I'm glad they made it. Like holy shit, they've been at it for at least 15, maybe over 20 years even. They worked hard and never gave it up, even coming from a country where it's even harder to make it big. Amazing.
I was, like, fine before i decided to like you I'm not even sure i like you I just wanted somebody to write to I was just trying to make you feel better But i don't think you're gonna be getting this letter I would have loved to have said 'thanks for your time.' But it looks like it's gonna be like 'thanks for the rhyme' I've decided to officially suspend my fascination cause you see, had me feeling a little... blegh You used to make me wanna go bust a piece I used to think about you when i brushed my teeth But then i wasn't too sure if it was the attention or me you were digging, you know? Eventually something triggered (tricky?) I'm trying To let go Of maybe But maybe's just so Very interesting Oh, what a thing I stumbled upon this impossible to get with lady Then i found myself struggling to let go of maybe Yo Fuck maybe, i need some shit that i can hold in my hand Wanna be feeling that big feeling that's like older than man It's funny when the same thing happens over and over again But i mean i've even written bout this stuff before This super fine specimen that walked through the door My memory banks went blank, and i was like "hey, how ya doin?" And she was like, "cool." While i start thinking about stepping to the exception to the rule And i subconsciously started using the deception as a tool To confuse myself So i could lose myself I'm trying To let go Of maybe But maybe's just so Very interesting Oh, what a thing "nah, it's really stupid..." Hmm? Well, whatcha gonna do, kid? I was splashing her with all my special stuff But then this strange, little voice in my head was like "hey, that's enough; Let me brighten your day Like I just opened the curtains Stay on point cause there's no way of knowing for certain When another cloud's gonna wrap itself around your head like a turban And have you feeling all kakka Keep it real, motherfucker Listen, kid, don't you ever come off all obvious and shit Wanna know now what your decision is Use that high-tech precision that i hit you with What's gonna happen next, come on, envision it
wow. did not expect... this... holy shit. all of a sudden, i don't know what i like more, max normal or die fuckin antwoord... so fucking different. who the fuck are these people? mind officially BLOWN
Max normal have the bases of undergroun rap, and die antwoord become more trap,hardcore, prytrance bases, and more gangsta, but y think, talking about rap, max normal its better, but die antwoord have incredible beats, (scuse my english cause im spanish)
destructo You can find it but its $400 or more usually. The real problem is that the only why to get the complete set of tracks is to pirate it as the tracks from the second disk are no longer available through legitimate means.
The picture above is the second Max Normal iteration and not the members that you hear on this song. From the album Songs From a Mall. This lineup was Mark Buchanan (electric bass/electric guitar), Sean Ou Tim (drums/keyboards/sample), Simon Ringrose (turntables/backing vocals) and Watkin Tudor Jones (vocals). This is from the debut album of the original Max Normal outfit. After this albums shit just goes downhill.
+destructo In retrospect, that was a bit harsh of me. I really like The Ziggurat a lot. It's brilliant. But the subsequent work under the MaxNormal.tv moniker really doesn't appeal to me. But yeah, I should have phrased that better.
Lana Howard lol I had a thought the other day that perhaps the aliens will stop the apocalypse at the last second and save those who deserve to be saved. Trippy
My first guess is they'll start saying yes to all those things they turned down because it wasn't "a Die Antwoord thing". Turns out Yolandi was the first choice to play Lisbeth Salander in "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" and Ninja was the first choice to play Max Ca Costa in "Elysium". Either that or they'll become hippies.
Everyone should understand that going to Die Antwoord was THE best career move they could have made. These people are fucking brilliant. They know how to play the game. Sheeeiit, money and da powa!!
I hope you know that 9 years later, it turned into a shit show. They may have made money by entertaining Hipsters, but at the expense of exploiting people using their psuedo Racism, Classism, Homophobia, and don't forget, Child Abuse.
lets all be honest .. waddy had it perfect but was too honest, big record companies didnt like it.. now he has sold out with die antoword nowhere near as good but he will now make big bucks cant blame him
Loves these Mutta Fokers .. no matter if jew or not jew belief has nothing to do with this Lyrical Wizardry of a Ninja ... I love this talent !!! Keep up the bad ass talent we need this in this day and age .. Mr. Normal.. and Yolandi Rock out hard Fuk the rest
Indie Gamer Who the fuck are you? All your comments on here have MAJOR flaws. Zef - People who are poor but act fancy. As Yolandi said once: "It's associated with people who soup their cars up and rock gold and shit. Zef is, you're poor but you're fancy. You're poor but you're sexy, you've got style" Doing your own thing has fuck all to do with Zef.
