DAS RACIST and the annual indie fuxxor electronic novelty hit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc0mxOXbWIU&ob=av2n

this will go down as 2010's iteration of this phenomenon

wow, it's three years since that scroobius pip song. i still feel annoyed by it.

i like das racist to an extent i feel vaguely ashamed by

ek shaneesh & shorty said off the 1st tape are stone cold classics

they sample the days of our lives theme in their new song - would rather not have an opinion tbh but <3 days of our lives so fuckin much

sami when you need somebody new to turn your evil on you know how to find underrated aerosmith right...just whistle

what I heard from these guys had great beats and some of the shittiest rhyming ever, so I can't really get on board

The new album is pretty awesome. The raps can sometimes be a bit lazy-sounding, but there's a lot going on in them. Reminds of (in spirit) Paul's Boutique.

lazy sounding rapping is very much in character here. and the "lazy/stoner" vibe is betrayed by the density of wordplay and references (it's the pavement reunion of rap!) i dig it.

kevin k otm

this is awesome

http://stereogum.com/522812/op-ed-by-das-racists-himanshu-suri-you-know-thats-saag-paneer-dude/franchises/op-ed/

ahahaha

Maulik Pancholy, better known as whatever Jack Donaghy’s assistant’s name is on the show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhEQnkfn3g

old and already posted, o well

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/magazine/05FOB-Q4-t.html

this shit is the worst. fuck you if you dig it.

Love it.

damn this is a controversial nytimes.com interview

this shit is the worst. fuck you if you dig it.

― adam, Saturday, December 4, 2010 7:57 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

this is how i felt, then people i really like and whose taste i respect tell me how great it is, and i have a hard time feeling 'fuck you' thoughts towards them. i guess if 'teh discourse' or whatever is as important to you as, you know, the MUSIC, then maybe ....

Rap is a black art form that originated in the Bronx, so why, as two Wesleyan graduates who met in college, would you think you could rap?

Stopped reading here.

deborah solomon is so weird

Not the best week for Deborah Solomon - maybe the NYTimes will finally come to their senses and admit she's a grotesquely incompetent interviewer?

seems like she met her match here

"I don't see interviewing as an art form....At best, it is a minor art form, like bartending, or macramé."

This interview is awesome, and I love these guys.

so, you have to approach it from a totally non-musical angle? like i have to live somehwere on the L to really "get" it? like it's some meta meta commentary on bloomberg-era 20-something aspiring artist gentrifying the neighborhood existence? with some vaguely thought stuff about "otherness" thrown in?

but it's a terrible ilx cliche to be all "what do people see in this" so i'll stop. i won't go there. i will listen to the new mixtape with an open mind ... thanks y'all.

what other hip hop do u dig in this vein?

lol 3rd Bass?

Himanshu Suri (top): Would you prefer your rappers to be uneducated? Victor Vazquez: And would we even be on the page of this publication if we had not gone to Wesleyan?

http://i53.tinypic.com/svl9o3.gif

i'm telling you guys, THE MILLIONAIRES

cant decide if im supposed to be 'feelin' these guys or 'really h8 them' so im just gonna be indifferent

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/12/das_racist_was_in_anthony_bour.html

no real desire to listen to their music, but i love reading their tumblrs/twitters/etc.

they were pretty great on dj /rupture's show too

cant decide if im supposed to be 'feelin' these guys or 'really h8 them' so im just gonna be indifferent

― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Saturday, December 4, 2010 5:13 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is this a genuine statement or a parody of my kind of fence-riding ambivalence that you usually find so deplorable?

their music feels extremely slight, so its acceptable

obv, rolling stone listing them in y-e shit is 100% deplorable

but i kind of think they would agree, so i cant hate

It's funny, it's got great beats, and their rapping skills are top-notch. Not sure why people hate on them, unless their only exposure to Das Racist was the Pizza Hut/Taco Bell track.

they seem like good dudes whose music i never want to listen to

^^^

Do you hate rapping?

lol

All this speculation about whether or not you would like them seems weird WHEN THEIR ALBUMS ARE FREE!

no mention at all of this amazing Billy Joel sampling / referencing bit of work so far?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzCukmO4fhg

that bourdain thing is so strange

Don't really understand these guys.

Pizza Hut is sort of fun though.

also the Paul's Boutique description makes me want to like them but

The other day I was thinking how, besides the Beastie Boys touchstone, there's also early Scritti Politti's critical theory and alienation effects.

I wonder how bands like this would've been appreciated ten years ago, or before the Internet Runs Your Life era. Would they just have a cult following like Ween?

If nothing else they epitomize the way hipsterism and nerdiness has been blurred in the last few years.

is Die Antwoord somehow exempt from this?

i would say wkiw but theyre kinda smug?

have we decided what this year's indie fuxxor novelty hit is?

Die Antwoord "Enter The Ninja"? Or James Blake's hilarious "Look I Found Her Red Coat Song"?