http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/a-heart-to-heart-with-die-antwoord/Content?oid=12585648 Comments On: A Heart-to-Heart with Die Antwoord by Trent Moorman en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Tue, 21 May 2013 19:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Keep her there till she turns into my mum
Got ninja nigga hi tek fun
My dreams are cursed by holocaust of injun

Don't worry mum it's just for fun
Who needs a sole when we've got big black dicks and big bad guns
With bresteses and bubble gum
Who gives a fuck I'll die alone
With a black cat named Africa

Die antwoord is the answer to a question no one muttered
If you're mind confused get the fuck out and come back when your mind is blowing' loads all over the face of what you thought you know
The end is here its here to stay apocalypse is everyday

No fuckin way
My place is a mess and yolandi is here to stay
Got to clean up my shit, what the fuck will ninja say
I guess I'll feed them the aliens I cooked yesterday
Mad hospitable I am today
Sure ninja, you can borrow my undies, they is clean, it's ok

Wtf is wat kyk jy?
Why you always rocking rats and shit anyway?
If you want to burn fast and hard you got to blow up can't fade away
I lived my life and...

"I DID IT MY WAY!"


Posted by FrootLoopz]]> Sun, 13 May 2012 10:21:41 -0700 The Stranger <3

Posted by kelkel]]> Sat, 03 Mar 2012 20:32:06 -0800 The Stranger Posted by rayray]]> Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:55:48 -0800 The Stranger
If you don't care, if you really had nothing invested in the article or have nothing to contribute to the thread at all... why would you bother commenting?

Can't you go try to impress some teenagers somewhere instead like the rest of the slack jawed idiots who think they've found the magic sollution to being interesting?
Posted by JensR]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:52:54 -0800 The Stranger Posted by tabathalphabet]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:28:36 -0800 The Stranger
LOLing at the wank over word usage, though. From ethnocentric navel-gazing to straight up derangement.

If you're offended, they apologized. If you're appropriating it as an ironic slur they basically told you to go fuck yourself. I think we're all done here.
Posted by Baconcat]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:55:17 -0800 The Stranger Posted by in-frequent]]> Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:10:32 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Rinelle Boomtown]]> Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:10:45 -0800 The Stranger Posted by James Early]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:34:34 -0800 The Stranger Posted by katrat]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:42:01 -0800 The Stranger About the N-word [censured for your benefit]. Racism doesn't work the same everywhere - here for example skin colour isnt as relevant as where your from. A black american is someone who would be "high up" in the racist scale where as a polack wouldn't. The word and its swedish equivalent doesn't have the same weight as in the US. To me the word doesn't have the same cultural reference - its just something I grew up hearing US rappers use and that allot of people in the US don't like.

South Africas racism isn't as easy to understand but its weight on skin colour comes from a completely different angle than in the US or here. The use of the word ties into a sort of cultural theft of the US rap scenes use of the word (You haven't lived until youve heard russian white rappers use it to define each other as an anti-racist statement)

As for saying faggot or gay - its completely different depending on from what angle you say it (I think). Dan Savage started his columns with "Hey Faggot" in the beginning and we wouldn't claim that was homophobic or self-hating would we?

I guess this whole thing connects with the thing about Tyler the Creator - and there its kinda similar. He isn't a homophobe but he uses it as an assault form - and that is kinda bad I guess but to claim its homophobic would be ridiculous.

.... basicly its different everywhere. So relax and look at the context instead of the specific detail.
Posted by JensR]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:37:39 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Anna Anna Anna]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:26:53 -0800 The Stranger Context, people. A word is not evil for existing and being used. It's about how you use it. I can't say I completely understand their use of words, and a lot of their South African slang is totally lost on me, but they're an interesting group I wouldn't assume is working the hate angle.

http://sniperslovenest.blogspot.com/2012…
"DJ Hi-Tek is gay,” he explains, “so there you go, now you all know.”
Ninja adds: “Hi-Tek says the word faggot doesn’t hold any power over him. Hi-Tek says faggot all the time. He’s taken that word and made it his bitch."

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http://motherjones.com/riff/2010/10/die-…

"Now the thing is, about those men you have to go to the bush with. Xhosa culture is un-fokking-believeably homophobic. They like, do not dig gays—with the volume up! So Wanga thought it was funny that they then take a 19-year-old's penis in their hand and cut their foreskin off with a kitchen knife. So Wanga made a joke: "Don't touch my penis. I'm not a gay." It's basically like the most severe taunt you can throw at a Xhosa man. So that's where that line comes from. Like, whatever. Like DJ Fishsticks, who's done our remix. He's gay and nobody really cares. South Park taught us that "gay" and "faggot" don't mean a homosexual person. It's somebody who rides on a Harley-Davidson motorbike and revs it really loud."
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Posted by antleryvr]]> Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:13:32 -0800 The Stranger Posted by shuvoff]]> Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:41:57 -0800 The Stranger
Also, using the n-word = keeping it real classy, guys. Is there a form of apartheid I can use to keep Die Antwoord segregated from myself?
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