NINJA: HeвЂ™s like a JaneвЂ™s Addiction freak. And my dentist, who put all the gold in my teeth. I think a few years ago, Nine Inch Nails, they did a tour with JaneвЂ™s Addiction. NINJA: We roll with a Nine Inch Nails crew. One-dimensional.ДAN HYMAN: Ninja, how much did you know about JaneвЂ™s Addiction before going on tour with them? NINJA: Yeah, itвЂ™s fucking boring a lot of the time. ThereвЂ™s a lot of stuff going on right now in the electronic world, but thereвЂ™s not a whole lot of personality in the artists. ThatвЂ™s one thing that spoke to me, is how personality-driven you guys are. And I see a lot of similarities-as different as our musical genres are. Because when people get it, theyвЂ™re diehard forever. People either got it and loved it or hated it. ThatвЂ™s kind of where we come from in Hollywood weвЂ™re really a lifestyle band. If we have two rock bands it becomes more of an obvious show. One, because I feel that you guys really ignite the audience in an unusual way and you also inspire us and ignite us in a different way than say, a similar-genre band playing with us. NAVARRO: IвЂ™ve been fighting to get you guys to play with us for over maybe a year and a half now. ItвЂ™s kind of weird for us, opening for people. ItвЂ™s the first time weвЂ™ve opened or rolled with someone that we actually like. Let me say first that JaneвЂ™s Addiction is super-happy and honored to have you guys playing with us. NAVARRO: I actually find that problem with the world at large.

The show has almost nothing to do with the audience. It doesnвЂ™t matter if youвЂ™re into it or not. We wanted to make a show thatвЂ™s more like attack. Usually you have a lot of these idiots standing around half-watching. A lot of times youвЂ™re doing a show and youвЂ™re kind of at the mercy of a retarded audience. But a lot of the time, the majority doesnвЂ™t-theyвЂ™re a bit retarded in South Africa. In South Africa, weвЂ™ve got a real small fan base, but theyвЂ™re, like, super fierce. I think the last five years, weвЂ™ve been working out what we wanted. So when we worked out Die Antwoord, it was a strange type of thing-the sound and the style and everything. WeвЂ™ve been doing different stuff before this. ItвЂ™s kind of a double-edged sword, because you get the room and the stage, you get to have a lot of people, but theyвЂ™re all sitting there, and itвЂ™s not the most inspiring of environments. WeвЂ™d never actually played a show in our lives with seats. I find, personally, I like the size and the room in big venues like that, but I donвЂ™t necessarily like the seats. WeвЂ™ll have a setlist ready to go and then based on the reaction-sometimes itвЂ™s the room, too-will dictate how our set goes.

We go through the same thing all the time. YouвЂ™re doing a performance, but itвЂ™s relative to whoвЂ™s there.

NINJA: We just gauge our shows sometimes, and when we enter a totally new audience, I think we kind of have shell shock. NAVARRO: I looked at your setlist, and you didnвЂ™t do вЂњEnter The Ninja.вЂќ How come? So naturally Navarro (with an assist from InterviewвЂs Dan Hyman) didnвЂ™t have to be asked twice to interview Die Antwoord, just after a show in Philadelphia and 24 hours prior to touching down for a joint gig in Williamsburg.ДAVE NAVARRO: How did it go for you last night? For two years, he practically begged Perry Farrell and the rest of his bandmates to bring Die Antwoord out on tour. Now theyвЂ™re touring with JaneвЂ™s Addiction, whose guitarist, Dave Navarro, is a nerdboy-Die Antwoord fan. What Ninja and Yo-Landi Visser, the coed twosome that comprise Die Antwoord, came armed with was mind-warped, aggro-hip-hop rife with Afrikaan phrases and South African slumdog culture they also had hair the likes of which had never been seen before.Д«ut it was through their irreverence, a heart-swelling disdain for the establishment-the duo rejected a reported $1 million deal with Interscope following the release of their debut album, $o$, as a result of creative differences-that bred a rabid fanbase and an independently-released sophomore album, Tension, that includes a comedic skit in which a man clearly meant to be InterscopeвЂ™s Jimmy Iovine has Yo-Landi sit on his lap like a creepy, overly-touchy uncle. Here was a bone-skinny white dude, deathly angry, flopping around in a pair of Pink Floyd boxer shorts, shouting at you in language you couldnвЂ™t comprehend. Chances are it was their video for вЂњ Enter the Ninja,вЂќ or maybe вЂњ Zef SideвЂњ-in either event, your eyes and ears were at once assaulted, confused, and enraptured. The bombastic, rhyme-slinging hip-hop duo from South Africa likely appeared before you on a computer screen circa 2010. ItвЂ™s easy to remember the first time you heard-or rather, saw-Die Antwoord.

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