circa 2004 L’Homme Run shirt, by Ezra
Pre- Vampire Weekend Downloads List
L’HOMME RUN
(Ezra Koenig’s “serious” rap band)
Download: L’Homme Run
Tracklisting:
- Bitches
- Interracial Dating
- Giving Up Da Gun
- Pizza Party
THE SOPHISTICUFFS
(Ezra Koenig’s high school band)
Download: Factory - The Sophisticuffs
Tracklisting:
- Reginald’s Lament
- Oh No (Oh Yes)
DIGBY SELLARS
(Chris Tomson’s solo project)
Download: Tailored For Men - Digby Sellars
Tracklisting:
- All You Need To Say
- I Have Blushed
- Scarlett
PASSWORD: vampyweeks
Interviewer: True of false: pre-Vampire Weekend, some of you were members of a comedy rap band, L'Homme Run.
Ezra: False. Pre-Vampire Weekend, some of us were members of a serious rap band, called L'Homme Run.
Interviewer: A serious rap band! Can you bust me some rhymes, MC Ezzy?
Rostam: Actually, Ezra's rap name is Ezra Factory.
Ezra: .....My name is Ezzy. I dunno if I could bust a good rap but uhh...
Rostam: All of them are dirty. Well I would say my favorite ones are the dirty ones!
Interviewer: The best rap songs are dirty!
Ezra: I have one of the most disgusting raps of all time... wait okay I'll speak it, this is one of them.... this is from a classic from those days. From here to texas, girls call me sexist cause I airbrushed your breasts on the top of my Lexus. But it's just cause I fell in love with your solar plexus, your ribcage and your beaded necklace. So you can see, it's you know... it's on the way to being Vampire Weekend, it's not that different.
“Scottish Taliban? Best of Both Worlds? In this L’Homme Run promotional photograph, my ideal alter-ego takes form.”
L’Homme Run is a “serious” rap band composed of Ezra Koenig and Andrew Kalaidjian and backed up by their “multi-instrumentalist” friend, Chris Tomson. Fun fact: Ezra’s rap name is Ezra Factory.
Whatever happened to L'Homme Run (the precursor to Vampire Weekend, a rap group featuring Ezra Koenig and drummer Chris Tomson)?
Chris Baio: It was Ezra rapping with our friend from college, Andrew. Chris, our drummer, would play different instruments and be the hype man.
Interviewer: So he was the Flavor Flav of the group?
Baio: He shared an elevator with Flavor Flav a couple months ago so maybe he got some tips. We were playing a festival with Public Enemy in Barcelona where they were doing It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and I thought they were totally awesome. That's a record that I love. I love a lot of Public Enemy stuff and I thought they sounded great and they were really energetic. And it so happens that CT got in an elevator with Flavor Flav. But I really wish I could have seen them at Pitchfork (Music Festival, in Chicago) again, but we didn't get there until the morning we played.
