![]() Zev Love X dropped out of the New York hip hop scene until 1997, when he reemerged as MF Doom. The album was heavily bootlegged until it was officially released on ReadyRock Records in 2000. ![]() The album's title and cover art proved too controversial for Elektra's management, who instructed Dante Ross to give Zev Love X the Black Bastards master tapes and $20,000 as incentive to leave the label. Soon afterwards Elektra Records unexpectedly cancelled the album and dropped KMD. "What a Nigga Know?" was released as the first single in March that same year and Black Bastards was announced to be released on May 3, 1994. Zev Love X completed the album alone over the course of the next months and advance copies were finally sent out in early 1994. Shortly before finishing Black Bastards, Subroc was killed while attempting to cross the 878 Nassau Expressway on April 23, 1993. Zev Love X created the cover art, a Sambo caricature being hanged in a game of hangman. Hood), which was included on Black Bastards as two separate tracks, "Plumskinzz.(Loose Hoe, God & Cupid)" (Zev Love X's verse) and "Plumskinzz.(Oh No I Don't Believe It!)" (Subroc's verse). His verse was removed from "Plumskinzz" (the B-side to the "Nitty Gritty" single off Mr. Onyx left the group during the recording sessions. The album was a departure from their lighthearted previous release with songs celebrating sex ("Plumskinnz"), drugs ("Smokin' That S*#%", "Contact Blitt", "Suspended Animation"), and drinking ("Sweet Premium Wine"). The group recorded their follow up, Black Bastards, in 1993. Hood was released, Zev Love X and Onyx testified before the United States Congress in support of the National Voter Registration Act, on behalf of Rock the Vote. Hood the album also featured fellow Five Percenters, Brand Nubian appearing on "Nitty Gritty." Around the same time Mr. Hood" (a series of samples from a language instruction tape) tie the album together. Subroc heavily sampled old children's television shows and recordings, including drops of Sesame Street character Bert on the singles "Who Me?" and "Humrush." Skits featuring KMD interacting with "Mr. Its songs focus on racism and black empowerment in a comical manner. The guest appearance caught the attention of A&R executive Dante Ross, who signed KMD to Elektra Records. MC Serch, a native of nearby Far Rockaway, met the group at community functions and recruited them for a guest spot on "The Gas Face," a single off 3rd Bass' The Cactus Album. Onyx the Birthstone Kid soon replaced Jade 1, who left the group in order to finish high school. KMD began as a graffiti crew they also practiced breakdance. The three were Black Muslims active in the Nuwaubian Nation. Zev Love X, DJ Subroc, and Jade 1 formed KMD in Long Beach, New York, in 1988. Doom attempted to revive the KMD name in the 2010s, releasing a new song and announcing a comeback album in 2017, but no further updates or recordings surfaced before his death in October 2020. Zev Love X subsequently changed his moniker to MF Doom and achieved success as a solo artist. Hood (1991) and Black Bastards the latter of which was cancelled by Elektra in 1994 and not officially released until 2000. The group dissolved in 1994 following the departure of Onyx, the sudden death of DJ Subroc in 1993, and conflicts with Elektra that resulted in them being dropped from the label. The group's original third member, Jade 1 (believed to later be known as Rodan), left before the group signed with Elektra Records, being replaced with Onyx the Birthstone Kid. The core of the group was composed of brothers Daniel "Zev Love X" Dumile and Dingilizwe "DJ Subroc" Dumile. KMD ( K.M.D., Kausing Much Damage, or A Positive Kause in a Much Damaged Society) was an American hip hop trio active in the late 1980s and early 1990s. KMD circa 1991 left to right: Zev Love X, Subroc, and OnyxĪ Positive Kause in a Much Damaged Society ![]()
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