Kool Keith News

Interviewed by David Downs November 21st, 2008 "Kool" Keith Thornton has released more than a dozen albums under almost as many pseudonyms.

The National, with vocalist Matt Berninger and bassist Aaron Dessner, closed stage on Saturday night at Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin.

Dashing rumors that he was a no-show, Kool Keith took the stage dressed for a blizzard, his face wrapped in a sequined scarf and head covered by a thick hooded overcoat.

Pop music has its Brian Wilson, soul has Sly Stone, and rap has Kool Keith - " the eccentric recluse whose odd behavior and flights of unpredictability hint at genius.

So does Impose Magazine's Jeremy Krinsley. Obviously, this was the week of the many Obama Odes.

KOOL KEITH has been hustling since the '80s, switching labels, personas and producers throughout his prolific career.

Great minds think alike: Fabric have enlisted 2008 RA podcaster Sinden to mix the latest entry in their live series, Fabriclive43 .

On his new album, Dr. Dooom 2 , Kool Keith is mad as hell and he's not gonna take it anymore [ click to read ]. What's new? Keith has never been a man to self-censor when something's got his blood up.

Odder than anything beaming in from Planet Weezy is Warner Bros.' decision to take a chance on indie interloper Murs just when hip-hop sales have gotten as terrible as the rest of the music industry's. ...

The Vogue, 6259 N. College Ave. Tuesday, Oct. 14, 9 p.m., $15 advance, $17 door, 21+ Kool Keith is one of the biggest - if not the biggest - characters in hip-hop. A mad scientist whose creations are constantly ...

Kool Keith is your favorite rapper's father. He went to outer space before Andre or Wayne , he rhymed the same word twice before Cam'ron or N.O.R.E. and he suffered from dissociative identity disorder before MF ...

MC Kool Keith should feel at home in Lancaster's Chameleon Club. The father of backpacker rap has shifted his name and appearance countless times since his first group, the Ultramagnetic MC's, released their ...

"Me and Kirk seen him at the hospital yesterday/I pulled the plug on Dr. Ock/He was good as the creator but a bunch of people didn't know/I beat him to death with rocks in a sock." Kool Keith inhabits a ...

Between 1991 and 1998, Organized Konfusion joined Gang Starr , Pete Rock & CL Smooth and Showbiz & A.G. as one of the premier rap duos of the '90s. Prince Po and Pharoahe Monch released three ...

Dr. Dooom's [aka Kool Keith] Dr. Dooom 2 is due September 23rd on Traffic/Threshold. Dr.

Fans of veteran emcee Kool Keith know that he has several characters within his arsenal of releases.

Wow, hold on bro, what you say about my Rakim? posted by ericb at 9:10 PM on July 15 Hip hop is dead, and has been dead for about a decade.

Well, there's the title of the record, right up there. I suppose that's a good starting point as any in attempting to go on about what this record means: pop culture icon reference; drug trip reference; skeet ...

Prince Paul Psychoanalysis Tommy Boy SKITS ARE TOO often the scourge of a good hip-hop record.

GIVEN THAT HIS indie-rap alter ego, Dr. Dooom, made history in May by releasing First Come, First Served , the first good album ever written about being pissed off at your record company, "Kool" Keith Thorton ...