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Al K!NG looks, acts and sounds like he was adopted by Mr. T and Elvis Costello... from Andy Warhol's Silver Factory and babysat by Basquiat, waiting on his folks in an after-school program led by Afrika Bambaataa. A musician highly in control of his stage presence, energy and craft. To say Al K!NG is complex is too obvious and requires too little thought. All humans are complex. The thing is, sometimes, there's some question about whether or not Al K!NG is human. He looks, acts and sounds like he was adopted by Mr. T and Elvis Costello... from Andy Warhol's Silver Factory and babysat by Basquiat, waiting on his folks in an after-school program led by Afrika Bambaataa and some nameless Shaolin Master of a 1000 Flows. On his 22nd birthday, a little more than a year after first appearing in public doing Turbo's broom dance from Breakin' 2, the always-silent-off-stage star posted a picture of himself, professionally shot but as a spur of the moment goof, arms folded and chest puffed out with an indian headress. He then asked, "Who wants to party with the K!NG, you worms?!" That's par for the course with him. But it's not just the way he dresses, walks and talks, or even a comment about his preternatural talent, It's the fact he has all that and he comes from a place as country as Twiggs County, Georgia. His meaningful lyrics over heavy bass, synth and strings had to develop somewhere deep within. It'd be easier to believe his spaceship crashed in the woods out there than t