Biography
A unique figure in hip-hop, Kool Keith started out a member of the influential Bronx group Ultramagnetic MCs in the 1980s. The man born Keith Thornton subsequently appeared under the names Dr. Dooom and Dr. Octagon before reverting to Kool Keith. Like Sun Ra, he's cultivated a willfully bizarre persona, often claiming to be from another planet, and his recordings bear some otherworldly touches as well. Black Elvis/Lost in Space from 1999 put Keit...Read more