DAS RACIST and the annual indie fuxxor electronic novelty hit

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"?

Das Racist are on Pete Wentz's booking label (with Travie McCoy and Gabe Saporta). Just putting that out there.

thx dude

bombshell

I was trying not to clutter up the Primavera thread.

http://open.spotify.com/album/17jYVS8faKzBSZZSGyyA12

this... should not be as good as it is

Can't wait to listen...

would like to like their music cuz they seem like very cool dudes, but eh

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.

― schwantz, martes 7 de diciembre de 2010 16:56 (9 months ago) Bookmark

yeah all of this - if anyone really is still judging based on the pizza hut track from X years ago (which i never liked) they'd be self-clowning. lol especially after sit down man which was more or less unfuckwithable - butter production + smart lyrics, i'm hard-pressed to find what's so unlikeable about it.

last year to try to figure out how to use reaper i did an edit/rmx/thing of rapping 2 u with organismo soulbeat's de foonk de disco
http://soundcloud.com/pushingit/rapping-2-disco

have no idea what sound is behind that spotify link as i'll never install it but hyped for relax

It is Relax, on Spotify.

too bad you'll never instal it, you could be enjoying Das Racist right now

I've been meaning to make a shipley-style Idolator post where I categorize the 30 types of hipster so we stop just calling all these disparate groups "hipsters"

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, June 21, 2009 2:00 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

if u went all out & did it in detail it would get mad hits son

of course ilx would pick it apart natch

anyway i hate how these guys rap

"rap"

would like to like their music cuz they seem like very cool dudes, but eh

― J0rdan S., Thursday, September 8, 2011 6:44 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

they seem pretty insufferably smug and 'clever' imo

empire state of mind

the one guy raps a lot like Del

i have nothing against these guys but honestly i'd rather read their blogs than listen to their records

^^

barf, dudes

like this one a lot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsk7rUjr8oI

http://www.mtv.com/videos/das-racist/689233/michael-jackson.jhtml#id=1568964

ahhhh just realized my friend morphs into el-p at the end.

1/2 of Das Racist:

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/09/the-soldier-and-the-rap-star-a-tale-of-two-post-9-11-students/244705/

ha, I saw that article but it didn't register at all that that was one of the Das Racist dudes

have thus far managed to dodge these fellers but now Danny Brown is opening for them in ATX and I gotta figure out if I can countenance even the smallest transfer of wealth to the enterprise, so far thinking nope can't do it ---

So I didn't dig the album that much upon first listen, but maybe it's a grower. A shame because I REALLY loved the mixtapes...

http://albumsp4kratedhigherthanrelax.tumblr.com/

das racist inspiring a crybaby tumblr about pitchfork scores is just too perfect

lol at that line about pitchfork

http://twitter.com/#!/GorejusGeorge

lol childish gambino quote

hes followed by an ilxor! and dam funk lol

GorejusGeorge George
Yo @HEEMS @dapwell @veeveeveeveevee can you diss @pitchforkmedia with a freestyle for lowballing Relax

this guy is really mad!

Also love that it was a 6.3 that prompted this.

this is insanely funny

I don't think this is the BEST ALBUM OF THE YEAR or anything but I was shocked that I actually enjoyed listening to it

(to clarify, "this" = "the ridiculous hissy fit")

feel like whiney's "i cringe every time i read someone mentioning ilx while not on ilx" goes triple platinum for "artists mentioning pitchfork in their songs or interviews."

i mean if you're not gonna go as hard as axl on get in the ring then why bother