Das Racist Issues Drunken Antics, Fake Encores, and Love for Kate Bush at The Independent
Categories: Last Night
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| Joseph Schell |
| Das Racist at the Indy |
HOTTUB
Vin Sol
February 2, 2011
@ The Independent
Better than: Dancing to Tina Turner alone in your room.
The members of Brooklyn hip-hop outfit Das Racist are masters of mixing the ignorant with the intelligent without being too pretentious or ironic either way. They're just dudes who have some thoughts on race, love hip-hop, and love getting drunk. And that's cool, because I'm also into all of that shit. Last night at the Independent, Das Racist offered up all three of those things in spades, and then some.
Vin Sol got things started with a DJ set, but I was too involved with my High Life 40 at home to be there for that, so I missed it. But shortly after 9, the Oakland trio HOTTUB took to the stage. Based on what I saw, they're three girls who like banging on drums, don't like wearing pants, and like rapping energetically over electro-y beats. None of the music was very good, but they brought plenty of vagina-grabbing, third-wave feminist swag to the stage, and the crowd seemed to be warming up to their antics, which I can live with.@ The Independent
Better than: Dancing to Tina Turner alone in your room.
The members of Brooklyn hip-hop outfit Das Racist are masters of mixing the ignorant with the intelligent without being too pretentious or ironic either way. They're just dudes who have some thoughts on race, love hip-hop, and love getting drunk. And that's cool, because I'm also into all of that shit. Last night at the Independent, Das Racist offered up all three of those things in spades, and then some.
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| Joseph Schell |
| HOTTUB |
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| Joseph Schell |
| Now he gets it. |
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| Joseph Schell |
| Das Racist |
Himanshu was walking around on stage shouting "WE SUCK!" and sounding off airhorns from his laptop (which serves as this group's DJ), while Kool A.D. asked for more alcohol. Dapwell, meanwhile, launched into a bit about "real hip-hop" (surely anyone who went to a hip-hop show between '97 and '07 heard an MC pull that routine once), before declaring that there were five elements of hip-hop, four of which were Kate Bush. Naturally, they then put on a Kate Bush song and started riffing over it.
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| Joseph Schell |
After about a half-hour on stage, they said they wanted to do a fake encore, because that happens at all the shows. So they ran off stage while telling us over the soundsystem to cheer louder for them. When the crowd was loud enough, they ran back on stage and performed "Rainbow In The Dark," which is still their best song.
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| Joseph Schell |
Critic's Notebook
No combination fast food for you: One of the beautiful things about the self-aware nature of Das Racist is that they must know most people think of them as "that group that does "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell." And surely a lot of the people there expected them to play that. Well they didn't. And I like that.
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| Joseph Schell |
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