It was the first time Die Antwoord had ever used an outside producer and the resulting album, the new “ Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid,” is unlike anything the group has done before. I wanted to push them to places they’ve never gone and they were totally willing to experiment.” “Nobody pitched anybody on working together - it was just organic. “They came to the studio and we just started catching a vibe,” Muggs says. Lawrence Muggerud, a founder of the influential SoCal hip-hop group Cypress Hill. How could that work in a city where, among other things, no one walks? But then, on a visit to L.A., a photographer friend took them to a quinceañera and introduced them to one of their idols, DJ Muggs, a.k.a. Their process, for years, was to jot down lyrics as they walked around Cape Town. “Like, what would we write about?” Visser continues. (They co-parent but ended their romantic relationship some time ago.) The duo’s 10-year-old daughter, Sixteen, chose the house for them. and Johannesburg - could at times be mistaken for native Angelenos, whether dissecting the menu’s vegetarian options (settling on avocado tartines), or recalling coffee at the home of David Lynch, who, for a while, was their neighbor in the hills above the Hollywood Bowl. With matching mullets and meth-chic attire, the seemingly out-of-place pair is also oddly at home.Īccents notwithstanding, Ninja and Visser - who formed Die Antwoord in Cape Town in 2008, and now live between L.A. Ninja, 42, and Visser, 32, the duo that pioneered Zef culture - South Africa’s response to America’s so-called white trash - are a bit of both. insider or the carelessness of an interloper. battle with an Oscar winner requires either the confidence of an L.A. “Thank you,” she adds, as the waiter shuffles over to the stereo.Ī few moments later, Tarantino stands, unsheathes an LP and drops the needle on side two of Rod Stewart’s “Every Picture Tells a Story,” then raises his glass to Ninja and Visser in a facetious toast - but they already have their backs to him and, tellingly, the volume is significantly lower.Įngaging in this sort of D.J. “Oh, yeah,” says Yolandi Visser, the shyer of the two. “Can you not listen to that man and turn the music down,” he says to the waiter in a snarling, Afrikaans-inflected stage whisper. Ninja, one half of the influential rave-rap act Die Antwoord, is none too pleased that from across the restaurant at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, Quentin Tarantino has cranked up the stereo, blasting Sarah Vaughan’s voice.
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