Last week, a new viral sensation ‘hit the internet.’ It is some rap group from South Africa, and no1 was able to tell whether or not they were ‘real.’ Does n e 1 know what the deal with Die Antwoord is? Not sure if they are ternative, post-TheStreets/eminem indie rap, or just some meme that was packaged by a high priced marketing firm who paid a huge tastemaker to blog about them.
Watched some rap video that was supposed to be a ‘raw profile’ of them. Only really feel confused. Not in a way that makes me want to ’share the video in my facebook feed and say that it is awesome’, but in a way that makes me wish I had never seen it. Wish these South African bros had never entered my realm of relevant awareness. It seems like they got more coverage than the buzziest buzz band in the history of the world.
It seems like a zany meme that would be shared by people who say the word ‘interwebs.’ Can’t believe the mid/early-00s design aesthetic is already ‘retro-ironic.’
Feel sorta confused by Die Antwoord. I wonder if they will be the type of band that ‘opens up for Kanye West/Radiohead’, or if they will be more like the band Aqua who sang the hit song “Barbie Girl.”
I was scared by the bro with progeria in this video, but maybe the progeria personal brand will catch on in the 2k10s.
I feel like the most captivating part of Die Antwoord is probably the broad with the progressive bangs. She is like a progressive sexual figure. Some 1 who you want to have conceptual sex with.
Hopefully Feist / Zooey Deschanel and other ‘indie broads’ cut their bangs into a progressive post-Tegan and Sara style.
Seems like it might all just be a joke, and Ali G is going to ’sue the fuck out of them.’ Maybe they will transition into some sort of Flight of the Conchords type of act and get a ‘brilliant’ HBO comedy show that showcases the lasting effects of apartheid on South Africa in a funny/insightful way.
Is there really a mass market for this type of ‘rap’ act?
Is South Africa the new Brooklyn?
Is this viral marketing for World Cup 2k10?
Is it even ‘worth it’ to ’search 4 answers’ about Die Antwoord, or should we just let another meme cycle wash them away?
WTF is ternative?
What is marketing?
Should I get some progressive bangs?
Is Die Antwoord the alternative replication of Eiffel 65’s “Blue”?
Or more like Aqua’s “Barbie Girl”?
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BAAAH FIRST
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//////////Reply by SEXIunits
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
HEY YALL!~
HOW’S THAT AMERICAN ROCK N’ ROLL NARRATIVE
TREATIN’ YEH?
YALL WILL Make history in it or something?
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//////////Reply by SEXIunits
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
Yall Feel Like you are part of something bigger in life?
Yall feel like the narration of ‘counterculture’ rock is going
down in history how you want it to?
Are Yall Happy We Can Chill And Rock Out to the Same Bands Globally/Counterculturally together?
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//////////Reply by HxC_Aussi_Chik
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 12:19 pm
@SEXIunits,
HELL YEAH!
In Australia we have taken on the American Rock Narrative as well! WE the Youth of Aus. Fight that Mainstream B/S Daily by listening to Grizzle Bear, The Thermals, And Sonic Youth!
Seems Like South Of the Equater is the NEXT BIG THING!
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Fokken Lekker!
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NOLA BITCH WHO DAT NIGGA 9TH WARD UP IN THIS BITCH WE BOUT IT BOUT IT WEEEEZZZYYYYYY RIP
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//////////Reply by triforce
//////////Posted February 9th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
@pedro,
9TH?
u were 3rd, bro.
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//////////Reply by Ben
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 7:48 am
@triforce, You are a moron.
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//////////Reply by skybread
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 11:20 pm
@pedro,
CTC, CUT THROAT CITY, CROSS THAT CANAL WHERE MY NIGGAS DWELL.
AINT HAD NO BALL, WE PLAYED FOOTBALL WIT A CONCRETE ROCK
9TH WARD, 9th WAAAAAAAARD
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i like to think harmony korine [via gummo] was their ‘producer’
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//////////Reply by meow
//////////Posted February 9th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
@tween_spirit, i was just going to say the exact same thing. they look like people out of gummo.
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//////////Reply by edwardsssszzz
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
@meow,
I was going to say the thing, I was scared by the little peoples in Gummo, especially the kiddie who was sniffing glu with his bro and then who was working up a real mean sweat in his basement. Is it all good to use a kid with progeria as a gimmick? Not really sure if he’s in the band, maybe he is a backstage producer? If they are just using him to get views on youtube I don’t know if thats okay
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The full album is actually fairly legit. The beats are better than the lyrics, but overall I could see them being some crazy smash hit group to make it to a handful of summer festivals. Who knows what the hell the sound like live though. Probably horrible. Most rapping sounds horrible live. IMO.
