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Track List
01) Waterlogged
02) Guv'nor
03) Banished
04) Bite the Thong
05) Rhymin Slang
06) Dawg Friendly
07) Borin Convo
08) Snatch That Dough
09) GMO
10) Bout the Shoes
11) Winter Blues
12) STILL KAPS
13) Retarded Fren
14) Viberian Sun, Part II
15) Wash Your Hands
01) Waterlogged
02) Guv'nor
03) Banished
04) Bite the Thong
05) Rhymin Slang
06) Dawg Friendly
07) Borin Convo
08) Snatch That Dough
09) GMO
10) Bout the Shoes
11) Winter Blues
12) STILL KAPS
13) Retarded Fren
14) Viberian Sun, Part II
15) Wash Your Hands
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3:03
3:08
3:54
2:20
2:37
2:19
0:45
4:21
2:33
4:10
1:28
3:38
3:11
2:41
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First Released
2012
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Key to the Kuffs is the debut album by alternative hip hop artists Jneiro Jarel and DOOM under the moniker JJ DOOM. It was released on Lex Records on August 20, 2012.[17]
Two alternative versions of tracks from the album were released prior to the album. The tracks were the DOOM / Thom Yorke / Jonny Greenwood version of "Retarded Fren"[18] and the Dave Sitek remix of "Rhymin Slang,"[19] which both appeared on the Complex Volume 1 compilation. The album was produced by Jneiro Jarel. DOOM contributes the vast majority of vocals. Jarel announced the collaboration while performing with DOOM at the Monolith Festival on 12 September 2009.[20]
The album includes guest vocals by Damon Albarn of Blur, Beth Gibbons of Portishead, Khujo Goodie of Goodie Mob and Dungeon Family, and Boston Fielder.[21]
DOOM had previously worked with Damon Albarn prior to Key to the Kuffs on the Gorillaz song "November Has Come" from the album Demon Days and Jneiro Jarel had collaborated with Albarn, providing three tracks for the album Kinshasa One Two. Albarn delivers the chorus on "Bite the Thong."
Khujo Goodie and Jneiro Jarel previously recorded as Willie Isz on the album Georgiavania. DOOM had previously recorded with Goodie Mob's Cee Lo Green on the Danger Doom album The Mouse and the Mask. Khujo provides one verse on the track "Still Kaps."
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A common quasi-joke about UK hip hop has it that Slick Rick is the best rapper that Britain has produced – even though he only counts on a technicality, having moved to New York some time before becoming an MC.
If you want to make this a little more contemporary, you can use DOOM – born Daniel Dumile in early 70s London, his family emigrated to the Big Apple not long after. He’s racked up a large discography under a variety of names – MF DOOM and Madvillain have probably brought him the most success – but this is his first collaboration with producer Jneiro Jarel, the ‘JJ’ of the moniker.
Many of DOOM’s albums have had a loose theme tying them together; on Key to the Kuffs it’s British culture, hence the relevance of his birthplace. Mercifully, this doesn’t amount to a full-blown 42 minutes of whimsical Anglophilia, but instead manifests itself in fleeting references to UK landmarks and TV shows, plus tracks called Guv’nor and Rhymin’ Slang.
The former seems to be mainly about DOOM’s mic skills, and the latter about the general wackness of other MCs, but there’s hardly anyone out there dealing in braggadocio more enjoyable than this MC. His syntactic leaps and zeal for the least obvious rhyme is endlessly profitable, and he even gets romantic on Winter Blues, helped by the string-soaked production of Jarel.
Key to the Kuffs may in fact be JJ’s finest hour, surpassing his Dr Who Dat? and Shape of Broad Minds releases. He sources an array of samples from TV shows featuring stereotypically-accented cockneys; he unleashes creepily creaky beats that could have graced the first Wu-Tang album; he plonks DOOM on electro-influenced club tracks (STILL KAPS and the extraordinary Wash Your Hands, literally about the importance of toilet hygiene); and is wholly unfazed by big-name guests.
Speaking of which: Damon Albarn is reduced to a dub-echoed vocal sample on Bite the Thong’s chorus, while Portishead’s Beth Gibbons is treated similarly by GMO and sounds more sorrowful than ever. But ultimately, there are only two stars that matter on this terrific album.
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Key to the Kuffs is the debut album by alternative hip hop artists Jneiro Jarel and DOOM under the moniker JJ DOOM. It was released on Lex Records on August 20, 2012.[17]
Two alternative versions of tracks from the album were released prior to the album. The tracks were the DOOM / Thom Yorke / Jonny Greenwood version of "Retarded Fren"[18] and the Dave Sitek remix of "Rhymin Slang,"[19] which both appeared on the Complex Volume 1 compilation. The album was produced by Jneiro Jarel. DOOM contributes the vast majority of vocals. Jarel announced the collaboration while performing with DOOM at the Monolith Festival on 12 September 2009.[20]
The album includes guest vocals by Damon Albarn of Blur, Beth Gibbons of Portishead, Khujo Goodie of Goodie Mob and Dungeon Family, and Boston Fielder.[21]
DOOM had previously worked with Damon Albarn prior to Key to the Kuffs on the Gorillaz song "November Has Come" from the album Demon Days and Jneiro Jarel had collaborated with Albarn, providing three tracks for the album Kinshasa One Two. Albarn delivers the chorus on "Bite the Thong."
Khujo Goodie and Jneiro Jarel previously recorded as Willie Isz on the album Georgiavania. DOOM had previously recorded with Goodie Mob's Cee Lo Green on the Danger Doom album The Mouse and the Mask. Khujo provides one verse on the track "Still Kaps."
User Album Review
A common quasi-joke about UK hip hop has it that Slick Rick is the best rapper that Britain has produced – even though he only counts on a technicality, having moved to New York some time before becoming an MC.
If you want to make this a little more contemporary, you can use DOOM – born Daniel Dumile in early 70s London, his family emigrated to the Big Apple not long after. He’s racked up a large discography under a variety of names – MF DOOM and Madvillain have probably brought him the most success – but this is his first collaboration with producer Jneiro Jarel, the ‘JJ’ of the moniker.
Many of DOOM’s albums have had a loose theme tying them together; on Key to the Kuffs it’s British culture, hence the relevance of his birthplace. Mercifully, this doesn’t amount to a full-blown 42 minutes of whimsical Anglophilia, but instead manifests itself in fleeting references to UK landmarks and TV shows, plus tracks called Guv’nor and Rhymin’ Slang.
The former seems to be mainly about DOOM’s mic skills, and the latter about the general wackness of other MCs, but there’s hardly anyone out there dealing in braggadocio more enjoyable than this MC. His syntactic leaps and zeal for the least obvious rhyme is endlessly profitable, and he even gets romantic on Winter Blues, helped by the string-soaked production of Jarel.
Key to the Kuffs may in fact be JJ’s finest hour, surpassing his Dr Who Dat? and Shape of Broad Minds releases. He sources an array of samples from TV shows featuring stereotypically-accented cockneys; he unleashes creepily creaky beats that could have graced the first Wu-Tang album; he plonks DOOM on electro-influenced club tracks (STILL KAPS and the extraordinary Wash Your Hands, literally about the importance of toilet hygiene); and is wholly unfazed by big-name guests.
Speaking of which: Damon Albarn is reduced to a dub-echoed vocal sample on Bite the Thong’s chorus, while Portishead’s Beth Gibbons is treated similarly by GMO and sounds more sorrowful than ever. But ultimately, there are only two stars that matter on this terrific album.
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