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  Das Racist's Dapwell on Respecting the Process

  October 22, 2012 – My mother became a United States citizen in 1987 or '88. She remembers, hazily, taking the test to transfer her Indian citizenship, which involved "English proficiency, the history of America, reading and understanding a newspaper," and "state capitals and all that."She took the 7 train from Jackson Heights, Queens, to take the oath of citizenship in Manhattan at the District Attorney's office. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Trolling Rick Ross and Witch House AT THE SAME DAMN TIME

  October 5, 2012 – <p>There seems to be some confusion about Kendrick Lamar's <i>good kid m.A.A.d city</i>, even after the rapper's major-label debut went up to iTunes for pre-order, earlier this week. The track he did with Lady Gaga, "PARTYNAUSEOUS," was nowhere to be found on the iTunes tracklist, and that's a good thing. …
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  Shut Up, 'Roo: Backstage at Bonnaroo With Das Racist

  June 15, 2012 –  …
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  MCA Remembered by Danny Brown, Action Bronson, eXquire and the New Rap Underground

  May 4, 2012 – Beat-reversing, 808-abusing, sample-stacking, pop-culture-flipping models of the alternative spirit, the Beastie Boys have influenced generation after generation of rappers. The young bucks in the New Hip-Hop Underground don't even know a time when the trio wasn't rhyming and stealing on MTV. We asked a few for their thoughts and remembrances... Danny Brown "I was super influenced by their music. …
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  Watch Kool A.D. of Das Racist's Laid-Back 'La Pinata' Video

  April 26, 2012 – The plan was supposedly for each member of Das Racist to drop a solo mixtape this year, and before we even knew who was going to play in the Super Bowl, two out of three members of the Brooklyn hip-hop trio had done just that. Unfortunately, we'll have to wait for hypeman Dapwell's non-D.R. joint, but mellow one Kool A.D. …
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  Rap's Best of 2012, So Far

  February 28, 2012 – January and February were light on event records. Rick Ross' overrated Rich Forever seemed to demand we take it seriously simply because it's stuffed with starpower and executes its gangsta-rap cliches adroitly — and that just isn't enough. …
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  Hear Das Racist Rap on BBU's Fiery 'Please, No Pictures'

  February 24, 2012 – "Fuck gangsta rap," a member of BBU declares at one point on the Chicago rap group's new mixtape, " 'cause black power is the hardest." That's the gist of bell hooks, released for free earlier this week by clothing company Mishka. …
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  See Chairlift and Das Racist's Awesome Beyonce Cover

  February 10, 2012 – One way of approaching Chairlift's ambitious, generally satisfying sophomore album, Something, is as another entry in recent years' ongoing dialogue between R&B and indie aesthetics. As a SPIN contributor pointed out recently in a review for the A.V. Club, singer-songwriter Caroline Polachek (who also plays synths) bears traces of '90s Toni Braxton and '00s Leslie Feist alike, albeit filtered through an eerie post-chillwave lens. …
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• Heems, 'Nehru Jackets' (Greedhead)

  February 3, 2012 – If you discovered hip-hop during the so-called Golden Age of the late-'80s/early-'90s, Queens still holds an almost mythic quality to this day. Which applies to both the rappers -- bigger-than-life rogues like Nas, Mobb Deep, Kool G. …
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  Das Racist's Heems Drops 'Nehru Jackets' Mixtape

  January 17, 2012 – Das Racist's Himanshu Suri has finally dropped his free Nehru Jackets mixtape, released in partnership with awareness-raising Queens group SEVA NY. Produced entirely by Heems' longtime pal Mike Finito, the tape follows Kool A.D.'s mischievously hard-partying The Palm Wine Drinkard as the second of a planned three mixtapes from the New York rap trio (yes, hypeman Ashok "Dapwell" Kondabolu will apparently be dropping a tape of his own). …
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