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Das Racist was an American alternative hip hop group based in Brooklyn, composed of MCs Heems and Kool A.D. and hype man Ashok Kondabolu (a.k.a. Dapwell or Dap). Known for their use of humor, academic references, foreign allusions, and unconventional style, Das Racist was widely hailed as an urgent new voice in rap, after occasionally being ...
Heems and Kool A.D. found they enjoyed rapping and riffing together, naming their collective Das Racist, in the style of a “That’s racist!” exclamation. They served as the lead MCs, while ...
Das Racist satirized hip-hop so effectively that it was never really clear how serious they were even when the songs stood on their own as good rap. They lifted famous bars verbatim and ...
Das Racist was an American alternative hip hop group based in Brooklyn, composed of MCs Heems and Kool A.D. and hype man Ashok Kondabolu. Known for their use of humor, academic references, foreign allusions, and unconventional style, Das Racist was widely hailed as an urgent new voice in rap, after occasionally being misunderstood as joke rap ...
Your indie-rap group, Das Racist, is known for songs that wittily riff on Taco Bell, Google and the general limitations of American consumerism. Rap is a black art form that originated in...
All Three Former Members of Das Racist to Perform at Whitney Museum Event Co-Curated by Heems. By Jenn Pelly. April 4, 2013. News. Listen: Two New Mixtapes from Das Racist's Kool A.D.,...
The Bushwick-based hip-hop trio Das Racist blends nimble rhyme skills with racially charged humor: Between the group’s Afro-Cuban-Italian MC Kool A.D. (non-rap name: Victor Vazquez) and two Indian-American members, co-front man Heems (a.k.a. Himanshu Suri) and hype man Dap (born Ashok Kondabolu), they find something to offend everyone.
