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ARTIST: Kool Keith
TITLE: KEITH
LABEL: Mello Music Group
GENRE: Hip-Hop
RLS TYPE: Retail
SOURCE: CD
PLAYTIME: 00:44:17
STREET DATE: 2019-00-00
RIP DATE: 2022-11-27
ENCODER: FLAC 1.3.1
BITRATE: 911 kbps avg - 44.1kHz - 2 channels
SIZE: 288.51 megs
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URL: https://mmg-koolkeith.bandcamp.com/
"It's been more than forty years since Kool Herc starting throwing parties
in the South Bronx, and so you could forgive the casual fan for thinking
that nearly every permutation of hip-hop has already been explored. But
KEITH, the new album from the iconic rapper Kool Keith and the master
producer Psycho Les (due out July 12 on Mello Music Group) argues just the
opposite: that whatÆs absurdly funny can also be sinister and strange, that
the form can still be broken in new and radical ways.
Keith is, of course, one of the pivotal figures in the history of hip-hop,
and has been one of the genre's most singular writers and original voices.
The Bronx native was a founding member of Ultramagnetic MCs, whose debut
album, 1988's Critical Beatdown, served as a blueprint for both
internationally famous acts like Public Enemy and for the entire future of
underground rap. But Keith's solo work, which began in earnest in the
mid-'90s with Dr. Octagonecologyst (released under a pseudonym, naturally)
is even stranger, more experimental, more brilliant. He will enjamb
seemingly unrelated ideas and images against one another with a poet's love
for language and a pornographer's knack for camp. Subsequent records like
1997's Sex Style, '99's Black Elvis/Lost In Space, and 2000's Matthew were
hailed as instant classics; Keith has spent the last several years crafting
expertly written records that are rewardingly bizarre, unlike anything else
on the rap landscape ûû and KEITH is a crown jewel in that excellent
late-period run.
Psycho Les is a founding member of the Beatnuts, who were first notable as
the only Latino members of the Native Tongues, the collective of groups
that pushed hip-hop to its avant edges in the early '90s. They were staples
throughout that decade, both with their own albums and via the production
they did for artists as disparate as Fat Joe and Common ûû as well as for
their work pioneering the remix. The Beatnuts' music had in its foreground
cramped house parties and reckless debauchery; Les developed the unique
ability as a producer to merge that abandon with technically rigorous
sample manipulation and unique arrangements.
If you're worried that two artists who have been working at this for so
long would be tempted to rest on their laurels or make music that's
predictable, disabuse yourself of that notion. Keith opens the album
with a tangent about Foot Locker ûû not about buying shoes, but about
lusting after the footwear chain's employees, with their tight,
referee-striped shirts and form-fitting black pants. It only gets stranger
from there. His Lamborghinis aren't just green, they're pistachio green;
his head is perfectly round like Charlie BrownÆs; his handkerchief is worth
your per diem. And as a vocalist, Keith is still as slippery and innovative
as ever: see the way he slides right into an unorthodox flow at the
beginning of "Slave Owner," only to thin out his writing to allow for a
string of insults from the titular slave owner.
KEITH is a laser-focused, remarkably vital work from two artists entering
the fourth decades of their respective careers. If nothing else, take as an
example a couple of the guests who appear here: there's Jeru the Damaja, who
represents the true-school ethos of New York in the early '90s, but thereÆs
also Paul Wall ûû he rides shotgun on "Foot Locker" ûû who broke through
more than a decade after Jeru, as the woozy, laconic Houston scene of the
mid-2000s briefly stole the national spotlight. Both serve as ideal foils
for Keith: they're somehow tethered to Earth as we understand it, while he's
free to orbit around them, and us, in a path that only he will ever understand.
Mastered by FRED ONES
ALL SONGS PRODUCED BY PSYCHO LES of THE BEATNUTS
Beat by Vijay Singh on Open & Wet + Foot Locka"
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1. Intro 1:03
2. Foot Locka (f. Paul Wall) 3:00
3. 95 South (f. Psycho Les) 3:14
4. Graceland 3:07
5. Holy Water 3:02
6. Makem Cry 3:51
7. Muscle Block 3:00
8. Open And Wet 3:24
9. Plush Mink 3:45
10. Slave Owner 3:11
11. She Answer (f. Jeru the Damaja) 2:59
12. Turn the Levels 3:30
13. Word Life 4:11
14. Zero Fux (f. B-Real) 2:51
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