Is MF DOOM's "Operation: Doomsday" ALL A TRICK?!
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- čas přidán 21. 09. 2023
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TOPICS COVERED
MF DOOM
The Supervillain
KMD
Daniel Dumile
Subroc
Operation Doomsday
Doomsday
Rhymes Like Dimes
Gas Drawls
Demo
Quincy Jones
The Deele
Red and Gold
#MFDOOM #hiphop #musichistory
Note: no, your it didn’t glitch, the Quincy Jones sample caused a full block, a month after this was released, so I had to edit it out.
Glad you were able to get this banger back up
Glad it’s up again.
SMH disgusting greedy people. All a sample does is open up their catalogue again why they so butt hurt this many
Years. Thank you for this brother all
My comments on the madvillainy album.
Kmd’s first albums was tough for us in the city during its first run. Not only
The samples but the lyrical content was hard and clear for us (black folks in the nyc hood of that lyrical back pack time) especially in what we were dealing with socially in nyc and in the country. Anyway thank you.
@@burningspear90 half of my music collection is from hip hop samples.
Say, what's the instrumental playing in the background at 6:50 called???
Been looking for a while now...
Id really appreciate it if you could help...
For anyone who hasn't gone through MF DOOM's discography yet, it's a rabbit hole, believe me. His music to this day is so incredibly unique. Everything about him is so non-conformist and strange that you can't help but listen. RIP Dumile
He truly was one of a kind. Rest in power DOOM
Listening to Kmd zev love x and hearing DOOMS evolution is crazy, what he did was far beyond music but a way of living to him crazy how just about all hip hop went from “gangsters” to villains
Its why he will forever be one of the top 3 artists ill ever suggest to represent hip hop. Nothing like it before or since.
@@1NAL1F3L0V3 X Evol vez into DOOM
I dont want to open the sealed box : )
I remember seeing doom in the early 2000 in LA. I remember he was like almost 2hours late, but when he finally came it was amazing. Next thing you know someone next to us was rapping the lyrics to all his songs, that man was mos def.
No way.
Was this at the El Rey Theatre, the opening act was dress up like robots then got jump on stage?
@@JJ-ui3bi not sure about the first line up cause I was still in line to get in, but yeah it was the El Rey
there's a vid here somewhere of mos def nerding out on doom
@@littleoldal yeah bro just search "mos def a fan of MF DOOM"
Dude, at this rate you're going to become one of the biggest music channels on CZcams by the end of the year! The content is quality, unique and consistent. Keep it up!
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@@diggingthegreatsfor sure I love the way you incorporate the story to the music 🫱🏾🫲🏽💯💯
@@diggingthegreats When aliens come to destroy our planet but research our culture your work will save us. Our music is intentional, complex, humble, hateful, boastful, passionate, intelligent, rigid, fluid, clever, stupid etc...but 💯 real just like the human experience. Hip Hop is the greatest art form of all time.
this album is just buttery slickness
The land o lakes!!
Totally unmatched
Buttery is the perfect adjective lol
Applesauce!!!
Haha yeah, yeaaaaaah
Something to note that im sure MANY will have understood by now is the grave/gravestone double entendre with his name. "Dumile" sounding eerily like "Doom'll lay" being... doom'll lay 6 fit deep. On top of the rhyme scheme, he made his last name have a double entendre whil rhyming everything together.. there's a reason everyone loves Hip-Hop's most mad villain to date. R.I.P to the legend.
Also "unmarked or engraved" on his tombstone meaning he'll either die a success or unknown, going down with his body either being "unmarked or engraved" by his struggles or not going down without a fight. DOOM has the most dense lyricism you feel like you can analyse his tracks for hours.
@@kodiacstephens8104 seriously. I didnt even think or catch that little detail in the rhyme. Insane!
LAYERS!
Dumile is a name meaning “famous” or “well known” in isiZulu or other Nguni languages including isiNdebele of which I think his Zimbabwean father is. Dumile is also pronounced a little like his stage name, Doom-ee-leh. Dumile is also not a surname.
