Album
Operation: Doomsday
1999 · Hip Hop
97 collectors on Gatefold own this
Operation: Doomsday is a Hip-Hop album by MF Doom, originally released in 1999. On Gatefold: 54 pressings tracked, owned by 97 collectors.
About
The late Daniel Dumile was intimately familiar with reinvention and rebirth—concepts he explored through his alter ego, MF DOOM. The story goes like this: Dumile got his start as the bespectacled Zev Love X, a member of the boyish early-1990s Long Island rap trio KMD (Kausin’ Much Damage). But Dumile’s bandmate and brother, Subroc, died in 1993, and KMD was eventually dropped by its label—prompting Dumile to disappear from view altogether. When he returned in 1999, he had a new name—MF DOOM—and a remarkable debut album: <i>Operation: Doomsday</i>. Released right around the time the underground indie hip-hop scene was booming, <i>Operation: Doomsday</i> is high art done on a low budget. DOOM cuts together samples from a variety of sources—from a vintage <i>Fantastic Four</i> cartoon to the influential 1980s hip-hop movie <i>Wild Style</i>—and uses them to craft a fictitious backstory of triumph over adversity. It’s all part of his raw musical recipe, one that finds DOOM lifting drums from old-school hip-hop cut, and pop melodies from the likes of The Beatles and Atlantic Starr. .
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1The Time We Faced Doom (Skit)2:04
- A2Doomsday4:58
- A3Rhymes Like Dimes4:18
- A4The Finest4:01
- A5Back In The Days (Skit)0:45
Side B
- B1Go With The Flow3:36
- B2Tick, Tick...4:04
- B3Red And Gold4:42
- B4The Hands Of Doom (Skit)1:50
- B5Who You Think I Am?3:24
Side C
- C1Doom, Are You Awake? (Skit)1:12
- C2Hey!3:46
- C3Operation: Greenbacks3:46
- C4The Mic3:02
- C5The Mystery Of Doom (Skit)0:21
Side D
- D1Dead Bent2:22
- D2Gas Drawls3:43
- D3?3:09
- D4Hero v.s. Villain (Epilogue)2:55
Sound DNA
- Hip-Hop
- Alternative Hip-Hop
- lo-fi
- playful
- witty
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- DJ Cucumber SliceFEATURING SCRATCHES , VOCALS SCRATCHES, VOCALS
- E. MasonFEATURING
- KamackerisFEATURING
- King CaesarFEATURING
- King CeasarFEATURING
- King GhidraFEATURING
- KongFEATURING
- KuriousFEATURING
- Kwite DefFEATURING
- MegalonFEATURING
- MF GrimmFEATURING
- Pebbles The Invisible GirlFEATURING VOCALS
- RodanFEATURING
- Sci FlyFEATURING
- Sci.FlyFEATURING
- Tommy GunnFEATURING
- X-RayFEATURING
97 collectors on Gatefold own this · 54 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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