Kool Keith Quotes

I don't need drugs to make weird music.

I think a lot of the high technology is distracting.

The beats change, I mean you got a lot of artists out there advancing new sound, new technology, new beats everything sounding very futuristic, so I feel it would have been boring for me to do another hip-hop record.

Everybody's still in the 70s and 80s musically, still making remakes.

Leave my diapers moist in the back seat of your Rolls Royce

As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.

I think people get mad because I make more direct records.

I didn't think of rap with that type of south feel and that look and the hay and all that.

Certain songs I feel different people should be on different tracks, you know it's emotional. I put myself into characters for certain records.

But still at that particular level of commercialism I listen to those projects I still hear some stagnation in a lot of the stuff.

I'm not against women. I'm not against men. I just write about me telling my side of how I would say something.

I thought of rap I thought of Grand Master Flash and I thought of about what they went through.

Now my helmet's on, you can't tell me I'm not in space.

I think I write more outspoken than the average rapper.

Everybody's slow right now, there's nothing happening musically, everybody's all on cable television and being manipulated by all the television right now, what's on cable telling people what to listen to and stuff.

I write the most sexiest records out.

I've done so many hip-hop albums already I got tired of just hip-hop.

So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists.

I think I speak for the guy who is just s a regular guy who says yo I don't wanna go to an expensive restaurant.

People tend to lock into one thing that you do that they consider to be better than the last one.

I'm not really entertained anymore, everything sounds the same. We have a crisis right now of innovative music. I'm probably the only person left trying to do something different and brand new.

Shakespeare's gone, don't even think about it.

They use the simple back and forth, the same, old rhythm That a baby can pick up, and join, right with 'em. But their rhymes are pathetic, they think they copacetic Using nursery terms, at least not poetic.

I wear black while suckers wear pink.

I had BEEN making futuristic records way before a lot of the groups that came out, but now everybody is running to make their albums sound new, but it sounds too made up.

I always buy something to make myself motivated. It's good to feel that you can buy something and motivate yourself. That's what I do, just buy stuff. I like to buy something new and then record.

I think Missy Elliot is pretty creative, I mean at least trying to take it to the future.

I'm one of those artists that people take my music without my consent. People love to snatch my music and do things on their own. You got people that put me on beats I never rapped on. I just feel that it's a bad thing.

If you want to say you got to take a woman out to a fancy restaurant, I write songs about hey I'm not taking you to a fancy restaurant, I wanna take you to McDonald's.

You have girls that sing about guys ain't paying their bills and men are this and men are that and I write about women who want to go out for free, they don't want to pay for the dinner, they try to get over, they wanna leave.

I mean the world is a place where it feels like a woman has to go out everywhere in society, you have to buy her and cook her a meal and stuff.

I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view.

Tough like a Ukulele.