It was then picked up by The Citizen, which reports that the video was filmed and edited by the band’s former videographer Ben Crossman, who no longer works with Die Antwoord. The video was first shown on local blog Watkykjy. The video, taken backstage at the 2012 Future Music festival in Adelaide, Australia, appears to show rapper Ninja assaulting Andy Butler of the band Hercules and Love Affair, Yolandi using homophobic slurs, and both of them falsely accusing him of sexual assault. Now, Die Antwoord has been bumped from two festival line-ups in the US, following a video being brought to light. I assumed that they left that stuff at the office when they weren’t on stage, but two recent incidents seem to suggest otherwise.įirst, Australian rapper Zheani accused Ninja of ongoing abuse and misconduct in a diss track called ‘The Question’. Yolandi Visser and Ninja epitomise ‘zef culture’ – common, irreverent, uncultured, and filthy-mouthed. We tolerate it, and often even endorse it, because that provocation was supposedly part of a persona – a character.

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