Operation Doomsday 1999 Zip

I figured I may as well start off this series with an album that people have been bugging me about since around day three of Hip Hop Isn't Dead. Daniel Dumile, for whom MF Doom is but one of many aliases, has been in the rap game quite a while, making his debut in KMD, a group featuring himself (as Zev Luv X), Onyx the Birthstone Kid, and Subroc, Daniel's younger brother. KMD released their first album, Mr. Hood, in 1991 to critical acclaim (and low sales, naturally), but on the eve of album number two, Black Bastards, Subroc was killed in a car accident, and, heartless freaks that they are, KMD was immediately dropped from Elektra Records. In the same goddamn week.

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Black Bastards wouldn't be officially released on any label until 2001 (for reasons that I won't go into here, since this post isn't about KMD), but, in true music industry fashion, people bootlegged the shit out of it, keeping Daniel's name alive in the underground. In 1999, Daniel dropped on the unsuspecting masses.

Released on the legendary underground label Fondle 'Em Records, MF Doom's solo debut album was almost anti-hip hop, combining unpolished, gravelly rhymes with beats that don't necessarily scream out for rappers to join forces with them. It took off seemingly right away, rendering Daniel Dumile (and his numerous aliases) a hero of the new hip hop millennium. In fact, is generally considered to be an indisputable hip hop classic. Until now, anyway. The relaxed beat helps absorb the abrasive-sounding lyrics from the star attraction. Due to (what I assume is) a poor mastering process, Doom comes off as an amateur rhyming over the beat (albeit one who sounds like a poor-quality Ghostface Killah, execpt, if this is even possible, even less coherent.). However, the fact that he rhymes for nearly three minutes straight (and isn't completely horrible at doing so) offsets the weird flavor.

Could have done without the female vocalist, although I have to admit that her presence actually fits the track well enough. Other than “Rhymes Like Dimes”, of course (that song is like the U-God of ), the instrumentals on here are considered to be the real draw, much more so than the lyrics, which aren't anything special at all, although Daniel could be much worse behind the mic. There isn't anything that he's doing that can't be improved by a bit of tweaking. Also, he doesn't seem to believe in choruses, opting instead to rhyme for several minutes at a time, which is fantastic, although you will never bump this shit in your car, unless MF Doom is sitting in the passenger seat or you're on a road trip to either Never-Never Land or to the Williams Street studio where they produce much of the Adult Swim lineup. The very epitome of what I think about whenever people talk about Doom's instrumentals: ripping off Scooby-Doo.

But that statement doesn't do justice to what the man manages to do with the show's theme song: this track is rather impressive. I can completely understand why he kept the beat for himself, but Doom really should have given it to a much more capable rapper, or at least invited someone to stand alongside him: the man does actually sound pretty inspired for the first time on, though. Be forewarned: the beat has a way of sneaking into your mind and recalling itself at the worst possible times, which gets very annoying after a while. FINAL THOUGHTS: is generally regarded as a classic underground record, with skilled wordplay from MF Doom, some truly inspired musical backdrops, and music critics generally falling all over themselves to suck at the scrotum of the artist in question. But here's the thing: MF Doom's rhymes on here are almost uniformly unimaginative. Aside from the fact that the vocals appear to have been recorded in someone's bedroom closet, Daniel Dumile comes off as a rookie, one who is trying way too hard to fit as many words as possible into a single bar, lest the bus explode.

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