samurai philosophy, and the well-endowed Evil Boy. The room contains a multi-media goldmine waiting to be excessively re-Tumblred and re-Tweeted. Meanwhile, on the table sit toy prototypes for Evil Boy, the group’s massive-schlonged mascot. The clip’s strangely gorgeous, with black and white scenes depicting South African gangsters waving guns-throughout, Yo-landi is covered in butterflies. He returns to debut their self-produced video for "Fok Julle Naaiers," which the record ecs are worried about. Afterwards, Ninja says quietly, "We like that combination of ’pop’ and ’fuck you.’" Yo-landi nods and Ninja politely excuses himself to pee. A sampling: Yo-landi yelling, "Murder! Murder! Kill! Kill!" South African gangster slang poetry dubstep interludes Mortal Kombat theme song allusions. It’s nice, but our juice comes from there," says Ninja, who describes his homeland as "really fucking buck wild." They queue up the new songs. Since that fateful day on the Internet, Die Antwoord signed with Interscope Records, toured the world, and attracted covetable filmmakers-not bad for what began as a meme.
So to answer that question of authenticity: It depends if living your art is still considered performing.
To understand their chemistry, consult Ninja’s tattoo: "If you don’t like funerals, don’t kick sand in a Ninja’s face" and Yo-landi’s one-liner: "Do what I like ’cuz I roll with the fuckin’ Ninja!" Naturally, their South African rave-rap group went viral last year when the Internet discovered the bizarrely entertaining music videos for " Zef Side" and " Enter the Ninja" and spent months asking, So wait, _are these guys for real? _When I meet them at their publicist’s NYC headquarters, they still have those Vanilla Ice-inspired hairdos and they’ve brought along six new Die Antwoord tracks. One’s two-feet taller than the other, and they get along like thug-nasty versions of Harry and Sally. For a band whose next single is called "Fok Julle Naaiers" (Afrikaans for "Fuck You All"), Die Antwoord’s Ninja and Yo-landi Vi$$er are kind of adorable.
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