"Shut Up, Dude" Das Racist Hand Signed 8X10 Color Photo Todd Mueller COA

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Up for auction "Shut Up, Dude" Das Racist Hand Signed 8X10 Color Photo. Signers are; Heems, Kool A.D. and Ashok "Dapwell" Kondabolu.
This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
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Das Racist
was an American
alternative hip hop
group based in
Brooklyn
, composed of
MCs
Heems
and
Kool A.D.
and
hype man
Ashok Kondabolu
(aka Dapwell). Known for their use of humor, academic references, foreign allusions, and unconventional style, Das Racist has been both hailed as an urgent new voice in rap and dismissed as joke rap.After rising to
Internet fame
with their 2008 song "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell", Das Racist established themselves as rappers with the release of their 2010 mixtapes
Shut Up, Dude
and
Sit Down, Man
.
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[5]
Spin
picked Das Racist as one of fifty acts to watch at the 2010
SXSW
festival, and in April 2010, MTV Iggy selected Das Racist as one of the "25 Best New Bands in the World".
Rolling Stone
declared the song "hahahaha jk?" from
Sit Down, Man
one of the fifty best singles of 2010. In September 2011, Das Racist released their first commercial album,
Relax
, which was named in many year-end "best of" lists, including both that of
Rolling Stone
and
Spin
, as well as being named by
Spin
as the fourth best rap album of the year.
Spin
also featured Das Racist on the cover of its November 2011 issue with an article written by Dap's brother, comedian
Hari Kondabolu
. On November 28, 2011, the group made their United States television debut on
Conan
.At the PULS Festival, formerly known as on3-Festival, in December 2012 in Munich, Heems revealed "Das Racist is breaking up and we're not a band anymore." The next day, Kool A.D. revealed that he had left the band in October 2012, though his reasons for doing so and the status of recorded materials for the group's second album remain unknown.