Das Racist

 

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“The buzz for Das Racist continues to grow as they make dance songs with punchlines, making the move from Pizza Hut’s viral internet success into mainstream media exposure. The band is being championed as spokesmen for the young and hip, and they dress the part.” - Greenpoint Gazette

"Sawing the legs out from under hip-hop as they celebrate it." - New York Magazine

"Their sloppiness is a mask for detailed, affectionate hip-hop parody, name-dropping krs-one and asher roth as easily as w.e.b. du bois and the literary critic gayatri chakravorty spivak. their act is a blend that inspires questions like this one in a recent interview in the village voice: 'is this a joke that everyone thinks is a graduate thesis, or vice versa?' ... das racist's lack of piety has become an aesthetic of its own, with songs that are as much commentary on hip-hop as rigorous practice of it” – New York Times

“Das Racist’s rhymes are smart and funny and delivered with a lazy loquaciousness that’s instantly appealing.” - NY Times

"Das Racist are a Brooklyn/San Francisco “zip hop” duo who rap about stuff like fast food restaurants and Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez over hyphy beats that sound like they were cooked up in about three minutes on a thrift-store Casio. Which is to say: They’re pretty amazing." - MTV Newsroom

"'Pizza Hut' is either the track we, as a culture, need right now, or the track we, as a culture, deserve—or both." - Village Voice

"(Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell) will clobber you over the head and beat you into submission until you like it too!" - Perez Hilton

"'Combination' is the sort of deceptively idiotic song that will either inspire repeated listenings or you throwing whatever is playing the music across the room;" - Idolator

Band of the Month - June 2009 - Deli Magazine

"Combination" retains its inner Cheech and Chong and still seems leagues smarter for it. Sure, it's a one-idea track, but that idea somehow becomes more endearing as it rolls on, and in the end this is the song you'll hear this that you're most likely to immediately turn around and want to share with someone, good or bad. After a dozen listens last week, I'm still siding with good." - Pitchfork.com, 8/10, Best New Music

"It’s impossible to form an opinion on this either way that doesn’t paint you as droolingly moronic or scoff-inducingly smug. Is this pap insipid? No doubt, but (importantly!) winkingly so. Thus: deride away, but know that to accuse “Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell” of vacuity would be to accuse the Baconator™ of lacking nutritional content. " - Coke Machine Glow

"Das Racist, a hipsterish band comprised of Queens-born [Himanshu] Suri and San Francisco-born Victor Vazquez, matches hyphy dance beats with lyrics about “The Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” that could speak for the ‘hood or the nearest gated community. And why choose?" - TheRoot.com

"Hella ‘what if Ghost & Rae went to art school’" - Attorney street

“A big shout out goes to DAS RACIST. This is my current favorite rap group over Meth & Red and even Rae & Ghost. These dudes are the future of the rap game.” - Dallas Penn

"An existential meditation on consumer identity in corporate America.... It’s both feverishly juvenile and somehow profound -- a little like The Streets before Mike Skinner got all serious and bummed everyone out.” - Death + Taxes

“Nerdy types will tell you that Das Racist's other songs, like "Ring Tone" and "Jungle Fever," advance a fresh post-colonial voice. We tell you to smoke an L and bounce to the auto-tuned randomness.” - GBH.tv

“I suspect it's only a matter of time before someone at The New Yorker tries to posit lines like "when I say call, you say response" as some sort of semiotic deconstruction of the conventional elements of hip hop, and I'd like to call that person out in advance if possible. Das Racist is to be taken with a smirk on one's face and both hands in the air. ” - NY Press

“A funny and funky duo. One of eight other Brooklyn bands worth checking out"- The Guardian UK

"Amazing... Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell is fucking amazing!. A track that will last the ages" - Dan Deacon

"Hilariously catchy" - Huffington Post

"If you have a low threshold for humor, Das Racist may sound pretty awful [...] with a bong in hand, these lyrics will have you rolling on the floor on top of Doritos" - RCRD LBL

"...together the guys make music that¹s equal parts hip-hop and Cheech &
Chong. No, check that. They have a wicked sense of humor, yes, but their music is no novelty act." - Playboy.com