Dragon Ball $d

Dragon Ball $d (say it “Dragon Ball SD,” same $d joke as Finding $D) is the third Scoobert Doobert album, after Swami’s and before Masks and Monsters. Finding $D is the lab notebook. $WAMI$ is the lore dump. Dragon Ball $d is the first record with a full narrative constraint: one myth arc instead of scattered fragments. Bandcamp calls it straight: “dragon ball z fueled a hip-hopera.” A journey with Gokudaxij, Babidi (J MESA), and Nick Belcher.

Luke Francis Walton played, mixed, and mastered it, same as the other early records. This is also the first Scoobert cover by Grizzard Graphics. Streaming credits split the work more clearly than the first two LPs: Luke alone on some tracks; Eric Radloff / J MESA on the Babidi and Gokudaxij features; Nick Belcher on his. Silly on the surface, structurally much more disciplined than $WAMI$: peacetime Goku, Vegeta, Oozaru, Krillin, Namek, Ginyu Force, Frieza, Super Saiyan, Goku-as-savior, Gohan/dad stuff, Vegeta’s sacrifice, Capsule Corp., Beerus. Fan-fiction, parody, mixtape, and indie-pop mini-opera at once.

Bandcamp Dragon Ball $D (LP) landed March 16, 2020 ($7 or more, 24-bit/44.1kHz). Spotify and Apple Music show an earlier February 22, 2020 date: eleven songs, about twenty-two minutes. The tracklist here follows Bandcamp (~22:22). The YouTube visual album splits the same story into seventeen chapters (Captain Ginyu as its own beat, medleys broken apart). Same plot, different packaging. Spotify also lists Gohan on My Dad Sucks; that’s a fake collab joke about Gohan hating Goku, not an actual feature.

The bonus on $WAMI$ already pointed here: Next Time on Dragon Ball SD was the trailer.