DAS RACIST and the annual indie fuxxor electronic novelty hit

sorry if this is too @hipsterrunoff or whatev, but...

So like every year we're pretty much gonna get one electronic novelty hit that crosses over to bloggos as hot jam/reference/joke/meme because it's a catchy beat with someone saying something dumb/silly/filthy/wacky over and over and over and over and over again.

How do we feel about DAS RACIST? What can you add to this list?

1997: DJ Assault - "Ass 'N Titties"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTI2xX5ttkQ

2001: Detroit Grand Poobahs - "Sandwiches"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHfHs2qpaSM

2007: dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip - "Thou Shalt Always Kill"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoN6XfyQsr4

2008 LeLe - "Breakfast"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-zfbDHipG8

2009: Das Racist - "Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8ViYIeH04

at least it isn't a taco bell / long john silver's. those are the worst.

das racist is like "lazy sunday '09"

i think this song is dope + funny

i was gonna say - if this was a 'digital short' it would be canonized w/ "lazy sunday" and "dick in a box"

Pizza Hut is changing their name, so this shit is gonna be a relic by next year

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Extra/pizza-hut-changes-its-name.aspx?GT1=33009

i think these things were definitely annual at some point, but around 2007 they became monthly. and will probably be weekly by the end of '09.

lotsa blogs missed the boat with the original "pizza hut/taco bell" so they're furiously trying to pass off like 20 remixes as "superior" versions. wtf internet.

1994: Sagat - "Why Is It? (Funk / Fuk Dat)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGSAOPWSleg

otm

wallpaper. remix is better btw

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i never knew there was a dirty version! wow!

wallpaper. remix is better btw

Man, Funk Dat

it sounds like the same song anyway tbh

no doubt Sagat was a novelty hit but i dunno doesn't seem indie fuxxor enough for this thread. shit got played on MTV and rap stations.

for all i know Sagat still lives in Baltimore, btw, it's one of my on-again-off-again goals to track him down for an interview one of these days.

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yeah, but alternageeks at the time quasi-irono-referenced it in the same way, so I think it applies, even if only as a forebear

indie fuxxors were a different breed in 1994

yeah but i dunno..i heard "lucas with the lid off" and "cantaloop" on alt-rock stations at the time, not so much "funk dat," so it feels like somehow of a different breed.

this is not about radio play, it's about embracing a novelty electronic song in a slightly ironic wacky way, which applies to both Doc Martin hipsters in 94 re sagat and keffiyah kidz in 09 re wacky fast food song

i don't know if you're 15 or something like the rest of the autogoon cru or whatever, but flannel dudes at my school were def doing the "maaaan... funk dat" thing for about 6 weeks.

what about "genie in a bottle" + "hard to explain" - certainly that was "a novelty electronic song" that was embraced in a "slightly ironic wacky way"

xpost: yes. to me that's what makes it fit this mold better. it was referencing the "other".

i dont think anyone irl outside of ppl who live in brooklyn know about "combination pizza hut and taco bell" - people are still shouting "I'M ON A BOAT" tbh

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pedantic jordan s. missing the fuckin point is becoming a monthly occurance too.

I don't remember anyone embracing genie in a bottle, but I wasn't hanging around too many ironical dudes at the time

1st ironical embrace of genie I can remember is the strokes mashup

i dont think anyone irl outside of ppl who live in brooklyn know about "combination pizza hut and taco bell" - people are still shouting "I'M ON A BOAT" tbh

i'd love to be all BUT PEOPLE IN KANSAS CAN READ BLAWGZ, but you're probably right. consider this thread a prediction of pizza song's oncoming cult status.

