MF DOOM - OPERATION DOOMSDAY (LP)

MF Doom Operation Doomsday on Vinyl LP

Underneath his mysterious metal mask, MF Doom hides the cachet underground legends are made of. After KMD's 1994 sophomore album Black Bastards was turfed by Elektra in 1994 and Subroc (one half of the sibling rhyme duo) passed away, surviving KMD member Zev Love X mutated into the MC Avenger known as MF Doom.

This 19-cut deep album is ridiculously dope. On arguably the best track, "Rhymes Like Dimes," Doom weaves some pointed lyrics through his abstract wordplay. Doomsday features female vocalist Pebbles the Invisible accompanying the masked rhyme avenger on his journey to denounce wack MCs, while on "?" he trades hot verses with former Columbia artist Kurious Jorge. Doom's avant-garde ghetto-rhyme philosophies take even more intentionally weird twists on "Tick, Tick" where he and guest MC MF Grimm's flows warble over a rhythm track whose tempo speeds up and slows down continually.

The comic-book themed skits, many of which include snippets of dialogue from Marvel's Dr. Doom series, will help take you deep into the mind of an MC who is as otherworldly as they come. And in today's bland commercial rap universe, Operation Doomsday's left-of-center beats and rhymes are the perfect remedy.

MF Doom Operation Doomsday Track Listing

1.  The Time We Faced Doom (Skit)
2.  Doomsday
3.  Rhymes Like Dimes feat. DJ Cucumber Slice
4.  The Finest (feat. Tommy Gunn)
5.  Back in the Days (Skit)
6.  Go With the Flow
7.  Tick, Tick (feat. MF Grimm)
8.  Red & Gold (feat. King Geedorah)
9.  The Hands Of Doom (Skit)
10. Who You Think I Am?
11. Doom, Are You Awake? (Skit)
12. Hey!
13. Operation Greenbacks (feat. Megalon & King Geedorah)
14. The Mic
15. The Mystery Of Doom (Skit)
16. Dead Bent
17. Gas Drawls
18. ? (feat. Kurious)
19. Hero vs. Villain (Epilogue)