Combination Pizza Hut and Analytical Dressing-Down

In case you somehow haven't heard of them by now, here is a fanmade video for the YouTube hit "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" by Das Racist:

And here (via The Standing Room) is an essay (and 24 haiku!) in which they demolish the disingenuous racial politics of New Yorker pop critic Sasha Frere-Jones. (SFJ, you'll recall, is quite unafraid to "stir up" "controversy" in his essays for the magazine, and I use those words in the sense that one might "stir up" "controversy" by farting in crowded elevators.)

It should become clear as soon as you start reading that these guys are at least as learnèd as they are clever, but I still can't help but think it must sting to get schooled in hip-hop and race by the "Combination Pizza Hut" guys. Seriously, on some level, that's gotta be like getting an intellectual beatdown from Afroman. Well done, gents! I shall listen to "Combination Pizza Hut & Taco Bell" with new ears.

Actual Transcript

DB: Hello, Banhart residence. 

SFJ: Hey, Devendra? 

DB: I'm sorry, who's this? 

SFJ: It's Sasha. Sasha Frere-Jones, at the New Yorker? 

DB: Um, hey, what's up, Sasha. 

SFJ: Hey well listen. I've just heard your new record, and I've decided it's too white. 

DB: You have? I mean--have you heard the record--? 

SFJ: Well, not exactly. I've, I've heard of it. 

DB: Because it's actually, actually like a quarter of the record is in Spanish. I've been listening to a lot of Latin music lately, and I've been listening to a lot of Brazilian music, and I decided I wanted a lot more of sort of a South American feel on this one. 

SFJ: But why not go for more of a black feel. 

DB: What? 

SFJ: I mean like, you're a big fan of the new R. Kelly album, right? 

DB: Well, sure, I-- 

SFJ: So why not go for a sound more like that? You know, black. 

DB: Well--I mean, if you listen to the record, I think you'll hear an awful lot of, like, Gilberto Gil, and--  

SFJ: --but why? Why Gilberto Gil, and not somebody black? Like R. Kelly? [awkward silence] 

DB: You--you don't know who that is, do you. 

SFJ: Black people are so soulful! And they love sex! You like that song, "Freaky in the Club"? 

DB: How did you get this number. 

SFJ [singing]: Get freaky in the cluuuuub! Get freaky in the cluuuuuub! 

DB: [click] 

SFJ: Get fr--hello? Hello?