The man who invented the rap alias just dropped a project called No Alias – the joke is the concept, and it's a good one. Kool Keith, arguably the first rapper to create multiple aliases for himself, from the Dr. Octagon persona, under which he released four studio albums, down through a rogues' gallery of other characters, teams with Rad Brown for an EP whose title promises something his catalog almost never offers: Keith as Keith, no mask, no mythology. The track titles back the premise. "Red Clay," "Weekend Fever," "She Miss Me," "Still On Top" and "Last Call For Alcohol" read like regular-life rap – weekends, women, bar tabs – rather than interstellar gynecology, and "Weekend Fever" led the rollout as the advance single. The project arrives via URBNET, the Canadian independent that's long been a reliable home for exactly this stripe of veteran underground eccentricity. Of course, a Kool Keith record promising normalcy should be approached with healthy suspicion – his stream-of-consciousness writing bends even the most mundane subject matter into shapes nobody else's brain produces, and that's precisely the appeal nearly four decades in. "Still On Top" isn't a boast here; from Ultramagnetic onward, it's closer to a job description. For longtime Keith scholars and the merely Keith-curious alike: the no-alias alias might be his most interesting character yet.
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