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//////////Reply by sizzle
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
@liquid flux, uuuuigh never say Legit
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//////////Reply by icupn
//////////Posted March 18th, 2010 at 12:42 am
@sizzle, never say uuuuigh
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//////////Reply by shit
//////////Posted February 18th, 2010 at 8:20 pm
@liquid flux, look up their live videos.. shit is rave hot.
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Wow. Don’t know if this is ternative, it’s hilarious though! This guy Lord Mortality is really funny as well. His music is way better:
http://vimeo.com/9238571
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//////////Reply by eggs
//////////Posted February 9th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
@Barbara, dang next time you post a link to some shitty video of guy walking around in a mask warn somebody.
cannot believe I fell for that. *shame*
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//////////Reply by Barbara
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 12:19 am
@eggs, It’s not shitty. It’s cool!
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//////////Reply by Spaghetti Jesus
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 8:02 am
No @Barbara, its the polar opposite of cool. That is known as either a fail or shenanigans. You are at fault. Own your disgrace, frowny face. Its shitty video and you helped spread its disease across the internet.
//////////Reply by Barbara
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
@Barbara, Wow. You boys are really crusty and grumpy. If you can’t see the humor in “freaking out the normals” than you really are square/old!
//////////Reply by Bipster
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
@Barbara, don’t mind them, Barbara.
//////////Reply by AltDom
//////////Posted February 17th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
@Barbara, this makes me feel sad inside.
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LATE Carles, late.
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//////////Reply by art student
//////////Posted February 9th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
@Lol, fareal doe
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//////////Reply by OhNoOhMy
//////////Posted February 9th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
@art student, thats all I cant thinking as I read this. AND Ive been busy as *&%$ lately.
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//////////Reply by OhNoOhMy
//////////Posted February 9th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
@OhNoOhMy, kept thinking. Not cant.although i cant apparently
Max Normal.
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//////////Reply by not
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 5:31 am
@Y, Watkin Tudor Jones Jr.
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these dudes are off that cat food shit like some prauns
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//////////Reply by adrian
//////////Posted February 9th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
@boh,
i lol’d
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these bros need more dubstep, wobble wobble
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wow way to prematurely shit all over these guys. theyre weird as fuck no doubt. but in the least theres something fresh about this. they have a bunch of live shit on youtube. this south african thing is pretty dope id say. but who the fuck am i i guess. givem a chance. imo its like a car wreck, you cant look away. but its a pretty fuckin awesome car wreck. nascar status.
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//////////Reply by andrew R. Carbone
//////////Posted February 9th, 2010 at 6:36 pm
@steven, HRO is about corporate marketing. This post is ONLY questioning whether corporate money is behind it. That’s it. If there isn’t then its harmless, and anyone’s allowed to appreciate it. But we have to examine things like this for subtle or stealth corporatelly backed media to know its intentions.
ref: A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
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//////////Reply by bradlee
//////////Posted February 9th, 2010 at 11:33 pm
@andrew R. Carbone, ur the best hro commenter
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//////////Reply by Blackface Killah
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 2:46 am
@andrew R. Carbone, to say that HRO wants us to question whether corporate advertising is involved in certain memes would be a bit like saying that pitchfork wants us to wonder whether music criticism has become too snarky. They can can’t raise the question without seeming like hypocrites.
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//////////Reply by andrew R. Carbone
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 12:37 am
@Blackface Killah, I wouldn’t know, I don’t read pitchfork you goddamn elitist. (via h.c.)
//////////Reply by rolotony
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 3:31 am
@Blackface Killah, booyah!
//////////Reply by Blackface Killah
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 4:40 am
@andrew R. Carbone, ya’ll seem real chill/new age-y. wanna have an orgy/sunrise sutra/thievery corps party?
p4k is mnstrm. hardcore (h.c.)? is? under the volcanoe?
leggo my ego
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//////////Reply by \\\\\\\\\\
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 10:35 am
@Blackface Killah, orgy ie that awesome band that covered ‘Blue Monday? No thanks brah.
This is awful, but it might be the first rap video to rep progeria, so I think it is Ternative as fuuu
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Late as fuck, motherfucker. This is so fucking late.
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//////////Reply by OhNoOhMy
//////////Posted February 9th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
@really, wayy late
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//////////Reply by Anne Frank
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 3:33 am
@really, 4srs!!!
