You already know that Blue Scholars are world-historical (marking hiphop’s shift into global cosmopolitanism). Das Racist, from Brooklyn, mark a different shift: into the playful inversion and deconstruction of hiphop. At first, thanks to a YouTube sensation, people thought they were clowns. Then they wrote essays, critiqued Sasha Frere-Jones for “trying to kill rap,” and released some better songs: “Me and Maya Angelou playing double Dutch/she’s got a bubble butt, she said, ‘I like you, too’/Then we smoked two Dutch, that’s a double Dutch my dude/I really like her views; yes, you could say Angelou’s my muse.” For Das Racist, theory is fun. (Showbox at the Market, 1421 First Ave, 628-3151. 8 pm, $16 adv/$21 DOS, all ages.)
Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua.... More by Brendan Kiley
“Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” was pretty clever in a stupid sort of way. The above lyrics are just plain stupid.
Note to callow music bloggers: knowing the name of an exceedingly famous poet or intellectual, and claiming to “like [his or] her views” (um, which ones?) does not make an artist “topical.”
actually the song is written from the perspective of hugo chavez and if you don’t go in knowing that it doesn’t make sense. You definitely shouldn’t judge a piece of art by four lines, not really much to go on.