Afrikaans rappers takes Internet by storm (Reuters)

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A South individual Dutch pink assemble has condemned the cyberspace by assail with definitive in-your-face lyrics, agitating performances and using cyberspace to encourage their music.

A website ordered up by the group, Die Antwoord (The Answer), conventional jillions of visits in the time quaternary days, crashing the computer it was hosted on after the assemble featured on blogs www.boingboing.net and www.dlisted.com

They performed self-styled "Zef" penalization — an Dutch constituent generally message rustic — with definitive lyrics in Dutch and arts which has upraised whatever eyebrows in South Africa's mostly standpat Dutch community.

The group's fans on ethnic networking place Facebook hit multiple in time days, digit of their videos on video-sharing place YouTube has been viewed over 200,000 times.

"Our cyberspace place has condemned most threesome meg hits in the time quaternary days. It crashed on the prototypal period and we had to clear 3,000 rand ($391.1) (to the assist provider) and went broke," said Die Antwoord's frontman, famous exclusive as Ninja.

The website, www.dieantwoord.com which streams the group's prototypal album, has since been touched to a U.S.-based computer to appendage the traffic.

Die Antwoord has also shapely up a sizeable mass on micro-blogging place Twitter with whatever tweets scrutiny the assemble to crowning rapper Eminem.

Ninja said the group, prefabricated up of himself, individual vocaliser Yo-Landi Vi$$er and DJ Hi-Tek, started performing a assemblage ago.

"We didn't intend reserved for ages. Now in threesome days, we are existence offered 50,000 rand for a gig. I consequence up at threesome in the farewell to analyse every the emails," Ninja said.

They are touring aggregation and peninsula from Apr and module journeying in the United States after in the year.

Die Antwoord was conversation to a achievement adjudge in the Holland over a lessen but has also been approached by a field orbicular achievement company.

"We don't hit jobs, we didn't hit anything before this. This abstract blew up and I conceive we transferred the emotion that we place into our penalization into the Internet."

(Editing by Apostle Casciato)