Black Bastards

Black Bastards
Studio album by KMD
Released May 15, 2001
Recorded March - July, 1993 Chung King Studios, New York, New York
Genre Hip hop
Length 48:00
Label Sub Verse Music
Producer Subroc, Zev Love X, Q4
KMD chronology
Black Bastards Ruffs + Rares
(1998)		 Black Bastards
(2001)		 Best of KMD
(2003) -->
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Black Bastards (or Bl_ck B_st_rds) is an album by KMD (a rap trio featuring an early alias of MF Doom), released in 2001 through Sub Verse Records. Initially, the album was scheduled for release in 1993, but Elektra Records canceled the album, reportedly due to the controversial cover art, which shows a Sambo figure being lynched, and its Black nationalist, Five-Percenter lyrics.[2] However, the album displayed no obvious Five-Percenter rhetoric, yet the project was racially candid, as demonstrated by the album title, its cover art, and the sample collage intro. Zev Love X's brother DJ Subroc was killed when he was struck by a car shortly before the album was completed.

Rare and demo tracks recorded during the making of this album were released on a vinyl-only EP titled Black Bastards Ruffs + Rares in 1998.

The album was re-released in 2008 by MF Doom's own Metal Face Records.

Contents

Track listing

# Title Producer(s) Performer(s) Time
1 "Garbage Day #3" Subroc *Interlude* 2:14
2 "Get-U-Now" Subroc Zev Love X 2:27
3 "What A Nigga Know?" KMD Zev Love X, Subroc 3:26
4 "Sweet Premium Wine" Subroc Zev Love X, Subroc 3:09
5 "Plumskinzz (Loose Hoe, God & Cupid)" KMD Zev Love X 1:43
6 "Smokin' That Shit" Subroc Zev Love X, Kurious, Earth Quake, Lord Sear, Subroc 4:40
7 "Contact Blitt" Zev Love X Zev Love X 2:42
8 "Gimme" KMD Subroc 3:50
9 "Black Bastards" Subroc Zev Love X 4:00
10 "It Sounded Like A Roc!" Subroc Subroc 4:34
11 "Plumskinzz (Oh No I Don't Believe It!)" Subroc Zev Love X 1:40
12 "Constipated Monkey" KMD, Q4 Zev Love X 2:47
13 "Fuck Wit Ya Head" KMD H20, CMOB, Zev Love X, Subroc 4:35
14 "Suspended Animation" KMD Zev Love X 2:20
15 "What A Nigga Know? (Remix)" KMD Zev Love X, MF Grimm 3:36
16 "Q3-113" KMD Subroc 1:10

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References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ allmusic ((( K.M.D. > Biography )))