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n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Board regulars Dan, Rob, and I DJ every Firday and Saturday in Williamsburg (Capone's).

It's nothing like this.

pappawheelie II, Friday, 26 August 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link

our party is called "kill jewie"

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow, I can't imagine why going into a random club and grinding on guys you don't know would lead to many of them thinking they could have meaningless sex with you.

it's like they are unaware of the ways of the world. Dammit, this folks need education. what if we were to found a school for this? we can dub it, "Freak Academy." Clueless scenesters of all shades shall be welcome.

kingfish 'doublescoop' moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link

show up tonight with some matzoh ball soup and get in free.

shit, it's friday, isn't it?

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:31 (eighteen years ago) link

our party is called "kill joey"

xpizzost

pappawheelie II, Friday, 26 August 2005 18:32 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm-a gonna come over there and kill you all tonight. I am a bad-ass. *cries*

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link

That's the worst 50 Cent imitation I've ever seen.

The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:36 (eighteen years ago) link

A nickel to the first person to identify what record he's holding while, um, testifying.

Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Articles on nights like this really upset friends of mine who live there. It's like a trap, because they can't complain about it, because it's brought on in some form via gentrification, and they themselves are gentrifiers.

It's like the rent there- you moved there because it was cheaper, then everyone else did, and now it's expensive, but how can you complain?

"Let's kick out all the white people- except me!"

jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link

That's the worst 50 Cent imitation I've ever seen.

I cill you for saying that, after I cill my landlord.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link

the original 50 Cent hung out in my area of brooklyn, apparently.

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:44 (eighteen years ago) link

i mean wtf how many of you people go to places like galopagos or sea on a friday or saturday night? this is just as obnoxious (tho more insiduous, granted), and just as easily ignorable.

hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link

dude, dan, i live a block away from where NOTORIOUS B.I.G. grew up. i'm one HARDASS WHITE COLLEGE EDUMACATED RENTING FROM OTHER WHITE FOLX MOTHERFUCKER.

hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link

b-b-b-but the original 50 Cent shot and killed and terrorized everyone. He even robbed LL Cool J!

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Does anyone know anyone who has ever been to one of these nights? Who the fuck would go to this? Truly mind boggling.

Legroom at the Vista (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link

sea on a friday or saturday night?

Dude, it was a Thursday afternoon. I didn't even order pad thai.

Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

that chai place is better.

hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Thai, Chai, iss all good.

pappawheelie II, Friday, 26 August 2005 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link

thing is, despite the ridiculous "name", it's not much different then thousands of party that happen all over New York City, and likely elsewhere in the universe. White kids like dancing to black music. They like imitating the same videos everyone else is watching. It's nothing new. I'm sure if you like dancing to the music he plays, it's a great deal of fun. The only thing that makes it different is that he thinks its funny to make fun of the way white people appropriate black culture, only he does it in a manner offensive to all human kind.


Yes, Chai is good. I won't go to SEA, I went to the one in the east village and hated it.

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 26 August 2005 18:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Don't you know it:

http://www.myspace.com/pumpsta/

Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:00 (eighteen years ago) link

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pappawheelie II, Friday, 26 August 2005 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.milkthebeef.com/

Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.myspace.com/pumpsta

Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:02 (eighteen years ago) link

I dunno, dude's probably got more of a following than I do, so his schtick is better than mine...

pappawheelie II, Friday, 26 August 2005 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link

I only said Williamsburg sounds like hell because 99% of what I hear about Williamsburg involves either Vice magazine proponents or Hasids, two of my least favorite groups of people to be around.... (note I have never been to Williamsburg and probably never will)

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost

Come on, dude, Da Pumpsta's got 34 friends on MySpace -- I just knows your MySpace universe is bigger than that!

Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost - i agree, this is not isolated event at all. the thing that makes it different is he's overt about intentions...which makes him and partygoers look naive... whereas generally in hipster culture you subvert your intentions=there's some irony involved=even if its ironic earnestness. but being truly upfront about shit is still < cool even in those being earnest is cool circles. i felt like the journalist was also making somewhat of a judgement on their cool versus reasons for/value of whites imitating black culture.

Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link

> Vice magazine proponentsadherents

And now we're on an all-purpose New York City trash-talkin' thread!

Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link

i felt like the journalist was also making somewhat of a judgement on their cool versus reasons for/value of whites imitating black culture.

Yeah, article was more than a little snide. But I didn't feel that bad for him.

Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:08 (eighteen years ago) link

Dan, this party has been going on for a few years now, right? I remember Adesh bitching about it on Record Camp before I came to NYC.

Shakey, trust me. I go out each Friday around 11 pm and flyer the bulk of Williamsburg, and it's nothing like the magazines make it sound. Pretty fucking boring in comparison.

pappawheelie II, Friday, 26 August 2005 19:10 (eighteen years ago) link

i've got more myspace friends than this douche and nobody comes out to see me dj! roffles.

hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link

ILM gives attention whore the attention he craves SHOCKAH!

Reggie, Friday, 26 August 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link

It's easy to make fun of Williamsburg, only because it's easy to find something to make fun of in Williamsburg, even though every large neighborhood/city has something equally lame to make fun of.. but Williamsburg is still in the spotlight now... hence..

donut gon' nut (donut), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

The article title should read: The white people's usual quest to rip from black culture take an unusually desperate and goofy turn in williamsburg.

or something like that-
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no, i don't feel bad for him either. i just think by picking such an easy target you can lapse into judging how uncool it is versus just talking about the other issues involved here. there was definitely a snide element to the article which is totally unecessary/bad journalism i think.

Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

(and 3 OTM)

donut gon' nut (donut), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

ILM gives attention whore the attention he craves SHOCKAH!

Reggie refrains.

Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah, it's been there at least a few years.

mr. stencil it's all BRANDING! when you dj you need a cooler dj name and a cool name to yr party. My various parties are only kinda ok, that's why they don't do so well. You also need to play more 90s hip-hop and have friends who like the dancing.

Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Susan Douglas is right I think, and agreeing with some people above, the concept's not shocking and this has little to do with hipsters, white kids like hip-hop music and appropriating black culture, it's the way of the world. This guy's just a dick about it and some of the folks that go to his parties are assholes and borderline racists.

dan. (dan.), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:17 (eighteen years ago) link

phew - i haven't been right in WEEKS!

Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:21 (eighteen years ago) link

I just don't get the whole "ironic DJ" thing at all, in any context. And even more confounding are the people who come and dance along. If you don't REALLY like the music, then don't play it (or dance to it). If you DO really like it, then have the balls to admit it.

And as far as hipsters go, we have plenty of them in the Mission. It cracks me up how much time and money people will spend in order to look bad (ironically, of course!).

schwantz, Friday, 26 August 2005 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link

"It's about being nasty, people come to grind on each other," said Casady, 23. "It's like friends being sexual with each other."

Casady was raised in Santa Barbara, Calif., but quickly notes her worldliness by listing the cities where she has lived along the trail to Brooklyn. A regular Kill Whitie partygoer, she tried the conventional (that is, non-hipster) hip-hop clubs but found the men "really hard-core." In this vastly whiter scene, Casady said that "it's a safe environment to be freaky."

-- mucho (mlopez10...), August 26th, 2005.


just by the way, the bianca casady in question is the girl from Coco Rosie

ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link

What other issues are involved here, Susan?

I want to approach, but I unfortunately too quickly digress into "Williamsburg is full of hipster idiots" type commentary in the early discourse.

Dan started it upthread w/r/t this being some attempt at humor via white appropriation of black culture, but again, I can't go there quite yet...

xpost

and Dan just brought it back up...

jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link

when you dj you need a cooler dj name and a cool name to yr party.

well since my last attempt at a party failed on its first night due to ROYAL OAK being run by DOUCHEBAG FLAKEY JERKS IN SKINNY TIES AND EYELINER i've kinda given up. and there is NOTHING cooler than the name FUCK IT as a party name. just didn't get a chance to succeed since some dudes are fucking double-booking idiots.

You also need to play more 90s hip-hop and have friends who like the dancing.

no, i need to know more people who realize that "church of anthrax" is dance music!

hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

xp

It's easy to make fun of Williamsburg, only because it's easy to find something to make fun of in Williamsburg, even though every large neighborhood/city has something equally lame to make fun of.. but Williamsburg is still in the spotlight now... hence..

I think Williamsburg is the target of a lot of sniping because the neighborhood -- and by this I mean the hipster influx -- has some very evident conceits... the whole neo-bohemian thing. The New York press takes its potshots at W'burg pretty regularly. Less frequent is the Washington Post getting into it.

