Das Racist

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2011

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Das Racist is a Brooklyn hip hop trio known for tracks like "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" and "hahahaha jk?" They've referred to their particular approach to hip hop as "deconstructualist," combining humor, nonsequiturs, and culture theory. Their album Relax will be released later this year.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Chance from Kansas City, Missouri.
0:02.3	Hey, I'm Chris Womans, former intern.
0:04.7	I'm Colin from Louisville.
0:06.4	The Sound of Young America is produced independently
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0:16.0	I'm Jesse Thorne, live on tape from my house in Los Angeles.
0:19.2	It's the Sound of Young America
0:20.8	from MaximumFund.org and PRI, public radio, international.
0:31.0	It's the Sound of Young America.
0:32.3	I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:33.3	My guest, Das Racist, are a lot of different things.
0:37.6	Heems, cool AD and DAP are, in part,
0:41.1	the heir to the playful, smart identity politics
0:44.3	of daisy age, era, day lost soul.
0:47.2	They're the men behind one of the most successful
0:49.5	hip-hop novelty records of the past couple of years,
0:52.2	combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.
0:54.6	They were the only rappers in last year's Sundance Film Festival,
0:57.8	at least that I'm aware of.
0:59.7	They're MCs who drop social theorist's names,
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