2011
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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.
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 ...
Das Racist were always aware the race issues they were addressing, as their name may suggest. Vázquez is Afro-Cuban-American, Suri a Punjabi-American, and hypeman Ashok “Dapwell” Kondabolu is...
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 turn rap into Calvinball, making and breaking the ground rules with no warning whatsoever: One moment, they'll be calling Mobb Deep's Prodigy "more Picasso than Schnabel," and the...
The Das Racist rapper's new album explores how life changed, for himself and his community, after that day.
