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Dr. Octagonecologyst

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One of the weirder developments to come out of the mid-late ’90s indie hip-hop scene was Kool Keith, one of the most hardcore-head-acclaimed rapper’s-rappers of the Golden Era, becoming a college-radio crossover favorite thanks to a morbid new guise and a teamup with Dan the Automator in his nascent, bizarre something-to-prove mode. That they did it on their own terms is secondary to the fact that those terms involved a Cronenberg-goes-Blowfly atmosphere of porno, horror, comedy, and various intersections thereof, where even the standard-since-’73 drum breaks took on a giallo-tinted unreality.

Nate Patrin

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