Re: (idm) Return of the DJ(s)

From clockwise
Sent Fri, Nov 7th 1997, 00:12

>Your appreciation of the Dr. Octagon album will depend on your ability or
>willingness to get inside the scat/pseudo-science/pseuo-medical sci-fi
>world Kool Keith raps about.  Personally, I think both the production and
>rapping are great.
>
>--Mark
>


um, unless "doo-doo" recently became a medical term, i wouldn't go around
calling Kool Keith's raps "psudo-science/psudo-medical". true he ponders at
one point over whether h2o is a gas or a liquid, but just about every other
line is about fucking, plain and simple. again, i'm not trying to put him
down, but lack of substance is one of the prime reasons most people don't
view (non-instrumental) hiphop as a viable art form, and with tracks as
utterly amazing as the ones he had to work with, there's no reason to have
done such childish, shallow raps as he did. give those beats to Jeru and
watch some serious science get dropped.

clockwise

np: dj shadow "high noon"