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Says Angola, 'Nie eers Steve Hofmeyr daal so lag wanneer hy een van sy bekotsingswaardige papsmeergevegte in die openbaar wil begin nie. (Not even Steve Hofmeyr sinks so low when he is looking to start one of his infamous public spats).'
Angola's 10 reasons why Ninja is the biggest poephol of 2010 are
1. He is pretentious
Don’t dare call him Waddy (born Watkin Tudor Jones) in public; he will quickly correct you with a Sandton snoblip: "Uh, it is Ninja now." He once even said in an interview that his onstage Ninja persona is like "Superman to Clark Kent", the only difference with him is that he’s never Waddy anymore.
2. He can’t handle criticism
When Koos Kombuis wrote in a column that he prefers his own swearing to Die Antwoord’s foul-mouthed words, the zef band unashamedly hurled back in their controversial Evil Boy music video: "Koos Kombuis se ma se poes." Just how zef, or rather extremely rude can you get? Not even Steve Hofmeyr sinks so low in his infamous public spats.
3. He burns bridges
Ninja has a very bad relationship with the media. He chases away photographers and apparently only does interviews with "certain" journalists. Unfortunately, Mr Ninja doesn’t realise that he chased away a lot of loyal fans on his way to the top, whom he will meet again on his way down.
4. His tattoos lie to you
Besides his foul-mouthed vocabulary, Ninja sports explicit and profane prison tattoos. Most of them are gang signs from the Cape Flats, which are earned by tough gangsters for doing gruesome crimes. I dare Ninja to walk around in Mitchell’s Plain without a shirt and see if he survives the day.
5. He talks a lot of nonsense about his own racial identity
On one of his songs he unashamedly refers to himself as a coloured. He raps: "I’m a coloured." In fact, he is a whitey from Randburg.
6. His answer is not Afrikaans
Ninja, a soutie himself, exploits Afrikaans and uses Afrikaners to get famous. Waddy Jones praat Afrikaans soos sy gat!
7. He underestimates people’s intelligence
If you want to swear, at least do it right. Ninja uses a lot of profane Afrikaans words in his songs, but you can hear from the way he uses them that he definitely doesn’t use Afrikaans swear words at home.
8. He smells like a two-face dog
Ninja begged to have his dearest Yo-Landi Vi$$er published on page three of Die Son, then provided a half naked photo to the newspaper, where Vi$$er’s breasts weren’t even visible but covered with her long blonde hair. His excuse, "I just want to protect this girl, bru." Huh? At Sondag they schemed, "If you wanna run with big dogs, don’t pee like a puppy, bru…"
9. He’s a big talker
Waddy loves singing things like: "Ninja is poes cool, but don’t fuck with my game boy or I’ll poes you…" If you want to be truly zef you must be able to fearlessly sing these same words in Boksburg, Krugersdorp, Vanderbijlpark and Pretoria- West. And even Welkom, and check how 'welkom' you are then!
10. He is a softy
Ninja admitted in his Max Normal days in an interview that his role model was the head boy of the private school he went to. According to the guy who did the interview back then, the head boy was Craig Hinds from Watershed. You’re my little Indigo girl, Indigo smile…
