Users who like Enter The Ninja (Album Version) Users who reposted Enter The Ninja (Album Version) Playlists containing Enter The Ninja (Album Version) More tracks like Enter The Ninja (Album Version) License: all-rights-reserved2010 EP by Die Antwoord 5 EP by Die Antwoord Released27 July 2010 Recorded2010 GenreAlternative hip hop, rave Length21:50 LabelCherrytree Records ProducerDJ Hi-Tek DJ Fishsticks Die Antwoord chronology O 5 Ekstra Singles from 5 'Enter the Ninja' Released: 9 August 2010 'Fish Paste' Released: 2010 5 is an EP by South African hip hop group, Die Antwoord. The EP was the first official release by Die Antwoord Although, if you take into account that his real name is Watkin Tudor Jones, that he's been involved in South African hip hop for years, under various different names, and he will be 36 years old in October and rapping as if he's a hot-headed, super-violent young mega-thug, maybe 'honestly' is the wrong word to use.Abstract: Die Antwoord (The Answer), a Zef-rap outfit from South Africa, have been criticised for their appropriation of cultural signifiers in their lyrics.I dunno if it's the accent, but there's an uncanny sonic resemblance between Ninja here and Jonah from BBC Three's high school comedy Summer Heights High.
The bit where he tries to prove that he's not a psycho by saying "but look at me now" - you've seen the video, right? - is surely worth a grin? No? OK, how about when he, in all seriousness, brags about being "all up on the interweb", like that's a knighthood from the Queen? How about when he says "don't ask for kak or you'll get what you ask for"? Just me?OK, then how about when he stops to REVIEW HIS OWN SONG? Surely saying "this is, like, the coolest song I ever heard in my whole life" qualifies him for entry to this year's Comedy Awards? I can't conceive of a situation in which you get to do that and not have your tongue so far into your cheek, it's poking out of your ear.Perhaps the two best clues that this is less-than-100%-serious come from the lyrical nods to Hollywood comedies. "I-I-I-I want the knife" is a joke from the Eddie Murphy film The Golden Child, and "too hot to handle, too cold to hold" is a bold claim which was last made by Bobby Brown, as part of the soundtrack song to the film Ghostbusters II.Of course, it's possible Ninja thinks these films were documentaries, but I doubt it.Pitchfork says: "On the surface, Die Antwoord are simply the latest in a never-ending line of "did ya see that?!" blog-hopping music memes."Consequence Of Sound says: "The group emits a very unique blend of angry hip hop with a touch of rave, all bathed in Cape Town grime."Moral Fibre says: "Die Antwoord's latest video 'Enter the Ninja' has had mixed reviews, with some dismissing their work as mere lack luster parody and others lauding it as the future of South Africa's avant garde alt-pop music scene. He can't stop himself from swearing and he's a bit of a thug, but only because he wants a bit of attention.
Computer." Only the sophistication of their beats and bilingual rhymes belied their supposedly humble origins. It is, indeed, a colorful cast of characters: Ninja, the gold-toothed rapper covered in prison tats Yo-Landi, styled to approximate a feisty weasel and DJ Hi-Tek, named the group's producer because "he owns a P.C. They came to prominence on the back of YouTube videos, biting parodies that presented the group as a bunch of undereducated, acid-washed hicks. South Africa's Die Antwoord are a white South African trio that fuses hip-hop and rave music, rapping in English and Afrikaans, and generally confusing the hell out of people.
As performance art, even Fischerspooner pales in comparison. Die Antwoord merely amplifies their vision to include anyone with an Internet connection.
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