Das Racist

After recently delivering a speech at a local middle school's career day, Gucci Mane is rumored to have hospitalized a DJ for playing one of his unreleased tracks in the club. Sounds about right. Drake will be releasing the first official single from his upcoming third LP on Grammy night (Feb...

Over the weekend, Das Racist announced that they are no longer a band -- both through an onstage announcement from Heems (Himanshu Suri) at the On3 festival in Berlin and a tweet from Kool A.D. claiming he quit the band two months ago. Kool A...

Hip-hop and R&B had a big showing in 2011, with the genre controlling the No. 1 spot on the Billboard 200 for about 12 non-consecutive weeks by 11 different artists. Take that, country music! There was a lot to sift through when compiling The BoomBox's Best Albums of 2011 list, and it seemed at times that the genre had multiplied at the speed of a gremlin in water. In...

Brooklyn's own goof-rap phenoms Das Racist made their network TV debut last night on 'Conan' (Nov. 28) with a simple, yet extremely affecting catchphrase: "Michael Jackson. A Million dollars. You Feel Me?" The band's performance of 'Michael Jackson,' from their recent 'Relax' album, features everything that is weird and great from the New York trio...

MTV has announced the nominees for its Seventh Annual mtvU Woodie Awards, airing live from the South by Southwest Music Festival, and apparently the kids like hip-hop in 2011. The college network's picks include the ubiquitous Kanye West alongside hip-pop phenom B...