Well if you are obsessed with Vampire Weekend like me, you have traced their roots pretty deep. Ezra’s first journey into the music scene was with his old hip-hop duo “L’Homme Run” which was with his college friend Andrew Kalaidjian. They had a few tracks on their myspace that got them some moderate love, but nothing to the level of Vampire Weekend (obviously).
However, there is good reason not to forget about L’Homme Run. As far as I can remember they had a select few tracks on their myspace. I have 4 of them as mp3′s in itunes. They are “Bitches”, “Interracial Dating”, “Pizza Party” and the aforementioned song “Giving Up Da Gun”.
If you take a look at the track listing for Contra, you can see that one of the songs on the album is titled “Giving Up The Gun”. It just so happens that the song got taken down from L’Homme Run’s myspace. Hmm……
The L’Homme Run “version” is probably best compared to “I Stand Corrected”. It is a pretty good song, executed pretty well considering how young and inexperienced Ezra was at the time.
You can only wonder what they did with the song now. Reworked it, cleaned it up, put some spit and shine on it.
Although, it could just be one big fat coincidence. A pretty fat one at that.
[mp3] : L’ Homme Run – Giving Up Da Gun XL Recordings asked me to take it down! VW doesn’t want this version to be heard!
-A thank you to Hunter Lombard for bringing this connection to my attention!
-Also, if you guys want the rest of L’Homme run’s songs email me or leave a comment below! If there is some demand for it, I will make it happen!
Chris — 6 Oct 09
Some pretty good detective work right there, props!
Isabel — 6 Oct 09
I would very much like to hear more of them…………
Jack — 6 Oct 09
Way interested; would be way pleased if you posted the rest of them!
thankies!!
fred hawley — 6 Oct 09
i want dem in my mouf!!!
Scottish Friction — 6 Oct 09
haha, good detective work
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andrea — 6 Oct 09
i want to lsiten to those
Josh — 6 Oct 09
I would like to have these. Can you send?
steve b — 6 Oct 09
hey will, in true me style, i missed the l’homme run track, is there any chance you could mail it to me?? i think you have my email….
respect..
David — 6 Oct 09
Hook me up! I gotta hear this!
andrade — 6 Oct 09
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE put them up! i’ll straight up send you money for you to put them on the blog! i HAVE to hear them!! please && thank youuu
Carly — 7 Oct 09
I love to hear it!! Unfortunately I didn’t have a chance to see this before the link got taken down, any chance you could email it?? : )
Jacob — 7 Oct 09
Send me some of that, sounds pretty ace.
Dylan — 7 Oct 09
id love to hear the song. can you still send them?
Jeff — 7 Oct 09
I’d also like to hear. Can you send it me as well? Thanks
miriamwavv — 7 Oct 09
gooooood detective work right there, props! [2]
please send me ”Giving Up The Gun” to my e-mail adress: karlaflip@live.com
pleaseeeeeeeeeeee
Mark — 7 Oct 09
Nice! Thanks, man.
Danielle — 7 Oct 09
im sooooo glad this got out…who made the find… hunter lombard or we all want someone to shout for ?
miriamwavv — 8 Oct 09
manythanks for the private e-mail!!! cheers xxx
Chab — 9 Oct 09
Pleaaaaase send it to me at Chabosson@live.fr, i so need to hear those.
danny — 9 Oct 09
it’s no coincidence. i had a interview with Christopher Tomson of VW yesterday, and he said that the song on Contra, while not EXACTLY like the old one, is sort of similar. It’s a brand new song, but has some ties to the L’Homme Run track
Chab — 10 Oct 09
Thks
keahi — 10 Oct 09
sweet find! i would love to hear more!!
aki — 11 Oct 09
hey!
if you could get me both ‘bitches’ and interracial dating’
i’ll be forever grateful.
VW has been throwing down some interesting work
and its great to sleuth around to see how they’ve
been influenced and where they came from.
I can’t wait till the new album in Jan!
