Album Review: Die Antwoord - Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid

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Mount Ninji and Da Nice Time Kid is the fourth studio album by Die Antwoord. It was released on September 16, 2016.

Lyrically there are songs, where they tell us about their wild life style and using metaphors Die Antwoord raps about love, drugs, sex and other crazy things. Rhythmically, it is an electronic album, mixing techno beats with alternative hip hop. Mount Ninji and Da Nice Time Kid is full of danceable and energetic tracks.

The first song is We Have Candy, which was going to be the name of this album. However, Yolandi proposed to change the name for Mount Ninji and Da Nice Time Kid. We Have Candy has a carnivalesque vibe. As I said, you will find songs with different messages and of course, there are songs about love... or something like that, for example: Daddy that is actually my favorite song. I really love Yolandi's style, she's pretty cool and I love when she sings like if she was a little girl. This song is so catchy and hilarious. The third track is Banana Brain, which means "going bananas, or crazy, in their own mind." Personally, it is the most energetic song from the album and its techno beat is perfect, it is also a song about love, actually, it is about their relationship. Ninja said about it: "We are just, like, ultimate best-friends-forever type of thing… we’re not boyfriend and girlfriend, we are separate but we are best friends. We are homies and the kids have a good mama and daddy." 

"I love it that you best friends with me

Just wanna treat your heart carefully

Cause everyday I feel blessed to be

The boy chillin' with you right next to me"

Gucci Coochie, featuring the American burlesque dancer and model Dita Von Teese, is the most sexual song and Dita's voice makes the song sounds even more sexual. I really love the beat of this track, it's totally a dance-floor song. However, Mount Ninji and Da Nice Time Kid has also some "interludes" that gives "texture" to the album, such as: Jonah Hill, Wings on My Penis and U Like Boobies? Both songs are a collaboration with Lil Tommy Terror (I think he is six years old). While, Peanutbutter + Jelly is a solo Ninja's song and its beat is dope.

I noticed that the collaboration with the comedian actor Jack Black called Rats Rule and Shit Just Got Real, featuring the Cuban-American rapper Sen Dog, both tracks remind me those songs that the pirates sing in the movies, because of its rhythm. On the other hand, Stoopid Rich, Fat Faded Fuck Face, Darkling, Alien and Street Light have the slower and dark beat of the entire album. In fact, according to Die Antwoord:  “Yolandi is vulnerable on Alien and Darkling. She opens up about her battles with depression, bullying and her fatherless childhood." 

The album ends with I Don't Care, returning with the techno energy and they declare that as long as they are together, they will be okay and that they don't care about what the other people may think about them.

Die Antwoord - Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid: ★★★★★  

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