Keith will definitely go down as the Thelonius or Coltrane of rap. Dude was trying to take hip hop to another level some caught onto it many hip hop heads didn't. SMH people barely catching onto it now. Dude is definitely underrated. There would be no MF DOOM, Quasimoto or any form of concept rap existing today if it wasn't for this man.
Word. I had posted a comment on a video and I spoke on the fact Keith started the putting out dope albums under different alias. He is still underrated and doesn’t get the proper props he deserves.
Big True but you’re acting like Keith is dead -he Turns 60 soon right & putting out music like crazy! Gotta love it Long Live the SUPERVILLIAN though - Kool Keith as-well!
one of my skateboard mag subscriptions came with a sampler cd that had 'i'm destructive' on it, i think even before the album had been released; literally everything else was all metal and punk on the cd and that's all i really associated with the scene at the time. i was hooked and picked up doctor octagonacologyst weeks later, probably first rap album i ever bought too.
I first met Ultra Magnetic MC's hanging out at BBoy Records back in the days.I still remember us recording You're Late at God Father Don's house as a promo for Dj Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito.
Kool Keith, Dr. Octogon, Black Elvis etc...all legendary. Even what him and Ced G did with production on that 1st Ultramag album were groundbreaking. Salute.
you may think this is a lot bullshit stoner talk but Kool Keith touched on some real history. Unbeknownst to people who weren't there, Sir Menelik, Godfather Don and Scaramanga were probably at the heart of the underground rap scene in late 90s NY. When people talk about "bars" what those dudes did back then is what rappers be trying to do now
I got that 7 eyes 7 horns album. Sir Menelik aka Templeton Peck aka Scaramanga aka Cyclops 4000. He got some wild alias to and you definitely can’t forget about GodFather Don. Last I heard he was strictly doing orchestrating a jazz band.
Doc Octagon in the house holy shit!!!! ITS MORNING, 7 O'CLOCK YOU AT MY CLINIC. ITS ME YOUR ORTHOPEDIC-GYNECOLOGIST......THERES A HORSE IN THE OPERATING ROOM!!!
If you don't know Kool Keith, listen to "Poppa Large" by Ultramagnetic MC's and their first 2 albums. Check out Kool Keith's albums Dr. Octagonecologyst, Black Elvis / Lost in Space, & Time? Astonishing!
Ocean Sage first time i ever heard of kool kieth was a joint called plastic world and than when i heard god of rap i didnt know that was part of kool kieth
Whoever reading this that hasn’t heard Kool Keith’s verse on Ultra Magnetic MCs song “Egotrippin” needs to listen to it right after this ends,it’s still one of my favorites all these years later
dr octagon kool keith soooo underrated yet better than everyone else, when he dropped dr. octagonecologyst showed rappers who the fuck he is. shame noone mentions him as a top rapper eanwhile hes well beyond almost eveybody, one of the artists wit e biggest vocabulary, insane good work b real
I always said Kool Keith and Ultramagnetic MC's laid the blueprint for MF DOOM. And low and behold, the godfather himself confirmed it in this interview.
Always watch this as a motivator to keep grinding even with no spotlight thank you B.Real for this smokebox, do another one with keith you had berner on like 4 times and snoop twice.
That intro on Black Elvis is some of the illest sh*t I have heard a album start off with. Why are you looking hard with a hoodie on and Timberland boots staring at me for one hour when you can walk up and shake my hand? Why? 😂😂😂
Kool Keith is hands down the most replicated MC in the history of HipHop. Listen to his early stuff and listen to current MC in the game today and you can hear the influence. He is absolutely right about sounding different back in the day. His talent and eccentric personality can not be matched but always imitated.
The first time I heard Octogon, I was riding with this cat Juan that I used to skate with. He was always high as fuck. I couldn't smoke weed cause I was in the army. I got the CD and fucked with it. I came home and threw the cd on in my car when I got home. Smoked weed at my boy's house and when my boys jumped back in the car high, we couldn't believe how crazy it was. Dudes with me were rockers and we were all mind blown. It was like hearing it for the first time even though I heard that shit a hundred times
Haha I remember smoking out Keith and Mark live back stage in little old Adelaide about 19 years ago. They were pouring us big screwdrivers and I was passing out blunts. They pretty much had to carry Mark live out.
