@ Where Your Sister Went
MF Doom – “Dead Bent”
MF Doom – “Gas Drawls”
MF Doom – “Hey!“
from Dead Bent 12″ (Fondle ‘Em, 1997)
MF Doom f/ Megalon – “Greenbacks”
MF Doom f/ Sci Fly – “Go With The Flow“
from Greenbacks 12″ (Fondle ‘Em, 1998)
HipHopDX is running my Q&A with MF Doom. In the past I’ve criticized Doom for pandering to the man child cartoon network demographic but that approach makes more sense when you realize that dude is pretty damn childlike himself. And I mean that in the nicest way possible. He’s gushing about the differences between King Ghidra and MF Doom and offering endearingly hand in the cookie jar rationalizations for his show skipping and homo dissing. But there’s also a certain maturity and definite honesty the conversation. I didn’t expect him to be so candid.
Above are the original, superior 12″ mixes of tracks that were later re-recored for Operation: Doomsday.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Wow. Great read. Didn’t even know he did interviews, let alone one this candid. I don’t think I ever recall him talking so much out of character, as being the architect of all these personas.
Sidney Sheldon link to Operation Doomsday ? Weird
LOL @ how matter-of-fact these two lines sound:
“Pause, if you know the pause game”
“It’s not about homos. It’s about Batman and them. They just happen to be homos”
Thanks for the original mixes too. Dead Bent and Hey are waay up there in my list of favourite Doom tracks
April 13th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
i read this interview this morning when i saw it on 2dopeboyz.com…didnt know that you did it though…shit was a great read…congrats
you got him to talk about some stuff nobody would probably be able to
April 13th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Chyo! I definitely think the album versions of those songs are superior to the 12 inch cuts, for what its worth.
the 12 inch versions are cool though, but i wouldn’t say “superior”
April 13th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Eh, the LP versions were much better and, yes, i did hear the 12″ versions first.
April 13th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
another gucci remix
http://www.divshare.com/download/7069714-2bf
(”pillz”)
April 13th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
operation doomsday! is doom at his finest… should re-release doomsday w/ the original joints as extra… would sell like hoecakes i mean hotcakes…
April 13th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
mayn i aint listen ta MF DOOM since like high school mayn dat wuz de worss live show i eva been to he cool doe i guess mayn
April 13th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
wow, u finally made it noz. congrats. op doomsday, goat. but everyone already knows that. as someone whos read this site for years now u really really really almost always hate on him. this is just funny. true professional tho. :-)
April 13th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
He sounds more like Zev Love X than MF Doom on these versions (although I’ve heard one of them before). Anyway, the article is good, Noz.
April 13th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
“wow, u finally made it noz. ”
HA!
April 13th, 2009 at 8:22 pm
These 12″ versions are so much better. I was disappointed when I heard the rerecorded version of “Greenbacks” on Doom’s LP – the originals are just so raw. Thanks for these.
April 13th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
just outta curiosity, did you get to interview him in-person? was he talking with his mask on or off? ie. was he speaking as DOOM or daniel dumile?
April 13th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
and when he’s talking about his different characters did you get the feeling his ideas on the topic were premeditated or was he on some on the spot bullshit? I can’t tell based on the reading.
April 13th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
first time i saw the record , with the dr doom cartoon, i was like what is this gimmick album , i’m never getting it…
around the time there was a song i heard on stretch and bobbito show, didn’t know the artist but was looking all over for. ” hold mics like ni66s hold their girls tight ”
dead bent by MF DOOM… once i learned it was him i was @ fat beats getting it!
April 13th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Quan – I did this interview over the phone. Met dude without the mask a few years back. He looks exactly like he sounds, if that makes any sense.
Rae – It seemed like he was riffing.
April 14th, 2009 at 2:56 am
great stuff.
it’s inspiring to know that the man thinks like he raps, and is happy to just put it all out there.
thanks noz.
April 14th, 2009 at 11:27 am
dope interview, Noz. been on a DOOM kick the last few weeks… Mm Food might be my favorite, if for nothing but “deep fried frenz”
April 14th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
PS THANK YOU for the 320 rips of the vinyl versions. I loved the original 12″ version of Dead Bent over the CD version.
April 14th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
yes the 12″ versions were way better, any chance of the instrumentals ?! ;)
April 14th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Noz, you should have asked him about his vote for McCain. Did he do that to be in keeping with his character as a super-villain? (Or perhaps was he joking about that in the Rolling Stone interview?)
April 14th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Top notch piece.
“Pause. If you play the pause game” Sure beats Hungry Hungry Hippos.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
NOW you finally made it;
http://pitchfork.com/news/35074-echo-chamber-doom/
ha.
April 18th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
Is it me or does no one talk about the Vik Vaughn shit anymore? The first VV project was a great record to me, granted I may not like it as much these days.
April 21st, 2009 at 10:22 pm
so in his answer to the impostor question, he strongly suggests that he hires people to do his shows for him, and then backs up to the “i lost weight” argument.
and i think he kind of misses the point of live shows with that whole “don’t expect to see me, just hear me” thing. why bother with the stage, the impostor or the venue itself if shows are all about listening?