Dr. Octagonecologyst
I heard this album for the first time when
working for a record label back in 1997. And heard it. And heard
it. And heard it. It seems this girl who worked in my area was
obsessed and hit replay at each and every chance. Considering
the subject matter (he’s a psychotic gynecologist) and the many
porn clip samples, it was all sorts of awkward – though so was
she. At first I was a little horrified, and then amused and
then got into it. So into it, in fact, that I went out and bought
what I thought was the album so I could listen to it in the
privacy of my own home. Turns out I bought the instrumental
version, and thought I might be losing my mind. Of course at
the time I had no idea that Dr. Octagon was in fact Kool
Keith from Ultramagnetic
MC's – whose Critical Beatdown album I enjoyed
to death in the late eighties. It seems on this album that Keith
had moved on from braggin' about his skeelz and moved on to
bragging about his fake job as a space alien gynecologist (or
at least I think that’s what’s going on). His delivery, voice
and his complete and utter free-association sounds almost identical
to Tracy Morgan’s more scatological stuff. It makes you wonder
if Tracy listened to this album in altered states one too many
times. This album is so way outside the norm when it comes to
rap, it’s almost impossible to put it in the same category as,
say, Wu-Tang Clan. The production
on this one, as compared to his other releases, is stupendous
and as focused as his lyrics are not. He’s an entertaining character
to be sure, and his focus on anuses, glands and body parts over
a somewhat Halloween-ish horror soundscape as a whole is sometimes
a little disturbing and also pretty damn funny. A serious classic amongst so much utter crap. |
Instrumentalyst |
Musical Connections:
Analog Brothers
Dan the Automator
Deltron 3030
Dr. Dooom
Gorillaz
Kool Keith
Ultramagnetic MCs
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