![]() For the hardcore fans, the recorded-in-the-basement quality is appealing and representative of his persona as the underdog who 'came to destroy rap.' ![]() Nevertheless, one would be hard-pressed to overlook the low-budget mixing that mars some of the LP's presentation. 'quick to whip up a script like ' on 'Go with the Flow' or 'MCs, ya style needs Velamints' on 'Dead Bent') and quotable jewels from the 'on-the-mike Rain Man' to feed on. There are more than enough obscure but fun references (i.e. In fact, the album arguably contains some of the freshest rhymes one might have heard around the time of its release. The out-of-left-field edge of 's production - which features '80s soul and smooth jazz mixed with classic drum breaks - is indeed abstract at times, but his off-kilter rhymes are palatable and absent any pretentiousness. ![]() On his subsequent material, he developed a more steady and refined delivery, but on this debut, was at his rawest and, lyrically, most dexterous. In between, however, many of the villain's rhymes are rather hard and piercing. The 1980s saw Hip Hop grow from a local phenomenon to a fledgling worldwide musical genre, with Hip Hop albums steadily starting to be released from the mid- eighties on. The 1970s were the decade in which Hip Hop was born, witnessed solely by the happy few who were there. One of the crown jewels of the underground Hip Hop glory years is MF DOOM's 1999 album, Operation Doomsday. Carrying the weight of the past on his shoulders, opens and closes with frank and sincere lyrics. Was left scarred with a lingering pain that didn't manifest until the late '90s as hip-hop's only masked supervillain on 's Fondle 'Em Records. Doom after, then known as, had been devastated by the death of his brother and accomplice, in the early '90s, Elektra dropped his group and stopped the release of its second album, due to its political message and, more specifically, its cover art. ![]() ![]() The pretext for the album is very similar to that of Marvel Comics supervillain Dr. Simultaneously hailed as an underground classic and cast aside as poorly produced backpack rap, inaugurated the reign of in underground rap from the early to mid-2000s. ![]()
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