They could’ve been bigger than the Beastie Boys. Or maybe not, but hip-hop was always just a more fun place with Brooklyn rap trio Das Racist—at once the most intellectually challenging and the most unapologetically silly group in hip-hop—dropping mixtapes and making crazy music videos and showing up in even crazier Craigslist ads. (One of their songs even showed up in a K-Mart commercial, for some reason.) It seemed like they were always one solid album away from a crossover of major proportions.
Well, the dream is over, it would seem. At a solo gig in Germany, Das Racist member Heems preceded a set of Das Racist songs with the disclaimer “I’m gonna do some Das Racist songs, but Das Racist is breaking up and we’re not a band anymore.” This revelation was corroborated by fellow DR member Kool A.D., who then tweeted the following:
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.
— KOOL A.D. (@veeveeveeveevee) December 3, 2012
yea yea i quit dr BUT WHO CAN GIVE ME A WORKING LINK TO THE NEW WALKING DEAD
— KOOL A.D. (@veeveeveeveevee) December 3, 2012
Don’t worry, he found the link a few minutes later.
Finally, group hypeman Dapwell put the final nail in the coffin. “I was bummed when we actually broke up, when it was done, mostly because it was a way to make money really easily. Now, I probably won’t be able to make money that easily ever again,” Dap bemoaned to SPIN. “But we had a plan to break up around May. 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.”
Well, that’s a tough one. We’ll miss you guys for sure. Any Popdust readers who want to commiserate or share your favorite DR-related memories, meet us at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.
[Vulture]
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