Making sense of a rapper named Hitla.
I like some of the these artists very much, despite the fact that my grandparents, who were Holocaust survivors from Germany, probably would have very much not appreciated the names they chose for themselves. That makes me feel a little weird sometimes. But not so terribly. Art is art, and time moves on. Not that we should ever forget. We shouldn’t.
I interviewed Kool Keith once and he told me that he wanted to dress up like Hitler and spank a woman with a riding crop while having sex with her on stage. It made sense at the time. He was talking to me on the phone from Amsterdam, where he was performing in support of his 1997 album Sex Styles. Keith is a great provocateur.