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//////////Reply by andrew R. Carbone
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 12:39 am
@Anne Frank, you guys are mad late posting that shit.
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//////////Reply by Anne Frank
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 12:47 am
@andrew R. Carbone, who the fuck are you? get off my lawn.
Tugging myself to that conceptual bangs broad.
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this looks good
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analysis is questionable; keep our hearts up.
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corporate marketing fo sho, puma is all over this shit. regardless, good meme.
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officially terrified of south africa.
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//////////Reply by bark bark
//////////Posted February 9th, 2010 at 8:23 pm
@meow, meow meow meow meow is it getting 2 u?
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//////////Reply by AliceInWonderland
//////////Posted February 12th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
WHAHAHAHAHAHA djy bang maklik
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Can’t sell mp3s n e more… guess they’ll have to sell something else….
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Relax Carles. I wouldn’t over think it. Why does there necessarily have to be such a sharp demarcation between pop/humor/and alternative music, and why does such a lack of clear boundaries both you so much? It’s all in good fun so either enjoy, or not.
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//////////Reply by Jane
//////////Posted February 9th, 2010 at 9:46 pm
Agree…the lines are blurred…enjoy it for what it is.
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now this is the kind of cultural commmmentary i love to see. classic crls.
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seems semi-authentic – almost authentic ‘weird-ass’ rap w/ corporate-fueled marketing + pr
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my g-mail alert on this shit was delayed.
bumma, i had a chance 2 be no 1
the world hates me
gonna go slit HRO in my wrists.
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anyway this is better than vamp wkend
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too gimmicky.
fake as fuck.
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//////////Reply by bryon
//////////Posted February 9th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
@kevbro,
http://videogum.com/archives/backlashes/die_antwoord_is_fake_and_so_wh_112671.html
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//////////Reply by bryon
//////////Posted February 9th, 2010 at 8:57 pm
@bryon,
videogum is playing the anti-hype, maxnormal.tv is just an older project w/ them in it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Normal.tv
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//////////Reply by AliceInWonderland
//////////Posted February 12th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
@kevbro, fyk se ma se poes. if you were souf efrican ur take on “fake” wld prhps include the entire rest of the world.
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I NEED YOUR PROTECTION BE MY SAMURAI
this is the music of the future
by future i mean next 3 months
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//////////Reply by AliceInWonderland
//////////Posted February 12th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
@jc, dof, ek se (that means: you stupid fuck, loosely translated),
what’s wrong with tonight,
the 24hr thing, ek se.
(djy sallie vistaan nie, so I’m not going to bother to TRANS-late)
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//////////Reply by jc
//////////Posted February 13th, 2010 at 1:17 am
@AliceInWonderland, no. get off the internet.
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//////////Reply by AliceInWonderland
//////////Posted February 13th, 2010 at 1:32 am
@jc, go fuck ur self. djou maaaa.
gameboy/gamegirl already did this except they were more authentic and had better music behind them
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This bitch is the new alice glass. And as for the chorus they are totally ripping on Aqua.
Aqua lyrics:
Bumble bee, bump into me
I am in for pollination
Bumble bee, take what you see
I’m in need for your donation
I can’t wait for your invasion
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Love seeing the worlds confusion and simultaneous enjoyment of these guys. Totally unique, totally honest to their roots, good for them. South Africa is gonna mess with your heads in 2010 like a carjacker waiting in the bushes. Someones gotta do a post explaining the SA slang they’re using. So good.
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i like her haircut
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i read on wikipedia that their tour was postponed indefinitely when a member of the group went missing. i could not find info indicating that he was found. hopefully not.
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I think for the first time ever I became genuinely defensive about an HRO post (via “how dare you Carles?”) and I can’t figure out why.
Probably ‘cuz Die Antwoord is so fucking good.
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Very ternative:
The first reaction is to realize that it doesn’t fit into mnstrm or mindie or alt – even if it’s sponsored by Puma and Jaegerbombs (via zany haircut vid that started the Jersey Shore Craze of 2k10.1a).
I dont think it’s music – just another jingle for bros to _____ in their acura integras to,
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//////////Reply by \\\\\\\\\\
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 10:43 am
@\\\\\, I take this back.
Now that I’ve thought about it I think ‘Taking over the interweb’ is the new ‘Turn it up to 11′
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I’m just not sure how seriously 2 take these guys. Maybe if I refuse to look at them, their music will gain more ‘meaning’. I know that guy’s flow is pretty tight.
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This is such a joke. Fuck yall.