One of the best underground albums of all time dropped on one of the greatest underground labels of all time. RIP M.F. Doom!
All Caps when you say the man name!!
ALL CAPS
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got that shit on wax the week it dropped!!! bring back old NY!!!!!
@@nine27 i went to the record store every week to check for new releases (pre-internet days). Remember the week „Operation Doomsday“ dropped on Fondle ’Em Records. They only had one copy of „Operation Doomsday“ and a friend of mine bought it. Ended up trading it with him later for a copy of „Mecca And The Soul Brother“ i had doubles of. Mind you, this was a fair trade at the time as „Mecca And The Soul Brother“ was long out of print at the time and was even more expensive as well as a 2nd hand copy. Good memories though..
I remember browsing thru some boring shit in the record shop and just as I was about to leave empty-handed the store owner handed me doomsday that just had come out. My perception of hiphop music changed right there forever.
Still listen to all of DOOM’s albums often. He passed away to early. His collaborations w/ Czarface are some of the best Hip-Hop in the past five years. The loss cannot be measured.
very true, Czarface seemed like DLC with major focus on pop culture and comic references.
Love the Czarface collabs! Shits🔥🔥🔥🔥
That Gas Drawls comparison was nuts. He honed in on his skill so much in a short period of time.
Sidenote: Love this channel, glad its getting bigger. Great videos.
I’m honestly ashamed to have just discovered Doom. I really missed out😢
@bugizm9150; I know you're new to DOOM, but from here on out just remember, it's all caps when you spell the man name. R.I.P. DOOM!!!
@@GISamurai YOUR GODAMN RIGHT
"Your favorite MC's favorite MC" Statement of the day.
This album immediately became an all-time favorite, when I realized exactly what it was back around '99. KMD was one of my favorites, and just realizing what this guy did on this album, blew my freaking mind. I always explained to people that this was his grief on record, and a middle finger to the music industry.
Agreed
I had KMD's first album on cassette and played it every day. Most hip-hop fans didn't like that style of rap. I bought it after seeing their first video on "Yo! MTV Raps."
Thank you for making a video on this, it’s my favourite album of all time
THIS SHIT IS SO GOOD! I haven't heard many of Mf Doom's stuff but vids like these really make me feel like im missing out. Amazing stuff man!
Incredible album - Check the Spotify Listening guide in the description - it's essentially the full album along with the songs I mention in this video 🔥
MF Doom recorded under aliases sometimes - check for King Geedorah "Take Me to Your Leader" and Viktor vaughn "Villainous Villain" they are awesome!
DOOM's "Madvillian" collaboration album with Madlib is perhaps one of the greatest albums of all time. They perfectly balanced each others artistic strengths and made magic together.
all caps when you spell the man name MF DOOM
Same! Never heard any of Doom's music, but based off the strength of the samples alone I wanna hear this album to start!
It’s great to see a video like this. A lot of the videos on DOOM now are from people who don’t know hip hop, who have a very shallow level of understanding of the genre, giving the videos one dimensional elements (mainly due to his explosion in recent years). This is different, as I know well by now that digging the greats is full of knowledge and taste. I’m 14, and I’ve been bumping DOOM since 10, can’t wait to sit back and watch this. Peace from Ireland 💪
Much love from the US my friend 🙏
@@diggingthegreats i wish i could get my oldest son to listen to doom🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
You are very well articulated and knowledgeable just going of your comment for only 14. Keep up the good work g
couple years ago, my now 16 yr old niece put on her playlist during a family vacation, and there were some great songs, including doom.
I'm sure she can't need out about music yet, but I was very happy internally.
there's a nice +2 hour mix dj skratch bastid put up on ny day, dooms day, the day most of us heard the sad news.
highly recommended.
This right here. Finally, the DOOM story told in a coherent narrative. And it doesn’t “ruin the joke by explaining it”, it enriches it. Btw I’ve been a huge fan of this channel for a while now, i could tell pretty early on, that the ideas here were on a trajectory going towards some amazing unique material and my expectations now have been so incredibly surpassed, that this art analysis becomes art in its own right.
