Mount Ninji and Da Nice Time Kid
by Die Antwoord
User Score
6.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 31 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 31
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 31
  3. Negative: 7 out of 31
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  1. suis
    Dec 12, 2016
    6
    The newish "Zef" genre is definitely obnoxious by many ways, maybe that's one of its characteristics, but it really helps it to have mediocre ratings. Even knowing this is the best record Die Antwoord has released so far, it still has very trashy and childish lyrics. Of course the humor is important in the album, the intro track "We Have Candy" does it well; the opera singers in theThe newish "Zef" genre is definitely obnoxious by many ways, maybe that's one of its characteristics, but it really helps it to have mediocre ratings. Even knowing this is the best record Die Antwoord has released so far, it still has very trashy and childish lyrics. Of course the humor is important in the album, the intro track "We Have Candy" does it well; the opera singers in the background makes it very comic and in a good way... but tracks like "Wings on My Penis", sung by a weird prepubescent kid, are just too much. Even though, I tried to listen to the beat and forget about the lyrics — sadly, a hard thing to do —, and there are pretty good ones on the album, "Banana Brain" may be the best one, but "Stoopid Rich", "Street Light" and "Gucci Coochie" also have cool beats and it kind of make it easy to listen to. The high points of the album are "Rat Rules (feat. Jack Black)" and the outro track "I Don't Care", which ones have not bad lyrics at all, this first one has a good dark feeling to it, and the second is actually pretty cute... "Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid" is a weird piece of... art? Or you love it, or you hate it.… Expand

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Metascore
55

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 8
  3. Negative: 1 out of 8
  1. PopMatters
    Oct 18, 2016
    30
    Unfortunately, Mount Ninji is an album that’s too obnoxious when it’s not boring and too boring when it’s not obnoxious; there’s seldom a competent middle ground and over the span of an hour, it doesn’t hit a single stride.
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  2. The Line of Best Fit
    Sep 29, 2016
    65
    Though Mount Ninji and Da Nice Time Kid is a far from perfect record, it proves that Die Antwoord have still got life in them yet, despite the recent hyperbole.
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  3. AllMusic
    Sep 23, 2016
    70
    It's appropriate imagery: Mount Ninji is a hedonistic party in a trash heap.
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