Nothing here is as bad as Ninja’s nasally chorus on Ten$ion’s opening track “Never Le Nkemise 1” or the unlistenable Uncle Jimmy skit, but maybe “boring” is a worse criticism than “bad.” In a 2012 interview about their sophomore album Ten$ion, Die Antwoord said their issues with Interscope stemmed from the label urging them to “be more generic.” This is an ironic claim, for it's precisely what plagues *Suck on This, *their first mixtape since being liberated from their contract. While the tape includes new material along with remixes of old songs, the whole thing sounds like a retread. More often than not these days, Die Antwoord comes off as tired and trying way too hard. In the ensuing years, however, we’ve become inured to Twitter trolls and ALL CAP$ personalities. Even now, it’s hard not to be riveted by 2010’s “Zef Side”-there’s that slow-mo of Ninja’s knock-kneed thrusts that send his flaccid penis flopping around in his Dark Side of the Moon shorts there’s Yolandi’s severe mullet, her awkward dancing and alien-like visage. In doing so, they’ve created a body of work that at times can be engaging. It's a neat stand-in for the South African rap trio and troll merchants Die Antwoord themselves: They may have started this act with the intention of discomfiting us and making us think, but in 2016, they are merely wearisome.Įven though it’s hard to erase the shock rap-rave South African group’s rat-infested, toilet-sitting, loogie-hocking videos from your memory (we’ve tried), it has been two years since they released their last album, Donker Mag, so here’s a refresher: Ninja and Yolandi Vi$$er embrace “zef,” a philosophy that encourages intentional vulgarity. MC Ninja teases the record in an interlude where he mimics geek king Napoleon Dynamite, a cultural reference so dated and worn-out that 12 years have passed and it still feels too soon to revive it. *Suck on This *is presented to us as a stopgap for Die Antwoord’s fourth studio album, We Have Candy.
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