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9.0
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Rave Magazine
Das Racist are smart enough to know exactly how dumb their repetitive stoner slogans sound. They’re also smart enough to make them catchy as hell
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8.5
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8.5 |
Beats Per Minute
It becomes apparent after a few spins of Relax that lyrics are still Das Racist’s staying power, despite the record’s accessibility and pop-leaning aptitude
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8.5
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8.5 |
Prefix
Two of the most entertaining MCs out today
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8.3
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8.3 |
Pretty Much Amazing
They have pulled off the coup of elevating their game without changing their nature
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8.3
32065
8.3 |
A.V. Club
Encyclopedic rhymes and referential material abound. The beats are wily, far too glitchy to be considered straight rap, yet much too grounded lyrically to be written off as just weird dance music
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8.0
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Slant Magazine
Relax finds Das Racist operating as both consumers and creators of pop culture, spawning an endless pomo cycle of criticism and observation
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8.0
32068
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Spin
We join Das Racist in the Hey, These Guys Are Actually Really Good phase of their inexplicable career
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7.0
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Rolling Stone
The hip-hop jokers have grown into acerbic satire hustlers
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7.0
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Consequence Of Sound
It’s knowing, tongue-in-cheek rap whose energy feeds off constant connectivity to the Internet: It’s accountable and hyper-aware
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6.3
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Pitchfork
While they've made great use of deconstructive syntax, repetition, gibberish, and in-jokes in the past, too much of Relax simply feels like dead air
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5.0
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PopMatters
Where once they might have been subtle in criticising the predomination of pop culture, Relax shows Das Racist wanting to now be a part of it. In doing so, Das Racist has traded in the currency that made them so special
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5.0
33068
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No Ripcord
They sometimes touch upon socio-political themes, but their lyrics are nowhere near as quotable as on their mixtapes
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