The instrumental is butter smooth, beautiful drums, soulful vocals, and then DOOM comes in with a flow that would change listeners forever. “Doomsday” opens the album up and it’s easily one of DOOMs most popular songs, and it’s not hard to see why. In the era of bling, the aftermath of Puffy and the reign of Jay Z, DOOM was coming in on a cloud of jazzy, dusty beats that had a throwback sound, but many haven’t aged a bit. DOOM is being introduced to the world, but he’s equally unimpressed with its inhabitants, and his sound shows it. The metal faced Villain sporting a hoodie and clutching a microphone like a loaded gun is what you get from this album. The cover is everything you need to know about this album. This album was Dumile’s return to music, but as the villain. Many people who were put onto this underground release in 1999 would have been utterly unaware that this was “zev love X” from KMD reincarnated before they finished this album. The world has lost one of its most brilliant minds, so here’s the journey of MF DOOM. He was the king of underground raps and someone who never gave the mainstream a second thought, because he didn’t care. These wacky and dark perspectives add to his individualism, listening to his incredible catalogue is like immersing yourself in another world, in a dark comic. There’s the rap villain MF DOOM whose travels the universe assisted by a posse of cartoon cuts and supervillain intros, there’s the three headed monster King Geedorah, and Viktor Vaughn the cocky and violent protégé. Dumile also dropped rapping as himself after KMD. That alongside his gruff, gritty and villainous voice makes for excellence. You can NEVER predict where he’s going to go, and whilst it can appear jarring to first time listeners, persevere and you can enjoy the fruits of one of the most creative writers in music. But it soon becomes apparent that he just approaches beats and flows in a way no one thought to. It feels maybe to first time listeners like he’s rapping regardless to the beat, vomiting out the strangest most complex rhyme pattern’s you’ve ever heard. Rappers spend all their time finding the smoothest and most satisfying flows, attempting to embed themselves in the beat and find pockets that no one else can, but DOOM just seems to ignore that. But DOOM manages to achieve the rarest musical feat of them all, true eccentricity. It doesn’t take away from someone’s greatness to recognise that there are many artists that sound just like them, it’s a continuation of their sound throughout the generations.
But in so many cases that seems like a farcical statement. People talk about legends and always equip themselves with “no one can do that like him” or “there will NEVER be another her”, and in some cases they are right. The ordinary and the trendy bored DOOM, they were nothing but highways to unoriginality and “fitting in”, none of which DOOM concerned himself with whatsoever. Always armed with his metal mask to hide his image from the world, everything that came to embody DOOM’s music was just spectacularly weird. DOOM is unique in the purest sense of the word. Whilst Daniel Dumile kept his private life relentlessly hidden, and no one quite knows what he experienced in those 6 years, he emerged as the most unique artist the genre has ever seen.
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