As good as he is at rhyming, his writing is just in a league of its own... He uses alliteration, onomatopoeia, metaphors, irony, comedy - he employs all of this with ease. He doesn't 'just rhyme'. His grasp on the English language is genuinely incredible.
My problem is most of the time I don't understand what he means, I'm not a native speaker so that could be why but it's a bit annoying to me that I love his sound so much but don't understand what he's talking about
@@francescoalexgiacalone878 Agree. As a non-native English speaker, some of the rhymes and references go over my head quite often, but the scheme in which he rhymes and the delivery makes me look past all that.
A lot of people don’t get DOOM and think he rhymin nonsense. He’s a lyrical vituoso, he combines an amalgam of sounds, syllables and mental images to a beat. DOOM on the mic is like like Bird on the horn. Freestyle genius. Undefeated champion.
People think the same thing about Aesop Rock rhyming nonsense, when upon closer examination it’s anything but. The problem is rap has turned into a genre where most people expect to be spoon fed in plain language or don’t even care about lyrics.
@@dannysullivan6454 It's not because of that at all. It's because they're both so vague with what they're talking about, and because they provide no context to what they're talking about. And it's even harder with DOOM because he jumps from one topic to the next topic constantly with no segue. It's why I think Lupe is better than them both, because he has all the upsides of both of them with none of the downsides.
I swear, MF DOOM could make a double entendre referring to molly and play off a classic children’s nursery rhyme with internal rhyming, oh wait, he already did.
bill bill. There was a guy here trying to do a DOOM verse and he said something alone the lines of “Im a lyrical miracle” and ended it with “I’m drunk right now so it ain’t that good”. I’m not a Mong, I can tell that this is far from a lyrical miracle flow, I’m a huge DOOM fan afterall
That’s what makes DOOM unique there’s a rhyme within a rhyme when he spits he doesn’t follow the universal hip hop pattern of saying one line that rhymes and then saying another. He try’s to fit in as many same sounding words// syllables in the span of two to four bars
Revenant KZB I never said DOOM was the originator of the style and Rakim is one of the goats but he never rhymed like that where every consecutive word/syllable rhymes
He's fallen sharply over the last decade, hate to admit it. When Freddie Gibbs said he raps better than DOOM, he caught some heat, but at this time it's abundantly clear that is true.
You dont gotta sound like DOOM to be the best version of yourself. Not to be cheesy or anything cause I bet you were just joking but dont feel discouraged, just take what you like from him and try to warp it into your own style
"Do not stand still, boast yo skills Close but no krills, toast for po' nills, post no bills Coast to coast, Joe Schmo's flows ill, go chill Not supposed to overdose No-Doz pills" He used the force when he wrote this
I like the line right after a bit better though “Off pride tykes talk wide through scar meat Off sides like how Worf rides with starfleet” the way he delivers it is just chef’s kiss
This songs beat is by far my favorite instrumental from any song ever made, Madlib killed it. As a whole this song is arguably my favorite song ever. The beat is beyond amazing and the verse is a DOOM verse, so it's also beyond amazing.
@@JoseSilva-ht8es thats cool w me everyone earning a living but the dishonesty bugs me i guess. to each their own but id still give a listen even if youre not flexing a gun or your bullets
the ending where the beat keeps playing after he finished rhyming is so badass, like you just witnessed something incredible and your head couldn't process it
@@maurirodriguez8753 Madlib likes to tease with the fans. According to him we literally could potentially have a Madvilliany 2 worth of unreleased materials.
I think there’s a genuinely good case for this being not only the best song off madvillainy but probably the best mf doom song ever or at least his best rapping ever. It’s him doing what he does best but at its most focused and his rhyming towards the middle is untouchable.
“They’ve bit but don’t know their neck shine from Shinola Everything that glitters ain’t fishscale” DOOM is saying other rappers are like fish that have taken the bait (hook) and now it’s piercing their neck but they don’t even know it. Because the hook glitters underwater, like DOOM himself. And so does jewelry, or Shinola, or fishscales.
I love how the line can also simply be interpreted that other rappers don't know their own shit or the chain on their neck from fake shine like shinola. Just because it glitters doesn't mean its quality fishscale.
