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Kool Keith Housing Things

Oct. 4, 19881 viewer

Kool Keith Housing Things Lyrics

[Kool Keith]
Well I'm sonically, high bionically
For you dummies, ironically stupid
What are you, Cupid?
You steal my rhymes, and then you loop it
Wrong! Back this way
Follow me now, head this way
Into this, while I rap on through this
For many germs, who never knew this
Switch is upside down
Turn around, look in the mirror
You rap catchers are makin' a error
Every inning, I'm back to the dugout
You on the field, I'm ready to bugout
Like a manager, smackin' up your team
Male or female, ducks who dream
Of takin' me, on the mic and makin' me
Rack up, MC's I stack up
Foreign precinct rappers need to back up
Quickly, I'ma rip your brain off
Throw it down so the blood can drain off

My hands, while I wave to a fan
I'm Kool Keith, not a Bill or a Dan
But a General, equal to a mineral
Pushin' a crowd, to keep on dancin'
I'm Housing Things
{Moe Love cuts up "Kool Keith"}

[Kool Keith]
Now I'm back, to continue my verses
I'm never screamin' loud with any curses
Roughly, that a child can learn
I teach kids, and ducks that burn
With a flamethrower, and how do you show a
A grass rapper, cut him with a lawnmower
Twice, into golden wheat
Ground the rest into moldin' meat
And cook 'em, 'til they all well done
They not ready, they don't smell done
Like fish, it ain't my favorite dish
I grab a steak and a battle I wish
A Coke MC or Pepsi I'll sip up
Drop your face and bring the other lip up
Watch, while I stun and amaze you
Kick out lyrics that truly'll daze you
I'm your boss, the one that pays you
Nine to five, all ducks are hired
And when I come MC's are fired
No pay, no way today
You're unemployed with nothing to say
But I can say, one thing for sure
I'm Housing Things
{Moe Love cuts up "Kool Keith"}

[Kool Keith]
I think it's pitiful, that you had taunted me
Your girl sulkin', she wanted me first
Before you was thought about
Back in the days, when I taught about
Science, the real construction
No other solo team or production
Did that, or got with that
I play brain ball usin' a bat
To your skull, smack it out the park
I rhyme bright, and you're in the dark
With shadows, hallucinating battles
To compel, the capital K, as in Kool
Combined in Keith
Rap metal is terminal chief
Android
, squashin' the beef
On time, and my mic will stay on
For any roach or germ who wanna pray on
A weakness, but my uniqueness
Has a way to show that I'm slicker

Creating rhymes, you have to be, quicker
And versatile on the microphone
I'm Kool Keith, cold Housing Things
And I'd like to say whassup to my man, Father Mashon
And also my brother Kevvy Kev, Ced Gee, Moe Love, TR
And my man I God, Paul C, Public Enemy and the Jungle Brothers
Peace, I'm outta here

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An introduction to Kool Keith and primarily his only solo cut on Critical Beatdown. The track shows his versatility in his skill with imaginative wordplay he would later become well known for. The song presents his early braggadocio and competitive style in which he wasn’t afraid to take shots at Hip Hop royalty such as Rakim, Slick Rick and Grandmaster Flash. With this style, it would lay the blueprint and coincide with him briefly using the alias “Rhythm-X” on the follow-up album Funk Ya Head Up in 1992.

The track for many is mostly remembered for being featured in the 1999 PS1 video game Thrasher: Skate and Destroy which also featured east coast hip-hop legends such as EPMD, Afrika Bambaataa and Stetsasonic.

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Recorded At
Ultra-Lab
Release Date
October 4, 1988
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