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  Hear Das Racist's Unreleased Raw Rap 'Indians From All Directions'

  April 16, 2013 – When Das Racist unceremoniously announced their breakup in December, group hypeman Dapwell told SPIN they'd had a follow-up to Relax in the works. "We had a plan to break up around May," he said. "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. …
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  Das Racist's Former Members Are All Playing at a Museum

  April 5, 2013 – Das Racist's original members are reuniting ... in the same building, at different times, and not as "Das Racist." Heems is collaborating with New York's Whitney Museum of American Art as part of an already in-progress exhibition called Blues for Smoke, which not only includes four installations created by the former DR member, but a live music series co-presented by his Greedhead label. …
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  Rap Songs of the Week: Gucci Mane Can Act, Gucci Mane Can Sing, Gucci Can Do Anything!

  March 13, 2013 – We're changing things up. From here on out, look for our weekly round-up of the best rap songs on Wednesday. The "Friday Five" will focus on the five most exciting rap things of the week — be it a mixtape, a guest verse, a music video, or some World Star Hip-Hop debacle too incredible to not acknowledge. Stay tuned.Fat Tony feat. Kool A.D. …
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  Das Racist Dudes Drop Dueling Videos for 'Moneyball' and 'Desi Shoegaze Taiko'

  February 22, 2013 – Former SPIN cover stars Das Racist may have called it quits in December, but Heems and Kool A.D. have been plenty busy since. The former made one of our Best Albums of 2012 with Nehru Jackets, an off-the-cuff confident Queens rap throwback that delivered some excellent grit and grime. …
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  Kool A.D. Adds Ad-Rock Beat to Upcoming '19' and '63' Mixtapes

  January 31, 2013 – Now that Das Racist is no more, Kool A.D., or Victor Vasquez, has plenty of time on his hands. Enough, in fact, that he already has an entire double album's worth of outtakes and collaborations ready to go. 19 and 63 arrive February 7, but the big news is that Vasquez's mixtape will feature one track, "NPR," produced by none other than the Beastie Boys' Ad-Rock, a.k.a. …
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  Watch Heems Drone Alone in 'Soup Boys' Video

  January 22, 2013 – Welcome to the post-Das Racist world. Heems released his second solo mixtape Wild Water Kingdom prior to the hip-hop group's surprise December breakup, but now there is "Soup Boys," the rapper's first official video as a now-solo artist (via Stereogum). …
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  Das Racist Bail on Munich Show, Announce Split on Twitter

  December 2, 2012 – SPIN cover stars Heems and Kool A.D. of Das Racist have each released two solo mixtapes this year, and now we may know the reason why: The group has broken up, Heems announced onstage in Munich last night. …
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  Heems, 'Wild Water Kingdom' (Greedhead)

  November 28, 2012 – Released five months after his group Das Racist's first foray into sold-in-stores, all-samples-cleared, album-oriented rap, Heems' debut solo mixtape appeared in January as a much-welcome mess. Named Nehru Jackets after both the rapper's remarkably thoughtful Tumblr and the South Asian formal wear, it offered a vivid, 25-track portrait of contemporary Queens. …
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  Das Racist's Heems Teases New Album, Defends 'Relax' in Reddit AMA

  November 14, 2012 – Das Racist's Himanshu Suri hosted a Reddit Ask Me Anything (AMA) today in honor of his new Wild Water Kingdom mixtape. …
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  Watch Das Racist Channel 'Flashdance' in Goofy 'Girl' Video

  October 30, 2012 – Flashdance and the Sexy Sax Man duke it out for the guiding inspiration behind the latest Das Racist music video. In "Girl," a fleet-footed, mullet-wearing dude in denim attempts to seduce his love interests using the time-honored aphrodesiac of dance. He stalks her down the street, looms in another aisle at the library, emerges from a fountain, and even follows her to yoga. …
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