Imagine
this: take Deltron 3030, get rid of the overarching story, and have
several beers. That's what you get here. Kool Keith is weird as shit.
Not as off-the-wall crazy as in Dr. Octagonecologist, but not far
off. ('Metric bypass computes on overload retrace 'cause we're lost
in space,' what does that even mean?) It seems to me that perhaps all
of the lyrics mean something, but a lot of the time they're more
complicated than I'm expecting, especially in comparison to other
more straightforward rhymes placed immediately next to them, so they
fly over my head (“I could throw a hundred thousand pound walrus
right through the wall, that's right, mad like five gorillas in a
vocal booth”). Half of the album is the “Lost in Space”
section, full of space references, weird futuristic (for 1999) synth
beats, and of course a plethora of overt sexual references, while the
second half is the “Black Elvis” section, with (slightly) more
traditional beats and verses based more around women and music. I
listened to 'Dr. Octagonecologist' long before I heard this one, so a
lot of my impressions are reinforced by what I heard there, and this
album certainly doesn't disappoint in that regard. Despite all of the
legitimate weirdness and eccentricity that is pervasive in every
single song, I found the album as a whole to surprisingly, and
disappointingly, average. It feels like there is something missing,
that one element that would elevate it from relatively banal to
vibrant and strange, as it attempts to be.
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