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2 CDs containing all 14 of the album’s original vocal tracks second “bonuses and instrumentals” CD set also contains a 7-inch picture disc of the single “What A Nigga Know.” encased in a truly unique hard-page Children’s Book package, with a KMD “Sambo Mascot” pop-up + Rock & Soul Is the Best "Go To DJ Equipment & Record Store" Out There. We´re in the Biz for over 30/Y. Always Best Price, Knowledge, Service & Product Guarantee!
The words “lost classic” get thrown around from time to time, but KMD’s sophomore album, Black Bastards, truly fits the bill. Originally scheduled for release in the spring of 1994, Elektra Records unceremoniously shelved it at the eleventh hour due to controversy over the provocative cover art. Surviving group member MF Doom (then known as Zev Love X) – as fans know, his younger brother Subroc was killed in 1993 – tried to release the album on other labels, but met more dead ends. Sadly, it languished in hip-hop purgatory until six years later. Even then, the album had only a limited release via small indie labels.
Beyond the fact that the controversy surrounding the cover – featuring the group’s long-standing “Sambo” mascot being hanged by a makeshift gallows – was unfair, the group’s fans being denied access to this album only compounded the injustice. Because musically and lyrically, it was a truly amazing record, full of youthful creativity, tinged with the stress of growing up as Black men in urban America. Unlike on the group’s 1991 debut, Mr. Hood, Subroc had fully come into his own as both a producer and an MC on Black Bastards, and his untimely death made the album’s shelving that much more tragic.
Heavily influenced by the mind-bending spoken word album Blue Guerrilla by Gylan Kain (from 1970), songs like “What A Nigga Know” (the only single released off the album), the slippery, bass-driven “Get U Now” and the album’s title track explore black consciousness viewed through young-but-experienced eyes. Musically alternating between bouncy and raw – many times both concurrently – the tracks gave both MCs the springboard they needed to express themselves clearly, whether on the catchy, more lighthearted “Sweet Premium Wine,” the psychedelic, abstract “Suspended Animation” or the intricate mash-up of television samples heard on the instrumental “Garbage Day #3.”
Finally given deluxe treatment more than two decades after its completion (and 15 years after its first release), this special Record Store Day 2015 set features 2 CDs containing all 14 of the album’s original vocal tracks, with a second “bonuses and instrumentals” CD, which features rare cuts and remixes. The set also contains a 7-inch picture disc of the single “What A Nigga Know.” It is all encased in a truly unique hard-page Children’s Book package, with a KMD “Sambo Mascot” pop-up. You have never seen anything like this before!
Condition:NEW. Brand New Factory Sealed
TRACK LISTINGS
Disc 1: Album
1. Garbage Day #3
Producer: Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993
2. Get-U-Now
Producer: Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993
3. What A Nigga Know?
Producers: Zev Love X (of KMD); Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993
4. Sweet Premium Wine
Producer: Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993
5. Plumskinzz (Loose Hoe, God & Cupid)
Producers: Zev Love X (of KMD); Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993
6. Smokin' That Shit
featuring Earth Quake; Kurious; Lord Sear
Producer: Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993
7. Contact Blitt
Producer: Zev Love X (of KMD)
Year: 1993
8. Gimme!
Producers: Zev Love X (of KMD); Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993
9. Black Bastards
Producers: Zev Love X (of KMD); Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993
10. It Sounded Like A Roc
Producer: Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993
11. Plumskinzz (Oh No I Don't Believe It)
Producers: Zev Love X (of KMD); Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993
12. Constipated Monkey
Producers: Zev Love X (of KMD); Subroc (of KMD); Q4
Year: 1993
13. Fuck Wit' Ya Head
featuring CMOB; H2O
Producers: Zev Love X (of KMD); Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993
14. Suspended Animation
Producers: Zev Love X (of KMD); Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993
Disc 2: Bonus
1. Get You Now
Producer: Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993
2. Popcorn
Year: 1993
3. Contact Blitz
Producer: Zev Love X (of KMD)
Year: 1993
4. Sweet Premium Wine
Producer: Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993
5. What A Nigga Know? (Album Version)
Producers: Zev Love X (of KMD); Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993
6. What A Nigga Know? (Remix Vocal)
featuring M.F. Grimm
Producers: Zev Love X (of KMD); Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993
7. Constipated Monkey (Album Version)
Producers: Zev Love X (of KMD); Subroc (of KMD); Q4
Year: 1993
8. Constipated Monkey (Q3 Album Version)
Producers: Zev Love X (of KMD); Subroc (of KMD); Q4
Year: 1993
9. It Sounded Like A Roc (Vocal)
Producer: Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993
10. Stop Smokin' That Shit (Vocal)
Producer: Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993
11. Get You Now
Producer: Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993 instrumental
12. Popcorn
Year: 1993 instrumental
13. Contact Blitz
Producer: Zev Love X (of KMD)
Year: 1993 instrumental
14. Garbage Day #3
Producer: Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993 instrumental
15. What A Nigga Know?
Producers: Zev Love X (of KMD); Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993 instrumental
16. Constipated Monkey
Producers: Zev Love X (of KMD); Subroc (of KMD); Q4
Year: 1993 instrumental
17. It Sounded Like A Roc
Producer: Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993 instrumental
18. Stop Smokin' That Shit
Producer: Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993 instrumental
7" Vinyl Single:
1. What A Nigga Know?
Producers: Zev Love X (of KMD); Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993
2. What A Nigga Know?
Producers: Zev Love X (of KMD); Subroc (of KMD)
Year: 1993 instrumental
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