There’s a big difference between the vulgarity of Kool Keith and the vulgarity of, say, Three 6 Mafia. The first song on the upcoming Three 6 album contains a hook that goes “I Long dick her like uh! uh! uh!” Needless to say, last week’s listening session was more than a little awkward.
Kool Keith on the other hand is more subtly perverse. His sex anthems are usually childish and bizarre. Take this excerpt from Urb’s profile of Keith:
“The first time I went to a strip club, I had just come off tour. It was a club down south. I had a thousand singles and it was a slow night. I kept putting $10 in girls’ [g-strings] every five seconds. They kept asking me, ‘Do you want a dance?’ I said, ‘No, I don’t want a dance.’
“And it was buggin’ them out because it was kind of twisted. They were used to the regulars giving $10 total. They were more into me because the way I was doing it was weird. Sometimes, I had them all around me at the same time. I was like, ‘Here’s $10 because I like your outfit. It looks good.’ They’re like, ‘But do you want me to dance?’ I said, ‘Nah, don’t dance.’ I just got a kick out of it. It was just something done tactically; abnormal to their whole program. They said, ‘We never had a guy come in here and do that type of stuff. This is weird.’
Somewhere beneath the toilet humor and fetishes, there’s a childlike innocence to Kool Keith.
Tashan Dorrset was my jam and I’m amped for Bikinis N Thongs.
This track is off my favorite new producer Lee Bannon’s upcoming mixtape The Check Point which drops September 30. But the above Hey-Arnold!-on-shrooms artwork is for Bannon’s instrumental mixtape Big Toy Box. I’m excited for both.
Late pass please, but I didn’t really bother checking this out until I heard Ratatat was there along with Kid Cudi. Check out Evan Mast’s guitar solo which is crazy. Definitely one of my favorite tracks off Man On The Moon (In stores now). It’s crazy that rappers slept on working with Ratatat esp. when they’ve put out so muchheat in the past years.
Only Rappers would get asked to sign books that are completely unrelated to them. Judging by the confusion as to the meaning of ‘Off That’, Beck & O’Reilly didn’t pick up Blueprint 3. “Peace, Bill. Off that.”
One of my favourite rappers out right now does a tape over all new Alchemist beats? Hell yes. I’m really geeked for Boy Meets World, which drops October 20th and is produced entirely by Exile.
01. Intro 02. Shall Come A New Name 03. Fash Plays It Cool 04. The Antidote 05. Gone In 60 Seconds 06. Rap Seduction 07. What’s Your World 08. From The Creation f. The Alchemist, Roc C & OHNO 09. FYT 10. Lost In New York 11. Got It Sewn
DJ AM died on Monday supposedly from an accidental drug overdose. I know very little about AM, but this quote from ?uestlove’s eulogy stuck out to me:
that night i was jaw dropped at how [DJ AM] found a common thread between michael jackson, herbie hancock, alan thicke’s "different strokes theme", a diplo Seinfeld remix and james brown. that night changed my life forever. and im not the only dj to tell this story. those not in the know can scoff "blah blah nicole ritche" [sic] all they want"—dude was a maverick in the highest order. i changed my entire approach to djing and my approach to how i listened to music. yes you’ve heard me use that quip before when describing the late great j dilla as well. but that is using all music to create music. now i have to use all my knowledge of music to SHARE music.
The comparison has often been made between DJs and hip-hop bloggers. We bloggers spend all this time posting about the songs we like because of a mysterious urge to expose others to our favorite music. Though the above quote refers to DJing, I wonder if what ?uestlove learned night can’t be applied to our medium of sharing music.
I already heard people are trying to hate like he wasn’t important, like he wasn’t a dope DJ. Let me tell you something…he is the fuckin’ shit. This dude’s a fuckin’ maniac on turntables, for real. You have to experience this dude’s tactics on turntables, he’s sick with it. And if I cosign it, fuck any DJ who disagrees. You either haven’t seen him spin…and this dude’s history, his knowledge of music was intense…I’ve known this dude for over 15 years so I bear witness to seeing him get busy. So any DJ that feel different, fuck y’all, man, y’all don’t know the dude, and I know him. So fuck all of y’all, fuck you.
I guess the amount of Wale material hitting the streets is about to kick up with his album finally coming next month; ML definitely can’t complain about that. This smooth Cool & Dre produced track, shows Wale’s soulful side as he tells a story of a girl.
This wouldn’t be such a surprising combination in 1995, when Smif N Wessun kicked verses over Mary’s “I Love You”. But this is definitely a little surprisingly in ’09. Pairing Mary with a pounding, trumpet-driven Black Milk beat genuinely works, beyond it just being a throwback to 90s vintage hip hop-soul. I haven’t been crazy about the leaks I’ve heard from Survival Skills so far, but it helps that Buck and KRS sound energized here. This is dope.
