Die Antwoord have released a star-studded music video for their new single Ugly Boy featuring Cara Delevingne, Marilyn Manson, Flea, Jack Black, Dita Von Teese, The ATL twins and more! Die Antwoord’s videos are well known for their shock value, it’s part of what makes them so popular and this might not be your jam but the beat is incredibly catchy and the video too bizarre to be ignored. It’s definitely NSFW and a bit creepy but you might be shocked by just how much you like it! (Warning: The song is filled with expletives and the clip features near-nudity and lots of blood.)
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The South African rap-rave group Die Antwoord is made up of Ninja, who directed the video, Yo-Landi Vi$$er and DJ Hi-Tek. Ugly Boy is the latest single to be released from their third album Donker Mag.
The track features a fair-sized sample of the Aphex Twin song Ageispolis from Selected Ambient Works 85-92. The Ugly Boy in question is a Cape Town gangster that Yo-Landi started dating after she broke up with Ninja, which could have made things awkward when filming this video in the studio, although the two seem to be very happy in the visual and the chemistry is still great.
In the insert of the album Ninja writes about the song: “Dis song was a bit of a mindfuck 2 make… me and Y had been broken up 4 a while… but dis was da 1st time dat Y got in2 a kinda serios relationship wif sum1else, who happnd 2 be an activ gangster from da cape flats… who runs wif a gang called da UGLY AMERICANS.. or UGLY BOYS.”
Filmed at STAGE THIS in Los Angeles the full list of cameo appearances are as follows: Jack Black, Marilyn Manson, Flea, Cara Delevingne, Dita Von Tesse, ATL Twins, Charlotte Free, Estevan Oriol, DJ Muggs, Tokkie, Sunny Balzary, Sixteen Jones and Trigz.
