“Take your favorite nightmare; give it a twisted beat and unstoppable flow, then get it ripped on Jägermeister and you might come close to Die Antwoord (Afrikaans for “The Answer”). Lest you think this is just the next Great White Hope of Hip Hop, the South African duo (Ninja and Yo-Landi) have been making music for almost a decade under various aliases. “To sum it all up, in this place, South Africa, you get a lot of different things: blacks, whites, coloureds, English, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu, watookal—I’m like all these different things, all these different people, fucked into one person.” How can you not see that live?”
-- Janaka, 6/28