There’s a mention to Ghostface in that bar. He mentions a ton of MC’s through this whole track. I’ve been trying to make people aware to it. Always going unnoticed. Song has a completely different meaning than face value. He’s dropping a timeline of the art form here. The artists. The songs. Samples used. Their affect on the culture at the time, and the commercialization of it. It’s a subliminal shot. The entire thing. Good or bad. He mentions cats from Ghost, Jay, Nas, to Eminem. The list goes on. There’s more here than I can figure myself, that someone else with a different background can pickup on. This track is beyond fucking genius, and no one’s caught it. DOOM lays it the fuck out here, from his perspective. Hip-Hop. He’s covering it… There’s even specific tracks that are mentioned. Stuff he’s found influence in, or his opinion on what it’s done for the art form at the time. It’s all there. Track is stupid fucking good. Please, someone listen and hear it…
This is what makes DOOM so unique there’s a rhyme within a rhyme when he spits he doesn’t follow the universal hip hop pattern of saying one line that rhymes and then saying another. He try’s to fit in as many same sounding words// syllables in the span of two to four bars
That "universal hip hop pattern" isn't universal. Its easy and often lazy. lets artists focus on vibe and production over rapping skill. But thankfully almost all modern rappers are capable of going further than that. The ones that couldnt have already been forgotten.
that's what I was thinking about as well. He has A LOT of tracks with these complex lyricial schemes. How the fuck do you remember all of that to deliver on stage? Maybe that's why he never really performed live...
I admit, as a silly college student, this very song was one I preformed on the open mic. All the students loved the finishing line of only letting him stick the head in XD Just keep practicing and you will remember it. Great thing about music is how it helps aid in memory. The way MF Doom does some of his flows, despite how unorthodox it is, helps in just remembering how it sounds, and then you keep hearing the song over and over and you just get it. Now I can rap this entire song easily XD
Hill Smith interesting stuff Thanks for sharing I myself am trying to get into rapping and memory is one of my flaws but I will persist thanks again for your story
DOOM's utterly relentless rhyme scheme during certain parts of this masterpiece and many other songs is beyond amazing. How the man ever managed to fit so many pop culture references, double entendre's, metaphors, jokes, alliteration, and comically braggadocious lyrics in with so many surgically timed, crafted and spoken rhymes will forever be an enigma to me. He was and still is truly in a league of his own when it comes to his lyrical virtuosity.
I am in the same age as MF DOOM, so have been fortunate to listen to many lyricist, No one will ever approach this gifted individual, There was a mad quirkiness but tamed and nurtured into a visionary.
That subtle pause after “let me think” and the beat skipping when he says “skip” at the end just shows incredible attention to detail and just a mastery of the craft.
“Off pride tykes talk wide through scar meat. Off sides like how Worf rides with starfleet” your favourite rapper rhymes words, my favourite rhymes lines.
@@exaucemayunga22 if you want my Rap Genius deeper breakdown my guess is, not to be afraid to do whatever it is you want to do even if ppl talk crazy about you for it. As far as my basic appreciation of the line, It's a Star Trek reference. Worf was the only klingon * blood thirsty uptight alien race* aboard the Starship Enterprise..god i hated that show
"Make a hick say "what the hey?" brought that chick from sick bay Ensign, he shoulda asked his upperclassmen Before he bust blast em, never trust no Cardassians Captain's log supplemental The Klingons are now aboard the Enterprise rental vessal On my cue photon torpedo" ~VIC
It's a deep rabbit hole, bruh. Gazillion Ear, Monkey Suite, the entire Adult Swim album... For real tho, there's a lot of DOOM for you to catch up on out there and it's almost always amazing.
Karlton Little bruh listening to Doom just rap is like 🤯. Makes me wanna learn how to rap lol. Dude was born a genius. He’s so slept on. & most don’t understand his flow or anything & I feel like I do . I like it.
@@unkwxnx I cant take people who denigrate hip hop as a whole because of what they heard on the radio or at a party. When language is your instrument anything is possible.
MF DOOM is in my opinion the best lyricist of all time. Not only the way he manages to rhyme literally every word that comes out of his mouth, a lot of the stuff he says has much more depth than most rappers, like "Everything that glitters aint fish scale, lemme think dot let her faint get Ishmael," because no one else except MF would come up with a bar that complicated. This guy reminds us that rap music is a form of poetry.
People wear sandals when the ground is too hot to walk on with bare feet. The blue sandals may allude to the expression of “cold feet”. Usually, blue is used as a color of anxiety or “cold” emotions. So by DOOM saying “you have ‘blue sandals’” He could mean either: You are literally trying to cool off. (its too hot to handle) You are too cowardly to stand, or accost the heat the Villain is bringing. This wearing “blue” sandals.
