A New Despot Thread

[B. Ware tha Siniq]

I'm sure there have been Despot threads in the past, as he comes up at least once every couple of years when he releases a song or drops a cameo and everybody wonders what's up with his album or whatever. I made a comment the other day that I wished he would just go ahead and put out a solid EP or something, and that made me want to piece together all of his material into a mix. I was actually surprised there were a fair number of cuts I hadn't heard, stuff that either came out during the nerd rap dark ages or random freestyles or guest appearances I just never checked for.

http://hardwoodblacktop.com/2012/09/06/ ... igh-horse/

Cynical Bastards featuring LoDeck [prod by Cryptic One]
Look Alive [Blockhead Remix]
King Me [prod by Blockhead]
Pan Seared Tilapia featuring Meyhem Lauren, AG Da Coroner, & Action Bronson [prod by Tommy Mas]
Get Rich or Try Dying [prod by Blockhead]
Kate Boosh featuring Das Racist [prod by Mike Finito]
Freestyle [prod by Ratatat]
Homesickness [prod by Arcsin]
Rooftop featuring Das Racist [prod by Dame Grease]
House Made of Bricks (Live from KEXP) [prod by Ratatat]
Power featuring Das Racist & Danny Brown [prod by Dash Speaks]
Life With Snarky Parker [prod by Blockhead]
Substance D [prod by Blockhead]
The Last Huzzah! featuring Mr. MFN eXquire, Das Racist, Danny Brown & El-P [prod by Necro]
Blowout Freestyle
Crap Artists [prod by Blockhead]
Look Alive [prod by E*Vax]
Tougher Colder featuring El-P & Killer Mike [prod by El-P]
5 Pointz Selector Freestyle featuring El-P

Enjoy the mix and feel free to discuss random topics related to Despot as well.

[axel foley]

can't front. i was not familiar with dude at all until recently and first impressions were not good.

last few vids/tracks have won me over though.

[seagrams hotsauce]

[Y@k Bollocks]

Thanks, man. Really rate Despot.

[Y@k Bollocks]

[Fuzzy Logic]

the midget drug dealer? he aight

[Brougham33]

[foobar]

Thanks

[drizzle]

the midget drug dealer? he aight

[ardamus]

Nice.
Question: Did him and LoDeck have a group together or were they just cool with each other?

[iCONtheMicKing]

Nice.
Question: Did him and LoDeck have a group together or were they just cool with each other?

Pretty sure they was just cool.

[B. Ware tha Siniq]

Nice.
Question: Did him and LoDeck have a group together or were they just cool with each other?

Pretty sure they was just cool.

yup. No group that I know of... Just a collab on that Cryptic compilation.

[COOLEHMAGAZINE]

When/If the album comes out, it will be ridiculous.

But after 7? years of waiting for a Despot LP, I don't have a lot more energy to speculate about it. I do think that as good as his guest spots often are, he is the type of artist whose work will have a lot more depth/replay value if it's presented in the context of an album.

[ogie]

props on the blog post. that new song he does in the beginning of the video is .

[anticonguy]

despot is dope but i cannot look at pictures of him after listening to him, i laugh too hard, thanks.

[B. Ware tha Siniq]

props on the blog post. that new song he does in the beginning of the video is .

yeah somebody tweeted me that it's actually a re-working of an older song of his, but I never heard it before. It's in the mix too, just a youtube rip tho.

[zombie]

thansnk for this mixtape

ive been looking for a list of all the songs he's done so I could compile them together and make a mix of them.

someones finally done the job for me

[B. Ware tha Siniq]

props on the blog post. that new song he does in the beginning of the video is .

yeah somebody tweeted me that it's actually a re-working of an older song of his, but I never heard it before. It's in the mix too, just a youtube rip tho.

He sent me this... it's a radio rip from a year ago, haven't checked it yet. Will upload it later for those who are interested.

[zombie]

wouldnt you say that everyone in this topic is interested

[B. Ware tha Siniq]

The KEXP version on the mix was much better. This has a good bit of Despot talking over this... I hear a couple minor changes, but nothing much stands out.

[DLG]

[Philaflava]

If Action Bronson shrunk and lost the food references you'd almost think they were two of the same. Despot is like the good balance.

[Employee]