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pedantic jordan s. missing the fuckin point is becoming a monthly occurance too.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, June 21, 2009 12:46 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

whatever man - i dont know any of these songs - yall can talk about 1994 i was 6 yrs old \(o_O)/

internet people def know about this esp since it got reviewed on pitchfork but if people at your college were going around referencing "funk dat" for 6 months i can guarantee that people at my college are not sending me texts that say "i'm at the pizza hut!!" and we went to comparable colleges size/city wise

llbean back pack full of cassingles slung over one shoulder, mang

I think maybe I wouldn't have to go on screaming rampages about my shitty job prospects at Twitter conferences if I spent more time looking for work and less time having 2 a.m. chat sessions with people that used to watch Eureeka's Castle.

tbh the annual indie fuxxor electornic novelty hit of 09 is that 3OH!3 song

3OH3 is mainstream fuxxor iirc

i mean people who are going to women/men/boys/girls warehouse shows probably aren't fucking with 3OH!3 but people who are vampire weekend/decemberists/broken social scene "mainstream" indie fuck with that song as far as i can tell

i thought only Bamboozle Fest Fall Out Bros with the big text T-shirts listened to that shit, and no one who actually listened to, like, any indie band that stereogum would cover

I've been meaning to make a shipley-style Idolator post where I categorize the 30 types of hipster so we stop just calling all these disparate groups "hipsters"

im basing that post on small anecdotal evidence but it's not thaaaaat far of a bridge from "discovering" justice to "liking" a 30H!3 song if you listen to stereogum bands

im sure lots of it is "this pop song is so bad it's good!!" or whatever but still

I was under the impression that 3ought!3 is more of a nu-hot topic band. Like maybe there are some people that like them and justice and vampire collective or whatever but they are just the people that list a bunch of new bands + Johnie Cash (sic) on their social profiles.

yeah probs

idgi, it's more "stupid" than "funny" to me but admittedly I am kind of humorless.

i thought only Bamboozle Fest Fall Out Bros with the big text T-shirts listened to that shit, and no one who actually listened to, like, any indie band that stereogum would cover

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, June 21, 2009 1:58 AM (21 minutes ago)

whiney's otm here, i can't see anyone who facies themself a hipster liking this song, it's more the warped-tour types

of course most of this shit dan go fuck itslef imo

I've been meaning to make a shipley-style Idolator post where I categorize the 30 types of hipster so we stop just calling all these disparate groups "hipsters"

WOULD READ, MIGHT LAUGH.

3oh!3 just seems like next-decade sugar ray -- which means more electro-disco and whatever. frat-party warped-tour bad-beer and all that, but ilx 2019 will be repping it.

(over asher roth, i hope)

lol, i hope i'm sb'd by then

i wouldn't worry about it if i were you

Rolling Crabcore Thread 2019

i know i'm pissed but i'm struggling to work out on which level Green Velvet is an indie fuxxor

― 'Last Moments Robot' Comforts You To Death (Noodle Vague), Saturday, June 9, 2012 10:45 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wondering if this might be the fault of recent updates to the is deej a hipster thread

dj assault and sagat got called fuxxors itt, so the concept of this thread is kind of bs to begin with

rev missing the point completely

I get it, Whiney

you can pencil in "212" on this thread, too

sagat was mainstream and therefor should be penciled out

http://soundstudiesblog.com/2012/04/09/everyone-i-listen-to-fake-patois/

i really like kool ad

there's just going to be gigantic thinkpieces about das racist popping up every week for the next ten years, aren't there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKCJm-BqTu8

"...i mean it's me just rapping, bro"

there's just going to be gigantic thinkpieces about das racist popping up every week for the next ten years, aren't there

unfortunately

almost makes me long for MIA thinkpieces

i kind of miss the old days of thinkpieces on M.I.A. or Odd Future instead of people whose music basically functions as thinkpieces responding to unwritten thinkpieces like Das Racist and #seapunk

I just stopped playing Fleetwood Mac so I could play "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell"

did Le1f do the production on that song? I'm really loving his mixtape from this year

http://www.livemixtapes.com/download/19658/heems-wild-water-kingdom.html

this thread has been so inspiring to me!

you working on the indie fuxxor electronic novelty hit of 2013?

