Yo-Landi from Die Antwoord is desperately trying her best to create some kind of pedagogical backstory on Instagram in some lame attempt to soften the nasty blows heading their way but it makes her look extremely desperate and even more guilty. As explained in this article, a former friend/hired artist/videographer decided to come forward with shitloads of backstage and personal footage of Die Antwoord in support of abuse allegations by Zheani Sparkes from Australia.
As a backlash,Die Antwoord relentlessly attacked Zheani on Instagram as well as Facebook, making videos and getting “friends” and “homies” to participate. This promoted ex-friend/videographer “Kobus” to release a short video on YouTube. “Kobus” released an initial video highlighting so-called “vegan & Buddhist” members of Die Antwoord’s hypocrisy around censorship. At the same time Yo-Landi phoned Kobus. They had an 18min conversation. She was clearly worried.
Yo-Landi then deleted her Instagram account. This was more or less 5 days ago. She must have gone into a flat panic, trying to figure out how to spin this situation in their favour, because a lot of other things also came out in the phone conversation between herself and “Kobus”. Questions like “whatever happened to Meisie?” Meisie is Tokkie’s sister. See, Yo-Landi adopted both kids from poor a neighborhood in Johannesburg called Fietas. There is an older brother was well, who at the time of adoption was 15 years old, but I guess he was not cute enough. We should probably find out what happened to him? I’m not going into any details with regards to rest of the phone conversation but we’ll get back to Meisie in a bit…
Yo-Landi & Ninja seem to have used the last 5 days (since the first of Kobus’ video release) to go into damage control mode with Yo-Landi seemingly doing all the heavy lifting and Ninja probably directing and controlling everything in the background, as he always does. Yo-Landi opened a new Instagram account less then 24 hours ago called “dearmeisie” in which she seems to try to pre-empt the video clips which are about to be released by Kobus, with explanations but she really has no idea of what Kobus is going to release. So she doesn’t really know how to prep her fans. She only goes by what came out in the phone conversation with Kobus. This “dearmeisie” Instagram account seems to take the form of Yo-Landi addressing her adopted girl, Meisie directly, explaining to her (with the help of her friend Kim Possible and Marae Lezama) how her and Ninja are doing, why they do/have done the things they do or did & how these things are innocent and totally misunderstood. Kim and Marae functions as two stooges and props to just confirm that every thing Yo-Landi says is true. Ninja is nowhere to be seen. You see a him a second here and there and you hear him off-camera helping Yo-Landi what to say to Meisie. But Yo-Landi is not really talking to Meisie. It is so fucking obvious. And so fucking dumb. She is addressing the few dumb fans they have left that will eat up their shit.
In the Instagram videos, Yo-Landi is trying to overlay, with childlike narrative, that she does silly things when drunk & thus can’t be held accountable for anything she ever does – “I can only drink champagne/ I can’t drink shots / I was drunk / I can’t remember”. The two stooges next to her just agrees to everything. I’ve personally never seen Yo-Landi as drunk as she claims and we’ve been to Oppikoppi together where I have seen her at her drunkest after a few Savanna Lights. She was fully aware of what she was doing. People who have toured with them overseas and were close to her have never seen her that black-out / stupid drunk, maybe just “normal” drunk or stoned. So this is 100% back peddling on her side.
On to a next thing – have a look at how she uses her friends in the videos to explain racism. The old “I can’t be racist because my black friends think i’m cool”-argument. This whole act is a very considered attempt to absolve herself from any responsibility in terms of her actions, especially historically – because that is what they are frantically trying to sugar coat.
I guess this new Instagram account won’t last very long either, so I put everything into one video. Listen carefully at Yo-Landi trying to explain away their historical behavior. She is talking about things that she anticipates to come out in the videos still to be released: Mention of stabbing Ninja with a knife, mentioning of her calling Whitney Houston a crack whore. As if that was the only thing that was said by them on the day Whitney Houston passed away. I wonder what the real hardcore rappers in the USA would have to say about that when all this stuff and more surfaces…
On this whole flakey Instagram attempt, please enlighten me – so you want to speak to your adopted daughter because you miss her. You have enough money to make a call. Fuck, you have enough money to visit her. When last did she see her? All of a sudden she’s this super caring mom. Why don’t you phone her or visit her? Why this “heartfelt” public outreach on Instagram with the comments switched off? Where is Meisie, by the way? In the latest video on the Instagram account which is not covered in my video, Yo-Landi even has Moonchild Sanelly help her with a little heartfelt video to Meisie. “She’s in Joburg”, Yo-landi quickly answers when Moonchild aks but she doesn’t sound very convincing though…
But here is the biggest fucking mystery to me – Die Antwoord, whether from their Instagram account, Yo-Landi’s Instagram account (the one that she closed) or Die Antwoord’s Facebook page never ever ever posted so much in succession ever before. They normally maybe post once a week, if even that much. They are above their fans and they are too busy and special. Or maybe they just have people who do it for them normally. Yo-Landi is supposedly working on a feature film, so why would she post seven (7) videos in less than 24 hours? It is 100% out of character and her confidence level is quite the opposite from last week when she sang of Zheani (on a video still available on Die Antwoord’s Facebook page:
yo the motherfuckin HO
was BALDING
and i was like WOAH
im SORRY
bitch i gotta GO
cant believe i got CATFISHED
man oh NO
dat pussy smelled like ROTTEN FISH!
Now it seems that she seems to bear most of the brunt of this fuckshow that Ninja created with his dick more than 6 years ago. Meanwhile Ninja ironically, like his name suggests, stays in the shadows.
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