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JJ Doom

American hip-hop duo

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ6108301
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JJ Doom (stylized in all caps) was an American alternative hip-hop duo composed of Jneiro Jarel and MF Doom.

History

On February 15, 2012, the website Pitchfork ran an article stating that JJ DOOM's debut album would be called Key to the Kuffs and released via Lex Records. On July 5, 2012, Lex Records announced that the album was set for a worldwide release on August 21, 2012, and would feature appearances from Beth Gibbons, Khujo Goodie, Boston Fielder, and Damon Albarn.

As of August 29, 2012, Key to the Kuffs sold 3,300 copies after debuting at number 148 on the Billboard 200.

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This entry incorporates text from JJ Doom” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.