It’s a spoof of a 2003 MTV music awards spoof of The Matrix. Sure enough, a whole lot of the soundclips and lyrics come from this piece.
I hadn’t, but searched for it later that day. “Have you ever seen a video clip called The Matrix: SA Style?” Ninja asked me. This was only a few days after the world started taking notice of Die Antwoord. In an interview I did with them a while ago for the newspaper where I earn my crumbs of bread, Ninja did tattle on where their inspiration for the zef-rave-rap-themed band came from. Since then, they’ve been notoriously hard to reach.
They’ve just come back from a US business tour where they reportedly signed a deal with Interscope Records – the same label that folds its motherly arms around (among others) Eminem, Rise Against, Dr Dre and, uhm, Enrique Iglesias. To simply label it as “satire” and move on just wouldn’t do justice to what this group is doing.ĭie Antwoord’s massive and instant internet success was never simply a stroke of luck. The best answer to this question I’ve been able to come up with is: No, it’s not a joke. Ninja of Die Antwoord* is now known all over the world as “that guy” who raps in that “weird fucking language” (it’s Afrikaans*) and begs the question from YouTube-commentators: “…wtf… is this a joke?” Why the hell did I buy this book, apart from the fact that it chased nothing more than 10 bucks* out my pocket? I want to give it to Watkin Tudor Jones, otherwise known as Waddy, Max Normal or, these days, “Ninja.” The “Ninja” in the pictures wears work overalls and what looks like a rather inexpensive (perhaps even homemade) balaclava.
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The book was published in 1983 and contains many photographs of how to stealthily evade or attack an enemy (the enemy being, in most photographs, a Che Guevara-esque guy – your everyday Cuban commie, you see). The foreword starts with a quote: “Looked for, they cannot be seen listened for, they cannot be heard felt for, they cannot be touched.” The quote is attributed to “Old Ninja Legend”. In a junk shop near Gordons Bay*, I recently stumbled on a book called The Invisible Ninja: Ancient Secrets of Surprise.
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