@Big D All legends man, and I have nothing but respect for them, but to my ear and in my opinion nobody touches KRS ONE and Kool Keith. I mean guys like MF Doom, Guru, and Immortal Technique deserve name drops too, but Keith and KRS are just in their own galaxy!
"I sell apples now." Kool Keith can say anything, and I WILL LAUGH! Even B-Real laughed at that one. I swear this dude is like the real artist/comedian of Rap.
Lol I love the way breal didn't even offer to open the windows, but it's called the smoke box for a reason, the guy seemed more pissed off he wasn't getting questions
I was walkin on venice boardwalk awhile back and saw keith mackin to some black girls with his homie. . I stood back and looked to make sure it was him and that I just wasn't trippn. Me n my girl walked up to him and said whatsup - I will admit , I wish I said and told him more on how he influenced me , but oh well, I was skerrrrd -
Loving how every video he’s interviewed he mentions the great Villain Doom. Mad Respect To Kool K & Doom for Keith being a great influence on his music 💿💯
dude I'll never forget Kool Keith didn't came to the only Mexico city show ever alongside dj mugss and ghostface Killa , I hope you realized it was once in a lifetime chance gad damn , we don't have gigs like this ever
Keith will definitely go down as the Thelonius or Coltrane of rap. Dude was trying to take hip hop to another level some caught onto it many hip hop heads didn't. SMH people barely catching onto it now. Dude is definitely underrated. There would be no MF DOOM, Quasimoto or any form of concept rap existing today if it wasn't for this man.
True
Word. I had posted a comment on a video and I spoke on the fact Keith started the putting out dope albums under different alias. He is still underrated and doesn’t get the proper props he deserves.
Bobby Digital borrowed highly from his Dr. octagon persona
@@mr.tomkatofficial2512 Robbie Analog is another Kool Keith persona. Clearly a dig at RZA.
Big True but you’re acting like Keith is dead -he Turns 60 soon right & putting out music like crazy! Gotta love it
Long Live the SUPERVILLIAN though - Kool Keith as-well!
I love how Keith just does what he wants. Like dressing like he’s otw to go fishing🤣
💯💯😂😂
Most grown ass men do. I suggest you start dressing your self homie, peace
Dr. Zarkov lmao
Fishing?B-Rreal got the fishing Hat.
Dr.Oct got the Safari Hat Junior. Get your grown Man up.
I guess he was 😎
I was a metal kid with a closed mind who never listened to rap. Kool Keith was the guy that opened the whole genre to me.
one of my skateboard mag subscriptions came with a sampler cd that had 'i'm destructive' on it, i think even before the album had been released; literally everything else was all metal and punk on the cd and that's all i really associated with the scene at the time. i was hooked and picked up doctor octagonacologyst weeks later, probably first rap album i ever bought too.
I'm destructive
@@i-never-look-at-replies-lol I remember an episode of 411VM used Halfsharkalligatorhalfman for a segment and I was hooked.
I first met Ultra Magnetic MC's hanging out at BBoy Records back in the days.I still remember us recording You're Late at God Father Don's house as a promo for Dj Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito.
You murdered that shit fam!
Props 2 the Rhyme Inspector!!
Your a legend Percy
Percee P never lackin!!!
Yo Perce, wheres godfather don at???
Wow kool keith?? It can't get much better
tHIS IS TRUE!
This is probably one of the coolest underrated guest on the smoke box
Ohh shit.. Kool Keith? he the legend beyond all legends.. he is a god..
True
Him and MF Doom
Pharaohe Thought MF Doom I think stated that he got some his his style from Keith too.
@Pharaohe Thought Keith is a legend but you gotta admit he can't touch Doom lyrically. Doom is on a whole other level
@Pharaohe Thought Oh Doom comes really close but I'll admit that Aesop Rock tops them for sure
Thank you B for bringing the legend!!! He deserves way way waaaay more credit for everything he’s done for the culture!!! Most versatile MC ever!
