Kool Keith - S/D

dr. octagon is essential. as are "dr. dooom" and "sex style"

i don't think you'd need anything else, besides the ultramagnetic stuff

Cool, I'll look into it. Heard a TOMC3 track the other day, and my ears perked up like they do when I hear some boom bap that I actually enjoy hearing. Lyrics were meh, but it definitely made me curious so I decided to start digging.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Octagonecologyst

Dr. Octagon is an extraterrestrial, time-traveling surgeon / obstetric gynecologist who has sex with his patients and nurses.

I think I'm liking this, hahaha - if his beats are has good as his pen names, I'm gonna be buying quite a few CDs.

yo, you're lying
he's lying.. and she's lying
my man over there he's lying
you know what? you're building up a bunch of lies
straight lies

you got mad guns? i don't believe you
you got eleven cars? i don't believe you
you got the block scared? i don't believe you
youse a bugged thug? i don't believe you
you doin jail time? i don't believe you
you got the newest benz? i don't believe you
you got the girls ready? i don't believe you
you movin big weight? i don't believe you
you cook in steel pots? i don't believe you
you goin on soul train? i don't believe you
you cashin royalties? i don't believe you
you did a video? i don't believe you
you smackin everybody? i don't believe you
you closin all deals? i don't believe you
you say you manage people? i don't believe you
youse a movie star? i don't believe you
you work with warner brothers? i don't believe you
you down with jamie foxx? i don't believe you
youse a druglord? i don't believe you
you pay your mortgage? i don't believe you
you datin fine chicks? i don't believe you
you travel solo kid? i don't believe you
[ Find more Lyrics at www.mp3lyrics.org/3CmT ]
you smackin anybody? i don't believe you
you got your own label? i don't believe you
you say you never lease? i don't believe you
you say your record's hot? i don't believe you
you workin hard lady? i don't believe you
you like to clock work? i don't believe you
you at your brother's house? i don't believe you
you tour with babyface? i don't believe you
you mix on ni boards? i don't believe you
you talk to aaron hall? i don't believe you
you play for the charlotte hornets? i don't believe you
you buyin a rolls royce? i don't believe you
you got signin power? i don't believe you
you makin hit records? i don't believe you
you say zach's your cousin? i don't believe you
you sellin knicks tickets? i don't believe you
you givin afterparties? i don't believe you
you at the superbowl? i don't believe you
you bought a mansion? i don't believe you
you think you hype rappin? i don't believe you
you say you are the man? i don't believe you
your mother thinks she's fly? i don't believe you
you say your pops is cool? i don't believe you
you got your aunt a diamond? i don't believe you
you got the kids a gift? i don't believe you
you movin out to cali? i don't believe you
you say you doin jacks? i don't believe you
you makin millions kid? i don't believe you
you say you sellin furniture? i don't believe you
you work construction? i don't believe you
you got your hair done? i don't believe you
you mess with lauryn hill? i don't believe you
you danced with james brown? i don't believe you
you own a dodge truck? i don't believe you
you work at 7/11

Seek: "The Girls Don't Like the Job," "You Live at Home With Your Mom," "Alpha Omega"

Destroy: Spankmaster

S: Masters of Illusion

I got my helmet on
you can't tell me I'm not in space

Dr. Octagonecologist
Lost in Space
Sex Style
Spankmaster
Ultra (w/Tim Dog, I think is out of print...?)
Critical Beatdown
Dr. Doooooom

all great

Also, the search function is your friend

Search And Destroy: Kool Keith

his track on Prince Among Thieves is also pretty great

Just got "Lost in Space" last week. Some duds on there, but the good stuff is soooo good.

I'd like to pick up that Nogatco thing and "Project Polaroid". Quite liked the couple of songs I've heard from each.

Project Polaroid is not bad, one of the few recent things he's done that I liked - has a great Who sample on one song. Lyrics are pretty random tho.

aren't random lyrics the true beauty of kool keith anyway? i only listen to keith for his random, fucked up lyrics.

most of the time ghostface is just as deranged as kool keith

project polaroid's great. for the overviewer, particularly. cool herc was eleven years old in jamaica.

s: leave me alone for pretty simple production and really fast rambling. also grudgingly search 'you live at home with your mom' just because it's such a good title.

TRUE STORY: Keith likes to whip ziplock bags containing chicken wings and capri suns out into the audience at his shows. One time my friend - a pretty tall dude - got hit right in the face with one of those.

So, uh, I guess D: getting hit in the face with chicken wings and capri suns at Kool Keith shows.

I hadn't listened to any of this in forever. I can see Sex Style in it's case over there.

most of the time ghostface is just as deranged as kool keith

-- cutty, Monday, August 25, 2008 5:03 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

yeah but i always get the sense that ghost is pretty much a regular dude, just one that raps real fucked up esoteric type shit a lot of times..whereas keith seems genuinely mentally not all there...or not necessarily not all there intelligence wise just...like there's a name probably for what keith is, if i were a psychologist i could probably tell you.

they do really different things as rappers imho. and the recent Keith stuff I've heard it was really like he was just stringing random words together, free-association style, not even rhyming really. Ghost doesn't do this.

getting hit with a chicken wing at a kool keith show is the highlight of the show. he raps over his own vocal cuts. does about 2mins of each song, rapping over his own tracks!

Destroy: Kool Keith live.

i did not say their styles were similar, i'm talking psychological profiles

the more interviews etc i see of him, the less crazy i think he is. the phrase "taking the piss" comes to mind.

exhibit A: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKq-kSlKiTM

hahahaha

all great recommendations, guys. I get really happy when I hear indie rap I actually end up liking or remembering.

check out Edan's two albums. first one is goofy but great. 2nd more serious but still great.

I always felt that Dr. Octagon wasn't as good as it was in my head. The production is pretty good, but the lyrics smack of this weird, forced "look how car-azzzzy I am" that Kool Keith seems to impart into a lot of his material.

bionic Oldsmobile

check out Edan's two albums. first one is goofy but great. 2nd more serious but still great.

Good call. I'll second this advice.

Anyone heard Dr Dooom 2 yet? Comes out next week, I think.

Edan's "Beauty and the Beat" is fantastic

>Anyone heard Dr Dooom 2 yet?

Boring and mostly pointless. He spends most of the album grumbling about rappers who sell more than he does and calling them sellouts and Uncle Toms. Plus the opening track is about how much he hates Simon Cowell.

"He spends most of the album grumbling about rappers who sell more than he does and calling them sellouts and Uncle Toms. Plus the opening track is about how much he hates Simon Cowell."

that sounds like something i want to hear.

me too! how are the beats? seriously the most annoying thing about recent Kool Keith stuff I bought (particularly the Return of Dr. Octagon, but also Project Polaroid, to a lesser extent) was that the music sucked and was mixed WAY louder than Keith's vocals. Bring back Kut Masta Kurt!

yeah Phil's capsule makes it sound like I'll like it

From this

"My favorite Kool Keith name is Fly Ricky The Winetaster."