... 'til brooklyn?
― swagula (Lamp), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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?
― teflon dawn (uptown churl), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 02:51 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, new mixtape is great.
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 02:56 (fourteen years ago) link
these guys are so nerdy
― fennel cartwright, Thursday, 16 September 2010 06:58 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc0mxOXbWIU&ob=av2n
this will go down as 2010's iteration of this phenomenon
― k3vin k., Thursday, 16 September 2010 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
wow, it's three years since that scroobius pip song. i still feel annoyed by it.
― thomp, Thursday, 16 September 2010 18:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i like das racist to an extent i feel vaguely ashamed by
― thomp, Thursday, 16 September 2010 18:17 (fourteen years ago) link
ek shaneesh & shorty said off the 1st tape are stone cold classics
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 16 September 2010 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― aerosmith: live at gunpoint (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 16 September 2010 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
what I heard from these guys had great beats and some of the shittiest rhyming ever, so I can't really get on board
― Dr. Lol Evans (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 16 September 2010 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― schwantz, Monday, 27 September 2010 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Monday, 27 September 2010 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
kevin k otm
― Gaspar NoAgé (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 September 2010 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
this is awesome
http://stereogum.com/522812/op-ed-by-das-racists-himanshu-suri-you-know-thats-saag-paneer-dude/franchises/op-ed/
― shartopus (J0rdan S.), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:40 (fourteen years ago) link
ahahaha
Maulik Pancholy, better known as whatever Jack Donaghy’s assistant’s name is on the show
― CATPIFF (2010) (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:46 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhEQnkfn3g
― am0n, Saturday, 30 October 2010 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link
old and already posted, o well
― am0n, Saturday, 30 October 2010 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/magazine/05FOB-Q4-t.html
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 4 December 2010 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
this shit is the worst. fuck you if you dig it.
― adam, Saturday, 4 December 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Love it.
― schwantz, Saturday, 4 December 2010 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
damn this is a controversial nytimes.com interview
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 4 December 2010 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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 ....
― teflon dawn (uptown churl), Saturday, 4 December 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 4 December 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
deborah solomon is so weird
― just sayin, Saturday, 4 December 2010 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Not the best week for Deborah Solomon - maybe the NYTimes will finally come to their senses and admit she's a grotesquely incompetent interviewer?
― with hidden noise, Saturday, 4 December 2010 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
seems like she met her match here
― ╭∩╮⎝⏠⏝⏠⎠╭∩╮ (jeff), Saturday, 4 December 2010 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
"I don't see interviewing as an art form....At best, it is a minor art form, like bartending, or macramé."
― buzza, Saturday, 4 December 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
This interview is awesome, and I love these guys.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Saturday, 4 December 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
lol 3rd Bass?
― Sébastien, Saturday, 4 December 2010 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Cunga, Saturday, 4 December 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm telling you guys, THE MILLIONAIRES
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 4 December 2010 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
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, 4 December 2010 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/12/das_racist_was_in_anthony_bour.html
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
no real desire to listen to their music, but i love reading their tumblrs/twitters/etc.
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
they were pretty great on dj /rupture's show too
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:44 (thirteen years ago) link
― 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?
― Local Hardman (some dude), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
their music feels extremely slight, so its acceptable
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
obv, rolling stone listing them in y-e shit is 100% deplorable
but i kind of think they would agree, so i cant hate
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
they seem like good dudes whose music i never want to listen to
― just sayin, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:56 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Do you hate rapping?
― schwantz, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― lotta diamonds ... but prolly more display names (deej), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
All this speculation about whether or not you would like them seems weird WHEN THEIR ALBUMS ARE FREE!
― schwantz, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
no mention at all of this amazing Billy Joel sampling / referencing bit of work so far? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzCukmO4fhg
― piscesx, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link
that bourdain thing is so strange
― Jacques_Lamure, Tuesday, 7 December 2010 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Don't really understand these guys.
― a verbatim quote from AdamRL! (admrl), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Pizza Hut is sort of fun though.
also the Paul's Boutique description makes me want to like them but
― a verbatim quote from AdamRL! (admrl), Wednesday, 22 December 2010 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link