Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagon/Ecologyst

isolating the repeated chorus hook as an example of bad rapping isn't a fair criticism.

i called that out because i remembered it. but i'm also claiming that the rest of the album is littered with similarly half-assed and awkward rhymes, which you seem to agree with.

xp it's got a stream of consciousness quality too, IMO, that makes even the nonsensical stuff sound sort of plausible. Plus his amazing flow helps as well.

re.sci-fi rap albums from 1996: true enough not many, but your assertion was that rap is a genre that doesn't do weird, and that's demonstrably false.

it's actually "Earth people / New York and California / Earth people / I was born on Jupiter" fwiw. i mean if you don't like one you won;t like the other but it's still worth mentioning becaue it's a massive hook.

your assertion was that rap is a genre that doesn't do weird, and that's demonstrably false.

i didn't phrase it right, but i was crediting it within the context of that time as being inventive. admittedly, i don't know too much about rap after the 2000s, but yes, i imagine it has a lot more subgenres now.

ya i mean the lyrics may be a lil too self consciously weird but its ok because theyre still funny

otm, and i like the way the lyrics kind of ping-pong between dumb doo-doo jokes, self-indulgent non-sequiturs and moments of genuinely unsettling psychedelic oddity. the album isn't so much a showcase for keith's rapping as it is a cabinet of curiosities, the focal point of each song shifting from moment to moment from keith's bugged-out nonsense to dan's creepy sci-fi soundscapes, from qbert's jaw-dropping cutting to skits and samples, all the weird little fragments on the margins. it's funny, catchy and more than a little scary. one of my favorite albums of its era.

i had the original bulk recording LP braggin

it's "half sharkalligator half man"

My first thought was No Awareness, but I'll have to listen again.

Keith toured here a couple of months ago, as Dr Octagon, playing this in full

(I didn’t go bcz I’ve seen him as Kool Keith before and he was horrible)

saw him at ATP, at one point he just rapped the numbers from the dates on the back of a tour t-shirt some guy on stage was wearing and it was incredible, but it quickly devolved into really embarrassing poo and wee stuff.

You can call 1-800-PeePee5 1-Doo-Doo. I'm in your corner.

Keith can be fun live but even then only in a half-assed way

You have bees flying around your rectum.

hammer... flame... i'm gettin ready to stab. jam it in.

blend sci-fi and perverse porn themes into a half-assed mix

I will listen to any album w/this description

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9VYzNUXGDA
blue Flowers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=fc8zdLQuZp0
Earth People

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abky6hbKPpg&feature=related
halfsharkalligatorhalfman

Hadn't seen any of the videos until I was reminded by this thread and looked them up

or maybe that's one official one and two fan ones.

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either "i'm destructive" or "halfsharkalligatorhalfman"

i remember seeing "Blue Flowers" on like MTV Amp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHNWt57Gklg

wasnt really a fan of rap in drum and bass usually, but this mix improved the on original imo.

sailling
takes me away
to where i'm really going
shoo-be-do-wop

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