Man, I always regret the fact that I wasn’t born in USA and English is not my main language. So even if I try really hard I usually get only the 5 or 10% of the lyrical content of any rap songs and this is driving me crazy! Holy respect for MF DOOM, he’s a great rapper, a great lyricist!
@@noahyudkin5458I know, but it's not as nice as with English(I’m from Italy), you see, you can easily distort English words, you can bend them, you can twist them, you can change their pronunciation and accent so that you can change the whole rhyming system, and all of this is possible only with English.
@@markdragon9395 I'm also Italian but English is basically my first language at this point but there is so much complexity and references in DOOM's music that it's like the final boss of English. Truly incredible work.
For what it's worth, DOOM is so complex that even as a native English speaker I have to listen multiple times before I even feel close to real comprehension. By the time you've figured out what he's saying, he's already two lines ahead of you. So don't judge yourself for not keeping up with DOOM - no one else can either
MFDOOM IS THE GOAT OF LINGUISTICS BY MANY ORDERS OF MAGNATUDE. HE WILL SHARPEN YOUR VOCABULARY AS A GROWN ADULT STUDENT OF HIP HOP. LONG LIVE THE METALFACE SUPER VILLIAN.
@@furrychiefkeef2454 depends really, lyrically he is pretty good i'll give you that, but flow and just overall complexity he's relatively mediocre. His flow sounds like your average rapper with his complexity being insanely low as he barely uses any entendres. Overall hes maybe top 90% but theres countless other rappers who could outperform him in most categories
It’s genuinely too good for me to comprehend right now. I’m too fkn stoned and all I can do it sit in actual awe watching these colours and hearing his pure talent dripping off every line.
"The rest is empty with no brain"= 98% of rappers who are not wordsmiths on DOOM's level "but the clever nerd, The best emcee with no chain you ever heard"= A majority of the rappers who are popular are materialistic, but have 0 bars compared to DOOM who in the first bar drops a punchline (Best emcee with no chain you ever heard), while rhyming the beginning of the bars (The rest is empty+the best emcee) with the ending of the bars (clever nerd+ever heard) and the middle parts together (no brain+no chain). That's just bar 1.
@Гошо Филмара Also "the best MC with no chain you ever heard" is a double entendre as in gold chain and a slave chain (implying that most rappers are slaves to their record labels)
@Гошо Филмара oh ye sry, actually I thought what u said was pretty good so I wanted to quote ur comment in dc, however bc I was on my phone I had to do it this weird way to copy it :) edit: i made sure to tell the people I quoted this to it was a quote of a yt comment, sry wasnt trying to offend you in any ways
One thing I notice is how for other artists you reuse the most rhyme heavy parts as the thumbnail but DOOM can rhyme entire verses so you don't reuse anything for the thumbnail
Such and eerie track... Some of the best DOOM rhymes paired with some creepy production by Madlib. Definitely one of his best songs. RIP ILLEST VILLAIN
MF DOOM to this very day is nearly incomparable to ANY emcee. I’ve heard him on tracks with some of the best and his style, his CONTENT, his SKILL outlasts others and makes them look like ROOKIES. Crazy thing is, he’s not even disrespectful or dissiny A hypothetical opposer he is simply being A master at what he does and FEW can sound good on the same track as him. That’s what being A TRUE master is like. Time passes and we are still absolutely ASTONISHED at the level he was on. We knew he was great, but we never truly understood how great of A level he was at. Crazy thing is, he sounds at ease. Just imagine if he were in the state of mind to prove himself….he’s been proved himself…his standard is just beyond what we think is “serious”. Mf doom is one of my favorite emcees ever for so many reasons, but some of my favorite amongst many features are his everlasting style, his wittiness and trickery, his strong level of skill, his storytelling, the captivity of his rhymes, patterns, and subjects, his ability to hold up with other styles we thought were powerful, etc…, not to mention the NUMBER of times he rhymes, his level-headed vocals, he always seems like he never loses control of his emotions on his tracks. Knows just what he’s gonna say. Never sounds like he makes even the smallest of mistakes- i can compliment this dude all day and that’s what i mean- we didn’t truly appreciate what level of master he was and of course some of us did, but we still learn as the years pass because he didn’t just give one or two things. He offered us the future and for that, I am greatful. I can always learn A thing or two from mf doom no matter who i think is great, mf doom has it covered in almost EVERY category there is.
Before i said this was my favorite beat of all time but now this is tied for my favorite song of all time with rhymes like dimes. Both are so incredible.
