Das Racist Announce Split

Das Racist have announced and confirmed their split.

The news came after a performance this weekend at Munich’s On3 Festival, during which member Heems performed a solo set, in the band’s scheduled spot. During the performance itself, he addressed the crowd with the news (via Pitchfork): ‘You guys wanna know the secret? Alright, so I’m going to do some Das Racist songs, but Das Racist is breaking up and we’re not a band anymore.”

The break up was then confirmed by Kool A.D. via Twitter (‘for the record i quit das racist 2 months ago and was asked by our manager not to announce it yet. apparently @himanshu wanted to do it tho.”), before Dapwell took to SPIN.com to discuss the split.

“I was bummed when we actually broke up, when it was done, mostly because it was a way to make money really easily. Now, I probably won’t be able to make money that easily ever again,” he said. “But we had a plan to break up around May. We had just signed this record deal and we were going to put out one proper album and then go on a farewell tour, release a proper breaking up statement that could have been really funny, maybe a weird, stupid video. Now, all of that has gone to shit.”

Das Racist were formed in Brooklyn, New York in 2008.