This album made me go buy a SP 404 and try to make lofi hip hop. Another great video.
I used to do class reports on DOOM way back before it was “cool” to like his stuff. I love the way you broke down this album
Just appreciate the art, and let others enjoy DOOM too bro. I’m the same way but I now understand to not be a gatekeeper.
I love how the author of this video explains how a complex rap poem works by using fundamental technical terms. They are accurately explained. You can tell he is hip to both chambers. At first it could sound silly, but he respects both sides, and it's factual. He could explain these things to a fan, musician, critic, anyone...
I remember hearing DOOM's "Mmm Food?" album back in 2005 when one of my friends put me onto him; been a fan ever since, and have been digging through the rabbit hole ever since. Dudes not only a beast on the lyrics but also with the beats and just creating dope albums all around. It hit me hard when I learned of his passing, played a lot of his stuff for like a month. Thanks for this video man! RIP DOOM!
The first time I listened to mm food I was sucked in, I felt like I discovered a whole new universe
I’ve never heard of MF Doom and was surprised to hear he passed away in 2020. The lyrics about being with his brother hits a bit harder.
All caps please...all caps.
DOOM
@@hegemonycricket2182 who cares how someone types his name smh. his name wasn't even stylized in all caps on the early releases
@@machiventa858 DOOM
@@machiventa858 just remember, all caps when you spell the man's name
@@hegemonycricket2182 shut up fanboy
I have waited a long time for a breakdown about MF DOOM. So so unique guy. Thank you! I hope you can make a video about Madvillainy, a hip hop masterpiece, one of the greatest album of all time by one of the most complex musical genius. Rest in beats DOOM, a legend.
I was looking up the lyric to what it would say on his tomb about two hours after he passed. Was the most surreal experience. R.I.P DOOM.
You need to break down the song he did with de la soul, love the pacing and choices on that track
🥰 Mmmmm... a personal favorite of mine, too! The rhymes, flows and beat are just _incredible._ Not to mention the way they wind their verses around each other.
I rewatch their performance of it on late-night on the regular.
Always wanted to see a video from you about Black Bastards but this is the next best thing. Its great to hear such a tragic, interesting and almost cinematic story covered on this channel
1, at the time of his debut album the mask he used was a cut Kane mask that was spray painted grey, 2, that last line of the first song IS a reference to “it’s a bird, it’s a name” but it’s also a callback to his references to jeopardy earlier in the track
I got the notification for this video and clicked immediately. DTG does not disappoint.
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MF DOOM - артист с одной из самых интересных историй, человек брошенный индустрией придумал супергероя и стал легендой хип-хоп культуры!
суперзлодей на самом деле
I'm not even Russian I used the dictionary to write this response😂
@@theunknow461what does ur reply say lol
ever since i started watching you i’ve been introduced to so many amazing artists i wouldn’t have ever found before. Tribe, De La Soul, The Roots, Questlove etc. you’re a legend sir thankyou 🙏
Love the roots I saw them live recently and they were INSANE
You're really good at this dude
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Been on yet another DOOM music binge lately, so this video is perfect timing 🤣 Rest in Power to the SuperVillain!
You never disappoint, my friend.
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At 9.06 you claim that 'Clementine' and 'Valentine' is a 3 syllable rhyme...
But, the actual rhyme from DOOM is - 'Oh my Darling Clementine - He hold his Heart when he Telling Rhyme'... it's a SEVEN SYLLABLE RHYME. Yes, 7.
You should annotate this in the vid. x
It was about time for this channel to honor the late great MF DOOM. Interesting digging as always, man.
Loved this my dawg!!! RIP TO THE VILLAIN. May he dance in heaven with his brother forever!
Wondering if you would ever do a Madvillainy breakdown? 👀👀It’s such an amazing project. From that album I discovered Sun-Ra, who would also be a great candidate for a DTG episode lol.