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idk
do yall wanna read a shitty short story i wrote?
its so referential to a Salinger short from ‘Nine Stories’
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//////////Reply by generk witty cmmnt
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 11:38 am
@aw, fukk,
which one
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//////////Reply by aw, fukk
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 11:39 am
@generk witty cmmnt, banana fish one, obvs
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//////////Reply by generk witty cmmnt
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 8:00 pm
@aw, fukk,
want 2
read.
want 2
see more seymour. [via salinger's death]
miss u, seymour.
//////////Reply by Blackface Killah
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 4:54 am
@aw, fukk, you gon be a bitch or post that shit up?
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//////////Reply by stillnessisthememe
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 10:33 am
@aw, fukk, nine stories via lisa loeb of the hit mindie single ’stay (missed u)’?
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//////////Reply by aw, fukk
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 4:55 pm
sorry, i was busy
http://leftshoedistrict.tumblr.com/post/379670238/monkeys-and-bananas
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What do yall think of the Avey Tare avatars? Charles is spiffing up the place for a massive corporate takeover?
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//////////Reply by \\\\\\\\\\
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 12:19 am
@\\\\\, nm its panda bear now
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they hella ripped off DDR
Butterfly lyrics:
Ay, iyaiyai,
A-a-a iyaiyai
Where’s my samurai
Ay, Ay, Ay, I’m your little butterfly
Green, black and blue, make the colours in the sky
Ay, Ay, Ay, I’m your little butterfly
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//////////Reply by Mininin
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 10:09 am
@sweet17, Jupp, that’s probably a sample of Smile.dk.’s song “Butterfly”, maybe best known for Americans through DDR.
I love this girl Yolanda Wisser (or Yo-Landa Wi$$er if you like) and Die Antwoord is just so raaaad! :-)
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buah, mang
weird music from other countries is the foundation of authenticity in 2010.
on the reals,
you just have to try to “be hella open minded” and “let yer heart follow yer ears”
I’m pretty sure that nobody should worry about this kind of music becoming commercialized…
I mean,
if they started to “earn mad guap”
it would defeat the purpose of them being from Africa,
right?
Right?
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//////////Reply by fromSouthAfrica
//////////Posted June 1st, 2010 at 1:46 pm
@DanzHaul, Africa is not a country
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my left testicle is ternative and my right testicle is indie and they both love die antwoord. fuk all y’all
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fucking genius
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IDC if this is ‘fake’, ‘real’, or whtev.
its obvz good.
its next leevel sheiit.
[whats with the pics on the comments]
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antword is a conceptual front but the art behind it is real. This guy has been an art rapper for at least 15 years. he was in one of the best south african bands 10 years ago and I sure as hell am glad he didn’t quit like most good bands in S.A because of lack of support. he’s had a messed up life, and it shows. fuck all the people who say this isn’t authentic – the life this guy has lived would make the little internet music critics shit their brains.
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//////////Reply by a wet nigga
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 8:27 pm
@enx, who fuckin cares, its the gayest thing ive ever seen & sounds like actual garbage
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people should also check out south african bands sweat.x and kidofdoom – I think they’re probably the best we’ve got.
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//////////Reply by nadine
//////////Posted February 12th, 2010 at 8:51 am
@enx,
oh yeah i’ve actually seen sweat.x ’s show in berlin!!! it was fokkin awesome.
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espn said that die antwoord just got booked to play the halftime show at next year’s super bowl
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Am I the only one who is ‘absolutely terrified’ by that first video?
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//////////Reply by Bipster
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 3:27 am
@Bipster, ‘Samurai’ might be permanently stuck in my head.
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//////////Reply by \\\\\\\\\\
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 11:49 am
@Bipster, was the first thing in my head this morning
ayayayay i am your butterfly
must be good
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//////////Reply by Bipster
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 8:25 pm
@\\\\\, it’s really, really good.
whatever. wat pomp actually kind of rules. also street carnage writes better articles about this. this failed
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//////////Reply by huaglaggaglaglaghagl
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 6:16 pm
@Anne Frank, WAT POMP JULLE, WAT POMP JULLE, WAT POMP WAT POMP WAT POMP JULLE?
the video for that song gave me a semi
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Well, if you really want to figure them out, here’s a video interview from Monday… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vici_1qsXzo
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Kind-of always thought the Puma sponsorship was conceptual.
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nnnnneeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrddddd shiit, who reps jagermeister. im waiting for the target in-store.
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naah dudes, puma has been giving them free clothes for 10 years – thats where that sponsorship stops. I know him, and the amount of times his mobile phone got disconnected and noone could phone him because he didn’t have the money to pay it is not funny.
