“Just ’cause you’re underground doesn’t mean you have to eat a bologna sandwich; I stay in five-star hotels!” Keith barks. “I hear a lot of people talking about the streets. What streets are they ...

(AllHipHop News) It has been 22 years since Kool Keith linked with Dan The Automator, Qbert and Kool Keith aka Dr. Octagon to release the debut album Dr. Octagonecologyst. An attempt to release the ...

Kool Keith is known by many names: Black Elvis, Ultra, Dr. Octagon and Dr. Dooom. What he’s not known for is being your average MC. Thirteen years ago, when the hot thing in hip-hop was flaunting your ...

One of most surreal hip hop albums of the ’90s, Dr. Octagon‘s seminal 1996 record Dr. Octagonecologyst brought together the talents of Kool Keith, Dan the Automator and DJ Qbert. It blew some minds, ...

An exclusive collector’s edition of Dr. Octagonecologyst – the 1996 underground concept album from Dr. Octagon, an alter ego of hip-hop legend Kool Keith (Ultramagnetic MCs, Dr. Dooom, Black Elvis, Dr ...

When rapper Kool Keith and producer Dan the Automator recorded the original Dr. Octagon album in 1996, it felt like they invented a sub-genre of "weird rap." Keith already had a (poppa) large ...

Keith had always been regarded as an innovator, and rightly so, but The Return Of… is absolutely entrenched in the present day, both lyrically and in terms of the frantically delivered beats and ...

Kool Keith’s alter egos Dr. Octagon and Dr. Dooom have had quite a rivalry throughout the Bronx-based underground hip-hop legend’s repertoire: cannibalistic serial killer Dooom offed time-traveling ...

Dr. Octagonecologyst mixed stream-of-consciousness lyrics with turntablist production from Dan the Automator, becoming an instant cult classic and one of the most influential hip-hop records in recent ...

Kool Keith aka Dr. Octagon It’s common in rap for MCs to adopt certain alter egos. On his website, Kool Keith offers brief biographies of all of his—53, to be exact. From his start as a break-dancer ...

Apparently this album is some treacherous betrayal (not the first, mind you) of an aborted three-year-old project featuring legendary underground New York rapper Kool Keith, a onetime Bellevue ...