It’s tempting to try to explain away Das Racist, a Brooklyn rap duo that is composed of Wesleyan grads Himanshu Suri and Victor Vazquez; they’re responsible for the viral magic that is “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.” Their unalloyed enthusiasm for lyrical non sequiturs and literary wordplay has invited comparisons to “Eddie” Said, outer borough shit-shooting, and Sonia Sotomayor. Das Racist (who the New York Times recently referred to in a review as a “a pair of stoner jokesters”) made most of these comparisons themselves. That’s kind of the whole point. Read More »
