I wanted to push them to places they’ve never gone and they were totally willing to experiment.” “Nobody pitched anybody on working together - it was just organic. “They came to the studio and we just started catching a vibe,” Muggs says. Lawrence Muggerud, a founder of the influential SoCal hip-hop group Cypress Hill. How could that work in a city where, among other things, no one walks? But then, on a visit to L.A., a photographer friend took them to a quinceañera and introduced them to one of their idols, DJ Muggs, a.k.a. Their process, for years, was to jot down lyrics as they walked around Cape Town. “Like, what would we write about?” Visser continues. With matching mullets and meth-chic attire, the seemingly out-of-place pair is also oddly at home. Ninja, 42, and Visser, 32, the duo that pioneered Zef culture - South Africa’s response to America’s so-called white trash - are a bit of both. insider or the carelessness of an interloper. battle with an Oscar winner requires either the confidence of an L.A. “Thank you,” she adds, as the waiter shuffles over to the stereo.Ī few moments later, Tarantino stands, unsheathes an LP and drops the needle on side two of Rod Stewart’s “Every Picture Tells a Story,” then raises his glass to Ninja and Visser in a facetious toast - but they already have their backs to him and, tellingly, the volume is significantly lower.Įngaging in this sort of D.J. “Oh, yeah,” says Yolandi Visser, the shyer of the two. “Can you not listen to that man and turn the music down,” he says to the waiter in a snarling, Afrikaans-inflected stage whisper. Ninja, one half of the influential rave-rap act Die Antwoord, is none too pleased that from across the restaurant at the Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles, Quentin Tarantino has cranked up the stereo, blasting Sarah Vaughan’s voice.
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