hip mock--'das racist'

'Das Racist mock hip-hop because they love it. They're the guys who'll make a joke out of anything, but like all great satirists, still take their role seriously. This track off Sit Down, Man, their second mixtape of 2010, is as close as they've come to a statement of purpose, i.e. a statement of ambiguity. They're working in a field whose audience is hung up on authenticity, so that's the button they keep pushing from both sides: extreme rap insider references ("Ice-T plus Coco"!), extreme rap outsider references (Dwight Schrute!), and jabs about race and class wrapped up in copious lolz. Are they in or out? Well, in enough that "hahahaha"'s got a beat from Boi-1da, the same guy who's produced a bunch of Drake's hits-- even if that beat is a freaking "Days of Our Lives" parody.'

--Douglas Wolk

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