Search And Destroy: Kool Keith

Said it before: he's the Rabelais of hip-hop. Search your heart, you know it to be true ;)

Destroy: everything post-Dooom, most of Dr Octagon, his bizarrely inflated ego, the incoherent interviews he gives, his expensive and dull live show, and Dan the Automator. What's the big deal? (Another thread?)

Destroy: some of the Dr Octagon stuff, especially the instrumental tracks, as I recall. Also I'm not too keen on what I've heard of late-period Ultramagnetic MCs.

-Sex Style- is a fantastic record as well. Some of his very best tunes are on that album. His tracks on Dan the Automator's -A Much Better Tomorrow- are really great; definitely some of his better flows, not to mention some of his coolest characters make their appearances on that one.

Analog Brothers -Pimp To Eat- is good, too, though Ice T and some of the other MCs steal the show a bit, on a few tracks.

Destroy: Hmm. A lot of tracks off of Matthew and Spankmaster are pretty bad, most of the "I hate record labels/everyone is copying me" tracks are pretty weak, not to mention redundant. I'm not going to dismiss those entire albums, though... they do have some redeeming value.

My verdict is still out on -Masters of Illusion-; I've yet to hear all of it.

Keith seems to shine best under the wing of more experienced (I mean, better) producers, although Keith's production style has its own charm from time to time.

Dirty Sanches aka Tera-act-ill......

Peace out, ReCaaLL p.s. check for "The Omega Project" LP from Da B.O.S.!!!!!!!!!!

Damn I almost want to go create a Kool Kieth themed Fantasy Role Playing Game!

Now my helmet's on/you can't tell me I'm not in space

Bah kool kieth fell off, in my openion
dont get me wrong he has amazing skill, but his game just seems so tired and a little inconsistant

Btw search for the track
Viktor Vaughn - doper skiller (Ft. Kool Kieth), best song off that viktor vaughn(MF Doom)album, but yeah check out some of MF Dooms work
Madvillian - Madvilliany (MF DOOM + Madlib) great album

http://sonomu.net/text/~drugsbyascoltare/

Comes with a pretend bag of coke.

I think they'd had to pay so much (Keith associates apparently kept saying "uh... Keith needs another grand to get a ...new mic lead, yeah, that's it. can you send it by tomorrow?" when they tried to get tapes back) by that point it would have felt like too much of a waste not to use what they did get.

They never really tried too hard to cash in on either the Keith or Kylie collabs on the album, though.

1. Show up late - most artists do this very well
2. Rap over his own records, usually just a couple verses and choruses from each track, rarely, if ever the whole song
3. Blue Flowers is the one Dr. Oct song he'll play.
4. He will be funny and insult the crowd
5. He will throw eaten chicken wings and sometimes Porno mags into the crowd
6. White boy manager will roll joint near the DJ and puff on stage.
7. Pimply white kids will be pressed against the front of the stage, some with Ben Drury designed t-shirts
8. Set will last under 1 hr and you will walk away glad you saw him but saying WHAT THE FUCK with him rapping over his own records. If you thought Ashlee Simpson was a sham, you really will be shocked when you see Keith perform.

i still like Kool Keith even though i've seen him do the EXACT same set 3 times, 4 years apart. enjoy but don't spend more than 20 bucks on tickets and go in with extremely low expectations. the bit where he freestyles is great and the bit where he counts the crowd is also funny as fuck.

Once in Louisville he did a 45+ minute set, the crowd roared so loud that he did an hour-long encore.

Search: Sex Style, Black Elvis, Dr. Dooom, Masters of Illusion
Destroy: Matthew (terrible, terrible album)

He seems far more consistent doing the dirty manskank stuff than the psychedelic weirdo stuff.

i want to stress that i enjoyed each and every show. keith is unique and completely batshit crazy and i love that about him. i just won't pay to see him live again. count backwards 45minutes from when the club has to shut it's doors and show up then. you won't miss more than 5mins of Keith. saves you from standing around like an idiot watching some bullshit local rap group.

the Dr. Octagon album does not sound like any other Kool Keith release I’ve ever heard. I’m not necessarily sure if this is a good thing, cuz the vocals all seem like they’re way low in the mix, most of the time I couldn’t make out much of them at all. The production is way more hyper and dense and just kinda loud – although Keith’s spoken interludes are funny (“you have a turtle in your uterus. This happens sometimes.”)

the Project Polaroid has better beats, at least to my ears, but Keith’s rhymes are almost totally random free-association stuff. No bragging, no characters, no narrative, no disses – just the weird unending stream of words and non-sequiturs. I kinda like this one more actually. But I gotta listen to both some more… I’ll copy ‘em for ya if you like.

honestly they both make me miss Kutmasta Kurt.

Dr. Doooom was awesome, also Black Elvis/Lost in Space....

salvage "I Don't Believe You" from Matthew is

..salvageable?

not that lyrical, his verse is interesting but never is too heavy, ykno? got his moments tho not too motivated. initially he had no idea, just a weird cool new style, got sidelined real hard by def jam cuz sensible people never felt ultramag except as a novelty (their one video). then he layd lo i guess, made some moves, killed the automator (who doesn't know how to add and subtract!) who can't produce a damn thing unless he's getting bitcht over the shoulder. anyways, after black elvis was mediocre he hates the music he can afford. CALL ME KEITH I WRITE TO U 30 HOURS ON 10 LINE REVISION WE HAVE VERY GUUD TYME CALL ME

 8^7 

sensible read those who witness suffering. keith likes the world without suffering? if that makes sense

he's smart for that though. he wants to replace violence with sex is this an issue to explore in the cultural division thread i don't want to write that kind of blog

recently got "The Return of Dr. Octagon"

flipping channels one night I saw the video for "Trees" off this record. it was so bad. made me glad I stopped paying attention after Black Elvis.

not that Black Elvis was bad, I liked that one

there's a ton of good stuff on this

Saw him in London last year. He's still pretty tight, and the set was thankfully low on newer stuff. Funniest bit was him handing out albums to the crowd, then demanding £10 from whoever took one. He really is quite lardy now, as well.

"Join us next week when we discuss the impending healthcare crisis with special guest Dr. Octagon"

--Kenan Thompson as Charles Barkley, 63 minutes into a Saturday Night Live sketch, 2008

"extravagant traveler: puerto rico out to africa"

the first dr. dooom record is amazing.

I'm the man of the hour watching girls taking a shower

lol! yeah, it's hella funny too

His new album Serpent came out today. It's produced by Real Bad Man, who are really great producers in the whole post-Daringer/Roc Marci/Alchemist style, ominous grimy stuff...he seems really focused on this and a typically strange list of collaborators - Atmosphere, Ice-T, Edan, and Zeelooperz from Danny Brown's Bruiser Brigade

best thing he's done in years...

Real Bad Mad did some great stuff with Boldy James, Smoke DZA and others

38 minutes is a good length for a rap record. i'm checking it out now, thanks.

can't stop listening to SERPENT

stoked to go into this listen ty ilm

OFF THE GLASS

BANK SHOT

on the one hand straight 90s refs make me feel so methuselah. oth, the whole deal real satisfying