Key to the Kuffs

All tracks are written by D.Dumile and O.Gilyard except where noted.

Key to the Kuffs
Studio album by JJ Doom
Released	August 20, 2012
Recorded	2010–2012
Genre	Underground hip hop alternative hip hop
Length	42:00
Label	Lex Records
Producer	Jneiro Jarel
JJ Doom chronology
Key to the Kuffs (2012) Bookhead EP (2014)
Jneiro Jarel chronology
Georgiavania (2010) Key to the Kuffs (2012) Flora (2014)

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Waterlogged"		1:51
2.	"Guv'nor"		3:04
3.	"Banished"		3:09
4.	"Bite the Thong" (featuring Damon Albarn)	D.Dumile O.Gilyard D. Albarn	3:54
5.	"Rhymin' Slang"		2:20
6.	"Dawg Friendly"		2:38
7.	"Borin Convo"		2:20
8.	"Snatch That Dough"		0:46
9.	"GMO" (featuring Beth Gibbons)	D.Dumile O.Gilyard B.Gibbons	4:22
10.	"Bout the Shoes" (featuring Boston Fielder)	D.Dumile O.Gilyard B.Fielder	2:34
11.	"Winter Blues"		4:11
12.	"Still Kaps" (featuring Khujo)	O.Gilyard W.Knighton	1:28
13.	"Retarded Fren"		3:38
14.	"Viberian Sun Pt. II"	O.Gilyard	3:12
15.	"Wash Your Hands"		2:41
Total length:			42:00

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. ^[22]

Production

• Jneiro Jarel – production
• Metalfingerz Doom – additional skit arrangement (1–4, 7, 8, 11)

Additional performers

• Shannon Powell – percussion (2)
• Damon Albarn – featured vocals (4)
• Capitol Peoples – outro (6)
• Roderick Skeaping – violin (9)
• Beth Gibbons – featured vocals (9)
• Boston Fielder and Muthawit Orchestra – strings (11)
• Indigo – additional vocals (11, 13)
• Khujo Goodie – vocals (12)

Additional personnel

• Tom Brown – executive production, A&R
• Will Skeaping – A&R
• Who Dat? – mixing (1, 2, 5–8, 10, 12–15)
• Metalfingerz Doom – mixing
• Earl Scioneaux – additional engineering (2, 5, 14), additional mixing (3, 10)
• Stephen Sedgwick – additional mixing (4)
• Drew Brown – additional mixing (9)
• Matt Colton – mastering

Artwork

• Steve Powers – art
• Klaus Thymann – portrait
• DLT – layout

Charts

Chart	Peak position
US Billboard 200 [23]	148
US Heatseekers Albums [24]	3
US Independent Albums [25]	24
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums [26]	25
US Tastemaker Albums [27]	17

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24. "JJ Doom – Chart history – Heatseekers Albums". Billboard . Archived from the original on February 24, 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
25. "JJ Doom – Chart history – Independent Albums". Billboard . Archived from the original on February 24, 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
26. "JJ Doom – Chart history – Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums". Billboard . Archived from the original on February 25, 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2017.
27. "JJ Doom – Chart history – Tastemaker Albums". Billboard . Archived from the original on February 24, 2017. Retrieved February 24, 2017.

External links

• Key to the Kuffs at Discogs (list of releases)