i think i've said too much already

"i'm in the burger king, they're not playing the beatles"

haha you just came up in my fb "people you might know" feed and i friend requested you so i could tell you the story

http://gabetwee.tumblr.com/post/35257019932/regarding-the-time-i-met-das-racist

u_u

ohhh sarahel that was you!! confirmed

http://gabetwee.tumblr.com/post/35257019932/regarding-the-time-i-met-das-racist

u_u

― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, November 14, 2012 9:34 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark

das rapist

wow these guys are assholes, amazing, i'm so shocked, really

Jesus, these guys are the worst.

wow these guys are assholes, amazing, i'm so shocked, really

wait so you've really just known these guys as the types to sexually assault this whole time?

i didn't know exactly what kind of assholes they were, no

the top comment (now deleted) on a das racist AMA asked about the incident

warning: reddit hivemind might make you want to kill yourself

how is this not really blowing up as a story at all? only thing i really see is noz ranting about it on twitter

it's complicated. i mean, i think it will become more of a thing in the coming day or two. but it's hard for places actual news sites to run a story like this based of just a tumblr post. maybe someone will get an interview with the girl or something that would help solidify things a bit.

which of course isn't to say that the accusation isn't legitimate... but it's a tricky area when you're talking about covering it on a wide scale

also, some dude knew they were assholes already anyway

they dead

*insert "i miss you" here*

i wish i actually cared about these guys.

i think we know why they were assholes to some dude though:

It was rad and he spent a bunch of time making fun of me for coming to his show alone and then some dude rushes up to us and is being super annoying asking for Dap’s autograph and just generally being terrible until Dap just puts a hand up and goes,

“Dude. Can’t you see I’m busy? I don’t know if you’ve met my wife. But this is Gwen. My wife. My WIFE okay?? So I’d appreciate it if I could have some time alone with her.”

I really enjoyed DR's music but it's been pretty clear for the last couple years that they weren't enjoying what they were doing together. I don't remember the last time I saw a band get as jaded as quickly as these guys have

I will miss their brand of hip-hop, though. I know a lot of people dismiss them but I always found them refreshing. my ears are probably broken though

lol jvc

Huh. Tried to see them at the Virgin Festival back in October and their set got cancelled. We got told they broke up, but I never heard anything about it after that so figured it was a joke.

who performed in their place, 3OH!3

If only.

i like them a lot (unashamedly), but this doesn't really bum me out 'cause i've listened to their solo tapes more than the DR stuff.

Heems & Riz Ahmed:

http://youtu.be/gLlYykSUXLk

BEST CHANT OF THE NIGHT: "Fuck the KFC / Fuck the Pizza Hut / Fuck the COM-BI-NATION KFC and Pizza Hut." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8ViYIeH04 … <3 #Oakland

I’m listening to “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” for the first time right now. How the FUCK was this song a hit? This is the stupidest, most unfunny fucking thing I’ve ever heard in my life.

do you not understand anything about meme culture or ....?

looking up "hotel room service" to see if it fits this thread but i don't think it does because pitbull is way too popular. i was blissfully unaware that his 2009 album is called "Pitbull Starring in Rebelution" and that on the cover is Pitbull in a tux with a prominent soul patch next to a woman in a camo bodysuit. wiki tells me he was another florida rags-to-riches story like rob thomas - there must be something in the wang state that bestows gloriously loud careers on talented and very lucky reprobates. i hope i live to read a pitbull biography, although i see that mr. worldwide is only a year (!) older than me. biography.com tells me that he took the nom de plume "pitbull" because they are "too stupid to lose." i hope that he's actually kind of like that and that we aren't going to get any sex pest allegations and he turns into a beloved philanthropist or something.

To be fair here it was the "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" remix that was semi-popular. That setting makes it a lot more approachable and also funnier

I still like CPH&TB

one of the most enduring brooklyn memes is photos of the conjoined popeyes/checkers/dunkin at myrtle broadway so fast food restaurant juxtaposition humor is still animating the youth to this day