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They’re what you could call a “comedic” group. Really funny shit, you have to be South African to really understand their humour I guess. They were another group before this called Max Normal.
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This is ridiculous. Of course it is “real”. Whether or not it is serious music, as in the are going to tour like this for years to come, remains to be seen, but they are as valid and justified as any other fringe group making music which no one takes seriously as music. Are the Concords real? Not really, they are effectively playing characters based on themselves. Are Tenacious D real? No, also playing characters of themselves but they make real music and tour as a band. Are they playing a modern day version of the Sex Pistols but still making music they like? Probably.
So if you like it you like it, if you dont, you dont. Its not up to one person to decide if it is valid, that is time’s job.
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And lastly, after a second of thought, its fucking good.
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So after reading some of the comments, and realizing this site is devoted to figuring out if an ad is a viral marketing ploy, i understand why there are so many morons saying stupid shit.
Two questions. Did you do any research at all? I mean, apart from going to their website. Did you use the google machine to search for their backgrounds? I found out everything i needed in about 10 minutes. I found personal info with 2 clicks. Easy.
Does the lead singer look like a corporately sponsored human being? Is there a single tattoo on his body that looks like it would be approved by an Ad Exec for American audiences? America can barely handle Lady fucking Gaga without flippin their shit.
If your job is to root out subversive marketing, you looked in the wrong place this time and came up with the wrong answer.
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//////////Reply by bradlee
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
@Spaghetti Jesus, i like ur zany name and the fact that you called it “the google machine”, its funny, not
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//////////Reply by Spaghetti Jesus
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 6:56 pm
@bradlee, My zany name is a reference to an improve group from the 90s. ‘the google machine’ was to imply that most of the faggolas on this site are morons who dont know what it is.
I love your cool name Bradlee, it doesnt evoke images of gay buttsex or shit stained underwear to me.
This website is a fail.
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//////////Reply by Zefstylin
//////////Posted March 18th, 2010 at 7:14 am
@Spaghetti Jesus,
Your reply is completely zef!
Almost as great at the reply from Ninja:
Q: White rappers still have a hard time gaining credibility in the U.S. Is that barrier one that concerns you?
A: This is not a barrier that concerns us, because as you may have noticed, we have fucked this barrier in the face.
rock on
//////////Reply by really
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 8:55 pm
@Spaghetti Jesus,
go back to 4chan, lol.
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//////////Reply by Flargmop
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 9:09 pm
@really, Really? 4chan? When the fuck did you join the internet? 2004? Fucking children and their clever little minds.
This website remains a failure as do its fans.
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//////////Reply by skibum
//////////Posted March 2nd, 2010 at 3:03 pm
@Flargmop, lol internet
//////////Reply by Blackface Killah
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 5:05 am
@Spaghetti Jesus, this blog is not devoted to rooting out corporate marketing although the viral phenomena is often a theme. this blog is a corporate marketing ‘machine’ itself, which I don’t mind because it’s entertaining as fukk, much like these Afrikanner rednecks rocking the sjambock and whatnot. you are right to point out that corprorate sponsorship does not undermine the inherent entertainment value of a meme. corporate sponsorship is an inevitable part of being [even moderately] profitable as any kind of an artist these days.
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//////////Reply by Flargmop
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
@Blackface Killah, Holy flargmopping shit. Blackface Killah has posted a thoughtful and coherent statement to inform me of something which is actually helpful.
You are the first poster on this site to show reason.
Thank you.
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loved the vids, real ternative innovation…
ps the avytars are hilarious xxx
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you taught me this new word, ternative
also did you know this progeria guy is supposedly the oldest living human w/ the condition
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//////////Reply by DAT ASS
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
@sarahspy, the progeria meme as already been had sorry.
http://encyclopediadramatica.com/TsimFuckis
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_qwUS8Uqjg
The song they sampled :-)
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//////////Reply by Mininin
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 10:21 am
@Mininin, or maybe not sampled, but anyways used in some way in the chorus. :-P
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I say interwebs all the time but I /hate/ rap. To hell with this meme.
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would probably ‘do’ that bangs lady but only if her actual voice is nothing like her singing voice
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<9 his zany tats. "pretty wise" yall
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I’m curious what took Carles so long. I told him about them on ichat in January.
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//////////Reply by oliviar
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 12:54 pm
@X, it’s like dating. don’t call back for at least a week = don’t post about for at least a months (via blog time)
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//////////Reply by oliviar
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
@oliviar, cant make u feel 2good about urself
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@Dang, Hey moderator, how come you leave me in moderation? Is it the external links? Are page views/time on site really that important?
