January 2011
62 posts
2late2quit asked: I spoke to you after a show a little while ago and I got the feeling that you love rap but hate rapping. Is this a reasonable assessment or are there just other aspects of the game that you prefer?
Anonymous asked: This is what I think of you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytHUb9U6i7I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytHUb9U6i7I
here’s a new video of me and my best buds hanging out!!! bye!!! xoxo - HIMANSHU!
Anonymous asked: are yall dedicated to doing shitty live performances?
Anonymous asked: What are your thoughts on materialism in rap music? You seem to have a pretty anti-capitalist stance, but you also shout out Lanvin. How do you reconcile the two?
yo someone buy me this aight bet →
Anonymous asked: I'm a brown girl and I'm dating a white guy. One of the things that brought us closer together was our mutual love for Das Racist. Just thought you should know.
An open letter to Jhumpa Lahiri from a young... →
can’t say i don’t feel EXACTLY like this…
How the Stone Roses Stopped the Hooligans →
(thanks waternoice)
Anonymous asked: you have a strong voice when it comes to race issues but what about other shit like gender equality, disability and gay rights. (i'm not suggesting a hierarchy of marginalization) are you self-critical/aware when it comes to those topics?
Anonymous asked: do you really wanna own a boat one day?
Anonymous asked: do you really wanna own a boat one day?
: Himanshu Suri of Das Racist Explains The Mixtape →
gq:
Moderator: “What’s a mixtape?” Suri: “Well, we all liked the same girl, so we made a tape with all our favorite songs on it, and we gave it to her with a note that had Himanshu, Victor, and Ashok and three boxes and ‘who do you like?’ And she put in a fourth box and checked ‘Arcade Fire’.”
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Anonymous asked: you have a strong voice when it comes to race issues but what about other shit like gender equality, disability and gay rights. (i'm not suggesting a hierarchy of marginalization) are you self-critical/aware when it comes to those topics?
Anonymous asked: I'm a brown girl and I'm dating a white guy. One of the things that brought us closer together was our mutual love for Das Racist. Just thought you should know.
Anonymous asked: As a black (descendant of Africans enslaved in the US) girl reading this, I see a lot of parallels between Blacks and Browns in America with respect to their sense of displacement in a white society, the prospect of not feeling at home in "The Motherland" ("prospect" in my case, since I've never been to Africa) and accepting our culture to be shaped by the people in our...
Anonymous asked: D'ya think that brown people who have some kind of class privilege/educational resourcing might be more pissed about whiteness than POC who don't? Because every Brown person I know who went to a foofy school (for instance, Wesleyan) has way more shit to talk about white peeps than bruh from the hood.
Is it just cuz it's all up on our face when we access the halls of power?...
Is it just cuz it's all up on our face when we access the halls of power?...
Anonymous asked: that is a really good story, as is the other gautham one that there is a video of you reading on youtube. you should definitely definitely definitely write more of these stories.
sincerely,
peer pressure
sincerely,
peer pressure
wrote this a couple years ago bored at work......
Gautham’s dad, in another fit of undiagnosed depression, once convinced himself he was sick. His dad suffered from Diabetes as his sweet tooth never let a Gulab Jamun last a day in the fridge. Without ever picking a joint up dude was fifteen times a bigger burnout than his kid and his healthy couple-eighths-a-week weed habit. He was seemingly lazy though maintained an immigrant’s work...
vicki leekx by m.i.a. is great!
REALLY DIGGIN THIS: http://www.vickileekx.com/
Anonymous asked: how do you feel about bally sagoo?
Anonymous asked: "this joaquin phoenix movie one of the best rap movies made..." Care to elaborate?