109 on the national album chart and cracking the United Kingdom top 10 with the single “Evil Boy.”Īnd recent weeks have seen the group’s video output both lionized and censored. 12, after nearly a year of Die Antwoord’s incessant touring, performing at packed shows and festivals across North America, Europe and Japan, its debut album, "$O$" finally reached retail, landing at No. On the strength of Die Antwoord’s viral popularity, the group triggered a bidding war among five major labels and signed a five-album deal with Cherrytree/Interscope Records in May. We laugh ourselves to sleep every night.”įrowning, his face a grave rictus of sober intent, he added: “Conceptual art, I don’t even know what that is.”įor now, neither fans, art lovers nor the machers controlling record label purse strings seem to care. Seated at a Mid-City hotel restaurant, the greyhound-thin, heavily tattooed lead rapper, Ninja (Watkin “Waddy” Tudor Jones), scoffed with undisguised scorn: “Yes, it’s a joke. But given the bandmates’ well-documented pre-Die Antwoord past - as members of the jokey “corporate” rap group MaxNormal.TV and the experimental music collective the Constructus Corporation - what its core constituency of hipsters and bloggers really want to know: Is Die Antwoord punking the world à la Ali G? Or worse, is it conceptual art? The group is poised to become the biggest international rap cross-over since Falco in the 1980s.
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In January 2010 he hosted the first exhibit of Who Am I? Transgressions, a photo collaboration with Gordon Clark, at the João Ferreira Gallery in Cape Town. Botha was asked if the title "Liquid Swords Slices of Le mon" referred to the adage "If life gives you lemons, make lemonade." Botha said no, adding, "Lemons? I slice 'em and serve 'em back!" His second solo exhibition opened in March 2009 and featured pieces of the artist's life.
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It took place at the Rust-en-Vrede (which translates to Rest and Peace) gallery in Durbanville and was opened by Mr Fat of the South African hip hop group Brasse Vannie Kaap. In January 2007, Botha had his first solo art exhibition, entitled "Liquid Sword I am HipHop", revolving around hip-hop culture as a way of life. In 2005, Botha successfully underwent heart bypass surgery to prevent a heart attack due to progeria-related atherosclerosis. He had no formal training in art beyond high school courses at the Tygerberg Art Centre, but became a full-time painter after graduation, doing commissioned works. He was diagnosed with progeria around the age of 4 years. Biography īotha was born in Cape Town, South Africa, and lived there until his death. He was known for his close association with the hip hop group Die Antwoord, as well as for being one of the world's longest-lived persons with progeria.
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Leon Botha (4 June 1985 – 5 June 2011) was a South African painter and disk jockey.