“Kool Thing” was inspired by an interview that Kim Gordon had with LL Cool Jay when she was writing a piece for the music-magazine Spin. (See article below). Essentially the interview was a ridiculous idea, the two did not get along, and the song was meant to mock LL Cool Jay, who had recently released the 1989 album “Walking With a Panther” – for which he was booed on stage by fans for its pop-sellout nature. As we should all know, LL Cool Jay came back with one of his most known singles “Mama Said Knock You Out” an epic masterpiece.
I don’t believe Gordon knew exactly herself where she was headed with the political themes listed in the song, but I believe in the interview she meant to associate herself with the fight of the Black Panthers against the white male – which turned out to be a movement that left women uninvited, (as women are weak and inferior and have half the size of brains that men do and were put on this planet to make sandwiches and stuff and do laundry and you know, other non-man things – to put it as a white male oppressor would). I think this may have pissed off Kim. “Kool Thing” is littered with LL Cool Jay references, such as the voice of Chuck D representing the rapper’s careless attitude towards the political realm.
“Kool Thing” was inspired by an interview that Kim Gordon had with LL Cool Jay when she was writing a piece for the music-magazine Spin. (See article below). Essentially the interview was a ridiculous idea, the two did not get along, and the song was meant to mock LL Cool Jay, who had recently released the 1989 album “Walking With a Panther” – for which he was booed on stage by fans for its pop-sellout nature. As we should all know, LL Cool Jay came back with one of his most known singles “Mama Said Knock You Out” an epic masterpiece.
I don’t believe Gordon knew exactly herself where she was headed with the political themes listed in the song, but I believe in the interview she meant to associate herself with the fight of the Black Panthers against the white male – which turned out to be a movement that left women uninvited, (as women are weak and inferior and have half the size of brains that men do and were put on this planet to make sandwiches and stuff and do laundry and you know, other non-man things – to put it as a white male oppressor would). I think this may have pissed off Kim. “Kool Thing” is littered with LL Cool Jay references, such as the voice of Chuck D representing the rapper’s careless attitude towards the political realm.
http://search.phoenixnewtimes.com/1991-03-20/music/staying-koolsonic-youth-survives-a-major-label/