September 3, 2009 – 2:06 PM
Last month the New Yorker “Cartoon Lounge” blog poked fun at Das Racist’s Wesleyan roots in a facetious analysis of “Pizza Hut Taco Bell”.
Well, DR’s Victor Vazquez ‘08 was not amused. Or, was amused enough to challenge cartoonist Farley Katz to a cartoon duel:
Dear Farley Katz,
While I appreciate you taking the time to blog about [...]
Nylon interviews Das Racist; everyone is blazed. Hima met Victor at a students of color against oppression dorm.
The notoriety enjoyed by the Wallpaper remix of “Pizza Hut Taco Bell” this summer prompted the New Yorker blog to investigate the many combination businesses that exist in New York City:
Wesleyan is a fancy university in the élite [...]
The NY Times music review published an article about Wesleyan’s Das Racist which includes Obama and fighting racial prejudice. What more can you want from an article, Wes?*
Check it out:
During a news conference on Wednesday night, President Obama stood up for the prominent African-American Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., who had recently been arrested [...]
Das Racist is blowing up – Pitchfork touted “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” as one of the songs of the summer, and the Village Voice just discovered the track and finds it to be a transcendent encapsulation of our times or something. Even Perez Hilton (?!) featured it last week, after a post entitled [...]
Online magazine The Root has this embarrassingly unironic article about the rise of black hipsters, or… blipsters, thus somewhat legitimizing a term that probably should not have become a serious thing.
One Himanshu Kumar explains the advent of black people wearing tight pants to readers:
“You can’t really wear sagging jeans without being embarrassed on your skateboard,” [...]
Tickets to Francis & the Lights/Das Racist at Eclectic tonight are basically sold out. Here is some small compensation if you couldn’t get tickets.
What RCRC LBL had to say about these dudes (Victor Vasquez and Himanshu Suri ‘06) recently:
We should preface, these tunes should be listened to while high somewhere on a porch in Brooklyn. If [...]
December 22, 2008 – 12:08 PM
Lately we’ve mentioned some Wes-related music acts in passing, but not in detail. Here is further explication, most of which is lifted shamelessly from Aural Wes, which naturally is on the ball with these musical sorts of things.
Das Racist, described by the Guardian as “a self-styled ’slacker-art-rap Dutchpop world music band with mad street cred’”, [...]
December 22, 2008 – 11:08 AM
Lately we’ve mentioned some Wes-related music acts in passing, but not in detail. Here is further explication, most of which is lifted shamelessly from Aural Wes, which naturally is on the ball with these musical sorts of things.
Das Racist, described by the Guardian as “a self-styled ’slacker-art-rap Dutchpop world music band with mad street cred’”, [...]
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