Kool Keith Black Elvis/Lost In Space

Out of print on CD on Red Ink (52000) - D03.Personnel includes: Kool Keith, Black Silver The Navigator, Roger Troutman, Sadat X, Kid Capri (rap vocals); Live 7, Nightcrawler (programming).Recorded at Bridge Sound Studios, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.BLACK ELVIS is a retro-futurist, psychedelic, paranoid, delusional, and misogynistic descent into a demented schizophrenic hell and that's what makes it one of the best hip-hop albums of 1999. Too subterranean for the Puff Daddy-led hip-pop world and a little too weird for the average underground beat head, it is a wonder this man still has a career. But he does, and on his second album after jettisoning Dr.Octagon (the first being FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED, which was recorded under his Dr. Dooom alias) Kool Keith proves that whatever the name, the game remains.In "Intro," Keith attacks the world he thinks is ripping him off, asking "Why are you making the me-faces in your videos with the fish-lens effects / Why?" In "I'm Seeing Robots," he u