I dare ANYONE to listen to the breakdown without at least smiling. It's the furious delivery of the (deliberately?) cheesy lyrics, hammered home as if they are nails of pure truth, piercing the armour of lies and badness, and slaying the dragon of, y'know, things which Ninja doesn't approve of. Those are central to the hip hop experience, as any fool knows. It's not the bragging, or the self-justification. Even though the sung choruses are fairly eerie, we're still a long way into the gigglezone. You've got to admit, even if you take out the cultural differences - the girl singing "protection" in such a thick accent it sounds more like "production" being a BIG one - this goes way beyond the scary, threatening bleakfest it seems to want to be. Which does beg the question.is this a gag? Are Die Antwoord essentially Grumpy Lookin' Chain. He is played by Chris Lilley, who will be 36 in November. He can't stop himself from swearing and he's a bit of a thug, but only because he wants a bit of attention.
If you've not seen it, Jonah's a 13-year-old with a rough background, and he just wants to be a rapper and breakdancer when he grows up. 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. This is SERIOUS BUSINESS! I MEAN IT! STOP LAUGHING! Clearly what he has to say is coming straight from the heart, and it is cruel to mock someone when they are speaking honestly.Īlthough, 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. Stop giggling! Stoppit! Ninja - Die Antwoord's scaryfaced rapper - does NOT look like the kind of man who will take kindly to the idea that his breakthrough moment, his one chance to settle the score with all the haters, is in ANY WAY COMICAL.
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