das racist -- shut up dude vs sit down man

I'll still put on "Amazing" from Sit Down, Man from time to time.

I still derive joy from "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" and memes related to that hipster novelty song.

I think I'd have to go with Sit Down, mostly due Fat Tony's verse on Luv It Mayne, but they are both killer. Just saw these are both on Spotify now - that's cool!

Sit Down was the peak imo

i dunno about the video but i will still rep for this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc__3nsfxwA

lol, el-p and hari kondabolu have a tiny cameo in that video

that track isn't on either of the mixtapes tho.

true. i haven't listened to these in like a decade! i should go back.

Still fresh, imo!

Where are they now? Heems retired (after putting out some great mixtapes and an album), Kool AD got cancelled and I guess is still putting out like an album a month on Bandcamp, and Dapwell is the funnier Kondabolu brother:
https://youtu.be/DdJPex9sONU

that's a really good video!

Sit Down, Man ... easily. I still listen to the first half of it maybe twice a year. Yes, still fresh!

RELAX is one of the all-time "wtf" disappointments in my mind, tho. I should probably revisit it.

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forgot how much I'd enjoy hearing Heems rap again

I missed the Heems & Lapgan efforts this year but am now intrigued by this writeup by former ilxor Keith Harris in his best of year list for Racket

17. Heems & Lapgan, Lafandar

For his first solo joint since 2015, the former Das Racist MC’s teams up with Chicago producer and fellow Indian-American Gaurav Napgal, a.k.a. Lapgan, whose indefatigable South Asian cratedigging manifests itself as an international miscellany that prizes novelty rather than exoticism. Heems doesn’t shy away from big statements here, and every critic (including me) just had to quote “How many likes will my hate crime receive?” from “Accent,” which also includes intricate rhyme twirls like, “It's easier to make a meme than to have a dream/’Cause to Heems it just seems that they deem as a scheme.” But he mostly reserves his introspection for Lafandar’s darker (and also excellent) companion piece, Veena, released later in the year. These are the free-associative thoughts of a creative guy closing in on middle age who wants to kick it with some pals (including Kool Keith, Open Mike Eagle, Quelle Chris, Your Old Droog, and Saul Williams), revel in his mic skills, and rep his hometown. As he puts it on “I’m Pretty Cool,” “I'm New York like Canal Street where Africans talk Mandarin.” Which is kind of a statement in itself, no?