Robbie, could you reshare the Raw alternate version at least, please? I thought I had it somewhere but I can’t find it now.

“I never rhyme like them.”

No matter what you say about Keith he always had his own style, in fact he had many styles. When it comes to the point of word assembly or cadences he had hundreds and he always was looking for ways to break the rules.

I think what he did was way more than just stringing words together. Some of his rhymes were stream-of-conciousness bugged out rhyming but I still feel that had he wanted to he could have easily rhymed on a more literal level and blown other rappers of the time away.

Maybe I’m just impervious to Keith’s “genius”. I don’t think he’s terrible, I just don’t get what’s great. If he’s great, then any rapper who strings together random words that rhyme together is great.

Nuff said!!

^^^dude, that’s just a bunch of shit that rhymes together. By that measure, ANYBODY can be a great lyricist.

In the court of lyricism, it was ruled that Kool Keith was a highly lyrical individual prone to momentary spells of weirdness, yet still retaining the ability to excel in complex rhyme form.

No right of appeal exists.

Nuff said!!

IMHO he could easily have written literal, or more conventional rhymes to compare to a G Rap or Rakim but he was so out there he really didn’t care.

I wish Keith would hook up with a producer these days rather than do his basic beats. The Matthew lp was some dope shit, him taking his frustrations out on the whole industry.

Or it could simply be that I had trouble remembering one small particular of a line from a track, me asking you if it was hypothetical was just my way of asking you to refresh my memory and enlighten me….

Furthermore, THERE ARE A BUNCH OF REASONS WHY certain lines may be hazy in people’s memories and here below are some of the common ones:

1) Some people are simply conditioned to remembering lyrics once they hear the actual record, especially if such a style is so complex
2) That actual line may not be the favourite part of the song, hell even the track itself may not even be their favourite
3) Simply too much released material from that particular MC to keep up with and remember, especially in someone like Kool Keith’s case where he’s made 24 albums and counting, with over 10 tracks on each album, not taking to account the number of singles and guest appearances
4) The point above in conjunction to other credible MC’s’s lyrics to memorise as well
5) Especially if such a track, in this ‘One Two One Two’ case especially is an old track, and may not have been listened to for years

I could list more reasons, but I’ll leave you with this, explain this to me, how does being unfamiliar with one small particular line from a verse, equate to not knowing or never listening to a person’s entire catalogue??