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//////////Reply by Dang
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 6:17 pm
@Dang, actually moderator thank you for holding my comment in purgatory moderation – I hadn’t reviewed all of the material and formulated an opinion stated as a fact that would have been misleading and could be chalked up to speculation and guess work. Sooo I guess I’m saying my bad for being relatively abrasive in my previous comment. words.
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oh no
oh no
i’d listen dasha lux again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPtb1Z9nYzg
rap not good :(
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wish we didnt have lil faces next to our names, huh guys?
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//////////Reply by oliviar
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
@strato, but it’s the keut pandy bro. idc.
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I hope other people started singing barbie girl after reading this in the show’a
And pondered weather or not large amounts of weed were involved in the creation of this monster or if all of south Africa is straight edge
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proggy made me think of joe c.
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wtf is this?
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Please post about relevant lo-fi bands (and AnCo) Carles, instead of this Die Antwoord scenester “music”.
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//////////Reply by fffffffff
//////////Posted February 13th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
@funky_rutabaga, lol “relevent lo-fi bands” .. i actually just snorted in response to this comment. youre all just upset because the type of uninspired washed out indie music HRO promotes isn’t relevant at all anymore. its 2010, this “scenester music” is the future, so fuck off.
oh yeah and maybe do some research on a culture aside from the shitmobile market of the US for once, prick.
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STFU UP. You all have progeria: nature’s cruelest joke.
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//////////Reply by Bipster
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 8:24 pm
@Flargmop, is ‘progeria’ the new ‘horchata?’
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//////////Reply by Flargmop
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
@Bipster, yes, you can drink progeria just like horchata. It is a refreshing, iced drink.
No offense, but was that a serious question?
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//////////Reply by Bipster
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
@Flargmop, The song, man. An attempt at usurping something from its ‘it’ status.
//////////Reply by Flargmop
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
@Flargmop, Oh i see. in that case, no, progeria is old. Its not hip enough to attain horchata status.
My humblest of apologies, it is hard to distinguish between the real and the retarded.
//////////Reply by generk witty cmmnt
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 10:24 pm
@Bipster,
I raffed.
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//////////Reply by Bipster
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
@generk witty cmmnt, ‘I’m glad.’
anyone who thinks this sounds good doesnt have ears & is gay
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//////////Reply by Flargmop
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
@a wet nigga, are you retarded? Did your mother leave you on a doorstep as a baby and you almost died from exposure, but at the last second a kindly, overweight nun pulled you in from the cold, meanwhile your brain had already begun its slow death due to the lack of oxygen from being swaddled so tightly around your face but not your body…they thought she was trying to suffocate you but it turns out she was just too stupid to know that the body and head were connected.
I dont feel bad for your racist ass because i know it will be raped when you go to prison for realizing your worthlessness and robbing a convenience store which you bungle by asking the cashier for the virginia slims but not the money, because, lets be honest, you are too stupid to possibly rob a circle k without getting yourself killed.
What was i saying? I, think it was something about your AIDS infested mother leaving you in the cold because she never wanted you and could never possibly love you.
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//////////Reply by a wet nigga
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 10:32 pm
@Flargmop, u mad?
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//////////Reply by Flargmop
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 3:01 am
@a wet nigga, Just bored and found an easy, uneducated target.
//////////Reply by Bipster
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 11:04 pm
@Flargmop, ‘damn.’
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//////////Reply by a wet nigga
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 10:20 am
@Flargmop, you are such a god damn noob
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//////////Reply by Flargmop
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
@a wet nigga, LOLZ!
If I am a noob, what does that make the grown man, assumedly you are over 18, who uses the word noob when he calls himself ‘a wet nigga’? If you are black you are propagating the worst slur in english and if you arent, you are a racist who will more than likely be murdered by a black person thereby cementing the stereotype and unironically ending you and proving the existence of of a humorous God.
You are so much fun.
So which is it? Are you a racist redneck or a black guy who wants to take the power back from the word? Or are you an ironic hipster that thinks its funny to use it because you are “clever” or “compelling”? Or is it the most realistic answer, you are an alien from another galaxy and you didn’t know the offensive meaning of the word ‘nigger’?
I bet you are just an ignorant simpleton, whiling away the hours behind the flickering mirror of your monitor, watching as your distorted reflection becomes more accurate to how you perceive yourself.
You are a sad person. I’m sorry for you.
