A Xhosa kid,when you turn a certain age-18 or 19-you have to go to the bush to “become a man.” And they circumcise you with a big knife, a kitchen knife. But you go in a blanket. And you have to stay in the bush for one week, where they cut your foreskin off with no disinfectant, no painkiller. And they get the white ash from a fire and rub that on the penis to stop the blood or whatever, and they also put the ash on the face. So you’ll see these guys in blankets with a white face and a funny look on their faces because they just had their foreskins chopped off with a kitchen knife with no disinfectant or painkiller.

Just this year, Wanga was supposed to go and get circumcised. When the World Cup was on, the Xhosa had their initiation ceremony and he was supposed to go and he didn’t want to go. And this year 60 kids died! Six-o! And I asked him, So what happens when you’re not a “man.” And he says, “You can’t speak to the other men.” So I say, “Okay, why are you talking to me. Am I a boy?”And he says, “No, you’re a man, Ninja.” And I say, “But then why speak tome?” And he says, “Because you’re cool.”And so we’re just chatting and talking shit, and Wanga was teaching us how to speak Xhosa. The worst word you can say in that language is umnqunduwakho [pronounced moon-dwako]. I don’t know how it’s spelled. It’s on our Facebook page. I’m gonna tattoo it on myself so I don’t forget. If you say that, it’s like the worst swear word-the unsaid word. It means, like, your bum hole,and it’s a heavy insult. You know in Lord of the Rings, when you say”Mordor,” people get freaked out and say you shouldn’t say that word. Well the Xhosas are freaked out about umnqunduwakho. So we’re joking around, and I’m like, “You should rap about this shit.”And then Wanga saw the tattoo on my arm, and he said, “You know what, I don’t want to be a man. I think I want to stay evil boy for life.” And we thought that was fokken funny. I said, if you kick a rap about that, you should say “umnqunduwakho” in the opening line. And Wanga started laughing until he nearly peed in his pants. And that rap now is making sooooooo much noise in South Africa. It’s like, fokken freak mode! It’s quite hard-hitting, Wanga’s verse.Now the thing is, about those men you have to go to the bush with. Xhosa culture is un-fokking-believably homophobic. They like, do not dig gays-with the volume up! So Wanga thought it was funny that they then take a19-year-old’s penis in their hand and cut their foreskin off with a kitchen knife. So Wanga made a joke: “Don’t touch my penis. I’m not a gay.” It’s basically like the most severe taunt you can throw at a Xhosa man. So that’s where that line comes from. Like, whatever. Like DJ Fishsticks, who’s done our remix. He’s gay and nobody really cares. South Park taught us that “gay”and “faggot” don’t mean a homosexual person. It’s somebody who rides on a Harley-Davidson motorbike and revs it really loud.

(Source: rematonia)