I always got so into DOOM’s music as a whole vibe, sometimes I need to see the lyrics and how intricately crazy they were, because I would just smoke and Bob my head and loved DOOM’s voice and style, but when you see it laid out in front of you.. pure art. RIP villain
It's all about that super unconventional flow that people don't understand this is another factor that makes this track actually insane, it's easy to go ABAB
Well it's not really about anything, the lyrics are nonsense, that's part of how he's able to make the rhymes so great. (The other part is that he's still seriously talented.)
MF DOOM is proof that to be an actual rapper you can't just have a backstory of being introduced to gang violence and a really talented producer. This guy is a MASTERMIND in the English language.
Rest In Peace to the best emcee with no chain you ever heard... the King, the GUV’NOR, one of the greats. One day in my future I want to travel to eyjafjallajökull the volcano in Iceland to pay tribute to this man and one of the best lines he ever wrote 🤟🤟
RIP MF DOOM 🕊
Man, what the fuck. This is so surreal...
I discovered his music very late, but damn. His shit blew me away. Rest in Peace DOOM.
So sad 😞
why did he die he was only 49 this is so sad
Fuck 2020
Now he can rest and enjoy his ice cream forever 🐐
WE'RE GOING TO RUN OUT OF COLORS
RIP MF DOOM, The greatest to ever do it
For real man. Dude is amazing
@Thomas Pynchon LMFAOOO
Thomas Pynchon yes
Thomas Pynchon it’s called word play and metaphors cuzzo
Thomas Pynchon look up a lyricology 101 video on him you’ll get it a lil more. Even tho DOOM don’t make music for niggas that don’t get it
As good as he is at rhyming, his writing is just in a league of its own... He uses alliteration, onomatopoeia, metaphors, irony, comedy - he employs all of this with ease. He doesn't 'just rhyme'. His grasp on the English language is genuinely incredible.
My problem is most of the time I don't understand what he means, I'm not a native speaker so that could be why but it's a bit annoying to me that I love his sound so much but don't understand what he's talking about
@@francescoalexgiacalone878 Agree. As a non-native English speaker, some of the rhymes and references go over my head quite often, but the scheme in which he rhymes and the delivery makes me look past all that.
You guys aren’t having problems understanding. A lot of it is just silly rhymes to flow
Agreed. I think one aspect of DOOM's writing that gets overlooked or rarely mentioned is that, when he wants to be, he can be really funny!
So fucking true.
Bro this shit takes me 3-5 business days to process
His voice sounds like a freshly baked loaf of bread.
Why the freak does that really makes sense 😂💯
what a dumb comparison I love it
he sound like a old school ski mask
@@bowskee yooo fr
@@bowskee oh yeah... He really does.
DOOM’s rhyming so hard that Highlighted had to use all of the colors on the visible light spectrum
DOOM*
@@anti-bien-pensants6470 Just remember ALL CAPS when you spell the man name
DOOM*
@@mahmoudkhaled9271 i forgot the all caps when i spell the man name. fixed !
This man litterly said “I like ice cream.” And still made it dope and chilling.
Ice cream has another meaning
@@CPUGaming wut is it?
@@naxotogo I think I heard some where that it he means he likes women of all races, cause ice cream comes in many colors
@@CPUGamingno I’m pretty sure he likes ice cream
ice cream is jus another way he talks abt fuckin 💀
"i like ice cream" 🔥🔥🔥
I thought I was the only one that caught that FIRE BAR 😂
definitely saved the best bars for last
💯
Thomas Freeman can you explain it for the kids in the back?
@@thizzellewashington1626 he likes ice cream
A lot of people don’t get DOOM and think he rhymin nonsense. He’s a lyrical vituoso, he combines an amalgam of sounds, syllables and mental images to a beat. DOOM on the mic is like like Bird on the horn. Freestyle genius. Undefeated champion.
Just remember, all caps when you spell the man name
I stand corrected, Sir
@@andrejohnson6731 Lol
People think the same thing about Aesop Rock rhyming nonsense, when upon closer examination it’s anything but. The problem is rap has turned into a genre where most people expect to be spoon fed in plain language or don’t even care about lyrics.
@@dannysullivan6454 It's not because of that at all. It's because they're both so vague with what they're talking about, and because they provide no context to what they're talking about. And it's even harder with DOOM because he jumps from one topic to the next topic constantly with no segue. It's why I think Lupe is better than them both, because he has all the upsides of both of them with none of the downsides.
I swear, MF DOOM could make a double entendre referring to molly and play off a classic children’s nursery rhyme with internal rhyming, oh wait, he already did.
