[DID NOT ATTEND: April 6, 2025] Kool Keith / MC Homeless / DJ Halo
Kool Keith is a weirdo rapper who I liked back in the old days.
He was supposed to play Johnny Brenda’s during the pandemic. But those shows got cancelled.
I wrote this back then
Kool Keith is a wacko alternative rapper. I really liked him a lot back in the 1990s. He was part of the Ultramagnetic MC’s and Dr. Octagon. he also had the alias Black Elvis.
I had more or less forgotten about him and didn’t realize that he was still making music, but he has been consistently releasing music since the 1990s.
A lot of his music is aggressively, explicitly, sometimes disturbingly sexual (Dr. Octagonecologyst, anyone?) which was once amusing but feels really wrong now.
I didn’t really know about this show until it was cancelled and I’m not sure that I’d actually want to go (I had a few other shows I was more interested in that night). I’ve also heard mixed things about Keith live, but I feel like it would be a fun experience. The postponed date is a year away–we’ll see.
When he performed again in 2023 I didn’t go for various reasons. And then this show was announced at Kung Fu Necktie. Once again, I was intrigued. And yet I’ve learned that underground hip hop shows are pretty boring if yo udon’t know the music really well. And I don’t. So. (more…)
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