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American rapper

Kool A.D.
Kool A.D. performing at Governors Ball in New York City in 2011

Kool A.D. performing at Governors Ball in New York Urban center in 2011
Background information
Birth proper name Victor Vazquez
Also known every bit
  • Piffling Dragon
  • Big Dragon
Born (1983-11-16) November xvi, 1983 (historic period 38)
San Francisco Bay Area, California, U.South.
Genres Hip hop
Occupation(southward)
  • Rapper
  • record producer
  • author
  • artist
Years active 2005–present
Labels
  • Veehead
  • Greedhead
Associated acts
  • Das Racist
  • Male child Crunch
  • Party Fauna
  • Narwhal
Website koolad.bandcamp.com

Musical artist

Victor Vazquez (born November sixteen, 1983),[1] also known by his phase name Kool A.D., is an American rapper, record producer, writer, and artist. He is from the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Vazquez is all-time known for being a member of the New York-based rap group Das Racist, though he has as well been a member of the bands Male child Crunch and Party Animal. Vazquez has likewise released his own solo fabric, including numerous mixtapes. Mother Jones magazine described his work every bit "a thoughtful endeavor to deconstruct and rearrange cultural objects in ways that challenge our deepest assumptions virtually society and cultural products".[2]

Groundwork and personal life [edit]

Vazquez, who is of Afro-Cuban and Italian descent,[3] originally hails from the San Francisco Bay expanse of California. He attended loftier schoolhouse at the Arthur Andersen Customs Learning Center in Alameda[4] and college at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where he earned a bachelor'due south degree in English.[5] While at Wesleyan, Vazquez played drums for the band La Spanka[6] and formed the group Boy Crisis.[5] At Wesleyan, Vazquez met future Das Racist bandmate Himanshu Suri[7] as well as Andrew VanWyngarden of MGMT.[8]

In early 2014, Vazquez married Saba Moeel, known past her stage proper name Cult Days, a fashion designer and musician he had known since he was xv.[2] They at present have a kid, whom Vazquez wrote nearly in his column in Vice magazine.[nine] Moeel and Vazquez have since separated, and she has defendant him of sexually assaulting her.[x] [11] In December 2018, Moeel and three other women spoke with Pitchfork about Vazquez sexually assaulting them between 2006 and 2015.[11] Vazquez told Pitchfork that his memory of the incidents differed, simply he did not want to deny the women their truths.[11]

Music career [edit]

Boy Crunch [edit]

While a educatee at Wesleyan Academy in 2005, Vazquez formed the group Male child Crunch, originally playing drums, and and so later moving to vocals. Although Male child Crunch signed a record deal with B-Unique Records in 2008,[12] B-Unique never released the album.[13]

Das Racist [edit]

During his second yr in higher, Vazquez served as Himanshu Suri'southward resident advisor.[7] Post-obit graduation, Vazquez returned to Wesleyan several times to practice with a Male child Crunch bandmate, who however attended the academy. Information technology was during this time that he became friends with Suri, and following Suri's graduation, the two moved to New York City, where they shared an apartment.[ commendation needed ]

With Ashok "Dapwell" Kondabolu serving as their hype man, Vazquez and Suri formed the rap group Das Racist. Das Racist first establish success on the internet with their 2008 song "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell", and so quickly established themselves within the underground rap scene with their 2010 mixtapes Shut Up, Dude and Sit Down, Homo, both of which earned them disquisitional acclaim, the latter of which received Pitchfork 's designation of "All-time New Music" as well as spawning tours across N America, Europe, and Asia. In 2011, the duo released their first studio anthology, Relax. Later signing a deal with Sony/Megaforce Records in mid-2012[14] Vazquez then left Das Racist before they could release their first album with Sony.[fifteen]

Party Animal [edit]

Party Beast is a hardcore band in which Vazquez plays the drums.[16] It consists of Vazquez, Loren Moter, and Malosi, all former members of New Earth Creeps – a band Vazquez was a founding member of in high schoolhouse.[17] In 2011, they played the Northside Festival in Brooklyn, New York,[18] and in early 2012, Das Racist member Dapwell mentioned that Vazquez was working on material with his "other band" Party Creature.[19] Their eponymous debut album was released online on February 28, 2013,[20] and the band toured the U.Due south. in March and Apr of the aforementioned year. In July 2015, Party Animal released their second album Avant Garbage.[21] They released a video for the song "Saving All My Money (But to Buy a Gun)" in September 2016.[22]

Solo work [edit]

