Vintage Video: KMD "Who Me?"

With all this talk about MF Doom and just who is under that mask, we thought it might be appropriate to pull another character out of MF's closet for today's Vintage Video post. In the late-'80s/ early-'90s Doom was Zev Luv X and led a New York group called KMD, which included Zev, his brother younger brother Dingilizwe Dumile, aka Subroc, and some dude named Onyx (not to be confused with the hip-hop group of the same name). "Who Me?" is a brisk slice of conscious rap (remember that?), dated in a fun sort of way, and Doom's style is already interesting if otherwise pretty standard-sounding for the time. Interesting to note the use of an old TV clip dubbed into the introduction, which would become a standard motif, and the appearance of the hilariously distasteful Sambo costume, which would later end up getting the group dropped from Elektra when the proposed cover of KMD's album Black Bastards featured a cartoon of a lynched Sambo.

***Note: Vintage Video is a regular post in which we explore the wasteland of old music videos available on YouTube for insight, oddity, hilarity, current relevancy or just plain awesomeness).
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September 7, 2007 at 1:21 p.m.

Classic. So classic.

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