![]() Enthusiasm for the twisted worldview of the self-defined “paramedic fetus of the East” has garnered the album permanently certified cult-status. Since then, the album has only increased in popularity, featuring on best-of lists and launching the current crop of abstract MCs. Writing in Rolling Stone, Chairman Mao characterized Dr Octagonecologyst as the “heretofore-undefined area where hip-hop meets hallucinatory sci-fi and porn.”Ĭombining the space-age chimeras of New York rap eccentric, Kool Keith, with the musical eclecticism of Bay Area beat-maker Dan the Automator (DJ Qbert’s scratching providing commentary), the album stood apart from the Golden Era sound and was similarly far removed from California gangsta rap. ![]() ![]() When the first Dr Octagon album came out in 1996, it sounded like nothing else in the hip-hop universe. Check out the original publication on Passion of the Weiss, in April 2018
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