Kool Keith, Dr. Octogon, Black Elvis etc...all legendary. Even what him and Ced G did with production on that 1st Ultramag album were groundbreaking. Salute.
LEGENDS
B Real is a legend, Kool Keith, next tier.
Gotta remember he is a rapper from the 80s and still doin it, Salute to Kool Keith 💪🏾🔥⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ General
Good to hear Kool Keith shouting out Menelik and Godfather Don - definitely two of my most favorite underground Hip Hop artists of all time.
So Intellegent
Voice in my heeead..
Nightwork
Kool Keith is HIM. 40 years in the game. No one has been in more supergroups. Salute, Black Elvis and B Real
you may think this is a lot bullshit stoner talk but Kool Keith touched on some real history. Unbeknownst to people who weren't there, Sir Menelik, Godfather Don and Scaramanga were probably at the heart of the underground rap scene in late 90s NY. When people talk about "bars" what those dudes did back then is what rappers be trying to do now
Yo! I still bump that Scaramanga album
Sir Menelik and Scaramanga is one person
True indeed. I got a bunch of Sir Menelik and Scaramanga wax in the stash. He and Godfather Don were impeccable artists
Yeh hell yeah
I got that 7 eyes 7 horns album. Sir Menelik aka Templeton Peck aka Scaramanga aka Cyclops 4000. He got some wild alias to and you definitely can’t forget about GodFather Don. Last I heard he was strictly doing orchestrating a jazz band.
"Im not smokin blunts...or lookin for jazz records at the Roosevelt"
- kool keith : plastic world 1996
That first verse is very very good. Keith saying Hip Hop was dead
KoolKeith helped create my brain as I grew up. Thank you sir -
Kool Keith’s rhymes are hilarious, and I mean that with the greatest possible respect. Love all his aliases!
Doc Octagon in the house holy shit!!!! ITS MORNING, 7 O'CLOCK YOU AT MY CLINIC. ITS ME YOUR ORTHOPEDIC-GYNECOLOGIST......THERES A HORSE IN THE OPERATING ROOM!!!
The 'Masters of Illusion' album with Motion Man and Kut Masta Kurt was fire....same wi Cenobites and countless other K'K' albums!
m.o.i is one of the best trios ever to exist. they work perfectly together.
A classic album "FOLLOW YOU... IN THE AIR LIKE A MOLECULE"
ruclips.net/p/PLHFRwlGPve7_NYeWUVOchJbsfhiS4O9ZI&si=xLXM9Zt-9HXi2EHS
If you don't know Kool Keith, listen to "Poppa Large" by Ultramagnetic MC's and their first 2 albums.
Check out Kool Keith's albums Dr. Octagonecologyst, Black Elvis / Lost in Space, & Time? Astonishing!
fuck it just listen to his whole catalogue
***** Pretty much. I just wanted to give people some highlights to introduce themselves to Kool Keith.
dr nogatco
Ocean Sage first time i ever heard of kool kieth was a joint called plastic world and than when i heard god of rap i didnt know that was part of kool kieth
Alec his whole discography is pretty brilliant not gonna lie.
Kool Keith this the MAN! ... the background music should have been turned way down though so you can actually hear the entire convo, wtf?
DJ Muggs and Kool Keith Make it happen 👏🏾
🔥🔥
Kool Keith has the biggest music catalog hands down especially after the ultramagnetic mcs when he started having personas
My man kool Keith! I still rock that cut "ego trippin" from back in the mid 80's til' now...2018!
Dude hopped out the car and said "I need some fresh air"
I wanted to cough just watching this!
🤣😂💀
Whoever reading this that hasn’t heard Kool Keith’s verse on Ultra Magnetic MCs song “Egotrippin” needs to listen to it right after this ends,it’s still one of my favorites all these years later
Hell yeah. Major props on this, breal. Keith is a legend who's music hasade an impact in the 80s, 90s and 2000s. Not many rappers like that
when b-real says "one of my influnces" you know you're dealing with a true god
The list of people Kool Keith has influenced is insane. Eminem, Wu Tang Clan, Jay Z, etc. And very few rappers give him the credit he’s due.