//////////Reply by a wet nigga
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
@Flargmop, look at all them serious words about a dumb name that sounds funny
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//////////Reply by Flargmop
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
@a wet nigga, what’s funny is that you can’t read most of them and the ones you can read still didn’t make any sense to you, you ignorant fuck.
I like you, i do. Anyone with the stupidity to call themselves a ‘nigga’ is A-ok in my book. Can’t we all just get along? Be my nigger friend? Oh wait, i said the hard ‘R’…i meant nigga, really i swear i did.
//////////Reply by a wet nigga
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
@a wet nigga, lol you are so angry
//////////Reply by a wet nigga
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 9:52 pm
haha whoops
//////////Reply by Faisal
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
@Flargmop, yo this was so fun to read, you’re totally on point. I don’t like to be on this site and comment due to the whole use of the word “blipster” and this stupid icon to my left.
Most of these readers are ignorant and are getting their jollies off of thinking they are some sort of “hipster” when they really can’t figure themselves out.
Your comments brightened my night a little.
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//////////Reply by a wet nigga
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 9:51 pm
@Flargmop, lol you are so mad
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//////////Reply by Flargmop
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 10:10 pm
@a wet nigga, that’s what you don’t get hunny chile. I don’t get angry anymore with the fucked up state our country is in. Considering you are just a product of that i couldn’t possibly blame you, you are too stpuid to know better and, as a result, for me to be angry at, with or around. You dont get it and you never will, so i cant fault you for that. I understand that anger never works, it only ends up boiling inside and creating someone like you.
Now please go fuck your mother in the ass, with her gravelly shit chute, not out of anger, out of my need to know she is getting it from somewhere.
//////////Reply by a wet nigga
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 10:33 pm
@Flargmop, i haven’t been reading your posts but i skimmed over this one and you post like a 16 year old girl trying to sound snarky and badass, i bet your heart pounded a tiny bit when you first kicked off your opus of edgy eviscerating replies. lol. didnt know hro comments section bore such high standards of humor.
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//////////Reply by Flargmop
//////////Posted February 12th, 2010 at 12:46 am
@a wet nigga, Srsly? I stumbled onto this site filled with monkeys and started poking. Welcome to your zoo.
//////////Reply by AliceInWonderland
//////////Posted February 12th, 2010 at 8:25 am
@a wet nigga,
anyone who DOESN’t like this is a poes.
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this is so fucking bad
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//////////Reply by AliceInWonderland
//////////Posted February 12th, 2010 at 8:27 am
@a wet nigga, why must you post so hard to say it’s BAD? whahahahaha
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//////////Reply by Flargmop
//////////Posted February 12th, 2010 at 6:32 pm
@AliceInWonderland, Because he is a sad, uneducated and simple person who believes that his opinion counts. What he doesnt realize is his true place in this world. Not trying to be a ‘blipster’.
Eye di’nt evun no blak pepole cud B hipstahs!
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//////////Reply by AliceInWonderland
//////////Posted February 12th, 2010 at 7:03 pm
@Flargmop, and u r a stupid uneducated fuck who believes ur opinion counts. jou ma se poes in ‘n vispys jar
//////////Reply by Flargmop
//////////Posted February 12th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
@AliceInWonderland, I’m sorry, What was that Alice? I was asking someone who knew the answer when she was knee high to André the Giant.
Go back to cutting yourself. Then maybe someone will notice you.
//////////Reply by Flargmop
//////////Posted February 12th, 2010 at 7:11 pm
@AliceInWonderland, Thanks deary! She is actually. You must have met her in your travels. Did she give you AIDS too?
//////////Reply by CA
//////////Posted May 13th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
@a wet nigga, and especially Flargmop, I don’t remember where this started, and I’d hate to throw off the delicate balance of this discussion by interjecting, but using AIDS infection as a put-down is prejudicial in the same way that racism is, so it betrays some hypocrisy when used in response to a racial slur.
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just wanna see the iconbro next to my HRO name
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//////////Reply by cousins
//////////Posted February 10th, 2010 at 9:27 pm
@cousins, teehehehe
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Kinda feel like Die Antwoord is the next M.I.A……kinda think that Diplo would already have them signed to Mad Decent or twitted about them…maybe they can make a ‘hit’ with Banks from “take to you the movies” fame….can’t wait to see them @ Bonnaroo with Jay-z and DMB
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i hope i can drop this into a set before the mainstreamers steal it. Kind of like when we had LMFAO for 3 days.
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//////////Reply by Blackface Killah
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 4:45 am
@DJSnax, we still have LFO, via grls that wear abercrombie and fitch
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just ate 2 many doritos yall
feelin ’sick’
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what are the best ‘joke’/’satirical’ bands ever?
