"Nitty Gritty", however, showcases hip-hop's Five Percent godfathers, Brand Nubian, and exemplifies how they were always better at this type of thing. The good news is that virtually every track is a standout, from the rolling piano bump of "Humrush" to the wildly original "What a Nigga Know". There are no credits or thank yous, just written-in chaos, which is apropos of K.M.D.'s sound, but unfortunate for a greatest hits compilation- especially one whose subject's history is so notorious. Even the liner notes are slapdash, with snapshots of scribbled notebooks scattered throughout. Both album's best tracks are lifted and placed in chronological order, without any apparent rhyme or reason, save a few Busta Rhymes-featured remixes at the album's end. So this compilation has been hashed together, somewhat lazily, in hopes of reigniting some interest for the nearly forgotten Long Island crew. To this day, Doom believes Elektra's motives went beyond the cover art, noting the more aggressive nature of the album as a possible reason for postponement. Hood was a sprightly bit of Sesame Street-sampling brilliance that built a narrative around the album's ignorant namesake the second was mired in controversy for much of the last decade: 1993's Black Bastards, whose cover featured a Sambo-like cartoon character being lynched, was put on hold by Elektra, and didn't see official release until 2001 on the Sub Verse label. Of course, the disc amounts to little more than a refresher course for the K.M.D.-impaired, considering the group only released two proper albums. In anticipation of K.M.D.'s upcoming reunion, Nature Sounds has cobbled together this best-of collection featuring much of the trio's out-of-print material. Zev reappeared underground in 1997, after nearly five years in hibernation, and has since come correct with an array of records invoking and sampling everything from Stevie Wonder to 1950s monster movies. It wasn't meant to last: After just one album, his brother and bandmate DJ Subroc was struck by a car and killed, and the band's subsequent album was shelved by Elektra Records. The move brought him his greatest success to date, and cemented his position at the forefront of underground hip-hop.īefore the masked man terrorized the undieground with raspy rhymes and hallucinogenic beats, of course, he was Zev Love X, and he represented Five-Percenters and bouncy black power sophisticates with the underappreciated collective K.M.D.
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Last year, hip-hop paragon MF Doom (aka Daniel Dumile) completely flipped his pancakes and released three albums under divergent personas: Take Me to Your Leader as King Geedorah, Vaudeville Villain as Viktor Vaughn, and another installment in his Special Herbs series as Metal Fingers himself.
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