On January 3, 2012, Vazquez released his debut solo mixtape The Palm Vino Drinkard. The Palm Wine Drinkard, which featured several R&B tracks and other experimental music styles, received mixed reviews from critics. In Apr 2012, Vazquez released his 2nd solo mixtape, 51, which received positive reviews from critics. In 2012, Vazquez stated that he had three new albums that he was working on.[16] Ii of them – titled 19 and 63 (like 51, the albums are named subsequently Bay Area omnibus lines) – he released equally a double-album on February 7, 2013.[23] The albums include collaborations with Pictureplane, Young L, Skywlkr, Keyboard Kid, Trackademicks, Fat Tony, Mike Finito, Lakutis, and Spank Rock, as well as a beat Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys originally made for Das Racist.[23] Vice described 19 and 63 as "taking the discursive and funny work he was doing with Das Racist and stripping it of any sense of construction or formula, but likewise work[ing] to complimentary him from the label of 'Dude in Das Racist.'"[24] Pitchfork also praised the mixtapes, calling them "organically avant-garde".[25] Vazquez and Kassa Overall released a collaborative mixtape as Kool & Kass entitled Peaceful Solutions on April 30, 2013.[26] In December 2013, Vazquez released the mixtape Not O.G., equanimous of tracks that did not make information technology on his so-forthcoming album, entitled Discussion O.K. (released in 2014), and featuring guest appearances from Sir DZL and Ladybug "Santos Vieira" Mecca of Digable Planets.[27] In November 2015, Kool A.D. released a 100-song mixtape titled O.K. as a soundtrack to his forthcoming novel O.G., A Novel.[28] 2016 saw a flurry of new releases from Kool A.D. with seven mixtapes coming in the first nine months of year, including two 100-runway mixtapes (Zig Zag Zig and Peyote Karaoke).[29]

Other work [edit]

Visual art [edit]

Vazquez's representation of "a futuristic utopia where racism doesn't exist" that won him the drawing-off with Farley Katz

Vazquez is also a visual artist. While working at 826 Valencia in 2006, he drew the comprehend to Dave Eggers'due south Some Things You lot Should Know About Captain Rick.[4] He has also published his ain comic, The Continuing Adventures of Boy With a Fish for a Caput.[30] [31]

In the summertime of 2009, Vazquez responded to The New Yorker cartoonist Farley Katz's poking fun at Das Racist for "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell"[32] by challenging Katz to a "cartoon-off".[33] Katz accepted, and the contest consisted of the two each drawing three cartoons: a 24-hour interval in the life of a rapper, a twenty-four hour period in the life of a cartoonist, and a futuristic utopia where racism does not exist.[34] Vazquez submitted the same drawing of domestic slackerdom for the first 2, and a person in a Ku Klux Klan hood asking, "What, too soon?" for the tertiary.[35] Rob Harvilla of the Hamlet Voice declared Vazquez the winner, saying he "destroyed" Katz,[36] and Vazquez was widely considered to have won the drawing-off.[35]

Vazquez too draws pictures and sells them on Instagram and Twitter.[37] His primary medium is Sharpie on paper.[38]

Vazquez has exhibited work in galleries in New York Metropolis[39] and Oakland, California.[40]

Writing [edit]

A zine of his writing titled Joke Volume was published by Spencer Madsen of Sad Business firm in February 2013.[21] [41] Praised every bit "a satirical criticism of our modern guild that was both refreshing and thoughtful, equally well equally uproariously hysterical,"[41] the zine sold out in its showtime run, necessitating a second run three months later.[42]

From July 2015 through February 2016, Kool A.D. wrote a bi-weekly column for Vice about parenting, called "Yeah Baby".[9] [43]

In November 2016, Kool A.D. released a novel, titled O.Grand., A Novel.[44] Kool A.D. had originally written the novel as a 442-page experimental narrative, with multiple narrators and other anarchistic elements such every bit lists, screenplay-manner scripts, dictionary entries, tweets, and fake advertisement copy,[2] but he scrapped that version and re-wrote the novel.[45]

Discography [edit]

Mixtapes [edit]

