23 May 2009
Das Racist

No matter what anyone says about MySpace, it's the best one stop shopping place to find new music, which is what I was doing the other night when I found Brooklyn indie rap band Das Racist -- a side project featuring Victor Vazquez of another Brooklyn indie band Boy Crisis.

I think these guys smoke a lot of weed. I mean A LOT. My favorite track: Pizza Hut Taco Bell. It's a droning talk rap song about two (stoned) guy looking for each other at a combination Pizza Hut Taco Bell on Jamaica Avenue. Don't hate just yet though, there's serious musical talent here, which is evidenced by songs like Astro Brown, Jungle Fever, and Fake Patois.

This is what they have to say about themselves on MySpace: DAS RACIST IS A WEED EDGE/HARE KRISHNA HARD CORE/ART RAP/FREAK FOLK MUSIC DUO BASED IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, COMPRISED OF QUEENS-BORN HIMANSHU KUMAR AND SAN FRANCISCO-BORN VICTOR VAZQUEZ. THE TWO MET AT BARD ART COLLEGE IN MASSACHUSETTS, WHERE VICTOR WAS HIMANSHU'S RESIDENT ADVISOR IN A "STUDENTS OF COLOR FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE" THEMED FRESHMAN YEAR DORMITORY. Calm down with that all caps thing boys. If I weren't so lazy, I'd retype it, but ...

Check out their MySpace, where you can test drive 10 of their songs. Don't forget this profile on RCRDLBL for their take on Das Racist.

Although they're a bit joke rappy and I'm not sure about the longevity of the project, right here right now I'm feeling Das Racist.

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