SpikeLee3000 — 14 Oct 09
I’ve been looking for an mp3 of Giving Up Da Gun for months now! If you have a copy and you could send it to me, my email is Spikelee3000@yahoo.com. Thanks!
s — 18 Oct 09
id love to hear all the tracks, including ‘giving up da gun’
eric — 19 Oct 09
i want to hear it… haha i am interested in hearing this
Jeff Geller — 19 Oct 09
Oh please send the song to jcg414@gmail.com. I would love to hear it man, thanks so much
Chris Szmurlo — 19 Oct 09
Hey could you please send me those L’Homme Run songd?! I’d truly appreciate it, thx!!! my email is ceszmurlo@hotmail.com
Patrick — 28 Oct 09
Please send me the four songs that you have!
Eric — 29 Oct 09
hey i would love to hear these songs
could you send them to me?
my email is elopez393@gmail.com
thanks
Chris — 4 Nov 09
Please send me the song!!!!
Thanks!
Dustin — 12 Nov 09
I’d love to hear those tracks, been in great anticipation for this new one. Cheers for the heads up I never knew their backstory or anything.
Tom — 12 Nov 09
L’homme run was the best… feel free to send me any l’homme run songs you have, they’re pretty hard to come by these days, thanks
Jamie — 1 Dec 09
I’m a huge Vampire Weekend fan, and the L’Homme Run songs on myspace sound really great too. Could you send them to me at: jamiemaccormackmason@hotmail.com
Thanks
andrey — 3 Dec 09
awebb@mail.ru send me one please
Peter Jackson — 10 Dec 09
sorry to bother you but could you email me the L’Homme Run stuff via email?? peter_iata@hotmail.co.uk
thank you
Colston — 18 Dec 09
ahh i cant find any L’homme songs up for download! if you could please send me their songs it would be super appreciated!! thank you thank you thank you
Colston — 18 Dec 09
my email is
cjbyrd@ncsu.edu
Mary — 23 Dec 09
I’m excited for Contra, even more so knowing that Giving Up Da Gun will be featured. It used to be on YouTube, but XL Recordings removed it from there, too. Is there any way you could send me the L’Homme Run songs at MaryJackInTheBox@aol.com? I’ve been desperately searching the internet for downloadable versions, but to no avail.
alex — 23 Dec 09
please please give meeee a song of l homme run i have only but i want more i obsed whit vampire weekend and i love white skyy
pklasee
Ike — 6 Jan 10
Any chance you could email me those L’homme run Mp3s? It would be much appreciated!
Ike — 6 Jan 10
my email is ickitman@aol.com by the way. Send it please.
Mark — 7 Jan 10
Please email me any L’Homme Run tracks you have – mtressle@gmail.com. Very much appreciated. Thanks!
Agalea — 13 Jan 10
Could you possibly send me all the tracks from that hip-hop project including Giving Up Da Gun?
aidangalea@gmail.com
Oksy — 13 Jan 10
no way, no way o:! i love them lawl. i can to hear it ;D
p.s. coolio detective works
Steven — 15 Jan 10
Could you please send them to me Here: Steverice1077@gmail.com
Megan — 21 Jan 10
i would love any lhomme run tracks if you have any. thanks!
Andy — 26 Jan 10
The76ersrdabest@aol.com , if you could send those to me I would appreciate it!
Angemk@gmail.com — 29 Jan 10
ooooooh please send me the track if you could..thx!!
Jade — 23 Feb 10
It would be amazing if you could send me them! x-jadechao-x@hotmail.com
Or post the ones you can.
Victoria — 25 Feb 10
I used to have L’Homme Run’s 4 tracks on my old laptop before it freaked out, broke down and I lost them (and a lot more besides, sadface). Would be incredibly grateful to be reunited with them! x
Rachel — 13 Mar 10
Break me off a piece of that please. I’d love to hear it.
alexis — 14 Apr 10
I’d love those mp3′s if you still have ‘em!
My email is old and embarrassing, but it’s piggygirl360@gmail.com
Sophie — 27 Apr 10
I would LOVE L’Homme Runs songs to be sent to me, if you wouldn’t mind sending them to: sophielaw1@hotmail.co.uk
I would be so greatful, I have been searching for a download of these songs for some time!
Thanks!
HES — 11 May 10
Can you please send them to me as well? I have looked all over for them. Thanks!!
HES — 11 May 10
it’s 500helen at sbcglobal.net
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