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Kool A.D. is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Francis and the Lights, Milo, Heems, R.A.P. Ferreira and Pictureplane. Those roots explain a lot about how Kool A.D. arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Heems, Your Old Droog, Homeboy Sandman, Talib Kweli and Why?, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Open Mike Eagle, Mishka, Milo, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien and Mexican Institute of Sound, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 46 connections around Kool A.D., reaching back through Francis and the Lights and forward to Open Mike Eagle. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Victor Vazquez, also known by his stage name Kool A.D., is an American rapper, record producer, author, and artist. He is from the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Vazquez is best known for being a member of the New York-based rap group Das Racist, though he has also been a member of the bands Boy Crisis and Party Animal. Vazquez has also released his own solo material, including numerous mixtapes. Mother Jones magazine described his work as "a thoughtful effort to deconstruct and rearrange cultural objects in ways that challenge our deepest assumptions about society and cultural products".
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Kool A.D. connections
Kool A.D. grew out of Francis and the Lights, Milo, Heems and R.A.P. Ferreira, shares an orbit with Heems, Your Old Droog, Homeboy Sandman and Talib Kweli, went on to shape Open Mike Eagle, Mishka, Milo and Del Tha Funkee Homosapien. 46 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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