Tero Smith (June 26, 1977 – May 25, 2008), better known by his stage name Camu Tao, was an American rapper, singer, and producer.
[3] At the time of his death, Tao was producing a song for Cage's I Never Knew You EP and working on his first solo album for Definitive Jux.
On July 9, 2009, El-P announced via Twitter that Tao's album King of Hearts was finished and would be released posthumously on October 20, 2009.
[4] It was eventually released by Definitive Jux (in collaboration with Fat Possum Records) on August 17, 2010, along with a free download EP from Central Services.
The song "The Full Retard" from the album features a looped vocal sample, "You should pump this shit like they do in the future", taken from Tao's lyrics on his track "When You're Going Down", and a bridge where the lyric, "lil' bitch", is repeated in a style derived from previous collaborations between the two artists, most notably Tao's track "Hold the Floor", to which El-P remarks, "That's some Camu shit."