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  Download New Mixtapes From Raekwon, T.I., and Das Racist's Kool A.D.

  January 3, 2012 – It didn't take long after the New Year's Eve ball drop in Times Square for a few rap wizards to drop their own brand new mixtapes. Wu-Tang Clan member Raekwon's The Unexpected Victory is available for free here (via Nah Right). T.I. has followed up a flurry of late-2011 activity with Fuck Da City Up, which you can grab right here. …
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  Watch Das Racist's 'Brand New Dance' Video, Give Them All Your Money

  December 9, 2011 – SPIN's recent cover stars Das Racist have unveiled a new video for their Relax track "Brand New Dance." Watch as the Brooklyn crew move the crowd and set up their merch and mug it up for the cameras. However, you will not learn a brand new dance from watching the clip, unlike Major Lazer's latest video. Also, the smiley face Nirvana shirt Kool A.D. is wearing is the same one that someone stole from SPIN a decade ago. …
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  Watch She & Him, Das Racist, and Jimmy Cliff Hit Late-Night TV

  November 29, 2011 – 'Twas the season on late-night TV last night, though given that it isn't even December yet, exactly which season isn't entirely clear. On The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, the indie-folk duo She & Him — whose quaintly dulcet music really needs to stop being used to smear the word twee by association — sang a song from new holiday album A Very She & Him Christmas. …
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  Watch Das Racist Drag Their Parents to a Music Festival

  November 8, 2011 – In late May, Hari Kondabolu — stand-up comic and brother of Ashok "Dap" Kondabolu of Das Racist — performed at Washington's Sasquatch! festival. So did Das Racist. On their dad's birthday. So when Hari was writing this month's Das Racist cover story for SPIN, he did the only logical thing — dragged their parents along to Bumbershoot. They all survived, and hopefully their mom got her chance to see Broken Social Scene. …
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  First Spin: Lushlife Tackles 'Adult Goth' With Das Racist's Heems

  October 24, 2011 – This week, prolific Philadelphia rapper Lushlife, otherwise known as Raj Haldar, is sharing his excellent No More Golden Days mixtape. It's a release steeped in '90s reference points (particularly Nas' lyrical workouts) and buttressed by mindful production moves, as evidenced by "Adult Goth," a Heems-enriched edit of Gang Gang Dance's song of the very same name. …
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  Funny Is Deadly Serious: Patton Oswalt Introduces SPIN's New Issue

  October 17, 2011 – There has never been a better time for comedy — for the general feeling of funny — in America than right now. And a big reason for that is how deadly serious everything is.The environment is merrily trying to scrape us off the crust of the planet. Our financial institutions are corrupt, malicious, and in the hands of sociopaths. Our system of government has sputtered to a halt and is grinding metal while the infrastructure rots away. …
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  Das Racist Cover Story: These Colors Don't Run

  October 17, 2011 – Why funny is deadly serious: Read guest editor Patton Oswalt's introduction to SPIN's first ever "Funny" Issue.NOTE: I will refer to the Brooklyn-based rap trio Das Racist as "DR" for the majority of this story, both for convenience and to guard against the readership of this publication from either flipping to or clicking on a different article after repeated use of the word racist. …
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  Das Racist Cover SPIN's Patton Oswalt-Edited "Funny" Issue

  October 13, 2011 – SPIN has stupidly brilliantly handed the reins of our November magazine to one of the most respected comedians alive — Patton Oswalt, the guest editor of the "Funny" Issue (on sale October 25th). Our cover stars: hip-hop's smartest smartasses Das Racist. "We're not even pretending to cover everything that's current, valid, and popular in comedy and satire," Oswalt writes in his intro to the issue. …
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  Hear Das Racist's Heems Guest on Small Black's New Mixtape

  October 10, 2011 – On November 11th, Brooklyn chillwave cadets Small Black will release Moon Killer, a free mixtape whose moody, rain-spackled first listen, "Two Rivers," features a host of freestyle verses from Das Racist's Himanshu "Heems" Suri.Listen for the shout-outs to Eddie Vedder and chamomile tea while perusing Heems' always enjoyable Tumblr.  …
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  Das Racist, 'Relax' (Greedhead Music)

  September 13, 2011 – We join Das Racist in the Hey, These Guys Are Actually Really Good phase of their inexplicable career. The ?viral goof "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" begat two shockingly great 2010 mixtapes full of sly, hilarious rap chicanery -- part Cheech and Chong, part Smif-n-Wessun, part Sartre and de Beauvoir. …
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