what is Kool Keith up to?

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I'm skeptical of this "Truckers" album or whatever its called, even tho it does bring back Kut Master Kurt. "Spankmaster" was a lot of fun, I wonder if he's still stickin to his "one good album followed by one crap album" dialectic...

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 22 November 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

watching porn?

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

pimpin', right?

LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

According to reviews I've read, "Diesel Truckers" is supposed to be his most solid record since "Black Elvis/Lost in Space". I haven't got ahold of it yet, but I'm looking forward to hearing it.

Every country has their stupid (AaronHz), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

he just released something called "the personal album"... it's all r&b

cutty (mcutt), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

dood a Kool Keith r&b album sounds like a great idea.

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 22 November 2004 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Kool Keith - The Personal Album


01 Girl Wanna Kill Herself

02 I Do What I Want

03 Take Off Your Panties

04 Professional Photographer

05 Sexual Intruder

06 I'm Dangerous

07 A Black Kid Who Thinks He's White

08 Lady Thinks She's All That

09 It Gotta Be That Way

10 Change Your World

11 Honey I Miss You

12 Sexy Girl

cutty (mcutt), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

woah.

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 22 November 2004 23:53 (twenty-one years ago)

$60 tho? fuck that. I do want to hear it though.

Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 22 November 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

wa "MM...Food" much cop?

Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Diesel Truckers is pretty enjoyable. The best song is called "MANE" if you're in a POO mood.
Also brand new-ish is something new called Dr. Octagon II, which I know nothing about except that's there's no Dan the Automator involvement. The song titles loook good, though.

Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Kool Keith should be able to press more copies of an album than I can.
Dr Octagon II thing sounds like a scam (at least lookin at that koolkeith.uk site does). Automator's involvement wouldn't improve my attitude towards it either, that guy is terrible.

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.koolkeith.co.uk/killdroctagon.gif

cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

terrible as a guy or as a producer?

Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The Personal Album is NOT R+B (not really hip hop, either) and it's not something he "just released"; it's a promo collection of tracks that he gives out as a nicety to people he likes and will occasionally leak a couple dozen copies for kicks.
I have a rip of a copy that he gave to a friend; it's interesting but sorta trashy. If you NEED to hear a track, hit me up.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

The DJ from the Melbourne dub/hiphop/bit-of-everything group High Pass Filter did the production on the new Dr. Octagon album, after someone else got thrown off it. Apparently it was done in the Czech Republic back in '03.

haitch haitch haitch (or any three repetitive sounds) (haitch), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

oh PLEASE. it's him speaking over jokey r&b tracks, then doing a typical kool keith chorus.

if it's not r&b and it's not hip hop, then please, tell me what it is?

cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

not especially interesting.

Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 05:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Keith's got a DVD dropping in February...part concert footage, part walk-of-life weirdo travelling.

Sean Fennessey (Sean F), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 06:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Keith's got a DVD dropping in February...part concert footage, part walk-of-life weirdo travelling.

Sean Fennessey (Sean F), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 06:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm about to boo you, let it be fair.

lukey (Lukey G), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

anyone seen Keith live lately?

"put down that Poland Spring man, you ain't sweatin'/your crew just did a 10 minute weak show and you jettin'"

I'm paraphrasing, but the ironic thing is that he did exactly this when I saw him last year...Ice-T MCd the event, which included Jacky Jasper and one of the ultramagnetic guys...Keith came on for maybe 6 or 7 songs and that was it....I'd heard he was a cocaine casualty and all, paranoid and known to dissapoint...but still, I was surprised

Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

his live shows have always been highly erratic. Seems fairly common in hip hop to me. I do wish he would drop Ice T tho, that guy is way past his sell-by date.

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I WISH YOU ILL ICE-T!

chappelle (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...
just saw him again on Friday at BB King's....another erratic show, starting out great with Ultramagnetic numbers, progressively getting weaker with all the guest spots (Ice-T included)...but Keith was much more in charge than at last year's Knitting Factory show and during one segment my girlfriend actually got a pair of panties from him!

Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Monday, 14 February 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

during one segment my girlfriend actually got a pair of panties from him!

was he selling them from the stage?

