By D. Strauss 8/14/00 12:00am

De La Soul, Kool Keith: Bitchers’ Brew

The flip side of a rapper boasting about himself is him bitching about the rest of the world. And over the course of hip-hop’s cranky lifetime, no two acts have mouthed off more bitterly than De La Soul and Kool Keith Thornton.

For the trio De La Soul, griping was not always the order of Read More

By D. Strauss 5/17/99 12:00am

Reality, What a Concept! Kool Keith Gets a Release Date

Well, hip-hop isn’t dead. It hasn’t gone the way of rockabilly or prog-rock. Yet. Despite an ecstatic engagement with a culture industry that shows off Puffy Combs on the New York Post ‘s Page Six while disregarding esthetic responsibility, the genre has been on life support for the last couple of years–just like rock back Read More