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Thank you for this. I was late to DOOM noticing him from the Grind Date album and then realized he's everywhere. Was listening to Chrome Children earlier. I appreciate your love of the craft.
I’m case you didn’t know or if anyone didn’t know… after the album got shelved . Dumile got Depressed and was drinking everyday of his life until he Met MF GRIMM. A rhyme master at the time in Ny who was battling I believe and was good too. And he didn’t come up with the name himself . Both him and Grimm settled on Doom. Because of his history in Marvel Comics. Doom coming back as a villain not a hero when he came back with powers . And the title MF was given to him by Grimm wich stands for Mad Flows . He is not the only one with the title MF Mez etc etc other members as well. Doom flipped the name later on to Metal Fingers Doom on production notes henceforth metal fingers special blends the beat tapes. All in all someone picked up this man from the ground when he was down bad, real shit Doom was homeless, I never hear anybody talk about MF Grimm that’s sad cause they used to be best friends. And we’re beefing at the end kind of before he passed away. LLDoom🕊️. Big Ups to Jet Jaguar ( MF Grimm ) and the Monsta Island Csarz!
I’m glad I was around to pick these up when they were coming out. I just listened to this again a few months ago and I catch myself still just replaying and unpacking more things. Good memories. Thanks for making this and all the content you do.
I really like your work, from the content to the delivery, the style, visuals... amazing quality
And just saying, I would love an episode about ODB's Return to the 36 Chambers, or a song from it like Going down or else
Peace and ❤ from France
Just found your page as I've been clicking through alot of videos learning how to sample. I have to say your content is great and ive been running through them all. I'm a 90's hip hop head forever. Keep up the great content I'll be tuning in
Great video! Very happy to finally see some DOOM content. The way DOOM created his own universe in each record and then created multiple characters who lived in their own universes is unparallelled imo. Competing with himself cos nobody else could touch him.
Best rapper - MF DOOM
Best beat maker - Dilla
I'll die on this hill.
Maybe I'm trippin and it's just a cartoon to you. But I got chills when I heard how DOOM flipped the Scooby Doo.
As someone who has been following you for a while and has been a huge DOOM fan for many years, I just gotta say, you've done it again my man! This video was incredibly informative and entertaining, you can really see your love and admiration for DOOM and his incredible skill & story. That last line from "?" Has always made me tear up ("Everything is going according to plan, man"). You really did it justice and even I, a diehard fan, learned a lot from your video. Great work as always!! 👏👏
Imagine had his brother not passed and they were able to carry out those alternative characters
Legend also says that dooms name is still written under that top bunk to this day.
What an excellent video
Never have I heard anybody break down this album with such details & samples used. I've been listening to it since it came out and to this day still find nuggets of gold in the lyrics! Fantastic review 👏🏾
I love these deep dives and break downs fam!!! Keep em coming you got a new subscriber!
DOOM in full effect
Just making my normal comment about how good I think this channel is. Already recommended the video.
On a personal note, I’m really happy to see you covering Doom. One of my absolute favorites on the mic and I always loved how he (or his producers) would mix in things like the Scooby Doo sample that I recognized from Saturday morning cartoons as a kid. You also commented that “he’s your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper” or some such, but I’d also point out that I think Doom was one of the more beloved rappers by lyricists in other genres. My first musical love is rock and I remember after he died there were a lot of rock songwriters I follow (I specifically remember Thom Yorke of Radiohead saying something about him; I know there were several others but I don’t want to name names if I’m not sure who it was) who praised his creativity and wordplay in tributes to him. I guess the ability to not only come up with a 9 syllable rhyme but have it flow with the beat and being on point for the overall subject of the song transcends genre?
Second side note- I know you tend to go back in time with your song choices but there’s a great song “Belize” on the album Danger Mouse and Black Thought did that features a verse from Doom that I’d definitely be curious to see a breakdown about.
Dude, I love your videos! Your topics, knowledge of music and pop culture are very inspiring. Was this my favorite....man, I don't know. You have a multitude of gems in your bag, it's hard to decide. Thanks for your contribution!
