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Die Antwoord Expose Sordid Secrets To Discredit Fraud AndTheft Claims

Written by Greg Moskovitch on October 10, 2013

South African party rap crew Die Antwoordhave taken to their official Facebook page to offer their side ofreports alleging that duo Ninjaand Yolandi Visserstole their style as well as design elements and lyrics from

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a group of troubled South African youths.

In a story released by Johannesburg newspaper City Press, Cape Town farmer, Andre Laubscherallegedthat Watkin Tudor Jonesa.k.a. Ninja, jacked Die Antwoords style from a group of street kids to whomhe offered shelter on his farm, by plying them with drugs and alcohol.

Waddy Jones shattered the boys lives, said Laubscher. The boys Wanga Jack, Mzamo Mzi, Aviwe

Dikizaand Chelvin Engelbrecht were members of a hip-hop crew called The Glue Gang Boysandstayed on Laubschers farm on the slopes of Tamboerskloof.

Waddy, now known as Ninja, at the time went by the name Max Normal.TVand was dating a girl by thename of Anri du Toit, later to rebrand herself as the hyper-sexual, foul-mouthed pixie rap star YolandiVisser.

A student at the time, the 19-year-old du Toit would regularly stay on Laubschers farm, introducing her

boyfriend Jones to the The Glue Gang Boys, with the pair striking up a friendship with member Wanga Jack

and taking the teen under their wing.

But according to Laubscher, their friendship wasnt so wholesome. Waddy Jones sucked the whole of Die

Antwoord out of these boys here on this farm, he said. And they were vulnerable. They were the children

of alcoholics. So to come in here and give them booze and dagga. Thats not on.

[Jones] used to come here and talk to us about our past and where we come from, said one member. Ive

been to prison twice, and in prison you learn this language and there are these [tattoos]he was obviously

looking for this kind of image for himself.

In the City Pressreport, members of The Glue Gang Boys allege that Die Antwoord would severely

underpay them for their services as backup dancers for Die Antwoords live shows, as well as appearanceson songs and in videos for them, with member Wanga Jack being particularly vocal.

First we were dancers for him. And then I became a DJAnd then suddenly I wrote a song with them,

said Jack. He was paid SA$100 to perform at a Die Antwoord gig, boosted to $200 after complaining to the

band. But people were paying $250 just to get into the concert, he said.

Jack also claimed that he is owed royalties from an appearance on the Die Antwoord trackEvil Boyas well

as in the songs controversial video. Even more damningly, Jack claimed to have signed a contract with Die

Antwoords then-label Interscope Records while still underage.

Now Die Antwoord have shared their side of the story in a series of dispatches posted to their official

Facebook page, in which they claim that Laubschers narrative is untrue and that his statement to the press

are a result of the news that Die Antwoord are set to star in a Hollywood film.

K so herez da scoop about Wanga kids, they begin. So Ninja met o-landi a loooooong time ago on a

strange little farm in Cape Town. Now on the farm lived a creepy old man with big beard and fat tummy

called Andre. Andre didnt own the farm, he just squatted there.

They allege that the in-his-fifties Laubscher would attempt to woo the then 19-year-old Yolandi Visser with

love letters and requests to take nude photographs of her. It was Ninja who finally convinced Yolandi to

move off the farm when Wangashowed Ninja and Yolandi a secret box.

Inside the secret box was a collection of nude photographs of girls who had visited or stayed at the farm.
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Die Antwoord insist that it was their discovery of the photographs paired with jealousy of the bands success

that inspired Laubschers antipathy towards the pair.

When this recent big new hit that that Ninja and Yolandi are going to be starring in a big hollywood movie,

some haters lost their fuckin minds, they write. And all of a sudden, people (who we have nothing to do

with) start crawling out the woodwork with all sorts of ridiculous claims.

They explain that Laubscher encouraged Wanga Jack to go to the press with a cooked-up story in which DieAntwoord are depicted as villains and crooks. Instead, they claim, they attempted to act as mentors to the

young Jack, who they describe as a lost soul, looking for direction in life.

Despondent over bullying from locals in his mothers Xhosa (residents of south-east South Africa)

neighbourhood for his failure to adhere to their initiation customs in particular his failure to get circumcised

Die Antwoord welcomed Jack into their crew.

Together, the three produced the trackEvil Boy, which speaks out against barbaric Xhosa initiation rights.

Jack, meanwhile, was acting as backup dancer and roadie for the bands live shows, while Ninja attempted

to impart life lessons to the teen.

However consistent unprofessionalism from Jack, such as missing a flight to Johannesburg for a concert,

arriving late to appointments, and constant partying led Ninja and Yolandi to removing him from the crew,

saying Wanga did not take this music stuff very seriously.

The band claim that Wanga just got out of Pollsmoor Prison recently (for the 2nd time), then decided to go

to the papers, and say how Die Antwoord expoited him. But our sweet little Wanga twisted a few facts

here and there, and also left out all the fun stuff in this here note.

However the band claim that theres no bad blood, saying We still love Wanga. Hes just a bit lost, andgetting guidance from the wrong people And if one day, Wanga says sorry to us for being naughty and

telling lies Maybe well even give him another chance.

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2 Comments 1

Meady

I agree. Wtf?

gary

what the fuck did I just read?

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