@@Ms.Fowlbwahhh thats cuz they haters. Same with DOOM "your favorite rappers favorite rapper"
There's nobody cooler than Kool Keith. A true individual he's on another level
dr octagon kool keith soooo underrated yet better than everyone else, when he dropped dr. octagonecologyst showed rappers who the fuck he is. shame noone mentions him as a top rapper eanwhile hes well beyond almost eveybody, one of the artists wit e biggest vocabulary, insane good work b real
FACTS!!!!
Stone cold assassin in the back seat till:
“Omg are we gonna survive in here?” 🤣😂🔥🔥
Bro bailed like they had 3 flat tires and an op on their back. RIP 💀
I always said Kool Keith and Ultramagnetic MC's laid the blueprint for MF DOOM. And low and behold, the godfather himself confirmed it in this interview.
Always watch this as a motivator to keep grinding even with no spotlight thank you B.Real for this smokebox, do another one with keith you had berner on like 4 times and snoop twice.
Making faces with the fish-eye effect, like I supposed to be scared... Legend.
That intro on Black Elvis is some of the illest sh*t I have heard a album start off with. Why are you looking hard with a hoodie on and Timberland boots staring at me for one hour when you can walk up and shake my hand? Why? 😂😂😂
who are you???
DR DOOM! My Fav Keith album! Me and my boy still quote that damn record since 1999...
yes! my favorite too, even the title is dominant FIRST COME FIRST SERVED
YOU LIVE AT HOME WIT' YA MOM
Apt 223!
Kool Keith The Legend. UltraMagnetic Waay Before His Time. One of the most creative to do it. Salute!
Homie killed the hotbox session. That shit always happens. 🤣😂🤣 Theres always one.
Kool Keith is hands down the most replicated MC in the history of HipHop. Listen to his early stuff and listen to current MC in the game today and you can hear the influence. He is absolutely right about sounding different back in the day. His talent and eccentric personality can not be matched but always imitated.
Poppa Large Big shot on the eastcoast
No doubt man. I started listening to him in high school and I have never heard anything like him. I live Doc Oct!
AWOL ONE IN THE SMOKE BOX!!!! LOS SHAPE SHIFTERS...
AWOL ONE IN THE SMOKEBOX - MASSMEN / SHAPESHIFTERS - !!!
Love some kool Keith
Kool Keith is my favorite rapper if i had to choose one fucking legend in the game.
The first time I heard Octogon, I was riding with this cat Juan that I used to skate with. He was always high as fuck. I couldn't smoke weed cause I was in the army. I got the CD and fucked with it. I came home and threw the cd on in my car when I got home. Smoked weed at my boy's house and when my boys jumped back in the car high, we couldn't believe how crazy it was. Dudes with me were rockers and we were all mind blown. It was like hearing it for the first time even though I heard that shit a hundred times
Damn I remember Sir Menelik and Godfather Don, they used to kick some crazy shit back in the day.
Dope interview.
How the hell did I go so long without knowing B Real had a show?? 2 of my favs! And man they're cooked!!🤪🤪
B-Real, PLEASE add a section where y'all put a beat on & freestyle with these LEGENDS! Not with every guest but with the best rhymers you know!
I never heard of him until recently (2022) and I gotta say Papa Large is STILL in the house!!🕺💪
Earth people New York and California
Doctor Octagon was born on Jupiter
MMMMM
I was just about to type that....only 3 years late, respect, that album is banging!
Two legends...Kool Keith is my absolute dearest rapper
he smokin old school paper
that NIGGA REAL!!
mad respect for kool keith.
the smokebox is the only series i watch again and again when high
I took Keith out on the town when he was in dublin, Ireland. Big fan of the cougars !
You gotta write/tell a story about that and share it online.
COOL G RAPP interview smokebox look forward for the continue.
Best smokebox ever. Kool Keith!
Haha I remember smoking out Keith and Mark live back stage in little old Adelaide about 19 years ago. They were pouring us big screwdrivers and I was passing out blunts. They pretty much had to carry Mark live out.
