Bigger than rock ever was, the overnight sensation. with Ella Fitzgerald, Mahalia Jackson at the Cotton club. The limos comin' up to Harlem USA. The black tie affair, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Patti Labelle was there, only 18 in a Ford the Rudibaker with Elliot Ness from the untouchables. I remember that, I had the custom pin stripe suit me and Frank Sinatra wore green, and the crowd, everybody couldn't cope, thats right, The US army, Americas #1 night, CBS television the cameras on me and Bob Hope, the beige cashmere , the top poet in the country shankin' hands with the pope. yeahhhhh
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The overviewer chastizer, mind tantalizer, sun beamin down on your visor,
The overviewer chastizer, mind tantalizer, sun beamin down on your visor,
The most energetic, the popular extravaganza. The parade at Wrigley Field with Lyndon B Johnson. Based on a true story, the small cable networks couldn't cover such a huge territory. Way before the Hamptons and Eric Clapton. Kool Herc was 11 years old in jamaica. Howard Cosell was a baby, Jocko wasn't even rappin'. Only me and Eisenhower, before the wheels were invented. The first guy to create, electric and power. ya'll was in boy scout camp, with an oil lamp. way before the tennis classics, models on the runways. 21 trucks and me and the original black lady from Star Trek, watchin' Evil Knievel land on the ramp. It gets no bigger than this , the life style ridiculous. yeahhh...
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change your diapers baby, you saw the cameo me on Micheal's navy. My book the number 1 best seller. The horse ranch in Morocco. Three nights in the Hilton, Elvis Presley walks up to me. The lobby is full of paparazzi's, the greatest ever, what brings you to Chicago. I love your music man, Sam Cooke is flyin in tomorrow. Dinner for three, akai wasn't made yet. Babe Ruth bought the Rolls Royce, It was NBC not the MPC. Photographers all around. Martin Luther King, the Nobel peace prize. Chuck Browns father James did the split in a tuxedo. Entertainer of the year. I receive letters by the billions...I thank the people of the wold...including Washington DC....the President can see me...the President can see me......yeahhhhh.
credits
from Project Polaroid,
released April 25, 2006
Produced by TomC3 for Lone Wolf Productions
Kool Keith began his rap career with the group Ultramagnetic MCs. After the release of Critical Beatdown, Thornton was
reportedly institutionalized in Bellevue Hospital Center. However, he later said that the idea that he was institutionalized came from a flippant remark made during a stressful interview and he never expected the story to become so well-known....more
