Yolandi Visser

Anri du Toit (born March 3, 1984) known professionally as Yolandi Visser (stylised as ¥o-Landi Vi$$er), is a South African rapper and singer. She is the female vocalist in the alternative hip-hop group Die Antwoord, Her partner in the group is Watkin Tudor Jones.

Visser appeared in the 2015 Neill Blomkamp film Chappie.

Early life
Anri du Toit was born on March 3, 1984 in Port Alfred, South Africa. She was adopted by clergyman Reverend Ben du Toit and his wife, and had an adoptive older brother, Leon (d. 2015). Growing up, she has said she felt like she did not fit in or belong anywhere, and describes herself as 'a little punk' who frequently got into fistfights, and listen to the music of Nirvana, PJ Harvey, Nine Inch Nails, Cypress Hill, Eminem, Marilyn Manson and Aphex Twin. At the age of 16, du Toit was sent to Pretoria to attend Menlopark High School, a boarding school which was nine hours away from her family's home. du Toit said that she blossomed among other creative and artistic-minded people while there.

du Toit does not know much about her biological parents, and questioned her ethnicity after a portrait artist specializing in identifying genetic history told her she has a facial structure similar to coloureds. Visser initially thought she was white, but now thinks that because she was born during apartheid, her white mother’s parents may have forced her to give her baby up for adoption, after getting pregnant by a black man.

The Constructus Corporation
Du Toit was asked by Watkin Tudor Jones (aka "Ninja") to lend vocals for his project The Constructus Corporation. She was credited as Anica the Snuffling. The band released their debut and only album The Ziggurat in 2003.

MaxNormal.TV
Du Toit was a member of the South African 'corporate' hip-hop group MaxNormal.TV, in which she played the role of Max Normal's personal assistant. In MaxNormal.TV, she went by the stage name Yolandi Visser.

In the song "Tik Tik Tik", du Toit's fictional backstory is detailed. The song claims that she was born into poverty in a large family, and eventually ran away out of boredom and loneliness. In "Option A", she meets a drug dealer, and eventually begins working for him, transporting drugs in exchange for food and money. She becomes addicted to meth, and regrets her choices. In "Option B", she ignores the drug dealer when he tried to talk to her, and instead begins working at a cafe, and rents a room there. She then is offered to join MaxNormal.TV after watching a rap show outside the cafe.

The group released their debut and only album Good Morning South Africa in 2008. A DVD featuring 13 skits, music videos and short films was released in the same year, titled Goeie Morge Zuid Afrika.

Die Antwoord
Du Toit is currently a member of the South African rap-rave group Die Antwoord. The group was formed by du Toit, her then-partner Tudor Jones, and producer HITEK5000 (formerly referred to as DJ Hi-Tek and God). They have since added a second producer Lil2Hood.

Die Antwoord is part of the South African counterculture movement known as zef. For the band, du Toit goes by the stage name ¥o-Landi Vi$$er. She styled her hair into a bleach-blonde mullet at the start of the band, which was originally done to have an edge. She has said cutting her hair felt like a birth, and a statement of outsider and zef pride.

The band released their debut album $O$ in 2009. It was made freely available online and attracted international attention for their music video "Enter the Ninja". They briefly signed with Interscope Records, and left after pressure from the label to be more generic. du Toit explained that Interscope "kept pushing us to be more generic" in order to make more money: "If you try to make songs that other people like, your band will always be shit. You always gotta do what you like. If it connects, it's a miracle, but it happened with Die Antwoord." They formed their own independent label, Zef Recordz and released their second album Tension through it.

They have since released two other albums; Donker Mag in 2014, and Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid in 2016. As well as this, du Toit played a self-styled role as ¥o-Landi Vi$$er in the 2015 Neill Blomkamp film Chappie.

Controversies
Visser along with her group partner Ninja Tudor Jones have been involved in multiple controversies together.

In 2019, a video from 2012 surfaced, showing Tudor Jones and Visser fighting and hurling homophobic slurs against Andy Butler, founder of the American dance project Hercules and Love Affair Tudor Jones claimed that the person who filmed the video edited it to make it seem like they were in the wrong.

In April 2022, du Toit's adopted/foster son Gabriel "Tokkie" du Preez accused her and Tudor Jones of physical and sexual abuse against himself and his younger sister. Du Toit's agent made a statement denying du Preez's allegations, saying "Die Antwoord don't agree with Tokkie's statements."

Personal life
Du Toit has a daughter named Sixteen (b. 2005) with Watkin Tudor Jones. Du Toit and Tudor Jones also adopted or fostered three children; Gabriel "Tokkie" du Preez and his sister in 2010, and another son in 2015.

The Constructus Corporation

 * The Ziggurat (2003)

MaxNormal.TV

 * Rap Made Easy (2007)
 * Good Morning South Africa (2008)

Die Antwoord

 * $O$ (2009)
 * TEN$ION (2012)
 * Donker Mag (2014)
 * Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid (2016)
 * House of Zef (2020)

Filmography

 * Goeie More Zuid Africa DVD (2008)
 * Tokoloshe (2011)
 * Umshimi Wam (2011)
 * Chappie (2015) – features "Baby's On Fire", "Ugly Boy", "Cookie Thumper" and "Enter the Ninja".