{"id":7407,"date":"2010-04-05T12:02:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T10:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/?p=7407"},"modified":"2010-04-05T12:02:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T10:02:32","slug":"die-antwoord-rap-group-different-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/music\/die-antwoord-rap-group-different-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Die Antwoord&#8230; A Different Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve never been a big RAP person, more in to Alternative Rock, Rock, Pop-Rock and R&amp;B.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7410\" title=\"antwoord1-752074\" src=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/antwoord1-752074.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"544\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/antwoord1-752074.jpg 680w, https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/antwoord1-752074-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 544px) 100vw, 544px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But <a title=\"Die Antwoord\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dieantwoord.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Die Antwoord<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (which means The Answer) from South Afri<strong>c<\/strong>a are really Special. They can Rap at 50,000,000 Miles Per Hour and have some really interesting melodic content blended in to the Mix. Their lyrical content is controversial and worth listening to. It says a lot about the human condition in a sector of South Afri<strong>K<\/strong>an culture that is\u00a0 an in your face stark revelation. It also gives one a behind the scene&#8217;s look at South Afri<strong>K<\/strong>a&#8217;s financially underprivileged white minority. Yo-Landi the female in the group is quirky, strange and sexy. I want to call their style of music &#8220;Punk wRap&#8221;. Why not, it&#8217;s like a Punk backlash and Rap <strong>wrapped<\/strong> in to a hybridized melting pot. Die Antwoord will be touring in Europe and North America later this year. Could be a real cultural eye opener for all of you Rap Aficionado&#8217;s. Have a listen&#8230;<em><strong>&#8220;Enter the Ninja&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"592\" height=\"489\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wc3f4xU_FfQ&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><br \/>\nHere is a recent interview with Die Antwoord, just after their first concert:<br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"385\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FihsrlKIo3g&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never been a big RAP person, more in to Alternative Rock, Rock, Pop-Rock and R&amp;B. But Die Antwoord (which means The Answer) from South Africa are really Special. They can Rap at 50,000,000 Miles Per Hour and have some really interesting melodic content blended in to the Mix. Their lyrical content is controversial and worth listening to. It says a lot about the human condition in a sector of South AfriKan culture that is\u00a0 an in your face stark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[674],"tags":[22],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/antwoord1-752074.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paG8MM-1Vt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1151,"url":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/music\/phoenix-great-pop-rock-music-group-france-usa\/","url_meta":{"origin":7407,"position":0},"title":"&quot;Phoenix&quot; Great French Pop\/Rock Group","author":"Benjamin Kanarek","date":"August 8, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Phoenix great Pop\/Rock Group; I just wanted to say that this song from the film \u201cLost in Translation\" by Sofia Coppola.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/wolfgang_amadeus_phoenix1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":19743,"url":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/music\/some-pop-rock-tunes\/","url_meta":{"origin":7407,"position":1},"title":"Some of My Pop-Rock Tunes","author":"Benjamin Kanarek","date":"July 17, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Just wanted to share some of my Pop\/Rock tunes I composed over the last few years sung by several artists of which many were adapted in to French","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/pop-rocks.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6420,"url":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/music\/boom-boom-satellites\/","url_meta":{"origin":7407,"position":2},"title":"Boom Boom Satellites","author":"Benjamin Kanarek","date":"March 7, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"A Friggen, Awesome rock group... 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