We have never even heard of A3C Volumes 1-4, but volume 5 is shaping up to be good, with this joint that features the stellar line-up of Wu-Tang Clan legend U-God, Kool Keith and Cannibal Ox. Listen below.
Category: Kool Keith
Mega Ran – ‘Space Defense Team’ feat. Kool Keith
Seeing as this is our third post with new music from Kool Keith in as many days, its safe to say that the Ultramagnetic legend keeps it moving more than a great white shark. This time he pops up on the latest single from Mega Ran. Space Defense Team also features Wordburglar, and is taken from new album RNDM. Stream the new joint and the rest of the album below.
Ray West & Kool Keith – ‘Destiny’s Child’
These Kool Keith collaborations never let up. Some are better than others, and this one with Ray West is definitely in the good category. Their new project A Couple of Slices has been released in a dope pizza box set, which you can cop from Fat Beats here. Listen to the single Destiny’s Child below.
Kilmatik – ‘Zero Weirdos’ feat. Kool Keith
Here’s why the Stretch Armstrong & Bobbito Kickstarter is worthy of your money
Hip-hop radio icons Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia have launched a Kickstarter campaign for contributions towards the launch of their anticipated documentary film, Stretch & Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives. Its a project worthy of your cash, and here’s why.
Goofy, sometimes ridiculously immature, but always bringing the freshest music from new hip-hop artists, the Stretch & Bobbito show on Columbia University’s WKCR radio station ran for the best part of the 90s.
Much has been made about how the show was influential in helping to launch the careers of many who would go on to be huge, most notably Jay-Z, Nas, Biggie Smalls and the Wu-Tang Clan.
More importantly, at least in our eyes, the show also supported independent and alternative hip-hop artists, championing the likes of Kool Keith when he reinvented himself as Dr. Octagon, and showing much love to groups like Company Flow, Juggaknots, J Treds, Godfather Don and countless more.
Bobbito even founded his own label to release a lot of the underground material that was appearing on the show. The much-missed Fondle’em Records helped to introduce the world to MF Doom, and laid the foundation for labels of a similar vein, including Rawkus, Stones Throw and Def Jux.
It’s therefore no exaggeration to say that Stretch and Bob played perhaps the most important role in creating that classic mid-late 90s indy boom of creativity that many of us are still stuck on today. And that is surely reason enough to throw some money their way.
Donate here, and read more about the documentary here, including upcoming screenings.
Kool Keith & L’Orange – ‘Time? Astonishing!’
Kool Keith & Kurious – ‘Don’t Know Why’
Kool Keith features alongside Kurious on new EP Don’t Know Why, which is the latest cassette release from boutique label LUVNY. Listen to one of the remixes of the title track below, and check out the rest of the project here.
Not The 1s – ‘You Wack’ feat. Kool Keith
Kool Keith & L’Orange – ‘The Wanderer’
The wait for the new Time? Astonishing album from Kool Keith and L’Orange is getting shorter by the day, but while we wait, we get to experience this weird and wonderful video for single The Wanderer. Watch below, and look out for the full album coming July 24 on Mello Music Group.
Kool Keith – ‘Total Orgasm’ sampler
Boutique label Junkadelic and Fat Beats recently unleashed the epic Total Orgasm boxset, featuring some of the most filthiest raps to spill from the mind of the mad genius Kool Keith. If you’ve yet to cop it, here’s an eight-minute medley with some choice cuts. Need another reason to buy it? It comes with a free condom (see our tweet from a few weeks back here).