Kool Keith & Haji Outlaw: Keith & Outlaw 7″ single (FCBRV, 2023)

May 31, 2023 at 7:53 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Kool Keith & Haji Outlaw: Keith & Outlaw 7″ single

Preceding an album with Real Bad Man as well as the forthcoming Black Elvis 2, Kool Keith started off the year with this single produced by Chicago’s Haji Outlaw. “Kool Kriminal” is a brief single-verse rhyme with typically sleazy lyrics and cinematic production filled with gunshots and movie dialogue samples, almost feeling more like a skit than a song. “Sporty Nights (Uber Eats)” is the highlight, with a Griselda-ish beat made of choppy soul samples and little else, while Keith comes at you from several different angles with as much energy as he can muster these days. He’s been hit or miss for a long time, even if the hits are astoundingly great, but this is pretty decent. The B-side is just the instrumentals (with the dialogue samples intact), and they function well on their own, but of course they’re best heard with Keith rhyming over them.

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