This product is an RSD Black Friday 2024 title, which is available to buy in-store from 8am on Friday 29/11/2024, and online from 8am on Saturday 30/11/2024.
MF DOOM's 1999 classic Operation: Doomsday presented for RSD Black Friday in two unique variants across three formats! The double gatefold LP housed in the original cover art comes in a silver pressing with purple accents on record one, green accents on record two. The double gatefold vinyl featuring variant cover art by Jason Jagel are in a gold nugget with red splatter pressing.
Side Zero
A1 The Time We Faced Doom (Skit) 2:04
A2 Doomsday Featuring – Pebbles The Invisible Girl 4:58
A3 Rhymes Like Dimes Featuring – DJ Cucumber Slice 4:18
A4 The Finest Featuring – Tommy Gunn4:01
A5 Back In The Days (Skit) 0:45
Side One
B1 Go With The Flow 3:36
B2 Tick, Tick... Featuring – MF Grimm 4:04
B3 Red And Gold Featuring – King Ghidra 4:42
B4 The Hands Of Doom (Skit) 1:50
B5 Who You Think I Am? Featuring – King Ghidra, Kong (2), K.D.*, Megalon (2), Rodan, X-Ray (3) 3:24
Side Two
C1 Doom, Are You Awake? (Skit) 1:12
C2 Hey! 3:46
C3 Operation: Greenbacks Featuring – Megalon (2) 3:46
C4 The Mic Featuring – Pebbles The Invisible Girl 3:02
C5 The Mystery Of Doom (Skit) 0:21
Side Three
D1 Dead Bent 2:22
D2 Gas Drawls 3:43
D3 ? Featuring – Kurious 3:09
D4 Hero v.s. Villain (Epilogue) Featuring – E. Mason 2.55
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 otherworldly as they come. And in today’s bland commercial Rap universe, Operation: Doomsday’s left-of-center beats and rhymes are the perfect remedy.