Watkin Tudor Jones Quotes
Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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'Die Antwoord' just has a nice ring to it.
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A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.
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America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.
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We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.
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The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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Zef is like dirt, it's like scum. There was no zef movement before we came along.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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Cape Town is a weird town. There's a mountain, and the sea, and a little city tucked into the side of the mountain.
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
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I've only been to jail once, and I didn't get my tattoos there.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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We didn't move to L.A. to move to L.A. We moved to make music with Muggs.
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Die Antwoord will be presented to the world as a wild and savage rap crew from the deep, dark depths of Africa.
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The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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We don't really think that much about what we do; it's just fun.
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You'll get a kid in Liberia wearing a Tupac T-shirt, and for us, that's zef. People try to say it's like trash, but it's not really trash. It's putting things together you think are cool.
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I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.