You also learn that they are, in their own way, trying to undermine the various ills that have plagued hip hop, and part of them wants to evict the bullshit – they clearly love the genre. By the time you’ve listened to “Relax” properly, you realised they are quite brilliant lyricists.

What they seem to do is fill their brains up with overflow pop culture references, random internet speak, rap clichÃ©s, Pitchforkismsâ€¦ And then, they just flow in a “free expression” way, until everything comes out like organised chaos. But every now and then on their first official LP, “Relax,” you get a brief insight into the more conventional undercurrent to their artistry that seems to gradually permeate the act. If you weren’t in on the joke, you’d just assume Das Racist are a slightly weird wannabe gangster/hipster rap hybrid. Other times, it’s undermining the endless (and mindless) stupidity of our beloved hip hop genre that has been brainwashed by corporate thinking and business plans. Most of the time, it’s in an Austin Powers “One meeeeellion dollars!!” kind of piss-take way.

That’s one of the things that marks Das Racist out for particular attention: they rap about money, a lot. The group creates collages of non-sequiters and bury themselves inside an.

It becomes apparent after a few spins of Relax that lyrics are still Das Racist’s staying power, despite the record’s accessibility and pop-leaning aptitude. Thankfully Relax is too good for a couple of kind of atonal feature spots to derail the proceedings.

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