The YMD

Originally titled the Yah Mos Def, just before pressure from rapper Mos Def persuaded the boys to improve their name, the YMD’s music was founded about the thought of rapping more than old hardcore punk beats, and wanting to observe how many ways they could intersect both worlds. Just like the extremely comparable Beastie Guys before them — in timbre and attitude — the YMD consider themselves a punk group initial and most important, with much like for Small Threat and Ian McKaye’s make of assaulting crowds with explosive 19-minute models of screaming fury. Before developing the duo in 2004, Bryan Poerner had produced a name for himself by releasing some CDs (including a single by potential bandmate Rick Mitchell’s punk group the Clocks) on his indie label Track Superstar Records, called for his history as a monitor runner from middle college through university. Poerner matched up with Mitchell so that they can try something brand-new for the fun of it and their live shows became noteworthy, patterned following the spastic abandon of hardcore, albeit within a much less menacing, even more fun-loving edition. On-stage they truly became a barely containable pack of movement, headbanging, pogoing, and flailing breathlessly, while alternating mile-a-minute rhymes. In 2007, they got their formula with their lo-fi bedroom studio room, and used their near-hysterical raps to examples extracted from punk and indie produces to make a organic amalgam of the recording for MY MATE God Records entitled Excuse Me, This is actually the Yah Mos Def.