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DOOM And Jay Electronica Debut 'True Lightyears,' Teasing A New KMD Album

Rap's masked villain drops the first single from KMD's third album — and first in 25 years — Crack In Time.
DOOM reemerges with the premiere of the first KMD single from the forthcoming album, <em>Crack In Time.</em>

When MF DOOM emerged from the ether just before the last millennium's end, with a metal faceplate masking his grill, a raspy voice and a vicious internal rhyme scheme, he quickly amassed a cult-like following.

His villainous persona,

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