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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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  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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  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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  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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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Black Hippy Deconstructs Drake

  August 18, 2012 – I think I wandered into a rap blogger version of a Beckett play the other night. I drove all around southern New Jersey on a Thursday evening, pulling into every supermarket and pharmacy with a Redbox trying to rent month-old Wiz Khalifa and Snopp Dogg straight-to-DVD-vehicle Mac & Devin Go To High School, only to discover that it is either sold out or not carried in that specific RedBox. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Gwyneth Paltrow <3s Chief Keef

  August 10, 2012 – Have you checked out Gwyneth Paltrow's "Summer Jams" playlist over at Jay-Z's Life + Times website? It's a slideshow with YouTube embeds of her choices and brief, naively moronic comments from the famous actress about each song. Or, maybe an intern added the comments, it's hard to tell. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Nasty Nas On Broadway!

  August 3, 2012 – Totally disagree with Noz and the Cocaine Blunts peanut gallery: At the very least, Nas' Life Is Good is, well, good. A few weeks after its release, there are still plenty of little details grabbing my ears. …
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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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  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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  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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