This is what I call fun rap without the schtick. Brooklyn-based rap group, Das Racist are Queens, New York-born Hiramsu Suri, San Francisco-born Victor Vazquez, and hypeman Ashok Kondabolo a.k.a Dap. They hit the scene in 2008 with their single “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” and garnered a lot of attention. By March 2010, their debut mixtape Shut Up, Dude and Sit Down, Man was released and received great reviews, and six months later, their second mixtape Sit Down, Man hit to even more critical acclaim.

Coke Machine Glow online magazine summed them up perfectly by saying Das Racist, “attempt to write an impossibly new blueprint for rap: funny without trying to impress; proficient without having anything to prove; relevant without taking any particular scene seriously; imbued with a soulful sense of place—urban, disaffected, ethnic—but more interested in how that serves as fodder for jokes than in any big grab for meaning.” Perfectly put!

Here, they come together in a perfect union with Homeboy Sandman for “I’m Up On That“. What’s so uncanning about the tune, is that it sounds as though they’ve been working together since birth, where each emcee follows their formula of unlikely lyrical pairings—it works seamlessly! And it’s hella fun too! Check out the tune below and oblige in a free download, in courtesy of RCRD.LBL.

I’ve been saying repeatedly over the past few weeks, “Why isn’t Homeboy Sandman bigger?!!” Had to pull out “Parellel Perpendicular,” tweet about it, complain to a friend about how dope this man is, and why is there so much nonsense out there. Then today, as I did some in-box cleaning, came across a video interview sent to me TWO weeks ago from our friends over at Put Me On It; a video interview with HOMEBOY SANDMAN nonetheless!!! Obviously, I can’t hold out on homeboy any longer. He needs a big up, shout out, and rounds of pounds. If you don’t know him, rid yourself of shame by clicking here to purchase from iTunes to pick up his third album The Good Son, which was released this past June (he’s been making tunes since 2007 people!).

Below are two tunes to wrap your ears around and the Put Me On It interview, which took place a few months ago during SXSW, where they flipped the script by having Homeboy Sandman share his thoughts on Martin Luther King, Jr., Gandi, guilty pleasures, and his frustrations on anti-brown messages in music that US radio sends through hip hop. This homeboy is no light-weight rapper. In fact, the same tenacity and excitement I felt while listening to Jay Electronica was felt with Homeboy Sandman.

“Parallel Perpendicular” from My Crew is Thinner

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“Low Co.” from The Good Son

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