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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 ...
Known for their use of humor, obscure references, and unconventional style, Das Racist has been both dismissed as joke rap and hailed as an urgent new voice in rap. Spin magazine picked Das Racist as one of 50 acts to watch at the 2010 SXSW festival, and in April 2010, MTV Iggy selected Das Racist as one of the “25 Best New Bands in the World”.
After spending a year defending their 2008 throwaway single “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” against the no-fun critical establishment, Das Racist caught their stride. The Brooklyn duo ...
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...
Born in New York to Indian parents, Heems watched the Sept. 11 attacks from his high school. The Das Racist rapper's new album explores how life changed, for himself and his community, after that...
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 ...
