Operation Doomsday

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WACK TRAFFIC RE-ISSUE
I'm not gonna review the album,because we all know it's a classic,probably top 10 of all time,but this re-issue is so wack that I don't know where to start describing it.It look's like cheap bootleg.The "booklet" is just one page and it's white on inside,the cd is also cheap looking.This is not the original cd this is official bootleg.I am willing to invest money in my cd collection,what i've been doing for 18 years,but if this is what I get for my money,maybe I should start downloading.I know that original press was also low budget,but they can put little more effort in this.As far as I hear voices track goes that was bonus cut on 2001 version of this album on sub verse records.This track listing is from original pressing on fondle 'em, records from 1999.PEACE

THE ESSENCE OF HIP-HOP
Amazing. This album embodies everything that hip-hop is all about, and basically that is having fun. Oh sure, he's got some social commentary thrown in as on "Rhymes Like Dimes" where part of the hook goes "Only in America could you find a way to make a healthy buck and still keep your attitude on self-destruct..." but mostly he's just kicking extraordinary rhymes with a seemingly effortless flow. There is an unpolished gritty feel to the whole project as MF DOOM proclaims on "Dead Bent" that he "comes through raw like the elements..." Perhaps one of the most intriguing elements of MF DOOM's music is his ability to combine the scientific with the street. His sampled skits of Stan Lee's Dr. Doom, full of scientific malarkey, beakers boiling and maniacal threats of world domination blend in seemlessly with the sounds of sub-way trains, and urban soundscapes. Despite the oft times silliness of this album there is an eerie quality to it that is more than likely owing to the fact that MF DOOM's brother SubRoc was killed a few years before the making of this album and the shout out he gives to his deceased brother on "Kurious?" where he exclaims "...everything is going exactly according to plan, man." is spine chilling. Strangley there was little indication within his previous work with K.M.D. to suggest that MF DOOM would someday become arguably the worlds greatest emcee. His days of relative recluse after his brothers death were obviously spent honing his writing, producing, and dee-jaying skills but all seemed to have grown exponentially in a relatively short amount of time. Thus the comic book skits of Dr. Doom's strange disappearance after a life altering accident only to return as a Super Villain seem less like a contrived gimmick and more like a chilling parallel to MF DOOM's life and work further enhancing the mysterious atmosphere of this album. All the beats on this album are sampled but probably none of the samples were cleared thus the album was pulled from circulation. He grabs everything from Scooby-Doo to Sade to Quincy Jones to SteelyDan and he doesn't care if you know it even crooning a bit of Atlantic Starr's "Always" on "Rhymes Like Dimes". The heavily sampled, surreal yet cerebral kaleidiscope of sound on this album puts me in the mind frame of The Beatles "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite", yet this is true hip-hop.

re-release
The re-release of Operation: Doomsday will be out later this year, so anyone willing to pay vast sum's of money for it should wait a while. I have a copy, that I was lucky enough to be given and I mean lucky because this album is suberb, sample heavy, amazing beats, Doom's legendary and almost beautiful flow and his rhyming talent all add together to make this a must for any Hip-hop fan, anyone who is a fan of MF Doom who hasn't heard this is in for a treat on the re-release, I think around late summer along with his rumoured new album.

A Hip-Hop Classic That Should Be Re-Issued
MF Doom's album "Operation: Doomsday" is a Hip-Hop classic, and very rare. I don't own a copy, but I have a mixtape(DJ Ready Cee-Twisted Metal) that contains a few tracks from "Doomsday".Some of the best tracks on the album are "Dead Bent","Gas Drawls" and "Doomsday". I will eventually get a copy of this album, but not for what most sellers are expecting people to pay.I have seen this album sell for 100 bucks and up.That's a little over-priced.Although,it is very rare and long out of print.I just hope that this album gets re-issued.

Underground at it's best!!
It's great to see that the artist formerly known as Zev Love X is back as MF Doom. I loved KMD. They were up and coming in the early 90's. Anyway, this LP is and should be a underground classic. With cuts like "Rhymes Like Dimes", "Go with the Flow", Tick, Tick w/MF Grimm, "Hey!" Operation: Greenbacks", "?"w/Kurious. And "I Hear Voices" One of my favorites. MF's lyrics are still sharp as ever with his clever metaphors and word play. This Lp is one of the best of 2001. If you love underground, gritty hip-hop, and you loved KMD. This LP is for you.