http://gabetwee.tumblr.com/post/3525701 ... das-racist

regarding the time i met das racist

I bought 4 tickets to this thing because I figured my friends would want to go.
They did not.
I do not have any friends.
I went to the concert anyway because that’s what Amelia Earhart would do assuming Amelia Earhart liked rap music.
I said that aloud to myself in the car a few times.
“Amelia Earhart wouldn’t give a fuck Amelia Earhart would go see Das Racist all by herself.”
I wore a forest green cardigan.
I put a lot of things in my backpack that I would actually not need.
I parked really far away.
I was 2 hours early.
I made friends with the bouncer during that time and he seemed pretty nice.
I went into the bar with 4 tickets but I just handed the extras to whoever because I didn’t care even though they cost me a bunch of money.
I didn’t actually say anything to anybody I just stood in line and clutched my stupid backpack in front of me because my hands didn’t know what to do.
I got in the venue eventually and got smashed between a big haired drunk girl and some boys in dumb hats acting social.
The show hadn’t started but Dap was just like wandering around all drunk and everybody clapped.
I held tight to my backpack some more.
I was getting very excited.
Some shitty rap group happened and then Despot happened and then the show happened which wasn’t very eventful except Heems got really drunk and Dap stuck his fingers in an electrical socket and I got to rap a line from “Rainbow In The Dark” into the microphone.
After the show, Vic said they weren’t gonna do an encore and he started playing that annoying “bew bew bewbewbew” sound that sometimes happens in rap songs to make us go away.
Nobody moved though.
Everyone else was getting all mad and turning to each other all exasperated and exchanging stupid outraged looks with their mouths hanging open everywhere.
I couldn’t stop laughing.
Victor saw me laughing.
I mouthed, “stahhhp” (still laughing)
He mouthed, “c’mere”
I mouthed, “up there?”
He rolled his eyes and pointed at the floor next to him.
I looked around for a sec, but Amelia Earhart wouldn’t give a fuck she wouldn’t hesitate Amelia Earhart would stop clutching her stupid useless backpack and get up there so I did.
I squeezed past people all the way up to the edge of the stage and I shoved a little which pissed people off I bet but whatever.
I hoisted me and my backpack right up there and walked over all cautious and a little starstruck maybe.
Victor Vasquez hands me his phone.
He just HANDS it to me and goes, “put your number in there I’ll find you in a little bit”
So anyway the crowd is drunk and leaving so I decide to park it on the edge of the stage.
I’m sitting there for a hot red second and I hear a kinda gross throat clear behind me so I turn around a little curious and a little disgusted to find Dap back there looking at me.
He goes, “You got a cigarette?”
I did. I did have a cigarette. I had one behind my ear.
So I pull it out from behind my ear and shove it in his direction.
“Sure do,” I say.
Then he gets this big pleased look on his face and he says, “You know we’re married now. In my country, when a girl gives a guy a cigarette they’re married.”
Then he stood up and motioned for me to follow him outside and we smoked by a dumpster.
It was rad and he spent a bunch of time making fun of me for coming to his show alone and then some dude rushes up to us and is being super annoying asking for Dap’s autograph and just generally being terrible until Dap just puts a hand up and goes,
“Dude. Can’t you see I’m busy? I don’t know if you’ve met my wife. But this is Gwen. My wife. My WIFE okay?? So I’d appreciate it if I could have some time alone with her.”
And the dude was all apologetic and I felt kinda bad for him but I really didn’t because I was too busy feeling important and superior.
Then Dap asked me to go out with them.
I’m like “uh maybe,” because I was 19 and I was wearing a cardigan.
But I did end up going out with them.
Heems, Vic, Dap, Despot, Lakutis, their manager, and me. Wandering around Iowa city. With a gaggle of girls in sparkly skirts following us around being loud.
I get into this bar with them and Dap is introducing me to every stranger as his wife and he is crushing and snorting my ADD medicine on the table, and we somehow LOST Heems who came back with a black eye, and Lakutis told me that I reminded him of Pepper Ann or something and I received many compliments on my forest green cardigan I was having a great time.
Then one by one, they asked me to come hang with them at their hotel.
Listen. I can sometimes be hella naive and trusting.
And this was one of those times.
So I get in the van with them and they start getting super apathetic and depressing but then they decide to shoot off a firework when we get to the hotel.
I’m all, “This is loud and illegal maybe we shouldn’t?”
And they were all, “Shh.”
So the rocket happened, and then we went inside, and then the story goes super downhill.
They smoked a ton of a lot of things in their non-smoking hotel room.
Heems grabbed my boob and then went to call his girlfriend.
Dap asked me to sleep in his bed a couple times and then gave up.
Lakutis asked if he could kiss me and when I said no he just decided to sneak attack kiss me on the mouth.
Vic laughed at me a lot as if I knew this was gonna happen.
Despot was asleep I think.
So I pulled their manager aside and I go, “I’m scared. I don’t want to do anything with anybody.”
And he said, “I’m sober. You can sleep in my bed I won’t try anything.”
But then I was falling asleep and he tried anyway so I pretended to be dead.
In the morning I heard:
“Did you get any?”
“No.”
“Fuckin Iowa, man.”
So we all piled back in the van and they dropped me off 3 miles from my car and my ADD meds were gone and so were all my cigarettes and Dap followed me on twitter for like a week.
——-
11-14-2012
I never intended for this to be seen by more than a few of my friends. It was not my intention to broadcast this to the entire internet. It may have been a mistake to post it on tumblr, but at the time I only had a few followers and I underestimated how much this would blow up. I didn’t write this post as a confrontation or an accusation of any kind. I wasn’t the one who posted this on reddit and I wish it hadn’t been posted. I’m sorry if you don’t like what I wrote but the incredible amount of harassment I’ve been receiving is uncalled for and over the top. I’m sorry this happened and I think it would be best for everyone if we let this drama die.

[Versive]

What a slut

[zombie]

the whole time I was reading that in Despot's monotone voice, i thought it was despot talking about himself, like out of body, third person or whatever.

i gotta stop the drugs

[citizen]

been excited for Despot ever since I heard crap artists back in 2002, that's a ridiculous verse

dude should have put out 2 or 3 albums by now

[Gyangsta 4 Life]

Someone re-up that mix Bware posted, please. I must have it.

[B. Ware tha Siniq]

Someone re-up that mix Bware posted, please. I must have it.

I might do it later. I think it's the eXquire songs or the Das Racist songs that keep getting it taken down. Someone's label doesn't want it out there, and it's not Despot or anybody he's affiliated with (at least according to him).

[peanut butter]

He's a guest on the Comback Jack show this week, but only gets a few words in between Bun B's grandstanding

http://thecombatjackshow.com/2012/11/30 ... t-episode/


PEACE

[sleazy_j]

Bun B; I used to be entertained by that guy.

I was going to listen to this for the Despot chatter, but it seems that these Combat Jack shows are near 3 hours long.

Despot owns a nightclub? I'm guessing it's some dive bar. I know he used to do promotions for shows at whatever SUNY school he went to.