Sentence examples for zef- from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, bizarre South African "zef" rap-rave duo play The Ritz, Manchester (Fri) and Brixton Academy, London (Sat).

Die Antwoord was founded by a South African music-biz veteran named Waddy Jones (Ninja, here) who celebrates zef, which translates roughly as "common" or "redneck," but which Jones claims is a synonym for "the ultimate style".

(Anderson) Die Antwoord (Saturday) The rapid-fire clip and glitchy tonalities of this South African rap group represent zef, a proudly lowbrow counterculture shift in the region's hip-hop climate.

They followed up their first disc, "$O$," with "Ten$ion" (Zef Recordz), released earlier this year.

On the appointed night, though, things almost got too zef for Die Antwoord.

And so Ninja, the leader of the South African rap-rave crew Die Antwoord, invited me to ring in 2012 in the lair of zef, the scene the band brought to the world two years ago with a viral music video called "Zef Side".

But when Die Antwoord, the zef-rap trio from South Africa, took to the stage in a tongue-lashing fury of slick beats and hyperkinetic rhymes, the house seemed to shake.

They become compatriots of rebels and bohemians like the communal, hippie-flavored Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros; the raunchy, funny, speed-tongued South African "zef-rap" duo Die Antwoord; the manic, quick-fingered art-hardcore band Dillinger Escape Plan and the jittery new wave group White Rabbits.

We feel bad they didn't make it, because they actually have a good team," said Zef Kabashi, who founded NYC Kosovo.

The video, "Die Antwoord — Zef Side," captures the group members in their old neighborhood among family and friends (or so it appears) in dazzling South African light and a moment of relative restraint — judging from the trio's other videos.

Both The Happy Cats Café, run Ally Bartlam and Damian Polino, and The Cat Café, with owners Eric Sawyer and partner Alex Zef, are using crowdfunding projects.