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Die Antwoord
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Key facts
- Origin
- Cape Town , South Africa
- Genres
- Rap - rave
- Years active
- 2008–present
- Labels
- Zef Cherrytree Interscope Downtown Polydor
- Spinoff of
- MaxNormal.TV The Constructus Corporation
- Members
- Ninja Yolandi Visser
- Website
- dieantwoord .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- musical group
- Has part
- Yolandi Visser
- Genre
- alternative hip-hop
- Country of origin
- South Africa
- Movement
- Zef
- Record label
- Cherrytree Records
- Official website
- www.dieantwoord.com
- Image
- Die Antwoord in LA 2010 07 17.jpg
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- start of work period
- 2008-00-00
- Commons category
- Die Antwoord
- location of formation
- Cape Town
- inception
- 2008-00-00
- influenced by
- Jack Parow
- topic has template
- Template:Die Antwoord
- social media followers
- 3400000
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Encyclopedic overview
Die Antwoord ( Afrikaans: [di ˈantvuərt]; Afrikaans for 'The Answer') is a South African hip hop duo formed in Cape Town in 2008. The duo consists of rappers Ninja and Yolandi Visser (also spelled Yo-Landi Visser and stylized as ¥o-Landi Vi$$er). Their music, a fusion of hip hop with rave music, is frequently produced by DJ Hi-Tek, and performed in both English and Afrikaans.
Die Antwoord rose to international fame in 2010 through the virality of the music video for their song "Enter the Ninja" on social media and through blog posts, soon signing to Interscope Records and reissuing their debut studio album, SOS, later that year. They parted ways with Interscope in 2011 and independently released their second studio album, Tension, in 2012. Their follow-up albums, the techno-influenced Donker Mag (2014) and the trap-based Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid (2016), became their most commercially successful releases in the United States, each topping Billboard's Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart. Their fifth studio album, House of Zef, was released in 2020.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Die Antwoord” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.