The new video from South Africa's Die Antwoord dropped today (NSFW):

So woah. Cool creature costumes (nice white-rat robe, Yo-Landi!) Although, doesn't it seem like they use creepy underground dungeons in their videos a lot? And must Yo-Landi always be filmed in a bedroom? Oh yeah, and then there's the whole "I'M NOT GAY MY DICK IS CLEAN" thing. There's that. According to Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin, "I think it's likely some portions may be misunderstood, and a line in there will be misinterpreted as homophobic, but the story behind it (Ninja and Yo-Landi shared all the backstory with me earlier) is deep stuff, and anything but. Both the band and the young South African emcee who guest-stars in this one are open-minded about gender and sexuality, it's cool."

Um, do you mind sharing what that backstory is, dude? It's kind of important. UPDATE: The backstory according to Jardin (I still think it's weird that he put this in the comments of his post rather than in the original), in case you don't feel like following copypasta's link:

So, the story behind this video and song (or part of the story — there's so much going on!) is that this kid was being coerced into a form of ritual circumcision by his community. It's culturally mandatory within his ethnic group, so much so that if you are a young man and you do not participate, you are completely ostracized. It's hardcore.

The thinking, and this is communicated pretty bluntly, is that if you don't participate, you're gay, you're effeminate, you're not a real man. You never mature from being a boy to being a man.

The kid is hetero. And he struggled with all of this in real life, with what it meant for his personal and cultural identity. And he came to a point where he was like, you know what, fuck you all. The fact that I won't allow you to slice my penis with an unsterilized knife and risk infection or worse doesn't mean "I'm gay," as you say. If that's what being a man is, I don't want to be a man. I'll be an "evil boy for life." But, yeah, I am a real man, even if I don't participate in this tradition which I now reject, at the risk of being totally ostracized from my community.

You might have chosen different lyrics, but dude, it's not our story or our culture or our world experience at all.

It's his.