Download Born Like This by Mf Doom at Juno Download. Listen to this and millions more tracks online. All Genres Balearic/Downtempo Bass Breakbeat Disco/Nu-Disco DJ Tools Drum And Bass Dubstep Deep Dubstep Dirty Dubstep/Trap/Grime Electro Euro. Listen to Born Like This on Spotify. MF DOOM Album 2009 17 songs. Listen free to MF DOOM – Born Like This (Supervillain Intro, Gazill-appella and more). 17 tracks (40:37). Born Like This is an album by American hip hop artist MF DOOM, released under the shortened pseudonym DOOM on Lex Records on March 24, 2009. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. MF Doom Born Like This, LEX 2009. It’s funny how low-concept, well, high-concept rappers are; for all their limited-edition comic books and legendary guests, Czarface are just selling old-fashioned boom-bap and rhymes. Two decades ago, you could say MF Doom first wrote the playbook for this career path, though Wu-Tang obviously played a part.
Where else are you going to get your own DOOM mask?
It’s no secret that LEX Records know how to do vinyl. Earlier this year, the label enlisted Turner-Prize winning artist Keith Tyson to oversee the artwork on Nevermen’s self-titled debut, complete with triple gatefold, perspex sleeve and lilac vinyl.
Teased for some time now, we couldn’t wait to get our hands on their latest reissue – a deluxe repress of MF DOOM’s 2009 LP Born Like This.
The Villain’s most recent solo LP, Born Like This features a typically all-star cast of collaborators from Ghostface and Raekwon to cult poet Charles Bukowski, with production by Dilla, Madlib and Jake One.
But then again, that’s nothing new. This vinyl edition though deserves closer inspection. Designed by London-based artist collective ehquestionmark – the DIY “letter funk” outfit who also saw to the DOOM x Danger Mouse collaboration Dangerdoom – the print heads out there will know what it means when we say Born Like This comes with a full embossed and debossed, spot-glossed, foil-blocked sleeve.
For everyone else, just know that Born Like This also comes with a pop-out double-sided DOOM mask, one side classic metal, the other ancient sandstone.
Check out the release in detail below and order your copy here.
It’s funny how low-concept, well, high-concept rappers are; for all their limited-edition comic books and legendary guests, Czarface are just selling old-fashioned boom-bap and rhymes.
Two decades ago, you could say MF Doom first wrote the playbook for this career path, though Wu-Tang obviously played a part. Once known as KMD’s Zev Love X, Daniel Dumile rebirthed himself as a hip-hop supervillain with those dialogue snatches, cartoon samples (literally Scooby-Doo on his debut) and beats not much less dusty than the ones Jurassic 5 and DJ Shadow were toying with. The rhymes were significantly tricky for throwback riddlin’, but otherwise not deeper than the Beastie Boys’ bull sessions. They did have a lot more flow, however, guided by Doom’s trusty phlegm.
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Five years after this persona debuted, he reached the greatest success of his life with legendary beatsman Madlib on Madvillainy, but the only true twist was the stoned sense of editing, fragmented splices of song that abruptly changed course when they felt like. It recast the rap album itself as a goofy highlight reel. Doom’s been content with that formula ever since, teaming up with producers big (Danger Mouse at his hottest for The Mouse and the Mask) and small (Jneiro Jarel, for Keys to the Kuffs), eventually releasing far more collaborations than solo bids. Maybe it’s because of this unchanged blueprint that Doom became less of a cause celebre than his team-ups but those solo records held their own: the meaty, literal word salad Mm…Food, and the least conceptual record of his career, Born Like This, which just turned ten. It’s actually Dumile’s masterpiece.
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It’s not that Doom never experimented; he and Madlib took the least banging sample possible — a sighing accordion — and made it the lead “Accordion” on consensus champ Madvillainy (even Clipse’s own leadoff “Momma, I’m Sorry” two years later made the accordion far more menacing). And Born Like This starts off with another unpredictable opener, “Gazillion Ear,” which contains a beat skillfully concealed inside another beat; within the same song we can hear the box opened to play with the other and then sealed back up again before it ends. But for the most part Doom’s third full-length under his “real” name is a triumph of familiar tools: exultantly rapped boom-bap fragments that sound like they just rolled off his tongue, broken up by crucial guest contributions known (Raekwon and Ghostface share one excellent turn apiece) and unknown (the spunky Empress Starhh verse “Still Dope”). De La Soul’s Posdnous contributes a quick, disintegrating Auto-Tune cameo on “Supervillainz” as “P-Pain.” Samples well-acquainted with heads (ESG’s sirenlike “UFO,” the late Dilla via Raymond Scott’s burbling “Lightworks”) pop up between the regal funk of “Ballskin” and the middle-Eastern pretensions of “Gazillion Ear.” And obviously there’s bits of cartoon and B-movie kitsch, even a B-movie song, perhaps the only controversial thing in Doom’s extensive oeuvre.
Like Eminem’s “Criminal” nine years prior, “Batty Boys” attempts to turn homophobia into art, starring with its title, a Jamaican slur. The reason it makes a case for itself is because Doom, unlike most rappers, especially Eminem, is wearing a literal mask. By pretending he’s a supervillain, it’s somewhat of a hoot listening to Doom in kayfabe teasing spandex-bulgers like Batman and Robin about The Obvious; it’s essentially a first-person Ambiguously Gay Duo sketch. And it’s a shame Doom had to throw a dialogue sample with a slur into it, because the sheer originality (and slapstick) of the concept almost gives it a distinction from the cruel reality that actually befalls LGBT people; just last week Brunei made gay sex punishable via death by stoning. In 2019.
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But aside from the dated homophobia (which pops up on “Supervillainz” and surely others), Born Like This is also Doom’s most political work since KMD’s Black Bastards, with the deepest baritone, darkest humor (“Once sold an inbred skinhead a nigger joke / Plus a brand-new chrome smoker with the triggers broke”), and most emotional panorama of sonics in the man’s career, almost certainly the influence of frequent collaborator Ghostface. “Absolutely” reflects on corrupt authority, and “That’s That” does squeeze “civil liberties” in before “little titties,” riddle me” and “rectal hysterectomy” (the song also ends with some brief Tony Starks-style singing, in this case Doom’s lounge act of the Jackson 5). It’s not that a court jester suddenly spoke truth to power, it’s that he expanded his lyrically dense palate of moods and feelings just as impressively as he opened up his sonic spectrum.
Just as Ghostface loyals are unlikely to switch allegiances from the double-encrypted Supreme Clientele to the reflective emo-noir of Fishscale, Madvillainy resin-scrapers probably won’t anoint Born Like This their new opus of choice. But it deserves higher appreciation for doing more than just staying on top. This is where Doom refined his own sound into something more lucid, cinematic, and clever all in one punch. You could even say meaningful.
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