  • Electric Kool A.D. Acid Examination (2006)
  • Zoot Fantastic (2009)[46]
  • Dipset Trance Party (2010)[46]
  • Idiot (2010)[46]
  • Dum Shiny (2011)[46]
  • Dummo (2011)[46]
  • Hyphy Ballads (2011)[46]
  • Ah Luh Mee Duh (2011) – beat record[46]
  • Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes (2011) – beat tape[46]
  • Nite Lite (2011)[46]
  • Hibernate Your Dearest Abroad (2011)[46]
  • Fissure Beauty (2011) – beat tape[46]
  • The Palm Vino Drinkard (2012)
  • 51 (2012)
  • 63 (2013)
  • 19 (2013)
  • Not O.Chiliad. (2013)
  • Word O.M. (2014)
  • O.M. (2015)
  • All Dear (2016) – EP[47]
  • Real Talk (2016) – EP[48]
  • Kool A.D. Is Expressionless (2016)[49]
  • Gods of Tomorrow (2016)[50]
  • Zig Zag Zig (2016)[51]
  • Official (2016)
  • Peyote Karaoke (2016)[29]
  • Have a Nice Dream (2016)[52]
  • Paradiza Inifiniti (2016)[53]
  • The Natural (2016)
  • Sky Ladder (2017)
  • Dope (2017)
  • Aztec Yoga (2017)
  • No Longer at Ease (2018)
  • Per L'Universo (2018)
  • Art (2018)
  • Critique of Sentence (2018)
  • Melancholy Behind Glass (2018)
  • Nada Mane (2018)
  • La Regle Du Jeu (2018)
  • Delusions (2018)
  • Beyond the Lovers Paradox into the Perfect Lovers' Infinity (2018)
  • Spanish Castle Music (2019)
  • Pain, No Pain (2019)
  • Ahora Y Siempre (2019)
  • The Pacifist Game (2020)
  • Notebook of a Render to a Native Land (2020)
  • Pax Magnifica (2020)
  • Phenomenology of the Spirit (2020)
  • Ask the Dust (2020)
  • Naturally (2020)
  • Who Cares (2020)
  • Expiry ii Amerikkka (2020)
  • Chaos (2020)
  • Finesse Brut (2020)
  • Commercialism is an Embarrassment (2020)
  • Peace 2 tha Godz (2021)
  • Metal Ox Thuggin (2021)
  • Automatic Flowers (2021)
  • Bells (2021)
  • Death to the Fascist Insect (2021)
  • Roccoco (2021)
  • Theoretical Soup (2021)
  • Actual Soup (2021)
  • Dubs (2021)
  • Life's Great I'm Stoked (2021)
  • Y'all Ain't Deserve This Beautiful Art (2021)
  • Ane Hundred Dollar Soup (2021)
  • Sit Down Mane (2021)
  • Thuggin Hard (2021)
  • Shut Up Foo (2021)
  • Stone Soup (2021)
  • Hip Hop Charm Set up (2021)
  • Agitprop (2021)
  • Art Sux (2021)
  • Japanese Cartoons (2021) [54]

With Political party Animal [edit]

  • Political party Animal (2013)
  • Avant Garbage (2015)

With Boy Crisis [edit]

  • Tulipomania (2009)

With Kassa Overall [edit]

  • Peaceful Solutions (2013) (equally Kool & Kass)
  • Coke Boys 5 (2014) (as Kool & Kass Are... Peaceful Solutions)
  • Barter 7 (2015) (as Peaceful Solutions)

With New Earth Creeps [edit]

  • The Urge to Kill (2003)
  • Overwhelming Hunger (2006)

Guest appearances [edit]

  • Lakutis – "I'm Better than Everybody" from I'm in the Forest (2011)
  • Sole – "Coke Rap" from Nuclear Winter Volume two: Decease Panel (2011)
  • Action Bronson – "Arts & Leisure" from Blueish Chips (2012)
  • Supreme Cuts & Haleek Maul – "Testify" from Chrome Lips (2012)
  • Heems – "Kate Boosh" from Nehru Jackets (2012)
  • Angel Haze – "Jungle Fever" from Reservation (2012)
  • Mishka & Rad Reef – "Hyperbolic Sleeping room Music" (2012)
  • Toothpaste – "Daytona 900" from 1996 (2012)
  • Hot Sugar – "Leverage" from Midi Murder (2012)
  • Los Feo Faces – "50 Estate Affair" from Metropolis of Mammon (2013)
  • Fat Tony – "Hood Party" from Smart Ass Black Boy (2013)
  • Knifefight – "Pop Your Chimera" from Knifefight (2013)
  • Hot Sugar – "*In & Out*" and "Hereafter Primitive Art School" from Made Man (2013)
  • Tecla – "Mayo on the Side" from Bruja (2013)
  • Maffew Ragazino – "Jackson Pollock" from Brownsville'southward Jesus (2014)
  • Open Mike Eagle – "Informations" from Dark One-act (2014)
  • King Sterlz – "Holy Sound" from Royalty (2014)
  • Milo – "In Gaol" from A Toothpaste Suburb (2014)
  • A Tribe Chosen Blood-red – "All Mean solar day" (2015)
  • The Shoes – "Der Kreisel" from Broken Purse Mix (2015)
  • Creature – "Warhol's Wig" from Torn Together (2015)
  • Toro y Moi – "two Tardily", "That Nighttime", and "Real Love" from Samantha (2015)
  • Lushlife – "This Ecstatic Cult (Zilla Rocca Remix)" from My Idols Are Dead + My Enemies Are in Ability (2017)
  • Ambrose Akinmusire – Origami Harvest (2018)
  • TQX – "Log Off and Alive", "Text Me Back", and "Useless Generation" from Global Intimacy (2018)
  • Vashy - "Drunk Freestyles in Greece ft. Kool A.D." (2018)[55]
  • Freddy Crook - "Championship Blunts ft. Kool A.D. & okaytesla" from Lakeshore Monarch (2021)[56]

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External links [edit]

  • Kool A.D. discography at Discogs

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kool_A.D.

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