The latest episode in Hulu's A Day In The Life series highlights what it's like to spend 24 hours with Brooklyn's Das Racist . All three members of the forward-thinking rap crew - Kool A.D. , Heems , and Dapwell - get some time in front of the cameras to explain how they met while shedding light on their recent performance with Philip Glass. As with everything related to Das Racist, the feature is filled with quotables that are hilarious and/or enlightening and, yeah, you're just going to have to watch this.
Two of the best rappers out there, Kendrick Lamar and Himanshu (aka Heems), sat down for an interview on March 17 as part of Das Racist's new web series called Rap Show . This interview actually marks the first episode in the series, which we're absolutely going to keep up with if future videos are anything like this. Lamar and Hima discuss the finer points of lucid dreaming, Home Improvement (seriously), and their favorite "historical black hippies." It's pretty hilarious and informative, too, so check it out below.
Click here to view the embedded video. Noisey has a weekly rap series called "the Rap Show" which will have Hima of Das Racist sitting down with rappers and interviewing them. For the initial episode Heems speaks to Kendrick Lamar about lucid dreaming, who his favorite "Black Hippy" is, and the TV Show Home Improvement.
A short disclaimer on my musical taste: anyone who knows me knows of my love for Heems, Kool A.D., and Dapwell. The ability to be both innovative, knowledgeable, and hilarious all while having a fresh sound is what makes the Das Racist crew so great – as well as what has made me hand over the cash to see them three times in concert. Which is why, when I first heard about rap group Children of the Night and their similarities to the previously mentioned, I got excited. [...]
Last year, we gave a batch of t-shirts away from Insound's Delicious Design Leagu e project, and this year, we're doing the same with a new slate of t-shirts, this time a set of designs created for Insound by UK artist Dominic Owen. The winner will receive the entire set, which includes exclusive designs for Cloud Nothings, Black Lips, Das Racist and Kurt Vile. To enter, you need be a fan of Stereogum on Facebook and comment with your favorite t-shirt design from the selection via Facebook Connect (do not use your 'Gum user account [...]
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Das Racist With Spyder Baybie Raw Dogg and 2% Muck, Illuminous 3Triple Rock Social Club, MinneapolisThursday, April 5, 2012It was hard to know what to expect at Das Racist's first Minneapolis appearan
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lyrics ♫ Kool A.D. - Eight Elvises When Das Racist's Kool A.D. dropped his mixtape around new years I listened once and then moved on. Months later I'm doing some iTunes cleaning and stumble on this mp3 with no artist name. Damn, what a smooth groover! A bit of research and I find out it was a mislabeled track from that mixtape The Palm Wine Drinkard . Weird but awesome! So enough fascinating stories from me. Zone out to this one already and just forget everything I said. I already have.
I wasn't too fond of Relax , the 2011 Das Racist album that, I guess, was supposed to launch the group into a whole different realm, but they're quietly having a pretty great 2012. Kool A.D.'s The Palm Wine Drinkard mixtape was a bit of an unfocused mess, but it had some deeply fun moments, perhaps most notably the song actually called "Fun." But Himanshu's big, sprawling Nehru Jackets was a rowdy splurge of conflicted, pissed-off Queens rap that filtered Heems' home borough's tradition of dense boom-bap [...]
You already know that we (tip of the hat to you, Quinn) make mixtapes . Well, other people ( big ol' blogs like Stereogum ) do too. To quote those folks, "This was an incredible month for free hip hop MP3s..." I'm excited about one release in particular, and that's NO 1 2 LOOK UP 2 from Big Baby Gandhi. It's rap a la Das Racist (literally, their label released it), so the record is purely for you stream-of-consciousness fans who thrive on wordsmithyness and odd song [...]
Following a few warning shots , today finally brings us the release of Big Baby Gandhi's long-anticipated "No 1 2 Look Up 2 mixtape. Guest verses abound, with turns from Greedhead familia like Fat Tony & Das Racist. Production from BBG, Hot Sugar, Mike Finito & more. Download: Big Baby Gandhi - No 1 2 Look Up 2 Download Big Baby Gandhi's "No 1 2 Look Up 23 Mixtape |
This is where I tell you that I could write for days about ill Queens rapper/producer Big Baby Gandhi is, but I'd rather you just download his new mixtape immediately and let his music do the talking. Seriously, dude is way talented, engaging, and entertaining to keep sleeping on. So if you have, for whatever, been passing on Young Kama Sutra's music, let this be the time you change that. If you like hip-hop with personality, killer production, and quotable rhymes, you would be a fool to not grab this. It's free , after all. [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. A joyful Heems of Das Racist awkwardly interviews Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly of Chairlift before a show by his Brooklyn friends. Wimberly produced a few songs on Das Racist's album, Relax . They know each other which makes this wonderfully uncomfortable. There is also live footage of Chairlift playing "Sidewalk Safari" off their album "Something" . Chairlift is currently touring with Nite Jewel in support of "Something" . Dates after the jump. [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. A joyful Heems of Das Racist awkwardly interviews Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly of Chairlift before a show by his Brooklyn friends. Wimberly produced a few songs on Das Racist's album, Relax . They know each other which makes this wonderfully uncomfortable. There is also live footage of Chairlift playing "Sidewalk Safari" off their album "Something" . Chairlift is currently touring with Nite Jewel in support of "Something" . Dates after the jump. [...]
This was an incredible month for free hip hop MP3s, and it was an incredible month for songs by Lemonade because "Neptune" is one of this year's finest. And so the paramaters I gave myself with this month's mix are as follows: Open with Lemonade's "Neptune," and create a track flow that blended but flipped genres, where most every alternate track was one of said indelible hip hop cuts. So we've got R&B, rap, baroque pop, rap, kraut rock, rap, and on. The mood arc goes from ebullience (tracks 1 through 4) to something darker and with more smoke (starting [...]
Winnie's been sitting on a huge announcement for the past couple of weeks and I'm finally able to announce that yes, the rumors are true. Brooklyn based trio Das Racist will be hitting up FiveSixty Nightclub on Thursday, May 3 with local guests Lanse Base and Too High Crew , as well as Winnie's very own Dj Wobangs . It's going to be a musical Christmas for everyone with killer taste. Das Racist - Booty In The Air Lanse Base - Thrift Shop [...]
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What happens when one of the best DJ's in the mid-west collaborates with one of the best hip-hop artists in the mid-west? Apparently if neither has an ego and doesn't mind actually enjoying their work rather than pretending to be hard you get Black Fabio , the side-project from Indianapolis ' Action Jackson and Oreo Jones (both on Rad Summer ). Oreo Jones has an off-the-cuff Das Racist style that works well with Action's indie basement [...]
"In their eyes I would be strange and ragged and like the prophet who has walked across the land to bring the dark word the only word I had was 'wow'." - Kerouac The greatest spectacle in music (I've heard they have movies too) has just wrapped up and for all it's brilliance and mind [...]
Dapwell and John Stanier direct.
103 Harriet, Mgrthemogul, & Suicide have just announced a one day, star-studded rap festival on March 30 at the SOMA dance club 103 Harriet . Headliners include Brooklyn-based Das Racist and Oakland cloud rap duo Main Attrakionz . East Bay hypo-rap producers Friendzone (who recorded the Main Attrakionz tracks "Perfect Skies" and "Chuch") are also scheduled to play a set. The Full Lineup: Das Racist Blue Sky Black Death & Nacho Picasso Main Attrakionz Western Tink & Beautiful [...]
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