I've been listening to Vaudeville Villain a ton lately (the single biggest oversight on my 00's album list) and went looking for more Doom stuff. This got some pretty lukewarm reviews, but heck, I'll give it a shot.
This is more or less the MF Doom scene as usual. There's the usual mostly repetitive, slightly weathered, fairly straightforward production, with just enough creaky atmosphere to keep it interesting. Its the rhymes you're here for though. This isn't quite as fun as VV, let along The Mouse and the Mask, but its remarkably consistent, featuring one great, packed, rhyme-within-rhyme line after another. If you know Doom, you know what I'm talking about. It's so unpredictable that more of the same just isn't more of the same. Check out the diagrams here, with special attention to the bottom right one. Doom line like a picture the way it's worth with a thousand words.
Other highlights include the female guest verses and the brilliant, heartbreaking That's That. But it's just solid front to back, wholly engaging, layers after layers, requiring dozens of listens, with less intrusive samples than usual. This guy's almost certainly my favorite rapper going these days, and this album just solidifies the status 4.5/5
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