I Don't Play - Kool Keith

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[kool keith]
Yo yo yo
Worldwide, worldwide
Kool keith in bronx housing
Ninety-nine, 2000
As we get biz, yeah
I'ma let you have it
Let's do this

Yo, my life is clientele, while pro people talk about me
Cut empty pocket, shark faces like electric sockets
Sideburns with afro, nasty pro, throw like rollo
In wells fargo, cashin checks while you tryin to borrow
My game is cut through, plastic come, we can see through
Disco music, jazz loops, I ain't tryin to be you
Nineteen-ninety-nine, 2000 black, new design
My head is on right
Back up kid you wasn't born right
Playin center I block your wack raps like bill cartwright
Pick up your rebounds, plastic soft production sounds
All mc groups will be cartoons like mother goose
No joke I bust back
Kid for real, watch your buttcrack
Entourages, movin neighborhoods like mr. rogers
Slam rhymes on concrete, mash em up in car garages
Cadillac spin, open magazines, vibe again
You're jealous stare lickin, paws like you're rin-tin-tin
I'm back again, I stop your programs like gentle ben
Yeah (yeah. yeah. yeah.)

Chorus: kool keith (repeat 4x)

I'll be the man, watch your backpack, pen and pencil
School today! grown man, I don't play

[kool keith]
Back up the turnpike, watch mad max turn into you
Get gassed at truckstops, leave diesel fuel, burnin through you
I come to boo you, best believe, I'm a damager
Cancel shows, interviews, I don't need no manager
Slash fan, half of y'all, think I'm the elephant man
Look through my records analyze me like I'm michael jackson
Collect my vinyl dj moves spinnin on my wax and
Groupies in line, camera flashes, I don't need the action
Sweaty hotels, dumbbells, I'd rather shop in modell's
While y'all wear backpacks, with corny macks, rollin l's
Cd's get melted, ask your favorite rapper, how he felt it
I turn on others, light up this, when I'm cookin muffins
That's on the grill, make your girlfriend buy my ampex reels
Pay for studio time, droppin verse with dope words
I'm on the real herb, pick up mics you got some nerve
Rahway state prison bring my projects in the music business
That's if you with this, yo craig, there will be no witness
I'm comin through with bronx crew, a black, boo-ba-babboon
Tecs in my pockets make your feets dance, do the lockin
Yeah (yeah. yeah. yeah. yeah.)

Chorus

[kool keith]
Yo, what are you doin lookin in my closet?
Why are you tryin to try on my sneakers?
Stop lookin around in my kitchen
That's right it's honeycomb up there, raviolis
Everything a regular man eats
I'm not the elephant man, whassup?

You don't scare me, I'm the man that bought your girl some hair
Walk in giant arenas and stop your show at madison square
With security, you can't call the secret service
Got your roadie cases packed up, your bookin agent nervous
Backstage passes special units break your fendi glasses
Cancel your flights, town car, see me in the brown car
Rip up your passport, I follow you through kennedy airport
Lock up the gates, town seize up, like norman bates
Book hotel niko change my face up, in puerto rico
Julio gongado bumpin beats, in a el dorado
I'm movin swiftly, the game is fast, very quickly
Greyhound bus tickets, I'll vick you for the whole season
That's the reason I'll be easin, eatin cheese and
That's right kid, yeah (yeah. yeah.)

Chorus

Yeah, that's right, watch your backpacks
For the nine-nine to the 2000
From bronx housing
Housing.

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An original member of New York's new-school pioneers the Ultramagnetic MC's, "Kool" Keith Thornton is best known as a solo rapper. His signature style is stream-of-consciousness lyrical flow and complex vocals, two skills that earn him a perennial nod from the underground hip-hop community. The average Kool Keith album is peppered with bizarre, disjointed, even delusional or disassociated themes, concepts, and references. Nearly all of his albums incorporate a satirical dislike for more commercialized strains of hip-hop, as well as major record labels.

Thornton's early career and lyrics with the Ultramagnetic MC's often referenced his time as a patient of Bellevue, a psychiatric hospital, where he was treated for depression. With Ultramagnetic MC's, his abstract style developed, maturing in songs like Poppa Large. He was probably the first rapper to create an alter ego, and then create an alter ego for that alter ego (Kool Keith v. Moe Luv). After the Ultramagnetic MC's broke up, he expanded his resume, experimenting with new styles, including his self-described pornocore, known for pornographic imagery and brutal, abstract lyrics. Sex Style released in 1997, was the showcase for this genre.

Teaming up with Dan the Automator Nakamura under the name Dr. Octagon, Thornton again reinvented his image, recording the self-titled Dr. Octagon album (later reissued under the title Dr. Octagonecologyst) which was released by the English trip hop label Mo Wax. The album received critical acclaim, though mainly from sources outside the mainstream hip-hop community. The critical success of the album helped to open the accessibility of the underground hip hop scene to an appreciative audience. For Dan the Automator, this album laid the foundation for a burgeoning career and accolades as a producer; for Thornton, the success of Dr. Octagonecologyst seemed to put him in danger of being typecast as a "space and Mars" rapper, or an industry tool, which he throughout his career has looked down upon.

His style as a whole is characterized by non sequiturs and bizarre commentary, particularly anal, fecal and genital references. For example, "Chief administrator suck my oil," "Dr. Ludicrous I turn into an octopus," "All this jealousy shit is mayonnaise and celery shit," "Two drinks minimum, don't worry, we're maximum," etc. An instrumental version of the album, Instrumentalyst, showcased the production, became a rising success with most of the credit given to Dan the Automator and other collaborators, even though Thornton is credited on the LP with some production duties.

List of projects, groups and alter-egos:

- Ultramagnetic MC's
- Dr. Octagon
- Dr. Dooom
- Sinister 6000 (Dan the Automator)
- Black Elvis
- Masters of Illusion
- Analog Brothers
- Mr. Nogatco
- Project Polaroid
- Tashan Dorset
- Sex Style
- Ultra
- The Cenobites
- Sergei Khmelev




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