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I used to be called Waddy Jones. But I changed my name to Ninja because it’s more me.
I like Drake’s stuff.
When I was a boy, I wanted to be a Ninja. Now I am a man, now I am a Ninja.
All Die Antwoord music, on a weird level, is like relationship music.
I made a clean version of ‘Enter the Ninja’ that my mom can listen to.
I’ve only been to jail once, and I didn’t get my tattoos there.
The ‘$O$’ phase, it was like, ‘Save Our Souls’: we didn’t know how we were going to get out of our situation… It was our last chance just to go all out. ‘Ten$ion’ was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.
A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man’s real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That’s kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
It’s cool having a little bit of money to do your thing.
We don’t care if you understand us.
My favourite book in the world is ‘Neuromancer’ by William Gibson.
I wanna be the biggest pop group on the planet.
It’s super dope when you connect with something personally.
I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.
It’s good to be intuitive.
Hollywood’s not knocking on our door. They’re banging down the door with a sledgehammer.
I think because people can’t understand our style, they think it’s a joke. Our music isn’t intellectual – we make music for the common man.
‘Die Antwoord’ just has a nice ring to it.
We’ll support anyone who’s doing something fresh.
It’s super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it – from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
You’ll get a kid in Liberia wearing a Tupac T-shirt, and for us, that’s zef. People try to say it’s like trash, but it’s not really trash. It’s putting things together you think are cool.
There’s layers to our stuff: Our top layer is like candy-coated pop, because we want to party and have a nice time, but we also have a lot of different human experiences and other levels present in the Die Antwoord experience.
The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
People react to ‘District 9’ and Die Antwoord on the same level.
We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is… finite.
Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
Zef is like dirt, it’s like scum. There was no zef movement before we came along.
Roger Ballen is pretty much a member of Die Antwoord, it would be safe to say.
The only thing I regret in life is that I didn’t practice basketball more.
Conceptual art, I don’t even know what that is.
