Ten years rap trio Urban Thermo Dynamics (aka UTD) fell into the "more a legend than a band category" A Family Affair Mos Def had collaborated with his younger brother DCQ and his younger sister Ces 1994 for UTD single "My Kung Fu" brought Group to hip-hop underground attention and Polygram affiliate Payday London Payday released the single in 1994 re-released on related FFRR footprint and followed it a year later with "Manifest Destiny" 12 "Work on a full-length underway when the tag politics left UTD without a home Mos Def and DCQ (who was now with aliases Illson and Jashiya) went on to Medina Green Another group that would have a long gestation before delivering a lot of above-ground product, a gray ettrea version of the UTD Manifest Destiny album appeared in 1999, but printede as small a quantity that if you blinked you missed it by 2003 Internet file sharing became popular with underground hip-hop set and lost recordings were traded and abused Mos Def was now a superstar and file-sharers dug deep for his early recordings of the rare " My Kung Fu "was being widely but wrongly as a Medina Green tracks at the proper credited" Manifest Destiny "was in every deep hip-hopper's share folder, feeding off the newfound interest DCQ cleared up all discography confusion in 2004 by releasing Medina Green's U Know Flex Mix Tape Vol 1 and give the world the first official version of the full length UTD Manifest Destiny Both were released on DCQ's Illson Media label ~ David Jeffries All Music Guide
