{"id":1694,"date":"2012-12-03T09:53:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T14:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2012-12-03T09:53:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T14:53:28","slug":"das-racist-is-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/12\/03\/das-racist-is-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Das Racist Is Done"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, that was a fun few years. Performing solo at a German festival originally slated to feature Das Racist, Himanshu Suri blew through the following announcement<\/a> with a grin on his face: “You guys wanna know the secret? Alright, so I’m gonna do some Das Racist songs, but Das Racist is breaking up and we’re not a band anymore.” The other rapping half of the trio, Victor Vazquez a.k.a. Kool A.D. a.k.a.\u00c2\u00a0second Latin rapper to like the Beatles<\/a>, tweeted, “for the record i quit das racist 2 months ago and was asked by our manager not to announce it yet. apparently @himanshu wanted to do it tho.”<\/p>\n

Vazquez assured concerned fans that, despite that one song’s refrain designed for this moment \u00e2\u20ac\u201d\u00c2\u00a0“we’re not joking \/ just joking \/ we are joking \/ just joking \/ we’re not joking” \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it’s not a joke. Hypeman\/laugh-soloist Ashok Kondabolu a.k.a. Dapwell tells\u00c2\u00a0Spin\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/a>the group had planned to break up last spring. “We had just signed this record deal and we were going to put out one proper album and then go on a farewell tour, release a proper breaking up statement that could have been really funny, maybe a weird, stupid video. Now, all of that has gone to shit.” He says the split feels like “a huge opportunity squandered.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Heems and Kool A.D. each released two mixtapes in 2012, so it’s probably reasonable to expect more music in some fashion.<\/p>\n

Read more posts by Zach Dionne<\/a><\/p>\n

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Well, that was a fun few years. Performing solo at a German festival originally slated to feature Das Racist, Himanshu Suri blew through the following announcement with a grin on his face: “You guys wanna know the secret? Alright, so I’m gonna do some Das Racist songs, but Das Racist is breaking up and we’re … <\/p>\n

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