Fronted by a skinny dude who calls himself Ninja, and a firecracker of a rapper/singer in the vein of M.I.A. named Yo-landi Vi$$er, Die Antwoord blew up via boing boing in February this year. Ninja explains in a Vice Magazine interview:
Die Antwoord started with my one homeboy, DJ Hi-Tek (shows tattoo on hand)—He’s got his own PC computer and he makes basically like phat rap-rave beats. I was checking out his shit, and we started making some beats, you know, next level shit. So then I was speaking to my homegirl Yo-Landi, you know she’s got some funk and super flavour, so we started with a kind of, like, 2Unlimited, C+C Music Factory kind of thing… but a bit more gangster, with a street edge. Then we found out you can put the songs for free on the interweb, no problem. Now the album’s pumping worldwide, like some next-level futuristic shit. Scotland, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Japan… In like, one second we’re in the overseas, it’s instant—like the matrix.
They're actually two middle class South African artists who have adopted the stage personas of poor working class South African white trash.
It's like Ali G satire plus 90's electronic music. It sounds like it would be terrible, but its actually awesome. Oh right, that's why I like it now.
Favorite line from this song... I'm a Ninja.
They're playing LA in July. I kind of... want to go see it. Who's with me?