MF DOOM is overrated as fuck.
1 for the money
2 for the better green
3
4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine
I never realized this dude completely rhymed 5 lines in a row jesus
Edit: Why tf I come back to this and there's 163 replies get a hobby.
General Feldsalat. Oh look, another lyrical miracle flow😒
@@user-xs3ps1nq3e in 11 lines DOOM had 3 non rhyming syllables. That's no lyrical miracle amateur bs, just pure raw skill.
@@user-xs3ps1nq3e This is so far from a lyrical miracle flow, what are you talking about? That's like saying NWA made Crunk music, it's just stupid.
bill bill. There was a guy here trying to do a DOOM verse and he said something alone the lines of “Im a lyrical miracle” and ended it with “I’m drunk right now so it ain’t that good”. I’m not a Mong, I can tell that this is far from a lyrical miracle flow, I’m a huge DOOM fan afterall
Eminem has 13 lmao
The part from 1:19 to 1:28 is so crazy, so rhythmic, so clever. I always wait for this part to have my mind blown, everytime.
No (know) doz (those) pills
@@theheezeI always thought it was "no-doz pills" as in dozing off, because he says not suppose to overdose. But I guess both are correct 🤔
@@educostanzocuz it's a double
Agreed, that's some virtuoso shit right there. Bestest of best lyricist.
Bro I was mind blown when I listen to that part every single time. shit is crazy
You should sell the coloured lyrics as prints.
I’d buy this one in a heart beat.
yes please!
100%
He can't, he'll get sued
@@MonkeyDLuffy60073 DOOM should do it
Um just make one. Hardcore basic Photoshop all you need
someone tell DOOM that he doesn't have to rhyme every syllable
That’s what makes DOOM unique there’s a rhyme within a rhyme when he spits he doesn’t follow the universal hip hop pattern of saying one line that rhymes and then saying another. He try’s to fit in as many same sounding words// syllables in the span of two to four bars
yung corleone rakim been doing that 40 years ago
Revenant KZB I never said DOOM was the originator of the style and Rakim is one of the goats but he never rhymed like that where every consecutive word/syllable rhymes
MF DOOM be like:
DOOM's spoons feed folks who don't follow,
Soon goons need yolks boo won't swallow,
😂😂😂
😂😂😂
My teacher: Don’t highlight everything, only the important parts
Me:
easily one of the best at rhyming in the game
EVER
Easily THE best
Idk man... Pitbull is better tbh...
lol u forgot nav n soulja
Ya forgot lil pump....gucci gang 100% rhymes with gucci gang
Alright, but all joking aside, Aesop Rock and Doom are probably up for grabs as best lyricists.
MF DOOM is untouchable
Earl: Hold my lyrics
@@Hip-h0p2b0 I know. In fact they even met in real life. I do personally prefer the way how Earl's rhyming better.
Nobody really wants to touch him that's the reason ..
He's fallen sharply over the last decade, hate to admit it. When Freddie Gibbs said he raps better than DOOM, he caught some heat, but at this time it's abundantly clear that is true.
@@m-mori earl who?
"The best MC with no chain you ever heard"
Facts
R.I.P. METALFACE DOOM 🙏🏾
ALL CAPS WHEN YOU SPELL THE MANS NAME.
Wait MF stands for METALFACE? Thought Is stood for motherfucking as in motherfucking DOOM. Anyway rest in peace man
This is why I don't even bother rapping. Doom is on another level.
DOOM*
or u can just mumble rap lmao
what the devil
Like any Joe Schmoe starting rapping is trying to be the GOAT.
You dont gotta sound like DOOM to be the best version of yourself. Not to be cheesy or anything cause I bet you were just joking but dont feel discouraged, just take what you like from him and try to warp it into your own style
One of my favourites of the album
Ya profile pic was me the whole song
@@drummerboy7798 *stank face activated
@Thomas Pynchon Huh?
Thomas Pynchon I think someone doesn’t know good music
Thomas Pynchon Dooms a god
"Do not stand still, boast yo skills
Close but no krills, toast for po' nills, post no bills
Coast to coast, Joe Schmo's flows ill, go chill
Not supposed to overdose No-Doz pills"
He used the force when he wrote this
I KNOW MY MIND IS BLOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this might be the grossest bars i've ever heard. i had to listen to it 4 times just to take it in, and even now it's unfreakin believable
I thought it was toast po lils
I like the line right after a bit better though “Off pride tykes talk wide through scar meat
Off sides like how Worf rides with starfleet” the way he delivers it is just chef’s kiss
@@eddyyt7466 💯
REST IN PEACE LEGEND
hope there’s lots of ice cream up there
Sadly I don’t think there is, there’s only One Beer.....
