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2LP Vinyl – TEG 75504

KMD’s debut album Mr. Hood is an album brimming with imagination, youthful enthusiasm, and strong rhetoric. The group, made up of Daniel “Zev Love X” Dumile Thompson (more affectionately known today as the enigmatic MF DOOM), his brother Dingilizwe “DJ Subroc” Dumile Thompson, and Alonzo “Onyx, the Birthstone Kid” Hodge, were a trio of Long Island teenagers. Stylistically, KMD (a.k.a. Kausing Much Damage or “A positive Kause in a Much Damaged society”) were somewhat of a hybrid between Brand Nubian and De La Soul. They expressed messages of Black empowerment and decried the oppressive system of the United States, but often used wit to convey their worldview while rapping over records that many wouldn’t ever think to sample.