First, the good news! Kool Keith’s latest album Love & Danger is set to hit the Earth planet on June 5 via Junkadelic! Now here’s the bad news: the album could potentially be Keith’s last. The veteran weird crazy rap man has laid out his plans rather plainly in a press statement. “This is probably my last project. You just got the last of the vocals of me. I’m quitting the game. Goodbye, rap,” Keith presumably dictated to a goat in a spacesuit with a Fischer-Price tape recorder strapped to its horns.
On the one hand, Kool Keith has been at this hip-hop thing since the 1980s, and his musical achievements go well beyond his widely acknowledged work with Ultramagnetic MCs and Dr. Octagon. Why wouldn’t he want to bow out after such a long and, dare I say, unique career? At the same time, this is Kool Keith we’re talking about. It’s hard to believe that the man who once demanded that wack rappers everywhere “shut the fuck up, put your buck up, look at the dicks you suck up” could just leave all this magic behind. Hopefully more info on Keith’s alleged retirement will pop up as we get closer to the album’s drop date. In the meantime, feel free to make up your mind about this situation on your own. Perhaps you can even find the time to check out a track from Love & Danger embedded below. After all, this could be your last chance to listen to a new Kool Keith joint… or, you know, not.
• Kool Keith: http://www.koolkeith.co.uk
• Junkadelic: http://www.junkadelicmusic.net
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