Name: Operation Doomsday (alternate sleeve artwork)
Brand: MF DOOM

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MF94-LP

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Comes bundled w/ 18 x 24” poster of the alternate cover art

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2021-07-09

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Traff­ic

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

829357009418

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

MF DOOM

Genre US

Hip Hop

Label US

Metal Face Records

Back again on vinyl where it belongs, MF DOOM's 1999 classic <i>Operation: Doomsday</i> is now presented on a premium-grade LP, with audio re-mastered from the original Fondle'Em Records release, and a poster of the album cover art!

Underneath his mysterious metal mask, MF DOOM hides the cachet underground legends are made of. After KMD (his first group)’s 1994 sophomore album Bl_ck B_st_rds was shelved by Elektra in 1994 and his blood brother Subroc (one half of the sibling rap duo) passed away, surviving frontman Zev Love X mutated into the MC Avenger known as MF DOOM and the Rap world is better for it. This 19-cut deep album is ridiculously dope, in a bizarro Ol’ Dirty Bastard kind of way. Doom sounds either high or drunk on most of the tracks, his self-produced beats are gritty, and his rhyme styles are almost indecipherable. On arguably the best track, “Rhymes Like Dimes,” Doom weaves some pointed lyrics through his abstract wordplay, spitting ‘only in America could you find a way to earn a healthy buck / And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.’

"Who You Think I Am?" features DOOM‘s crew M.onster I.sland C.zars, 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, will help take you deep into the mind of an MC who is as other-worldly as they come. And in today’s bland commercial Rap universe, <i>Operation: Doomsday</i>’s left-of-center beats and rhymes are the perfect remedy.

Operation Doomsday (alternate sleeve artwork)

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