Die Antwoord Claim ‘Suicide Squad’ Stole Their Style – Are They Right?

The movie of the summer has finally arrived. Suicide Squad has stirred the pot not only with film critics but with musicians as well.

Die Antwoord’s Yolandi Visser, expressed her feelings toward the movie on Instagram where she exclaimed that the director, David Ayer, was “jocking their style.” To provide facts behind her claim, Visser vented about the situation on Instagram, including a video that ties the similarities between Suicide Squad and Die Antwoord’s aesthetic. A haunting similarity of the Joker’s appearance and Ninja appears in the video and another couple resemblances that we all need to consider. Although the director, David Ayer complimented the South African duo, when confronted by Ninja, he allegedly had made no response.

Are there too many similarities to consider it copying or just enough to call it influential?

yes David Ayer u jockin our style. callin ninja up before your movie came our pretendin 2b down, so it looks OK when u bite our black & white graf style & our opening sequence to umshiniwam & an all da lil tiny details u nibbeld dat other people wont see but we notice. Cara & Jared told us how much u were talkin abt us on set but u never asked our permision to rip us off. An when ninja texted u sayin wassup wif dat u said nothin like a scared lil bitch. U were jus flauntin our names pretendin to b down. u aint down an u never will b. but before we knew da extent of ur two face nature – u invited us to ur movie premiere(which i didnt wanna go to) but ninja went , tinkin ur solid guy an mayb there was jus a lil “misunderstandin”. Den poor ninja had to sit thru dat hole bullshit movie. An u even got da nerve to say wassup to him smilin – an ninja has to b nice cus he is there wif his kid. But we all tink u wack. U shud start a crew called:,”im a fake fuck” ask kanye if he wants to join u. Cum show ur pretty face at my studios. U know Muggs & u know where da Soul Assasin Studios at. we watin for u. @djmuggs_the_black_goat_ @zef_alien @boojie_baby_ @ragingzefboner @_dark_force_ @dejanvisser @djhitekisgod @jipsi518

A video posted by ¥O-LANDI VI$$ER (@prawn_star) on Aug 9, 2016 at 11:58pm PDT