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KMD released a great album in 1991, Mr Hood. Like a roughneck, harder version of the kind of loose groove that rose through Ultramagnetic MCs and Stetsasonic and bloomed with De La Soul, plus a stronger political focus perhaps inspired by BDP, it was sadly no surprise when little more was heard of the trio; even Jungle Brothers’ superb second LP didn’t provoke the fuss of their first, and the likes of Main Source and UMCs seemed to find following great debuts difficult. Hip-hop liked what was fresh, after all.

What was less well-noticed was that KMD had cut a superb second album, but it had been shelved thanks to their mascot – a representation of the “Sambo” cartoons that white America had laughed at in the 30s – being shown hung on the cover, and equally uncompromising lyrics. Far more pressing for the group, one of the members, Subroc, responsible for many of the amazing cut-ups, had been killed crossing a road in 1993, so perhaps Zev Love X, his brother and surviving member, wasn’t in a strong position to push for its release. The album trickled out years later too late. Here it is again, beautifully packaged as two CDs with bonus tracks and a 45. Thing is, music like this should be heard, even if it was presented in a sheet of old newspaper. Like KMD’s first album, it chops and dices clips from movies, telly and funky soul to create a youthful, witty, street-corner, downbeat yet nevertheless urgent hip-hop.

The delivery seems more balanced than on the first album: clearly this is the product of minds in equilibrium; the debut seemed to feature Zev Love X more. At one moment it’s as spiky as a cactus flannel (Sweet Premium Wine); the next, its beauty takes your breath away (the beats on the first of two tunes titled Plumskinnz).

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Smokin’ That S.@%T! Is that rare thing: a ganja tune that isn’t as tedious as talking to a stoner. Contact Blitt is worthy of Gang Starr’s finest, and the title tune manages to be both deeply tuneful and dissonant, like the best of questing jazz; observing inter-black hatred, this is about as deep-thinking as hip-hop had reached at the time, while remaining ghetto.

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And on it goes, a fluid body of work, warm, funny, sad, hopeful, sly, bitter, hard, tender like the human experience. Life is at a peak, you love, create, feel and it’s cut off. The bereaved Zev Love X eventually re-emerged as MF Doom, a hip-hop legend (sometimes a myth). But don’t be fooled into thinking of Black Bastards as a starting point or a what-might-have-been record: this is complete and perfect in itself.

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Even the most casual hip-hop fan should not be without it.