For those who don’t understand Afrikaans, translated that reads “I am a boss, you’re a child of Ham/’cause you’re locked up in jail/with your snake [penis] inside a man.” Let me break that down. 

“Lanie” is olloquial coloured slang for a white boss. As for Gam, it’s the Afrikaans for Ham. That’s the Biblical Noah’s cursed son Ham. In Apartheid’s theology coloureds were deemed children of Ham, i.e. the cursed ones. The rest is self explanatory and recalls the homophobic lyrics on their last song.

As usual am amazed how there’s little debate/comment here and elsewhere on the offensive content of some of their raps, including in “I Fink you Freaky” where that the lyrics above contains offensive racist tropes and the usual dose of homophobia.But I may be expecting too much from listeners/viewers. Many music critics/tastemaker bloggers and DA trolls just repost the videos without engaging with the content. Either the visuals are too overpowering to them or, more importantly, they don’t speak or understand Afrikaans, the other language used in the videos.But then I can already predict the replies. The retort is probably going to be the usual, they don’t mean what they say, this is ironic, they’re artists or the favorite, they’re defanging these racist terms, or it’s the new South Africa and go make your own video, like everyone has the power, access, resources, etc regardless of class, race (especially the people referenced in that racist trope and who Diane Coetzer, writing for Rolling Stone’s South African issue, said DA should be free to “mine” (an unfortunate choice of words if ever there was one in South Africa) of poor coloured people.

I may be incorrect since his image is a flash at 3:35, he might be an Albino Arfican. Now there’s a story, these Black Albinos are slaughtered in East Africa and Tazania for use by witch doctors. It takes a certain level of evil to tie someone up and harvest a limb at a time too.

Open your eyes, this video is full of messages.

sas dot albinism dot org

2) This has to be the most enjoyable song I’ve heard of theirs – owing much to the early 90′s style techno.

1:08 and 1:11

1:10 Yolandi says “I FINK you freeky……”
1:15 Ninja says “I THINK you freeky….”

I find U post-apocalyptic freak show disturbing.  I don’t like it like that.

Anyway, Die Antwoord has layer upon layer of ambiguity. Close-ups of Yolandi’s face and bangs look like she could be a boy. Her age is ambiguous. The accent is hard for Americans to place. Multiple albinos in this vid? Other videos featured Leon Botha who looks young and old at the same time.

They gladly ditched their label and have taken to the ‘net instead.I don’t think their sales are hurting… I already got TenSion off of iTunes. :-)

I think if he directed a video for them my mind would be blown for a good 5 minutes.

Just in case anyone isn’t familiar with his work, here is a sample music video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Az_7U0-cK0

Have you seen this picture of a younger Ninja & Yolandi with their daughter, Sixteen?