Pop Music: South Africa’s Die Antwoord heads to Music Box in Hollywood

POP MUSIC

The South African rap trio Die Antwoord so perfectly upends every au courant collision in urban, electronica and world music today that, well, larger forces seem at play. The band’s founder, Ninja (a.k.a. Waddy Jones, a longtime rap- and art-scene veteran in Johannesburg), is a leonine, flat-topped MC covered in crude prison-style tattoos who’s frequently onstage in little more than “Dark Side of the Moon” boxer shorts. The band’s producer, DJ Hi-Tek, is a rotund and mute beatsmith fond of marijuana-themed bandanas and cutting tracks on his “PC computer” that he uploads to the “interwebs worldwide.” And then there’s the typographically exquisite creature Yo-Landi Vi$$er, an age-indeterminate, gutter-mouthed Shiva in gold Lycra and a cascading mullet. Music Box, 6126 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood. 7 p.m. Sun. $37.75. (213) 480-3232.