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Dr. Octagon publicity photo: Dan "The Automator" Nakamura and Kool Keith. An original member of New York new school pioneers the Ultramagnetic MCs, Kool Keith is best known as a somewhat controversial solo rapper. Keith's signature style of stream-of-consciousness lyrical flow, and his ability to drop complex freestyle vocals with apparent ease, earns him a perennial nod from either the underground hip-hop community. Outre, disjointed, possibly delusional or even even disassociated themes, conception, & information tend to year a typical Kool Keith track or album. 100% of his albums incorporate the satirical dislike for more commercialised tries of hip-hop, which he finds to be devoid of any heart. Likewise, 100% of his works lambast major labels and overhyped MCs.

Kool Keith's early career & lyrics by having the Ultramagnetic MCs typically manufactured have of his growing reputation as a somewhat unstable character, & former tolerant Bellevue, a psychiatric hospital, where he was treated for depression. By owning Ultramagnetic, Keith's abstract style developed, maturing within songs rather "Poppa Large." Fallowing Ultramagnetic broke higher, Kool Keith expanded his resume, experimenting by having up to date styles, including his self-described "pornocore," known for pornographic imagery and brutal, abstract lyrics. Sex Style, freed inside 1997, was a showcase for this style.

Team by having Dan "the Automator" Nakamura under the name Dr. Octagon, Keith again reinvented his image, recording the self-titled Dr. Octagon album (late reissued under a title Dr. Octagonecologyst) which was freed per English trip hop label Mo' Wax. Octagonecologyst received critical plaudit, though principally from either untypical sources outside a mainstream hip-hop community. A critical profits of a album helped to open the accessibility of the underground hip hop scene to an appreciative audience. For a Automator, this album placed the foundation for a burgeoning career & honor as a producer; for Kool Keith, the profits of Octagonecologyst seemed to put him around danger of existence typecast as a "space and Mars" rapper. Increasing Keith's frustration sustaining a Octagon crew, an subservient version of the album, Instrumentalyst, which showcased the production, became a rising profits by having virtually all of the credit given to the Automator & supplementary collaborators, possibly though Keith is credited on the LP by using more roles than simply lyrics. A symptom was Kool Keith's complete rejection & abandonment of the Octagon character, world health organization was literally exterminate in the introduction to Keith's next album, Dr. Dooom. Possibly as a jab at Instrumentalyst's profits, Keith has freed subservient versions of several post-Octagon albums.

When Octagonecologyst was numbers of Kool Keith fans' foremost taste of his style, however others found him on The Prodigy's 1997 album The Fat of the Land. Long instance fans, a Prodigy invited Kool Keith to supply a lyrics in "Diesel Power" when it utilized a sample from either Ultramagnetic that became the lyrics & title for their (soon-to-become) hit "Smack My Bitch Up."

Kool Keith as Black Elvis. Discharged at a same time using the independent Dr. Dooom was major-label effort of Black Elvis/Lost inside Space, which, ironically, saw Keith rapping all about "space and Mars." Spell Dr. Dooom was produced by using a super cut-down, minimalist beats & production act of Kutmaster Kurt, Black Elvis featured much additional complex lyrical styling & deeper, multi-layered tracks developed by the unsuspecting hosts of collaborators & Keith himself. the duality lead to something of a section between Keith's long-period fans: numerous regard a minimalist operate sustaining Kutmaster Kurt (e.g. Sex Style, Dr. Dooom, & a late Matthew) to become the authentic Kool Keith, when others, yearning for a link to to the deeper & extra complex operate in Octagonecologyst & Black Elvis were disappointed sustaining what it considered to exist as mediocre, or shoddy function by Kurt.

Keith returned to his commercialism-critical bitterness inside 2000's Matthew, including the widely-cited anti-label rant "Test Press", lambasting mainstream rap record labels when existence "white" & damning the children for performing devious, janus-faced tricks using acts, artistic decisions, & success. Subsequent collaborations stand involved Masters of Illusion, the Analog Brothers, and his todays effort (when of 2004) with Thee Undatakerz, who use collaborated by having members of the Wu Tang Clan to produce a soundtrack to Blade: Trinity. Keith is likewise the easily-known favourite of Princess Superstar, and has collaborated using her in many tracks.

Errata

Kool Keith is typically credited by using swimming bass around his tracks within album liner notes (among more roles), & was pictured sustaining bass in hand on the back of the Black Elvis album.

Though originally from either Just released York, Keith has lived & worked around California since a mid-1990s.

Keith states inside an locate that he was never at the mental institution.

Discography

With Ultramagnetic MCs
Critical Beatdown (1988) Funk Your computers Head (1992) A 4 Horsemen (1993) Brooklyn to Brixton (survive) (1996) A Basement Tapes (1984-1990)

With Ultra (Kool Keith and Tim Dog)
Large Period (1996)

As Dr. Octagon
Dr. Octagonecologyst (1996) originally titled Dr. Octagon A Instrumentalyst: Octagon Beats (1996)

As Dr. Dooom
Number 1 Are, Foremost Served (1999) 1st Are, Number 1 Served (Instrumental) (2000)

With Analog Brothers
Pimp to Eat (2000)

As Kool Keith
Titillating Human (1996) Sex Style (1997) Nigrify Elvis/Lost inside Space (1999) Matthew (2000) Matthew (Instrumental) (2000) Spankmaster (2001) Game (2002) Wasted Masters (2003) A Household Album (2004) Official Space Tape (2004) "Siamese Sex Show" (2005)

With Kutmasta Kurt
Diesel Teamster (2004) Diesel Truck driver: Subservient (2004)

With Masters of Illusion (Kool Keith and Motion Man)

Masters of Illusion (2000) Instrumentals (2001)

With Thee Undatakerz
Kool Keith Presents Thee Undatakerz (2004)