Confounded (Confounded), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

just by the way, the bianca casady in question is the girl from Coco Rosie

A staggering amount of sense has just been made.

mike powell (mike powell), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

go out each Friday around 11 pm and flyer the bulk of Williamsburg

sometimes I think flyering is the biggest waste of fucking time, but i'm afraid NOT to flyer for shows.

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Bianca Cassady from CocoRosie attends parties like these?

sibsi (sibsi), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

To sum up this August's Lifestyle Section, Williamsburg is full of asses because all of the cool kids moved to Philly. Thanks NewYorkTimesWashingtonPost!

dan. (dan.), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:26 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost

what schwantz just said, too

jsoulja (jsoulja), Friday, 26 August 2005 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link

well, you know, spam, bucket of fried chicken, hand in hand, etc.

Is Kill Whitie still killing whities?

((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

it's not journalism, but i never act like what i do is.

fandango (fandango), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link

nick you were always a shitty unfunny writer but this really looks like its gonna be your watergate
-- SHAWN D (ro...), September 10th, 2005 2:31 AM.

Pretty funny quote in retrospect.

deej.. (deej..), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:56 (seventeen years ago) link

lol that was me

and what (ooo), Friday, 2 June 2006 14:57 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

http://www.savoystyle.com/whiteys_lindy_hoppers.html

and what, Thursday, 29 November 2007 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

Kill Whitie party maven Tha Pumpsta holds it down in NYC this weekend to celebrate double LP release of Bass Black Treble White.

“The ultimate postmodern lothario” – CMJ

“11! It’s all good as long as you’re really stoned and/or drunk.“ – Vice

“I have to admit his presence is electric, as if The Doors’ Jim Morrison and 2 Live Crew’s Luther Campbell had merged into one body.” – Jason Tanz OPP: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America (Bloomsbury Press)

Inspired by the Martin Luther King Jr. quote “I believe that a day will come when all God’s children from bass black to treble white will be significant on the constitution’s keyboard.” Tha Pumpsta aka Jeremy Parker’s second album Bass Black Treble White tackles the paradox of the seven sins (“treble white”) and seven virtues (“bass black”) represented by the fourteen tracks.

If you’re in the NYC area, join us this weekend for special performances by Tha Pumpsta and Living Days to celebrate the release of the 2XLP edition of Bass Black Treble White. One black vinyl representing the seven virtues and one white vinyl representing the seven sins. Then follow along to the after party featuring DJs Leb Laze, Stay High, Tha Pumpsta, Taka, and Elizabeth. Info below.

Tha Pumpsta Live:
Milk The Beef and Fanatic Presents:
Live performances from: Tha Pumpsta (LINK) and Living Days (LINK). Featuring DJs: Taka and Elizabeth.
Sat. August 23, 2008 from 7:00pm - 10:00pm. Login and RSVP at Facebook HERE.
Capricious Space, Brooklyn (LINK) (103 Broadway btw Bedford and Berry)
Celebrate the release of the limited edition 2XLP version of Bass Black Treble White.
JMZ to Hewes or L to Lormier. Walk south on Broadway to Hewes.

Milk The Beef and Fanatic Presents:
Celebrate the release of the limited edition 2XLP version of Bass Black Treble White.
Sat. August 23, 2008 from 10:00pm - 4:00am. Login and RSVP at Facebook HERE.
With DJs: Leb Laze, Stay High, Tha Pumpsta, DJ Taka, and Elizabeth.
Trophy Bar, Brooklyn (351 Broadway btw Keap and Rodney)
JMZ to Marcy. Walk south on Broadway or L to Bedford. Walk south ‘til Broadway.

More about Bass Black Treble White:
Hit singles from Bass Black Treble White include “Move It” which offers a sexy duo between Tha Pumpsta and newcomer Autumn as well as “Octopus Armed” (MP3), a gluttonous-grime New York track. In addition there is also “Breath” that has an unmistakable Nine Inch Nails feel, “Don Juan” has a Baltimore two-step sound. Of course being from the ATL, Tha Pumpsta’s Bass Black Treble White is undeniably durty south.

“Kill Whitie!” addresses the hype and true nature of the party Kill Whitie! which was made famous by the controversial Washington Post piece (LINK). The track tells the story of a party that began with “Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, and lesbians” crowding the doorless bathroom of the stinger club to do bad street cocaine. The album doesn’t limit itself to any particular single sound, this is evident in “Nothing” in which Tha Pumpsta takes a moment to unearth his sensitive gay ass over what might as well be a My Bloody Valentine track. From Bass Black Treble White, Tha Pumpsta don’t discriminate.