Porsches on the Autobahn?
Mindless Self Indulgence?
Die Antwoord?
PFFR?
The Bloodhound Gang?
The Lonely Island?
Flight of the Conchords?
Liam Lynch’s fake songs?
can someone list these in terms of ‘transparency’?
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//////////Reply by oliviar
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
@skybread, UGH 4got about “bloodhunt gangs”
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuug
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//////////Reply by \\\\\\\\\\
//////////Posted February 11th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
@skybread, Spiny Tap, Weird ‘Al’ Yanky, The Tenaish D’s, Aquabat, Conor ‘mEow Meow’ Oberst, to name a few
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//////////Reply by AliceInWonderland
//////////Posted February 12th, 2010 at 8:31 am
@skybread, yo, if you were south african you would sooooo understand that this is not a joke. sjym.
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I’m confused!
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Hey Schpitter!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Orox2WKJRo
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listening to the whole track and reading the lyrics, what a story in beat boy, never want 2 b ‘totally nude’ around that bro
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Have a mind that’s open to everything, get attached to nothing, that way you’ll be free to digest the information in the magazine. They give you the point of view they’re giving to you from their hearts. This is Gary Busey signing off
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HRo fails for this now :(
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pls do another podcast :(
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Barbie Girl 90s bullshitx1000 on Crck
Feeling leik the wrld has epic failed the chldrn -n- they r gngsta -n- need :00 help
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i think Die Antwood and the youtube artist BANGS show a pattern there is a new way to rap.
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//////////Reply by TheMyspaceWinz
//////////Posted February 16th, 2010 at 10:33 pm
@Takamata, Mos Def
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excuse me dumb american people but you have no idea about the complex societies and cultures running through my country that could produce this kind of music
this man is talented and poes cool
yo-landi vi$$er really speaks like that and will fuck you up
jo ma se poes in n fish paste jar
JIRRE FOK
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//////////Reply by ZUMAS GIRRRRL
//////////Posted February 13th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
@ZUMAS GIRRRRL, THIS ISN’T A JOKE ITS REALITY FOR A LOT OF SOUTH AFRICAN PEOPLE
STINK POE$$$
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this isn’t a joke its a south african reality
STINK POE$$
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I voted for the superbad bro as next week’s avie-tarey b4 arriving at the conclusion that these bros are really post-authernative.
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feel like these bros are making ‘genuinely’ ‘next-level’ ‘beats’ and the vanilla bro has a solid brand of flow.
the ‘quality’ element is ’sparse’ in their debut ‘album’ tho.
but it doesn’t ‘matter’ because their personal brand is strong.
wishing more tracks sounded = “beat boy”.
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//////////Reply by huaglaggaglaglaghagl
//////////Posted February 14th, 2010 at 8:57 pm
@justw2brelv, WAT POMP, JULLE? WAT POMP, JULLE? WAT POMP WAT POMP WAT POMP JULLE?
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hro is definitely no longer relevant anymore and 90 percent of its reader seem like dumb fucks, type of folk that make me puke in my mouth a little. bye carles, oh yeah and grizzly bear , beach haus and all that shit are completely uninspired, ‘anco’ hasn’t made a good album since sung tongs maybe feels , pitchfork fucking sucks stop fucking taking in all this boring washed out indie shit it’s not even close to being alt
maybe open your minds a little for once
goddamn.
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//////////Reply by huaglaggaglaglaghagl
//////////Posted February 14th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
@fffffffff, are you happier now?
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:o that’s what progeria looks like
i imagined it more like benji buttons
not a lil morlock from jim henson’s pans labyrinth
feelin insensitive/freaked-out
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Next-Level
http://www.watkykjy.co.za/2010/02/die-antwoord-vs-enya-orinoco-ninja-flow-wedding-djs-remix/
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These guys are so fuckin’ sick.
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It would be useful to know something about what the music is actually about:
http://africasacountry.com/2010/02/19/is-die-antwoord-blackface/
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check out IMPROPER OPERA’s interview with Die Antwoord, hot off the press and pretty bizarre, as to be expected.
fondly,
the improper collective
http://www.improperopera.com/2010/03/die-antwoord-interview.html
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Yo DJ Hi Tek…Play them Next Level Beats!
Wat Kyk Jy? POES!
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Who from SA remembers Beat a body beat boy on GMSA?
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Very funny !
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It’s nothing like the two songs. The only think even remotely in common with Aqua, is the high pitcy tone Yolanda sings
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