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- Date Released: January 1, 1991
- Genre: Hip-Hop/R&B
- Style: Hip-Hop
- Label: Metal Face Recordings
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We Say...
KMD first came to the public's attention via an appearance on Third Bass' 1989 hit "The Gasface." Mr. Hood, their slyly joyful 1991 debut, is grounded in the playful sound of the Native Tongues posse prominent in the late-'80s/early-'90s, with DJ Sub Roc's woolly, boom-bap grooves powering Zev Love X's raps, which often rushed slightly ahead of the beat in the style of De La Soul.
Mr. Hood is partially a tongue-in-cheek concept album featuring an eponymous, automatonic white-man caricature. Mr. Hood's voice, cobbled together from language-instruction tapes, utters a series of weirdly stiff phrases — "That is a beautiful watch," "Would you care for a spoon?" "Excuse me, your shirt is dirty" — on sketch cuts like "Mr. Hood at Piocalles Jewelry."
The album is a big cup of goofy fun, but unfortunately did not achieve much commercial success, even with a remake of "The Gasface" called "The Gasface Refill." Some speculate that the lackluster sales of Mr. Hood were the impetus for KMD's second album, the bitter masterpiece Black Bastards.
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They Say...
K.M.D. are young...and fairly politically astute...Passionate and fired-up, K.M.D.'s political aggression is founded on black nationalism. As with peers the Jungle Bros., Queen Latifah, etc., their raps strike a strong balance between simple hectoring, reason, and flat-out parody...The recurring motif is "Mr. Hood," a dullard who appears via samples from what seems to be some kind of instructional record, clipped straight out of the Ozzie and Harriet storybook. K.M.D. drops mini-verbal assaults and samples that offer a context wherein Mr. Hood's "Proclamations" are rendered ludicrous...Yet for all the playfulness and urgency this disc radiates, there is still something simplistic about its rhetoric...
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| 01. |  |
Mr. Hood At Piocalles Jewelry-Crackpot |
2:49 |
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| 02. | |
Who Me- (With An Answer From Dr. Bert) |
3:32 |
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| 03. | |
Boogie Man! |
3:49 |
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| 04. | |
Mr. Hood Meets Onyx |
2:13 |
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| 05. | |
Subroc's Mission |
4:00 |
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| 06. | |
Humrush |
3:26 |
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| 07. | |
Figure Of Speech |
3:44 |
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| 08. | |
Bananapeel Blues |
3:55 |
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| 09. | |
Nitty Gritty (Feat. Brand Nubian) |
5:35 |
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| 10. | |
Trial 'N Error |
4:09 |
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| 11. | |
Hard Wit No Hoe |
3:53 |
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| 12. | |
Mr. Hood Gets A Haircut |
1:18 |
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| 13. | |
808 Man |
3:53 |
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| 14. | |
Boy Who Cried Wolf |
3:36 |
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| 15. | |
Peachfuzz |
4:00 |
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| 16. | |
Preacher Porkchop |
2:43 |
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| 17. | |
Soulflexin' |
3:52 |
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| 18. | |
Gasface Refill (Bonus Track) |
3:45 |
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18 Total Tracks, 64:12 Total Length
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Credits
- K.M.D. - Main Performer // John Gamble - Producer // John Gamble - Engineer // Carol Bobolts - Art Direction // Geeby Dajani - Producer
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