In a bid to restructure Headbang Today and by taking the first step towards changing it over to Bling-bling Today, the new owners of Headbang Today have decided to interview their very first South African hip hop band known as NP Projek!

Interview by Scream shizzle.

NP Projek are: Pierre “diePEER” Rossouw
Noulen “Moela” Basson

Bling-bling Today: Welcome to the ‘hood. Np Projek seem to be quite popular among the South African young uns. For those that don’t know what NP projek are about… feed them some info about yourselves and what you are about!

Np Projek:

We’re wannabe gangsters that’s got it all wrong. Our mission is to touch the hearts of puppies and kittens across the globe with our beautiful Afrikaans lyrics especially in songs like ‘Maagpyn’ and ‘Ow’. We don’t give a crap about genre, it’s commercial and NP Projek started to ripp off seriously lousy hits! Over the past year it changed a bit we started producing our own tracks and are currently working on a original album collaborating with a lot of big names in the Afrikaans industry. All we want is for people 2 lol when they l2m!!

Bling-bling Today: I noticed that you dudes have been gigging hardcore lately. What are your shows like and tell us about some of your best and worst gigs to date.

Np Projek:

We haven’t really had a worst gig but the best would probably be our first one with Jack Parow at Durbanville Kunskaffee – a Close second was the 27^th of March also with Jack Parow at Langebaan Kaktus, Sold Out show (Tickets and Bar),we even had local celebs like Jakkie louw,Arno Jordaan and Kurt Darren at the show!LOL Our gigs are mostly based on a party vibe, but we make complete fools of ourselves… well pretty much all the time. When the crowd jumps and sings with that’s enough for us do get more stupid then we are…

Bling-bling Today: Okay, I  know what goes down at a typical metal band’s jam session… as we’re crossing over, I now need to know what a typical NP Projek jam session consists out of. What goes down?

Np Projek:

Every song has different characters. For ‘Kraaibak 911’ we’re gangsters stealing cars, for ‘Betas’ we’re 2 moffies (homosexuals), for ‘Doom Doom Pow’ we’re homeless black people. So we need to get into character for every song. Then we pretty much act out our characters as we perform the song. We’ve jammed a couple of gigs and always have a lot of people that sing along but every experience is different. You never know what to expect. Once we’re in character though, it’s difficult to get out. We’ve got some sort of multiple personality disorder… Especially Moela, He has it even when we just hang out.

Bling-bling Today: Why do you think ex gangsters who can’t sing always end up becoming more famous than a rockstar that used to sacrifice human beings? What is it in hip hop that pulls fans in like flies around a turd? It can’t possibly be the shitty lyrics?

Np Projek:

Huh? We enjoy walks on the beach… no no wait… how can you expect us to answer that? World peace… there, that always works on TV.

Bling-bling Today: Well, you dudes are known for your humorous lyrics and to-the-T-covers. Who writes the lyrics?

Np Projek:

We have a monkey that we caught fly fishing in Alaska about 2 years ago that we shaved and taught English. He writes the lyrics and then we translate it to Afrikaans. Works like a charm, but he’s an alcoholic the poor bastard. So we pay him in cough syrup…

Bling-bling Today: Is there any method behind your madness?

Np Projek:

Yes.we catch little spiders and dry them in the sun. Grind them into a fine powder and snort it..almost like cocaine. Its nice..you should try it.

Bling-bling Today: Pass me a straw… When can fans expect a full-track album from NP Projek?

Np Projek:

We’ll launch a 5 track original EP asap. Full track album with parodies won’t be released anytime soon. It’s a bitch to get publishing rights on the lyrics.

Bling-bling Today: Ever considered doing a collaboration with one of South Africa’s finest heavy/black/death metal acts? If so, which band would you dig to do it with?

Np Projek:

We have considered it, If we need to it would probably be a band we enjoyed when we were younger and jammed with them. I think we’ll go for Jurie Else or Bok van Blerk…

Bling-bling Today: HAHA! Do you think that the headbangers would’ve read this far into the interview before they realised that Bling-Bling Today was just an April Fool’s stint?

Np Projek:

WHAT?? This is a stint?

CHECK OUT NP PROJEK! They are exactly what some of our headbangers need to forget about the vomit that typical hip-hop bands often leave behind in our mouths!