DJ Subroc
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DJ Subroc was a hip hop artist and a member of 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...

, Constipated Monkey and Monsta Island Czars
Monsta Island Czars
Monsta Island Czars is a hip-hop group based in New York City, New York, USA most notable for members MF Grimm and former member MF DOOM.-History:...

. His first group, 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...

 was formed by him along with his brother Zev Love X (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...

) 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. Hood
Mr. Hood
Mr. Hood is the first album by KMD, Daniel Dumile's first group. It was a precursor to Black Bastards . The album featured samples from language-learning tapes, cut together to create the character of Mr. Hood...

, on Elektra Records
Elektra Records
Elektra Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMG's Atlantic Records Group. After five years of dormancy, the label was revived by Atlantic in 2009....

, in 1991. Although production is either credited to 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...

 or Stimulated Dummies, he produced all under the name 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...

, due to the fact he was underage at the release of the album. After further production for artists like 3rd Bass
3rd Bass
3rd Bass was an American hip-hop group that rose to fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and was notable for being one of the first successful interracial hip-hop groups.-Career:...

, MF Grimm, Megalon aka Tommy Gunn, Kurious Jorge
Kurious Jorge
Jorge Alvarez, better known as Kurious, is an East Coast underground hip hop artist.-Biography:Kurious is of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent, and grew up in a Upper Westside neighborhood called Manhattan Valley In NYC . He debuted in 1991 on Powerule's "Young Stars from Nowhere". He then appeared on...

, & Zev Love X, who would later be known as 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...

.DJ SubRoc died in 1993 after being hit by a car while attempting to cross the Long Island Expressway
Interstate 495 (New York)
Interstate 495 is an auxiliary Interstate Highway on Long Island in New York in the United States. The route extends for from the western portal of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel in the New York City borough of Manhattan to County Route 58 in Riverhead, Suffolk County...

. His death put production of the KMD album Black Bastards
Black Bastards
Black Bastards is an album by KMD , released in 2001 through Sub Verse Records...

 to a halt and marked the end of 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...

, although Black Bastards
Black Bastards
Black Bastards is an album by KMD , released in 2001 through Sub Verse Records...

 was later released. Many of what people believe to be 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...

productions, are actually that of the late, Dj Subroc, instrumentals like "Peach Extract", "Hands Of Doom", "Rainblood" (Pt.1 & 2), "Hoe Cakes", and, "Scientific Civilization"

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