Die antwoord is pretty cool but this shit is way cooler, i kinda feel sad that they really adjusted themselfs to the sensationalist media. This is the stuff they would've made if they went after their own style instead of catering too the mainstream. Not that there's anything wrong with that tho
It isn't selling out so much as re-branding. Lots of artists do it, just look at Dr. Dre when he was in "World Class Wreckin' Cru". Artists should be encouraged to experiment with new styles and personas and selling out would be just milking one type for all its financial worth instead of pursuing new creative avenues.
Die Antwoord is fucin hilarius and they are having such a good time with it, there is a lot of creative scope i think you are hung up on what you think is cool
Man this guy must have had rhymes and flows goin on in that funny looking noggin while he was still in the fucking womb! I cant ever seem to find the end of this guys stuff, or the beginning. Maybe Him and Yolandi are probably aliens, and later on they manifested the being that is DJ Hi-Tek. would explain an awful lot....
I was fine before i decide to like you,im not even sure i like you; i just wanted someone to write to. I hope you feeling better but im not sure you are getting this letter! :) awesome lyrics hahah
I'm glad they made it. Like holy shit, they've been at it for at least 15, maybe over 20 years even. They worked hard and never gave it up, even coming from a country where it's even harder to make it big. Amazing.
Now, *this* is my jam. They should have stayed like this.
They look so... normal.
no not really, ninja looks like a psychopath
Indie Gamer
this isn't ninja, it's max normal. ninja wasn't 'born' yet.
MaxNormal is Ninja from Die Antwoord yolandi visser is still yolandi visser
Indie Gamer no, Yolandi Visser is now Yolandi Vi$$er
No it's ¥o-Landi Vi$$er.
This song makes me feel all me all melty inside. :)
I was, like, fine before i decided to like you
I'm not even sure i like you
I just wanted somebody to write to
I was just trying to make you feel better
But i don't think you're gonna be getting this letter
I would have loved to have said 'thanks for your time.'
But it looks like it's gonna be like 'thanks for the rhyme'
I've decided to officially suspend my fascination cause you see, had me feeling a little... blegh
You used to make me wanna go bust a piece
I used to think about you when i brushed my teeth
But then i wasn't too sure if it was the attention or me you were digging, you know?
Eventually something triggered (tricky?)
I'm trying
To let go
Of maybe
But maybe's just so
Very interesting
Oh, what a thing
I stumbled upon this impossible to get with lady
Then i found myself struggling to let go of maybe
Yo Fuck maybe, i need some shit that i can hold in my hand
Wanna be feeling that big feeling that's like older than man
It's funny when the same thing happens over and over again
But i mean i've even written bout this stuff before
This super fine specimen that walked through the door
My memory banks went blank, and i was like "hey, how ya doin?"
And she was like, "cool."
While i start thinking about stepping to the exception to the rule
And i subconsciously started using the deception as a tool
To confuse myself
So i could lose myself
I'm trying
To let go
Of maybe
But maybe's just so
Very interesting
Oh, what a thing
"nah, it's really stupid..."
Hmm?
Well, whatcha gonna do, kid?
I was splashing her with all my special stuff
But then this strange, little voice in my head was like "hey, that's enough;
Let me brighten your day
Like I just opened the curtains
Stay on point cause there's no way of knowing for certain
When another cloud's gonna wrap itself around your head like a turban
And have you feeling all kakka
Keep it real, motherfucker
Listen, kid, don't you ever come off all obvious and shit
Wanna know now what your decision is
Use that high-tech precision that i hit you with
What's gonna happen next, come on, envision it
Purrai thank you.
thank you so much
Appriciated, thank you.
Ninja is a straight up genius.
+Waboom1 Not Ninja, Watkin.
ALL HAIL WATKIN TUDOR JONES!
Seriously........ Insanely genius
A great Fortnite player too 😉
was better as max normal
This is brilliantly creepy and brutally honest.
Shakes head in amazement! Such free art. Pretty ugly gorgeous!
Looped for at least an hour!
wow. did not expect... this... holy shit. all of a sudden, i don't know what i like more, max normal or die fuckin antwoord... so fucking different. who the fuck are these people? mind officially BLOWN
Max normal have the bases of undergroun rap, and die antwoord become more trap,hardcore, prytrance bases, and more gangsta, but y think, talking about rap, max normal its better, but die antwoord have incredible beats, (scuse my english cause im spanish)
Leo Ferrer Sherman die antwoord is definitely not trap bro, they are alternative rave hip hop.
