Kid Hood

Kid Hood was a rapper from New York who became famous for his posthumous appearance on the 1992 remix to “Scenario,” a song by A Tribe Called Quest and Leaders of the New School. According to a memorial in The Source, Hood was beaten and shot only two days after recording his “Scenario” verse.

Leaders of the New School member Busta Rhymes made note of Hood’s death on the record, introducing it with “Whereas there are seven MC’s. Six which are in physical form, one which is in spiritual essence.” Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest paid homage by rapping “Peace to Hood baby from the midnight crooner” at the end of his verse.

In Hood’s The Source memorial, Q-Tip said:

When I first met him he was rhymin'. He didn’t say hello or nothin', he just started rhymin'. Every time I saw him he was rhymin', he was dope. He really seemed like he was sold on coming out and working hard. The day we taped [the “Scenario” remix], he went in the studio, took his shirt off, and went in the booth. He did it in one take.

After nearly two decades of silence, another song of Hood’s, titled “Drop the Bomb,” was recovered from an old live recording of The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show. Rapper/producer El-P weighed in on the subject and explained he produced the song posthumously around 1992. He had received Hood’s recording from a mutual friend, rapper Anttex, who Hood shouted out at the end of “Drop the Bomb.”