Tha Pumpsta works alongside a diverse collection of homies including Black Cracker best known with her production work with CocoRosie and Bunny Rabbit. Long time musical partner and friend Derierre aka Shannon Funchess who regularly tours with !!! and sings with TV On The Radio. Derierre also shares the stage with Tha Pumpsta who are both front men of the notorious live rock / booty party band Durty Nanas.

The enhanced audio CD includes Grant Worth’s music video “Freeky” (VIDEO) filmed at an abandoned insane asylum in upstate New York the day before Halloween 2006. Tha Pumpsta also contributed his brilliant editing skills by hacking an early 90’s marine commercial for the music video “Temple.” (VIDEO) The Limited edition two-disk vinyl consists of one black vinyl and one white vinyl in a clear gatefold.

Bass Black Treble White Tracklisting:
National Release Date: September 2nd, 2008


01. 1987
02. Move It
03. Sallie Mae
04. Octopus Armed (MP3) | (VIDEO)
05. Add
06. Temple (VIDEO)
07. Don Juan
08. Breath
09. Spesh
10. Kill Whitie!
11. Clapp
12. Whoop Revisited
13. Freeky (VIDEO)
14. Nothing

More about Tha Pumpsta:
“I am Tha Pumpsta. What that means precisely is debatable. I tend to believe that I am Tha Pumpsta because I, like most people from the durty durty live life a little ‘crunk’.

Currently I am working on a third album and a 12-inch release titled “Tha Charm” with the song ‘L-0-V-E (No Crying at The Disco)’ which will include remixes by Black Cracker featuring Shunda K of Yo! Majesty and others. I just released Bass Black Treble White with the amazing people at Milk The Beef Records! National re-release this Fall. In addition to an enhanced audio CD, there is also a limited edition two-piece vinyl. One black vinyl representing the seven virtues and one white vinyl representing the seven sins. It is available in select stores and on pumpsta.com. (buy from me, it’s cheaper!) The audio CD comes enhanced with the music videos “Freeky” (VIDEO) by Grant Worth as well as “Temple” (VIDEO) a re-edit of some nostalgic marines footage I made myself. Watch it online or better yet, buy the album!

Also under my belt is the first Pumpsta album titled Alphabitize The Nation! I understand “alphabitize” is misspelled, but it was too late and Photoshop doesn’t have spell check so “alphabetize” stuck. I have done all the design and layout for my work including the new “Peace and Pumpsta” oversized UNI-T. This is also available on pumpsta.com or in select fancy boutiques, once again buy from me it’s cheaper!

I have worked with a whole slew of kats including Avenue D, Black Cracker and Bunny Rabbit, Gio Black Peter, Will Lemon, Gustavo Andrade and Stephonik and of course the amazing Shannon Funchess aka Derrière of !!!, TV on The Radio and every other amazing band you’ve ever heard in your life. As well as lots and lots of others I am sure I am forgetting to mention.

I love life, people, and music... Besides the recorder, my first “real” instrument was the trumpet in middle school. I was your typical overweight nerd who knew every word to “Whoop There It Is” by Tag Team (there is a cover of it on Bass Black Treble White.)

For three years I played in a band called Durty Nanas. In a safety deposit box rests recordings that under the guidance of God will be released one day. But only when humanity is ready… LOVE ALWAYS!

On The Web:
www.pumpsta.com
www.myspace.com/thapumpsta
www.milkthebeef.com

Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 23 August 2008 03:23 (fifteen years ago) link

I was your typical overweight nerd who knew every word to “Whoop There It Is” by Tag Team

Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 23 August 2008 03:24 (fifteen years ago) link

intersting

PappaWheelie V, Saturday, 23 August 2008 04:04 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

you obviously more than usual have no fucking clue what you're talking about, you asinine fucking hack.
classic thread

velko, Thursday, 1 April 2010 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link

and of course followed by, "And I'm actually not irate at all..."

richie aprile (rockapads), Thursday, 1 April 2010 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link

six years pass...

The whole party sounds like this themed Columbia kids house party that my friend dragged me to. It was "Ghetto Fabulous" which apparently means a lot of track suits, headbands, and wife beaters. Some chick turned to me and was like "what do you think about this outfit? Authentic, right?"
And I beat her to death.

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