1. Bonus points for the homage to the “Flava In Ya Ear (Remix)”
2. Lucky Charms are delicious and are a severely underutilized rap video resource.
3. Despot doesn’t look like a Despot. Maybe Fielding Melish.
4. Das Racist will probably never be my thing but the guy in the group with the Rozay beard deserves credit for the Immortal Technique joke and the interpolation of Rae, rhyming “Who Son’s Who” with “reading Sun Tzu.”
5. Danny Brown is so good at rapping that he can pull off jorts. That’s impressive. I was in Detroit last week and listening to nothing but Hybrid and XXX. Someone needs to make him poet laureate of the D, if not for “Fields” and “Scrap or Die” alone.
6. Killer Mike in the background.
7. eXquire’s wrangling of low budget porn stars for every video is fast becoming an aesthetic we can all embrace.
8. I will always be a sucker for a Catcher in the Rye reference, a Watch the Throne diss, and a reference to Project Benchs — unintentional allusions to “Park Bench People” are still allusions.
9. No more invoking literary devices when talking about rap videos. For me. Today.
10. El-P wins this round.
10 comments
riley says:
September 21, 2011 at 11:40 am (UTC -7)
Kool AD kills it on this song. 10x more memorable than Danny Brown’s verse. Can you guys stop being wrong half the time?
Passion of the Weiss says:
September 21, 2011 at 11:47 am (UTC -7)
Go read Stereogum then.
DJ Regular says:
September 21, 2011 at 1:24 pm (UTC -7)
Ah, the internet. Where you can give an artist you don’t care for props, and still get made out to be a hater by their fans. Never change.
Back to the video, it made me realize how much I miss El-P rapping. His new joint can’t come soon enough. This whole remix makes miss Def Jux in its prime.
Jerry says:
September 21, 2011 at 12:56 pm (UTC -7)
I think the first das racist dudes verse (Kool AD?) has great flow, funny, clever references which is why I listen to them. The 2nd guy i think shows the side of why people hate them, with careless,pointless rambling and talking about how much they suck (who the fuck wants to listen to that). Either way, the Hybrid steals the show, obviously
Daps says:
September 21, 2011 at 2:00 pm (UTC -7)
Let’s not forget, eXquire is well good at rappin too.
DJ Regular says:
September 21, 2011 at 2:15 pm (UTC -7)
True, true. I’m digging his tape a lot more than I thought I would, honestly. Can’t wait to hear more from him, or perhaps an official El-P production collabo.
Justin says:
September 21, 2011 at 4:45 pm (UTC -7)
Blockhead mentioned a possible collab as well.
Justin says:
September 21, 2011 at 4:44 pm (UTC -7)
I didn’t realize Dustin Pedroia could rap, he really does have an all around game.
BluntGuts says:
September 22, 2011 at 2:20 pm (UTC -7)
Ha! Dustin Pedroia. It’s Laser Face and Laser Show.
Justa says:
September 23, 2011 at 3:38 am (UTC -7)
This is grimey as hell. I couldn’t get past the cover of the album, so have yet to peep the album yet. This remix though is fire.