The Outer Limits: Kool Keith and the Ultramagnetic MCs
By Hua Hsu, eMusic Contributor
It was 1988 and space was, indeed, the final frontier. A brief history of rap until that moment might have read like this: first they toasted, then they shouted. Next came the couplets and syllables, uttered coolly, so as not to break a sweat. And then crash-landed the Ultramagnetic MCs - a band of brothers from another planet who came to reset the system. Why rhyme when you could fly in style? High school friends Kool… more »