"A lot of these guys who rap, they're killers on the mic and they're tough. they film one little DVD walking around McDonalds and a few streets, and the viewer get so hyped that he thinks this guys is actually living his life. He really thinks this guy is out in the streets grinding everyday, and a real tough guy, he just runs the streets."
"When little do they know that these guys are...living out in like Glen Oaks, Bubbleworth....Ninety percent of these cats rapping like "we from the ghetto, we came from the streets, we went hard," they've always been suburban children....So at the end of the day they're all full of shit. They wouldn't hurt a cockroach in the corner. You're basically a hamster. You might as well get a Habitrail, spin on your wheel."
"I've been in LA, I've been in New York, and I see these guys, and the funny thing about it is you never see these guys just simply hanging out. These guys live the most horrific life, by ordering pizza. Dominos is their favorite. The guy that comes by, they know the delivery guy. They order subs, sit in front of the TV and watch the next guy talking thug, talking about their rivalry. At least wrestlers come out to wrestle. These guys just talk, go to the studio with eighteen bodyguards, go home, turn on the TV, and call delivery."
"This new Dr Octagon, it's been so uncoordinated, it's been so much of a secret that I haven't even heard the album. They treated the album like it's a big medical project. They went to Africa, Cambodian medicine, and all that; they flew it over to Afghanistan, try to dissect it."
"It's like, the industry can get so weird now, that they can take your vocals and just go ahead and fly 'em over to Africa. People are turning into chemists. They're really ready to take your vocals over to another country and put 'em on the operating table. That's the way this album has been going. And people ask me about it: I don't even know about the album as much as you do. And it's a shame that, you know, me and my publisher, we try to ask about it, they close the curtains and stuff like they doing a real big operation. God knows what may come out."
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Thanks, Keith.
― Squirl Polise, Thursday, 19 January 2006 22:13 (twenty years ago)
Kool Keith is a mad genius...yet it should be noted that the quote is from a few years ago, the sequal to Doc Oc WAS actually released, but Keith said he had very little to do with it and admitted that it was awful...and, dear god, it is bad
― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:47 (twenty years ago)