Kool A.D., formerly of Das Racist but is now a full-blown solo rapper and artist, has been working on his new novel, O.K: A Novel, set to be released in spring 2016 on Sorry House. He describes what the book is about to Secret as an accumulation of many provoking thoughts at once.
“The book is about sex, drugs, art, music, books, pornography, capitalism and its alternatives, crime, violence, race, class, culture, celebrity, obscurity, anonymity, the politics of the day-to-day, apathy, the guilt of “first world” privilege, globalism, the Internet, being broke, being poor, being rich, being in the middle, the “middle class,” class, aspiration, myth, the prison industrial complex, spirituality, detachment, wonder, awe, spectacle, modernity, post modernity, theft, ownership, nature, the sun, the moon, the trees, the mountains, the oceans, the cosmos, mythical gods and real ones, life, death, love, wealth, poverty, racism, just a few things that were running thru my head,” he says.
To accompany the book, he’s just released the soundtrack, which contains 100 songs sprawling from remixes of songs by Chief Keef and French Montana to new records like the Keyboard Kid-produced “O.K.” He’s released a video for the latter, where we find Victor Vasquez on a beach dressed in a suave black suit. He’s rapping and enjoying the breeze. Later on, he lights a guitar on fire, possibly a symbol for being punk rock or to throw up a middle finger to the music industry.
You can watch “O.K.” above, and stream the full project below on Bandcamp.
