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Das Racist was an alternative Hip-Hop group consisting of rappers Kool A.D. and Heems and hypeman Dapwell, named after a joke from Series/WonderShowzen. The trio was known for their style of highly-referential, scholarly, and seemingly nonsensical style of rapping. Their two mixtapes ''Shut Up, Dude'' and ''Sit Down, Man'' were critically acclaimed and Das Racist was lauded by some as a brave new face of hip-hop and written off by others as college-educated joke rappers. Either way, Das Racist really couldn't care less.

Their 2011 debut album ''Relax'' was met with positive reviews. Das Racist broke up in 2012.

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'''Das Racist Discography'''
* ''Shut Up, Dude'' (2010)
* ''Sit Down, Man'' (2010)
* ''Relax'' (2011)

'''Heems Solo Discography'''
* ''Nehru Jackets'' (2012)
* ''Wild Water Kingdom'' (2012)
* ''Eat, Pray, Thug'' (2015)

'''Kool A.D. Solo Discography'''
* ''The Palm Wine Drinkard'' (2012)
* ''51'' (2012)
* ''63'' (2013)
* ''19'' (2013)

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!!The music of Das Racist provides examples of:

* AllDrummersAreAnimals: Kool A.D.
* AlternativeHipHop
* AutoTune: Used in a frightening and mind numbing manner across ''Relax''.
* BandOfRelatives: "Puerto Rican Cousins" is about someone commenting that the members of Das Racist look like Puerto Rican cousins despite not being related.
* BoastfulRap: A good chunk of Das Racist's discography.
* ButNotTooForeign: Subverted. Himanshu Suri (Heems) and Ashok Kondabolu (Dapwell) are Indian and Victor Vazquez (Kool A.D.) is Afro-Cuban. They liberally reference their foreignness.
* CelebrityResemblance: Mocked on "Shorty Said", about white women telling Heems and Kool AD that they look like various famous POC who they bear a superficial-at-best resemblance to.
* CloudCuckooLander: All three members.
* FadingIntoTheNextSong
* FoodSongsAreFunny: [[RefugeInAudacity "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell"]].
* IdiosyncraticAlbumTheming
** The first two mixtapes stick to the basic "[Verb] [Direction], [Noun]" resulting in ''Shut Up, Dude'' and ''Sit Down, Man''.
** ''Relax'' breaks the pattern, but continues the theme of having all three members looking bored on the cover (minus the couch present on the first two mixtapes).
*** It can be argued that ''Relax'' does continue the pattern to form a full phrase: "Shut up, sit down, and relax".
** Kool A.D.'s solo mixtapes ''51'', ''63'', and ''19'' are all named after San Francisco city bus routes.
* IndecipherableLyrics: Unless you're willing to really study.
* LoopedLyrics: Too many times to count.
* LyricalDissonance: Heems has stated that Das Racist "[makes] dance music while talking about not-dancey things".
* LyricalTic: Heems' high-pitched, echo-y, reverberating "what?" makes numerous appearances on both Das Racist's and his own songs.
* NWordPrivileges: Kool A.D. on "Shut Up, Dude".
* OverlyLongGag: "Combination Pizza Hut and [[{{Usefulnotes/Taco Bell}} Taco Bell]]".
* RecycledLyrics: Heems and Kool A.D. are fond of certain phrases and its apparent in their lyrics.
* RefugeInAudacity: The lyrics to "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" consist of the title and nothing else save for a few ad-libs.
** "I Don't Owe Nobody Shit" is the two members proclaiming that they don't owe anyone shit for the entirety of the track.
* {{Sampling}}
* ShoutOut
** The video for ''Michael Jackson'' pays homage to {{Series/Saturday Night Live}}'s Chippendales skit as well as {{Music/Michael Jackson}}'s ''Black or White'' video.
* SillyLoveSongs: "Girl", "Coochie Dip City", "Different Schools".
* StageNames: Himanshu Suri as Heems, Victor Vazquez as Kool A.D., Ashok Kondabolu as Dapwell.
* StealthParody: Some people believe that Das Racist is a joke band.
* StudioChatter
* StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks: "Booty in the Air".
* [[EruditeStoner Erudite Stoners]] [[StonersAreFunny are Funny]]: Some Das Racist songs begin to sound like someone reading a bibliography while high.
* TitleOnlyChorus: Title Only '''Song''' would be more appropriate in the case of Das Racist.
* TitleTrack: The first track on ''Relax'' is "Relax", the last track on ''Shut Up, Dude'' is "Shut Up, Dude", and the 18th track on ''Sit Down, Man'' is "Sit Down, Man".
* UnexpectedCharacter: Rostam Batmanglij of {{Music/Vampire Weekend}} provides production on ''Relax''.
* WordSaladLyrics: Kool A.D. is a bigger offender than Heems.
** "Free Jazzmatazz", one of DR's more stream-of-consciousness tracks.
-->Alone, Maccaulay Culkin, Straw Dogs\\
Don't even go there again, girlfriend\\
There's your man, spray-tanning Dakota Fanning\\
At the Getty gas station, petty cash making\\
Chuck E. Cheese, mouse traps, star power\\
Nap 20 minutes like Da Vinci did\\
Lewinski lips on the Frisbee\\
Quick, look, it's the Dixie Chicks