Buck found a centaur token on a San Francisco sidewalk while walking with DJ Stef. He carried it for two months, contemplating the centaur, and imagined a centaur with an office job — wearing a shirt and tie but no pants, constantly objectified. The song became a metaphor for how fame changes how people treat you. The beat gave him trouble — he struggled for days with a string loop from a movie soundtrack, tried 30-40 different drum breaks before finding the right one during a lunch break at his newsstand job (Blowers Street Paper Chase) in Halifax. Kool Keith was almost on the song — Sole from Anticon left Buck Keith's phone number but Buck never called. Cover art by Nic Klein (then known as Reka), now a top Marvel Comics illustrator.
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The Centaur
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The Centaur 12-inch was released by Anticon around 1998-1999. Cover art was by an artist named Reka (real name Nic Klein), a German artist living in Halifax at the time who is now a top illustrator for Marvel Comics.