Jonathan (Jonathan), Monday, 14 February 2005 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

he had a shopping cart full that he handed out before "sex styles"

Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Monday, 14 February 2005 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

he's playing at the BB King Blues Bar with Coolio,.....oddly.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 February 2005 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

oh wait, he already did. Sorry.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 February 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

BEING THE BOSS. IF U DIDN'T HEAR COMMI$$IONER 1 AND 2 YOU MISSED A VITAL CRITICISM

usic, Sunday, 18 May 2008 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

CIPHER

usic, Sunday, 18 May 2008 00:53 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

Ok, this interview is just the best thing in music journalism history, starting with:

The A.V. Club: What's your beef with Simon Cowell?

Kool Keith: I think for one guy to sit up and judge people and for him to be British at that—who the fuck is he to judge people? To come to America and try to judge people? I think Simon needs to get the fuck out the set and give it to someone else. Paula Abdul used to be an artist, choreographer, dancer, she needs to go back to that. I don't want her judging talent at all. Randy Jackson, he's cool, he's a buddy of mine. Let Randy be. Simon needs to get the fuck out of here and go somewhere. What is Simon's qualifications? I'm trying to figure it out. That guy wears a black shirt with a gay haircut, and he's going to walk around and judge people? I don't understand it. That show is full of bullshit. I'd respect it if they had an American artist doing the shit.

AVC: What about the similar journalistic call-out on "Always Talkin' Out Your Ass"?

KK: That song I wrote more for the music industry. The whole industry has this perspective of, like, "The show is not a show no more, now you got to have a party after." I think the fans are getting used to a certain thing. Everybody's spoiled. I've learned that people cheat—downloading. Everyone wants to have fancy jeans or the latest glasses. "Yeah, I'm hip. I spend money. I got a Sidekick." But at home, they don't even buy a full CD no more, with the plastic on it. They're official one way and artificial another. That song is about a lot of things: how people tend to do things expensive and then they do things cheap at the same time, so they have a contradicted lifestyle. At least buy a real CD, not a bootleg. You got on the latest jeans. You got antique jeans on, or some shades that cost $200. You got a phone.

And it actually gets BETTER from there.

Law-Thug for Chiquita Bananas (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 21 November 2008 17:09 (seventeen years ago)

very promising!

Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 21 November 2008 17:22 (seventeen years ago)

that Return of Dr. Octagon album is some bullshit

Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 21 November 2008 17:22 (seventeen years ago)

Return of Dr Octagon was not officially approved by Keith, if I'm not mistaken

billstevejim, Saturday, 22 November 2008 03:34 (seventeen years ago)

kool keith calling out all the antique denim wearing motherfuckers is AWESOME.
what's the reaction from the Steve Shasta camp?

ian, Saturday, 22 November 2008 04:06 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

Kool Keith – "Jedi Supreme" Ft. Big Sche Eastwood
New Non-Album Track Drops To Precede Tuesday's Album Release

On Tuesday, Kool Keith will release Love & Danger, the 13th album of his illustriously eccentric career. Already, Kool Keith has released a handful of singles from the album, and now, with a string of European show dates wrapping up, and new video planned to drop on release date, Keith is releasing a new non-album single, "Jedi Supreme."

The track, which is a collaboration with Big Sche Eastwood (also known as Mr. Sche) and features scratches by Junkaz Lou, both of whom show up on Love & Danger, is also produced by Mr. Sche, who provides Keith with a spacey, orchestral track. For his part, Keith doesn't disappoint, delivering a rangy, imagery-filled verse, rapping, "No one in space wants to argue with the Nubian Casablanca...They say I'm on that Formica/ I know what you like/ Women with space suits on/ I'm commanding them what to do with a captain's uniform on."

Download "Jedi Supreme" here.
Pre-order Kool Keith's Love & Danger CD here.
Pre-order Love & Danger on iTunes.

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 1 June 2012 19:56 (fourteen years ago)

that doesn't even sound like Keith on that track wtf

Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:00 (fourteen years ago)

like, literally I do not hear Keith at all

Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:00 (fourteen years ago)

That certainly bodes well...

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:12 (fourteen years ago)

2nd verse might be kk

spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:25 (fourteen years ago)

hard to tell, it's buried under so much crap

Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:27 (fourteen years ago)

basically if it isn't Kut Masta Kurt, it's probably best to take a pass

Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 1 June 2012 20:27 (fourteen years ago)

yeah the first verse the dude says "me and Kool Keith..." so it's obv another dude

2nd verse is keith.

funny though keith's vocal's sound weird, like i wonder if he just rapped into his computer and sent a verse to these random dudes and released it

wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 1 June 2012 21:51 (fourteen years ago)

Can't get enough of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xFAkQtvk-Q

America's Mobile, Tuesday, 5 June 2012 21:28 (fourteen years ago)


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