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- Title
From Compton to Cape Town: Black(faceless)ness and the Appropriation of Gangsta Rap in Die Antwoord's "Fok Julle Naaiers".
- Authors
Kitchiner, Lanisa
- Abstract
Existing scholarship on the gangsta rap-rave group Die Antwoord concentrates on how the band represents South Africa's Cape Coloured community and White Afrikaner poor. This essay contributes to existing studies by analyzing how Die Antwoord utilizes gangsta rap and represents Black culture in their hit video Fok Julle Naaiers. Using hip hop and literary theories as conceptual frameworks, this essay argues that Die Antwoord's performative gestures involve strategic acts of erasure that effectively reduce gangsta rap and African American culture to negative stereotypes. The origin and intent of gangsta rap, critical responses to the subgenre, and Die Antwoord's appropriation of the art form are discussed at length.
- Subjects
GANGSTA rap music; DIE Antwoord (Performer); BLACK South Africans; RAP music &; society; AFRICAN Americans; STEREOTYPES in mass media
- Publication
Journal of Pan African Studies, 2013, Vol 6, Issue 3, p65
- ISSN
0888-6601
- Publication type
Article