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Sup with all the dicks in that Die Antwoord video?

Pitchfork: Even though some of the verse by guest rapper Wanga (above) is translated in the video I feel like a lot of people may still be confused by it.

Ninja: It's quite an in-depth thing. It's basically about tribal circumcision. It's part of a tradition that's in the black Xhosa tribe in South Africa. When you turn 19 you have to go into the bush for like one week with a blanket and your underpants-- no shoes-- and get your penis chopped up with a kitchen knife. No disinfectants; no pain killers. You get the ash from the fire and you rub it onto the penis and you rub it around your face.

We've known Wanga since he was a street kid. He lives in this house in Cape Town and squats on a farm. This year, Wanga was supposed to go to one of these rituals because he wasn't circumcised. We thought maybe he just shouldn't go because 60 kids fucking died this year because their penises didn't work properly afterward and shit. So I asked him what would happen if he didn't go to the bush, and he said that he wouldn't be a man and he wouldn't be able to speak to the other men. So I asked him why he was speaking to me and he said, "Because you're cool, Ninja." Then he looked at my tattoo and said he wanted to be "Evil Boy for life."

The worst words in the Xhosa language are "umnqundu wakho." It means you're a bumhole. You're not even supposed to say that aloud because people freak out about it. So we were like, "Oh fuck, you should start your rap with that." So when you play "Evil Boy" in South Africa around a group of people who know the language, you'll hear a lot of African women shrieking as if someone just stole their baby.

Pitchfork: Wow.

Ninja: Another element in his verse is about how the real Xhosa men with the circumcised penises are unbelievably fucking homophobic. Wanga doesn't give a fuck-- we're not anti-gay, we're just like, "whatever." The rap is actually a taunt, when he says, "Don't touch my penis/ I'm not a gay." That's pretty much the worst insult to Xhosa men-- who are anti-gay yet they take 19-year-old boys' penises into their hands. It's pretty weird to touch another man's penis when you're not a gay.