Please keep it up man, all your videos have been insanely well made and fascinating
PLEASE PLEASE more DOOM in future videos! There so much to dig into from the production to his rhymes, iconography, mythos, just everything about him was fascinating. I would legit watch hours and hours of you breaking down DOOM tracks.
Your video’s are so good! Thanks for helping me understand the complex albums of MF Doom, I have gained a new level of appreciation for his work now.
Love this content, even managed to learn a new thing or two. As a new viewer I'm really into your style of video and execution. You differ greatly from other CZcamsrs in how you present yourself and speak to your audience and it's grabbed me as a new subscriber. Keep up the fantastic content.
This channel is SUCH A GEM. The production quality/knowledge is mesmerizing to watch/listen to!
This is the video I've been waiting for you to make and it did not disappoint.
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Another great video, sir. So much respect for what you do here. Fingers crossed you make the jump to Madvillainy to round out Doom’s too short story arc. 🙌🏼
DOOM really was one of a kind, had his own unique sound.
The original Gas Drawls was Zev Love X morphing into MF DOOM. I pray there is a part 2 of this video
Another fantastic video dude! Doom is one of my favourite artists. I've listened to Operation Doomsday countless times, but I still learned so much from your video! You covered the LP in fascinating detail and I wanted to let you know that the sheer amount of work that you put into all of your videos doesn't go unnoticed. Have a good day!
The first hip hip group my dad put me on when i was little was KMD
My first double set of records I bought to juggle with was 2X Gas Face 12" and 2X Terrordome 12" - I remember buying them at the mall music store of all places.
New Sub, I appreciate this work and dedication.. Keep it up. Inspiring. I grew up in this era and lived in the same location in BK. really brings back good memories and the aesthetics of what hip hop used to be..
Can you please make a video unpacking the references in this man's music? They're so obscure, and I've never really gotten them. I would love nothing more ❤
One of the greatest. Looking forward to an episode on Prof one of these days, would love to hear a detailed history on everything that artist has overcome to create a substantial presence in hip hop today.
This was excellent!
It begs the question.
When these artists perform under an identity, which they all are because of “stage names.”
When the artist’s stage name dies, or that persona dies, does that necessarily mean that the “real person” has too?
Been waiting in this! I know you would get around to MF Doom eventually. You’ve got impeccable taste!
Bro I swear I love how your do your homework!!! Please keep this up!!
Shot out to my father on that album cover for the The Deele, his credit is the art direction.
He always seemed directly inspired by Rammellzee to me- and of course the comic book thing.
Most DOOM fans ain't knowin - RΑΜΜ-ΣLL-ΖΣΣ 🤘😜🤘
I was fortunate to have worked with MFDOOMs Operation Doomsday album when it got released on subpop. They needed to remaster it, as an assistant mastering engineer at Absolute Audio NYC, i got to chill with him in the reference room and smoke a bit, he had me run to the store for some hennesy a few tines haha. It hit me that he was the KMD o.g. was really amazing, i got to keep an pre release version to myself for months listening everyday. Real Genius man. RIP DOOM 🙏
Thank you so much for these invaluable incites into one of my favorite artists! I learned so much. RIP MF Doom!
Very Solid breakdowns from perspectives most people miss.
"accordion" was my introduction to Doom... Man... that dude was bad ass.
Lowkey great album analysis I’ve been obsessing over DOOM’s earlier shit ever since I started listening and seeing someone talk about it this in depth about the character, the separation from the main industry, the purpose of the mask itself, niggas usually don’t go this deep but I’m glad you did all love bro
this is so perfectly timed. i was searching your channel for an MF DOOM video last night
Incredible work!!! Well done and to the point. I go back to hip hop's very beginning and had the pleasure of seeing it go from the Saturday afternoon throw down in the park when none of us had a dime to the stages worldwide making millions. MF DOOM was one unique brother!!! Gone too soon like all of our musical greats. This video is a history lesson. Required viewing for all who love hip hop. The sad truth is he never received his props while alive.
