Showing posts with label Das Racist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Das Racist. Show all posts

October 3, 2014

For Promotional Use Only: Das Racist - Sit Down, Man (September 14, 2010)



Some of these write-ups come to be pretty quickly: the words flow out of my fingertips and onto your screen with very little delay in between (aside from rewriting, editing, and rewriting again, obviously).  That doesn't necessarily mean that it's easier to write about something enjoyable or that it's faster for me to trash something, though: it's about inspiration (whether drawn from the music I'm writing about or from outside influences) and lack of interruption (you get it).  So it is without bias one way or the other when I mention that it took me fucking forever to write about Das Racist's Sit Down, Man.

October 24, 2012

My Gut Reaction / For Promotional Use Only: Das Racist - Shut Up, Dude (2010)


So, um...yeah.  What, you weren't expecting to read about the Brooklyn trio (well, duo plus a hypeman) Das Racist on the blog this week?  Some of you had to have seen this coming after they popped up on that Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire write-up a few months ago.  Well, HHID isn't all of a sudden catering to hipsters (not more so than usual, anyway); I decided to tackle their debut mixtape, Shut Up, Dude, for two specific reasons.