Black Bastards is an album by KMD

KMD

KMD was an American hip hop trio in the early 1990s, best known for launching the career of acclaimed rapper and producer MF DOOM, who at the time was known as Zev Love X. Other members of the group were Rodan and DJ Subroc–Zev Love X's younger brother...

 (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

Elektra Records

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 canceled the album, reportedly due to the controversial cover art, which shows a Sambo

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 figure being lynched

Lynching

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, and its Black nationalist, Five-Percenter

The Nation of Gods and Earths

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 lyrics. 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

Daniel Dumile

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's brother DJ Subroc

DJ Subroc

DJ Subroc was a hip hop artist and a member of KMD, Constipated Monkey and Monsta Island Czars. His first group, KMD was formed by him along with his brother Zev Love X and Jade 1 who would later be known as Rodan, but later replaced by Onyx the Birthstone Kid. His first release was the LP, Mr....

 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

Extended play

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 titled Black Bastards Ruffs + Rares

Black Bastards Ruffs + Rares

Black Bastards Ruffs + Rares is an EP containing rare and demo tracks by KMD from the album Black Bastards. It was released in 1998 on Fondle 'Em Records, available on 12" vinyl only.-Side B:# "Get You Now" # "Popcorn"...

in 1998.

The album was re-released in 2008 by MF Doom

MF Doom

Daniel Dumile is a hip hop artist who has taken on several stage names in his career, most notably MF DOOM, where the "MF" stands for metal face, and for tracks he has produced, metal fingers...

's own Metal Face Records.

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

Samples

• "Garbage Day #3"
  • "Voices" by Melvin Van Peebles
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  • "Reggin' Hanging On In There As Best As They Can" by Melvin Van Peebles
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  • "Christmas Rappin'" by Kurtis Blow
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• "Get U Now"
  • "Constipated Monkey" by Kain
• "What A Nigga Know"
  • "Looking for a New Love" by Jody Watley
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• "Fuck Wit Ya Head"
  • "Pearl" by The Mamas & the Papas
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  • "I Like Funky Music" by Uncle Louie
  • "Harlem Preacher" by Kain
• "Smokin' That Shit!"
  • "Funky Butt" by The Delegates
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• "Contact Blitt"
  • "Mr. Kenyatta" by Lee Morgan
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• "Plumskinzz (Oh No I Don't Believe It!)"
  • "Blacks & Blues" by Bobbi Humphrey
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• "Sweet Premium Wine"
  • "The New Dance Craze" by The Five Stairsteps
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• "Black Bastards"
  • "Harlem Preacher" by Kain
• "It Sounded Like a Roc"
  • "Love" by Pharoah Sanders
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  • "Thembi" by Pharoah Sanders
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• "Suspended Animation"
  • "Been Done Already" By The Last Poets
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  • "Baby Come Back" by Player
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  • "Uphill Piece of Mind" by Kid Dynamite
• "Constipated Monkey"
  • "Belly Button Window" by Jimi Hendrix
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  • "Constipated Monkey" by Kain
• "What A Nigga Know (remix)"
  • "Pieces of a Man" by Gil Scott-Heron
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  • "The Real Thing" by Little Richard
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