+Andrew Sheppard Next go check out The Constructus Corporation.
Jeremiah B ez my favorite outta all his work. If only it was possible to find a hard copy of the constructus corp
destructo You can find it but its $400 or more usually. The real problem is that the only why to get the complete set of tracks is to pirate it as the tracks from the second disk are no longer available through legitimate means.
i'm obsessed with this song. oh my god.
reminding you of this so you can stay obsessed
Sibgha Rather ahaha oh my god, thank you
@Aiesha forever yes!! still as good as ever lol
i've listend to this song atleast 100 times already
soooo good
God I miss this stuff
The picture above is the second Max Normal iteration and not the members that you hear on this song. From the album Songs From a Mall. This lineup was Mark Buchanan (electric bass/electric guitar), Sean Ou Tim (drums/keyboards/sample), Simon Ringrose (turntables/backing vocals) and Watkin Tudor Jones (vocals). This is from the debut album of the original Max Normal outfit. After this albums shit just goes downhill.
Hercules Campina De Vasconcelos agreed.
+destructo In retrospect, that was a bit harsh of me. I really like The Ziggurat a lot. It's brilliant. But the subsequent work under the MaxNormal.tv moniker really doesn't appeal to me. But yeah, I should have phrased that better.
He is a creative genius.
Justin de Nobrega is DJ Hi-Tek
...at least, most of the time.
I feel Waboom1, Both
Dj hi-tek are more than one person
Now he's called God 😜
who will they be after Die Antwoord is done ... ?
The aliens that stop the apocalypse and bring us into the fifth dimension.
Lana Howard lol I had a thought the other day that perhaps the aliens will stop the apocalypse at the last second and save those who deserve to be saved. Trippy
Who will you be?
My first guess is they'll start saying yes to all those things they turned down because it wasn't "a Die Antwoord thing".
Turns out Yolandi was the first choice to play Lisbeth Salander in "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" and Ninja was the first choice to play Max Ca Costa in "Elysium".
Either that or they'll become hippies.
Last DA album called "27" will release througuout 2019. Really looking forward to whatever they come up with next 😎
Ons is lief vir jou Max Normal!
We love you Max Normal! ;)
Everyone should understand that going to Die Antwoord was THE best career move they could have made. These people are fucking brilliant. They know how to play the game. Sheeeiit, money and da powa!!
they are toxic af
I hope you know that 9 years later, it turned into a shit show. They may have made money by entertaining Hipsters, but at the expense of exploiting people using their psuedo Racism, Classism, Homophobia, and don't forget, Child Abuse.
But I don't like Die Antwoord's songs.... it's tapped (in Afrikaans we say: "Dis kommin")🤦🏼♀️
Damn this takes me back to the Carfax days in Jozi central.
Some weird and mad times...
Oh sheet I'm on a trip back trough time. This is still gold :D
lets all be honest .. waddy had it perfect but was too honest, big record companies didnt like it.. now he has sold out with die antoword nowhere near as good but he will now make big bucks cant blame him
AMaaaaazing lyrics. This dude is DEEP
He looks like the crazy guy in Prison Break.
Omg, that made me laugh so much. HAYWIRE??? :P
+messengercrow Yeah the dude who's in GRIMM now too. XD He kinda does. That dude is a good actor.
omg THANK YOU !!! I've spent two hours breaking my mind who it was that he is reminding me so much !!
One of my favorite Waddy songs of all
Reminds me of Tricky a bit
Totally
+verveine m Who's Tricky?
+Loni Bytyqi a brilliant trip hop musician. Check out his album 'Maxinquaye'.
I said the very same thing
Mindblown track!
certainly weirder than Die Antwoord, probably why they didn't go global with this. Genius everywhere, though.
They look like the Afrikaners I was afraid of during Apartheid in 1989
your knowledge is of future next level shit i close my eyes and live ...
I literally didnt know maxnormal was ninja until now
my mind explosed ..
no, no it didn't explose
right??
Loves these Mutta Fokers .. no matter if jew or not jew belief has nothing to do with this Lyrical Wizardry of a Ninja ... I love this talent !!! Keep up the bad ass talent we need this in this day and age .. Mr. Normal.. and Yolandi Rock out hard Fuk the rest
The production on this is steller.