KEEP HIP-HOP WEIRD! I ❤ this
Shout out to B-Real for covering all bases and interviewing the legends of mainstream and underground
Kool kieth! A legend
80s rap was the BEST, after that my heart turned cold....really
Really? It got doper in the 90s
80s lyrics were good but flow and beats were mostly whack
One of my favorite interviews! B...
His voice on tracks sounds so different to the way he talks, he a Kool Kat...
Keith ,DooM , the Mystery..so ORIGINAL and Different than the everyday crap. He's gonna give you a interesting story for sure. ...ADDICTIVE
We’ll be talking about KK for years
Kool Keith and KRS One are the greatest MCs ever, period.
@Big D All legends man, and I have nothing but respect for them, but to my ear and in my opinion nobody touches KRS ONE and Kool Keith. I mean guys like MF Doom, Guru, and Immortal Technique deserve name drops too, but Keith and KRS are just in their own galaxy!
So true
I think you're forgetting a certain Rakim and Kool G Rap!
KRS One is great but it’s a shame he keeps defending Afrika Bambaataa’s pedophilia. Keith is the god of all gods.
7:02 hahahahaha, so stoned you forget Rawkus....
Rawkus
Yep
Dude in the back look crazy.
Real creepy, not saying jack..lol
Is it okay if I get out?... *What the hell are you doing??* 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 FUCKIN FUNNY!!!
i clicked on this real quick
Kool kieth with the quality producers..a perfect professional contract of legend... Spankmaster is up there with the timeless
"I sell apples now." Kool Keith can say anything, and I WILL LAUGH! Even B-Real laughed at that one. I swear this dude is like the real artist/comedian of Rap.
Kool Keith is killing it !!!!!!
i still remember when my bro had tape with dr octagon on it when i was 6! pure childhood memories
Lol I love the way breal didn't even offer to open the windows, but it's called the smoke box for a reason, the guy seemed more pissed off he wasn't getting questions
blue flowers!!! big up kool keith real legend!!
Those back doors should have the child locks active at all times after that shit
im dieing right now bro lol
I was walkin on venice boardwalk awhile back and saw keith mackin to some black girls with his homie. . I stood back and looked to make sure it was him and that I just wasn't trippn. Me n my girl walked up to him and said whatsup - I will admit , I wish I said and told him more on how he influenced me , but oh well, I was skerrrrd -
Haha fuck it sounds even like he´s spittin to the background beat when he's just speaking :D too dope
Legendary interview
Damn he got the number 1 mc in the world into the smoke box 👍💯
"I get in rectum zoom focus on the whole room ware green capes N walk in clubs like Im Dr Doom". KEITH is in my top 5.
Kool Keith and Tom Waits, they´re unique artist on another lever. whether you like it or you hate it.
A living legend
Yes. I've been waiting for keith to come in the smoke box
thank you sooo much breal!!
I'm blind you know I can't see. I use my stick to walk past MCs- Koooool Keith!
Good stuff dude. B and Kool should hit the studio - make some cosmic smoke cloud shit.
your the man b-real . The east coast, south of Boston, New b. we out here doing it. one my mentors for sure.
WHAT is that beat in the background!!??? Incredible!
First time I ever heard ultra magnetic mcs was on "the box"
Music television you control?
You are on SMOKE N SCAN right now!! Keep runnin~!
Best smokeBokebox ever...
Keith the unaging legend 👑👑👑🙏
That beat from Ras dude is 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Kool Keith, original Black Elvis 🖤🖤🖤🖤
Loving how every video he’s interviewed he mentions the great Villain Doom. Mad Respect To Kool K & Doom for Keith being a great influence on his music 💿💯
Kool Keith rules beef.
Would love to see Keith and Mr.Lif do a project together. Its possible they have and either I don't know about it or some label is sitting on it.
great concept for a show it reminds my of what me and the homies used to do in the Lac
7:00 they can't remember Rawkus Records?!?!?!?!?! Weed must be strong as fuck!!
dude I'll never forget Kool Keith didn't came to the only Mexico city show ever alongside dj mugss and ghostface Killa , I hope you realized it was once in a lifetime chance gad damn , we don't have gigs like this ever