Yasiin is a fan too, as videos on here will show. From doing DOOM rhymes in the studio, to performing Figaro and Meat Grinder live with Robert Glasper, Chris Dave and Derrick Hodge. Not to mention his bars on JID's song Stars - he sounds a lot like DOOM on that song.
In the studio: czcams.com/video/zTBIvIDnnv8/video.html
Live with Glasper, Dave, and Hodge: czcams.com/video/s5QVcYeT74I/video.html
His bars on Stars: czcams.com/video/kIVoE91DyC0/video.html
RIP to a legend man..If nothing else, never forget….always use ALL CAPS WHEN YOU SPELL THE MAN NAME!
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RIP DOOM
fuckin LOVE this channel, been watchin every video you drop sense I got recommended your first video. dooms my fav rapper of all time n i have been waiting so long for you do make a video on him!
You have been my favorite channel for a while now the passion for the music is so infectious
Great, informative and entertaining as always, you post such great content!
I just had to subscribe after that segue to the Preemo video! Awesome video. RIP DOOM
Seeing you break down these samples is so satisfying! Please do a breakdown of Paul's Boutique
I always knew the highlights of his transition from KMD to MF DOOM, but it was great to see a detailed breakdown of it and the first album.
5:19 Good vowel rhymes too, 'back' and 'that's' on the same beat. And 'engraved' and 'hey' follows the 'ay' formula.
On Black Bastards you can hear Zev refer to himself as the villain on the track Sweet Premium Wine. Also on the 1994 track Checkmate with rapper Earthquake, he's almost MF DOOM by then, pay attention to the lyrics.
Also, if you listen to the 12" version of Go With The Flow/Greenbacks from 1997, you can hear him rapping with that Zev Love X voice. It makes me wonder when those were recorded.
What a great break down. I remember my cousin playing the vinyl after purchasing the album from Fat Beats on West 4th street in NYC. If you know you know.
Loving the channel, great work. DOOM is my favorite MC( or emcees depending on how you look at him)
Been a MF Doom fan for a while now, but there’s still so much I’ve learned from your video! I really appreciate your content, keep up the great work ☺️
Yo man! This is one my favorite videos about one of my favorite emcees. Thank you, sir!
Loved this video, new sub. Cheers from parkdale toronto
Dude please do more DOOM content, I feel like you’d have a ball with all his other bodies of work! Rest in Power DOOM 🙏🏼
I second this 🙏🏾🙏🏾
A Madvillainy breakdown would be unprecedented!
I'm cool that everyone loves DOOM. He was pretty good, but a LOT of his sampling was stuff that was already done before.
Like that The Deele sample was used by Kwest the Madd Ladd on I Met My Baby at the V.I.M. and Lord Finesse did that Scooby sample for You Know What I'm About by Lord Finesse off the Trespass soundtrack.
I love to see people love hip hop but I'm not gonna be sold that his projects were these far out super original pieces of work.
Love YOUR vids though and this was a great watch. 👍🏼
His plan worked... I never thought he'd pull it off but he was right... this is like watching ant's being amazed at a sugar cube. There is no mystique to Doom's plan, he was very straight forward, he was just above your heads. I tip my hat to him for doubting him after that Adult Swim run... in the end... this end, he has been right. But Doom is not finished.
Most amazing rapper ever! Thx for this great video! R.I.P DOOM ♥
This my most favorite channel on CZcams period!
Like bro then put me on some real shit ever since I got here
I can see you at the top already
Locked and steady like cutting butter with a machete
Unnecessary, violence for the necessity
DTG for the win watching these make me wish I was a rapper in that era
There's also a version of the album that ends with the song "I hear voices". The cherry on top for such a great masterpiece
thanks for using those thumbnails for your vid. i remember daniel making "hey" in my apartment when i lived with dj kool ak in atlanta.
"EVERYTHING IS GOING ACCORDING TO PLAN MAN" - MF DOOM
SHOUT OUT THE WHOLE G.Y.P.
#80 DEKA #VAPORWAVEGOD