On December 16, 2011, a Dave Sitek remix of a JJ DOOM track, titled "Rhymin' Slang", was posted on Pitchfork. JJ DOOM was revealed to be the pairing of Jneiro Jarel and Lex label mate MF Doom, which drew speculation at the time that the two were working on an album together. This suspicion was confirmed when Pitchfork later ran an article on February 16, 2012, detailing the album's title, "Key to the Kuffs", and leaked one of its tracks "Banished". A third track from the album, "Guv'nor", was posted on Pitchfork July 27, 2012.