Alternatively known as Bassey Kooffreh, Bassey Kooffreh Bassey,
and Kooffreh Bassey Kooffreh, the Chief has been making music since at least 2007,
recording and releasing dozens – if not hundreds - of albums in the process. Hugely
prolific, and anything but the shy and retiring type, at one point the Chief
was claiming that he was ‘a voting member of the Grammy USA and the most
recorded published music Star in the Eastern Sea Board of the United States
East Coast of USA. 120 Albums, 2400 tracks 250 videos according to Itunes,
Spotify and Amazon.com. Chief Kooffreh values Family and his millions of fans
and friends worldwide.’
The typical Chief K track is spoken work polemic over a
sampled loop or karaoke backing, with the Chief announcing himself and the
title at the very start, usually something like, ‘Here comes Chief Kooffreh
with my millions of fans… ’ before launching into a rap about anything from the
evils of Viagra to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales or the dangers of
cheating on your woman.
His biggest ‘hit’, if you can quantify these things, is the
classic She Will Cut Your Balls Off, although Bitch Get Out Of My
Life You Are The Devil is rather special too, as it Bad Medical Doctors
Out Of Control Killed Michael Jackson, and the wonderful Stop Beating
Gays, Stop The Violence Against Gays Oprah Denial Closet (Download Supporters
And Fans). Confusingly, although he claims to have thousands of songs in
his catalogue, many are identical: Doctor Viagra, for example, is the
same song as Danger Viagra Can Hurt You, Doctor Viagra Hard Hammer and Viagra
Can Hurt You Part Two, making it difficult and downright frustrating for Chief
Kooffreh completists. To complicate matters even further, Big Viagra Hard
Stone is the same song with added echo and eardrum-piercing police siren
effects.
In July 2020 Chief K published his first book, Cyber
Security Intelligence Bible American Big Dark War Cost $400 Billion a Year,
his masterwork on how the American government, and many American companies, are
at the mercy of criminal hackers, whose unlimited resources allow them to steal
classified information. This was followed shortly afterwards by Skills for
Men and Women to Love, Live and Work Successfully with Each Other, credited
to Chief Kooffreh Harvard Honors. Later the same year he filed to have his name
recognised as a trademark: that application was granted in March 2021, which I
guess ow means we have to refer to him as Chief Kooffreh tm
There are dozens upon dozens of Chief Kooffreh songs for you
to listen to on YouTube, iTunes, Spotify and other platforms, but here are a
couple of personal favourites: the brilliantly bonkers (and NSFW) She Will
Cut Your Balls Off and, from the album STARRR, the original version
of Tragedy of Princess Diana England, listed as one of ‘the 101
strangest records on Spotify’ by the Guardian in 2012.
Enjoy!
Download Balls HERE
Download Diana HERE
Never heard of him. Will take a listen, thanks Darryl
ReplyDeleteA perfect storm of looneydom-euphemising outsiderdom and African Big Man culture. God help the pupils he teaches, and just about everyone who encounters him.
ReplyDeleteExcuse me Fanny Blancmange. Chief Kooffreh is a good man what he sings doesn't affect his teaching strategies he has compassion to his students and focus to his students needs to make sure they learn at the end of the class. What ever musis he has done he doesn't bring it to his class nor discuss to his students. Do not be so judgemental Mr.Fanny and acted like you know Chief Kooffreh respect the teacher because without this hardworking teacher your children won't learn anything. You should apologize to Chief Kooffreh Mr. Fanny
Deletecould have sworn you wrote about him before - in one of your books maybe? Or perhaps i just assumed it because you've played him on your show..? Anyway, did not know about his books, wow!
ReplyDeleteMaybe in the second book?
DeleteHe was a substitute teacher for me a few times while I went to VLUS in cambridge for middle school.
ReplyDeleteThat's batshit crazy!
ReplyDeletehe was my brothers substitute teacher one time. a very strange being, he is.
ReplyDeleteLol I worked with this dude as a security officer in Concord MA, definitely out there
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