Friday's theme of everything hip-hop continued Saturday night when Brooklyn's favorite mediocre rap group, Das Racist hit up Soundlab. The show sold out while we were still in line and gave the vibe that this was the place to be on a rainy Saturday in Buffalo. Quite possibly, the hottest ticket in town.

From the beginning, it was clear that the crowd was in a very energetic mood. People made shadow puppets using the slide show projector, engaged in causal conversion and continuously maneuvered for the best possible viewing spot. Opening act, Loki da Trixta, pumped up the crowd with his own version of glitch hop-hop, but honestly I think the people in attendance would have been receptive to just about anything on stage. Finally, shortly after 11, the Das Racist posse hit the stage with a couple six packs in hand, ready to give the people what they came for. The group started the night off with the crowd favorite "Who's that? Brown" and hype man Ashok Kondabolu danced like some stoned version of PeeWee Herman. Having never seen Das Racist before, I have to say they reminded me of the Beastie Boys mixed with Weird Al. They always ended each others sentences by emphasizing a word or two in unison and trading verses like they were currency. At one point, the group stopped everything and started singing a gibberish version "Take Me Home Tonight". Another highlight of the evening was the Carlos Mencia name dropping rap "Shortly Said" which got more than enough laughs from the crowd.

Honestly, I'm not a huge fan of Das Racist and I didn't know much more than the Taco Bell/Pizza Hunt song (which they did not play), but the night flew by quickly and proved to be more fun than I initially thought. Cheers to that.