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👉🏼 10 LPs in 10 Days Challenge 👈 10 ALL-TIME favorite LPs 💿 that are Always in Rotation. Day 10: #KMD #BlackBastards ————- First off, this shit isn't even fair because 10 albums isn't enough. By all rights this list should also contain Ice-T's Original Gangster, BDP's By All Means Necessary, Large Professor's The LP, Big Daddy Kane's Long Live The Kane, King Tee's Tha Triflin Album, and Son Of Bazerk's Bazerk Bazerk Bazerk. And it doesn't even touch the runner ups. Damn! But if I have to take it to only 10, then I'll end it with an album that should've gotten it's due when it was originally recorded but label bullshit got in the way and made it even more legendary then it already could've been. If you don't know the story of the album you should Google it because it's heartbreaking and infuriating. I like KMD's debut, #MrHood, but I don't love it (although #Peachfuzz is the joint!). But even upon hearing 3rd Bass' Prince Paul produced hit #TheGasFace, I knew that I was always going to be a #ZevLoveX fan. And then, seemingly, KMD had one album and disappeared. In the pre-internet age it was tough to get the info on shit that is always at our fingertips now. But when the net was in it's infancy I found a website for an online store out of NYC that specialized in Rap called #SandboxAutomatic and they were selling a release on an indie label called #FondleEmRecords titled #BlackBastardsRuffsAndRares by KMD. What the hell? Sign me up! So I ordered it, got it and was promptly floored. Yeah, this was Zev Love X and his brother #Subroc (RIP) but it was so different than Mr. Hood. And it was so much doper. That EP set me on my journey to find out more about what happened with the sophomore KMD album. And that journey also introduced me to a reborn Zev Love in a mask recording as #MFDoom. So as soon as #Doomsday dropped, I had to have that, too. Black Bastards finally saw the light of day on a small label called #ReadyRock in 2000, 6 years after it was shelved by Elektra. (continued below)

1st time I met @therealredman I was a 10th grader in highschool. It was the mid 90’s and he and Method Man were Hot. One of my rap friends called me to say Meth and Red were at the local radio station flowing live on air. So I tuned in to Power99FM and drove over to the station in my 1979 White JeepCJ7 to see what was happening. When I pulled into the parking lot @methodmanofficial was walking to his SUV with a hoodie over his head. He was trying not to be noticed but his hight and swag made him stick out anyway. I asked him if he wanted to cypher with us. He didn’t say anything. He got into his vehicle and sparked a big L. Later on we found out he was sick with the flu. Redman was still in the station going HAM! So we left meth alone and waited for RedMan to walk out. After about 15 min of rhyming he came out and said to us “Where The Weed At?” Nobody had any, so a ran to my Jeep and searched it desperately hoping to find something. In the cracks of my seat I came up with a black and mild and a fully packed Nickle Bag of Shwag (the term we used for low grade chronic full of seeds and stems). I had never rolled with a black & mild before and didn’t know if it was even possible. But I had confidence in my rolling craft having been taught by my big brother who was the best. So there I was standing to the left of RedMan in a cypher rolling up with a split black in the palm of my left hand. As I poured the contents of the nic into the paper RedMan leaned over to make sure it wasn’t laced with anything. I was smitten that the back of his head was three inches from my nose and we were about to blaze. This was a highschool MC dream come true! So we smoked & he rhymed along side of his records that Power99 was playing on air. His voice CARRIED across the lot like no other MC I have heard to this day! RedMan has a very powerful voice. That is when I started to concentrate on my Voice as well as my Flow. Today, we Worked out at the same gym! He looked healthy and strong. In honor of the moment here is a tb of me @redmangilla and #readyrock backstage at the Red Bull MC competition a few years back. Reggie Noble is one of the Greatest Showmen in Rap. Without a Doubt! (at Los Angeles, California)