They were supposed to play a UK festival, ALT+LDN, along with big names like Playboi Carti, Lil Yachty, Machine Gun Kelly this summer but they were just dropped by the organizers due to alleged abuse. Die Antwoord was part of the music world, recognized by their peers. As a matter of fact, Manson had a cameo in another of their videos, ‘ Ugly Boy,’ along with a bunch of celebrities including Jack Black, Cara Delevingne, and Flea. The first Die Antwoord video I saw was this ‘ Fatty Boom Boom’ one in 2012 and it was just too weird for the mainstream: this goofy South African neighborhood, these colorful rap-Zulu dances – Yolandi Visser would not get away with this full-body black-face today – this giant cricket extracted from the vagina of a fake Lady Gaga… it was a freak horror show, a funhouse for weirdos and they were the Marilyn Manson of South Africa (bad sign). It shouldn’t come as a surprise, right? They have always been controversial. ![]() Die Antwoord (Watkin Tudor “Ninja” Jones and Yolandi Visser) has been canceled.
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