It has been confirmed that KL (Kenny Lou) of veteran Queensbridge, New York group Screwball passed away March 28, 2008 due to complications from an asthma attack.
Screwball is remembered for the 2000 single and video “H-O-S-T-Y-L-E” from the album Y2K The Album, released on Tommy Boy Records. Along with Blaq Poet, Solo and Hostyle, KL was known for an aggressive rhyming style. The group released the DJ Premier-produced street single “F.A.Y.B.A.N. (Fuck All You Bitch Ass Niggas)” on the same album. The quartet also recorded an updated version of MC Shan‘s “The Bridge.” [click here to read lyrics…].
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The group followed up those efforts with 2001’s Loyalty and 2004’s Screwed Up. Throughout the three albums, Screwball worked with some of Hip Hop’s most revered producers, including Pete Rock, The Beatnuts, Marley Marl as well as contemporaries Ayatollah and A Kid Called Roots. Blaq Poet remains an artist on Premier‘s Year Round imprint.
According to celebrated New York Hip Hop History site Unkut [click here to read tribute…], KL recently appeared on DJ Eclipse‘s tenth anniversary of his Halftime Radio Show on New York’s 89.1 FM. He had also appeared on Molemen‘s Killing Fields album in 2006 alongside Cormega on the song “Street Conflict.”
HipHopDX sends our condolences to Screwball, and the friends and family of KL.
