Lacing electronic, dubstep, and hip-hop beats with worldly freak folk lyrics, Das Racist kicks your balls into outer space. Influenced by rap duos like Kid 'N Play, Bert 'N Ernie, and Ghost 'N Raekwon, these dudes are here to make hilarious topics like race relations, American consumerism, globalization and postcolonial-ass shit, fun again. Queens-born Himanshu Kumar and San Francisco-born Victor Vazquez do for music what smoking Kool cigarettes do for 14-year-olds in Pennsylvania. They have a great deal of street credit, as well. Ask about them. While the everyone was breaking their bones at SXSW, Das Racist have been writing rhymes in a Crown Fried Chicken somewhere in Queens or Brooklyn and preparing to perform "shows" in Brooklyn and the Northeast.
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"Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell". Perfect for when you're wilding.
Tour dates:
03/27 – Brooklyn, NY @ Public Assembly w/ Izza Kizza @11pm
04/14 – Brooklyn, NY @ Glasslands w/ Wild Yaks @ 9pm
04/16 – Middletown, CT @ Wesleyan w/ Acrylics and Francis & The Lights
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