Hood, their debut album on Elektra Records. As a result, the album never got the credit it was due, and never will. Black Bastards was a logical yet nonetheless jarring departure from the lyrical content on Mr. Hood, which were juvenile and playful street rhymes the group had only recently graduated high school from the vantage point of young black kids from Long Island. On Black Bastards KMD grows up, rapping about frustration, amusing distractions such as drugs, sex, drinking, and street life observations of injustice and disadvantage, all laced with a liberal dose of profanity.
Black Bastards is at times humorous yet not a single line is a joke, with the storytelling verses volleying between threats and odes to excess. This is rebel music without being militant or myopic. On the topic of gritty, the production on Black Bastards is straight, unfiltered boom-bap with no chaser. Snare breaks crack, snap and sizzle over syncopated jazz horns and basslines, film and television samples are so obscure you need your grandparents to source them for you.
However, DOOM is indeed a product of rarity. The world was first familarized with him as the mild-mannered Zev Love X of the group K. Zev's personal entrance into the business was the result of the helping hands of Third Bass who let him shine on "The Gas Face" from their debut '89 album. Not long after, K. D dropped a few top notch singles and a well received album entitled "Mr.
Hood" on Elektra in ' Following the success of that, K. D was further preparing to establish themselves as the "Kause of Much Damage" onto the industry Unfortunately, tragedy struck both musically and personally. Then K. D's second album,"Black Bastards" suffered delays due to the label being unaccepting of their artwork which was a twist on their logo; a "x" out sign over the sambo character which had long been used as a premier negative portrayal of black people, particularly in entertainment.
D lost the fight to maintain the use of the character and the cover although the context of the character as a logo was obviously an attempt to destroy this perception , initiate a healing process, and most importantly relay a more positive and accurate depiction of black people.
Regardless, the ending result was the label opting to drop the project and the group itself off the label. Amiss all of this choas tragedy struck again only this time much closer to home as Zev's brother, Subroc, was struck by a car and returned to the essence Time off was needed and taken. Internal evolutions occurred. Musical mutations took place. Indeed much had changed Perhaps the previous events only accelerated that which would have been an eventual natural metamorphisis.
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