Great song
Phénomène ! ♥
sounds like massive attack...with a twist :> nice
nice song
futuristic artist on the next level
This jam sound like Tricky whole lot!
genius... damn, i'm seriously impressed!
good. good. good. tune.
Sort of reminds me of old Massive Attack.... sort of.
+Riff Raff are you the real riff raff?
Do you even Rift Not sure who the real riff raff is but I've had that nickname since the early 80's.
+Do you even Rift You're an idiot
rmhanzel
oh that's nice, thank you! :-)
Brilliant!
best content made by yolandi and ninja:construction corperation , The ziggurat all hail this old skool shit
Oh.. what a thing..
EARGASM.!!!! with earphones on
this. my favourite
Love this
Yolandi looks gorgeous.
This is even better than Die Antwoord o_o
Headphones + Volume full blast = Satisfaction....Just sayin'.
WOW!
How did I get here, what does this mean?
i can't believe this is the same person from die antwoord... this man is a genius
just.WOW.
wtj is in his 30's people. he's a one of a kind person with a lot of energy and talent and die antwoord is just another project of his.
Listening to him just turns me
The. Fuck. On.
I’m a chick on my
Boyfriends page
Btw
I like this better than Die Antwoord. Needs more Landi tho
didn't know that about dj hi tek.... pretty cool... gotta look into that :)
I'd have to agree with that, yes.
Yolandi had the high banks even then? She has always been Zef.
Zef is about doing youre own thing instead of following the crowd
Indie Gamer Who the fuck are you? All your comments on here have MAJOR flaws.
Zef - People who are poor but act fancy. As Yolandi said once: "It's associated with people who soup their cars up and rock gold and shit. Zef is, you're poor but you're fancy. You're poor but you're sexy, you've got style"
Doing your own thing has fuck all to do with Zef.
Actually in multiple interviews ninja described ZEF as not giving a fuck
+Indie Gamer "doing you are own thing"?
amish neenjah..... luvs eet....
@Brotherolaf And they were being accused of "selling out" in the days of Max Normal too.
the real "DJ Hi Tek", top right.
Max Normal has been around from the early 2000's and Die Antwoord was formed in 2007 - 2008
i can't find this album anywhere/ all i can find is Good Morning South Africa/ any other leads?
I love you for mentioning Tricky
reminds me of a rainy day AND EVERBODY AROUND YOU IS FUKKIN' DYING AND SHIT
Die antwoord is pretty cool but this shit is way cooler, i kinda feel sad that they really adjusted themselfs to the sensationalist media. This is the stuff they would've made if they went after their own style instead of catering too the mainstream. Not that there's anything wrong with that tho
talk about master of disguises haha :D
i wish they would bring this back after die antwoord again. It's so amazing holy feces.
She still is.
this is really good damn
This is so next level it fucking hurts.
Alt Schwift X brought me here!
DJ HI TEK is the dude in the top right (the bald one)
It isn't selling out so much as re-branding. Lots of artists do it, just look at Dr. Dre when he was in "World Class Wreckin' Cru". Artists should be encouraged to experiment with new styles and personas and selling out would be just milking one type for all its financial worth instead of pursuing new creative avenues.
he does
Which of the MaxNormal albums is this song from?
It sounds like a record in reverse.
Die Antwoord is fucin hilarius and they are having such a good time with it, there is a lot of creative scope i think you are hung up on what you think is cool
Depression in a nutshell
hits home, ja?
Look for it in a shop store market.
inhorn is finkle,
Finkle is inhorn!!!
so sick
I'm trying
To let go
Of maybe
But maybe's just so
Very interesting
Oh, what a thing
DOPE
Young Yolandi. Hotter & somehow creepier at the same time.
Max Normal >< Die Antwoord. can't decide which is better :o
Man this guy must have had rhymes and flows goin on in that funny looking noggin while he was still in the fucking womb!
I cant ever seem to find the end of this guys stuff, or the beginning. Maybe Him and Yolandi are probably aliens, and later on they manifested the being that is DJ Hi-Tek. would explain an awful lot....
He was so badass with the beard...
yes, what a beat
I like it
Does anyone know where these lyrics are? Absolutely cannot find them anywhere.
I was fine before i decide to like you,im not even sure i like you; i just wanted someone to write to. I hope you feeling better but im not sure you are getting this letter! :) awesome lyrics hahah
This sounds like Tricky!
The Yolandi part sounds a little like Portishead. With more acid.
Yeah very Trickyesque!
Does anyone know when this was produced ? early 2000s ?
yes. 2001