Gender Bent's Blog Posts Tagged 'Festival' (2)

Seeing Ninjasonik on the line-up for this year's Afropunk Festival took me back to when I first heard of them in 2009. It was a time when the Brooklyn underground music scene was growing, innovating new sounds and aesthetics, and very much DIY.

They burst on the scene with a sound that was an infectious mix of pop, hip-hop, and punk and brought a sense of fun and…

You may have heard MC Himanshu Suri’s (aka Heems) solo debut mixtape, Nehru Jackets and/or “51”, a mixtape by Victor Vazquez (aka Kool A.D.) Add hype man Ashok Kondabolu (aka Dapwell) to the mix and you get a group known as Das Racist.

We weren’t too familiar with their background but one thing stood out, why the name Das Racist? Heems explained in an interview with Sara'o Bery (Spring, 2009). "From G's to Gents: The Formation of Das Racist". Wesleyan MUSC108 Midterm…