A Sweet Fine Old Lady

Kool Keith and Kutmasta Kurt “Your Mom Is My Wife”

Kool Keith was on such a hot streak in the late ‘90s that he was somehow willing to throw a song as excellent and immediately appealing as “Your Mom Is My Wife” in a vault for 20 years. I have no idea why this track was scrapped back then – maybe Keith had second thoughts about releasing a song in which he condescendingly treats the then-current generation of rappers like his literal sons and demands homage and respect. (Hip-hop itself is the mother, obviously.) But regardless of his motives at the time, the song has aged very well. So well, in fact, that I didn’t realize it wasn’t a brand new tune the first few times I heard it, and only discovered its origin upon Googling it in advance of writing about it. The lyrics are even funnier now that Keith is old enough to be the actual father of many contemporary rappers, though it is pretty amusing to think that this old man routine was coming from a dude who was about 33 at the time it was recorded.

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