@@inthedream9127 and rappers screaming in his ears like he’s deaf 😔
It least they got Doritos Cheetos and Fritos
They probably have some delicious rap snitch knishes tho
And don’t forget about the Hoe Cakes too
1:09 DOOM rhymes literally everything
One unhighlighted word from this to 1:30
ONE word doesn't rhyme in 20 SECONDS
Takato Takasui not even one word its one syllable bruh! 🥵🥵
Remember All Caps when you spell the man's name
That is the work of a genius its called holorhymes very few have ever used holorhymes in their music
It’s DOOM mate, have no clue how so many people get it wrong...
I remember cwalking to this song in 2013
RIP MF DOOM!
I lmfao’d but fr RIP to the legend.
Changed hip hop forever
You not allowed to be c walkin
NYC Empire and a 69 fanboy is? Nice one g
@@basedmod2139 😐 fuck is you even talkin about
NYC Empire I seen ur channel homie don’t front
* to editor * "Hey so this weeks vid is another MF DOOM song."
Editor * cancels all plans for the week *
This songs beat is by far my favorite instrumental from any song ever made, Madlib killed it. As a whole this song is arguably my favorite song ever. The beat is beyond amazing and the verse is a DOOM verse, so it's also beyond amazing.
Idk man, the beat was kinda annoying to me. But hey, if you like it good for you. Doom on the other hand....was fire
@@splash8594 dont see the annoyingness
@@butcracjack idk how to describe it, maybe it was just the pitch combination of the high hats and the other stuff that just sounded off to me
Zaydan Aziz I like the beat but some people don’t like that constant beeping in the background.
@@splash8594 we need more people like you on the internet. You disagree with me about the beat yet you arent toxic about it. Be more like Zaydan.
Literally never heard about this guy until after his passing. Dude was a legend, as I'm now finding out
R.I.P to one of the greats. One of the greatest writers hip hop will ever know. Fly high Doom ✊🏻🕊
dont know why all rappers need to rap about guns and shit tho, kinda lame like its 2020.. then they get mad when ppl suspect them of having a gun
@@harambe1331 it's just a front bro, at the end of the day they are doing whatever it takes to earn some dough
@@JoseSilva-ht8es thats cool w me everyone earning a living but the dishonesty bugs me i guess. to each their own but id still give a listen even if youre not flexing a gun or your bullets
@@harambe1331 what does this have to do with him dying 😂
@@harambe1331 that sounds like an anti American opinion hating on guns
Returning to this video with a heavy heart, thank you from the bottom of my heart MF DOOM
the ending where the beat keeps playing after he finished rhyming is so badass, like you just witnessed something incredible and your head couldn't process it
It makes me sad that there’s so much Madvillain shit that just isn’t released. They did so much together, and I need to hear it.
Wait there's songs they didn't release
St0rmFlake. Literally says “not enough tracks” on this song in reference to how they left loads out of the album
Oh really? What a pity
@@maurirodriguez8753 Madlib likes to tease with the fans. According to him we literally could potentially have a Madvilliany 2 worth of unreleased materials.
@@RapeNetanyahu omg 🤦🏻♂️ that would be awesome I can't imagine it
I think there’s a genuinely good case for this being not only the best song off madvillainy but probably the best mf doom song ever or at least his best rapping ever. It’s him doing what he does best but at its most focused and his rhyming towards the middle is untouchable.
“They’ve bit but don’t know their neck shine from Shinola
Everything that glitters ain’t fishscale”
DOOM is saying other rappers are like fish that have taken the bait (hook) and now it’s piercing their neck but they don’t even know it. Because the hook glitters underwater, like DOOM himself. And so does jewelry, or Shinola, or fishscales.
I love how the line can also simply be interpreted that other rappers don't know their own shit or the chain on their neck from fake shine like shinola. Just because it glitters doesn't mean its quality fishscale.
Fishscale is also slang for quality cocaine because it sort of glitters. So it connects to that as well.
Also, fishscale is a version of cocaine that looks glittery.
Lol yea right
There’s a mention to Ghostface in that bar. He mentions a ton of MC’s through this whole track.
I’ve been trying to make people aware to it. Always going unnoticed. Song has a completely different meaning than face value.
He’s dropping a timeline of the art form here. The artists. The songs. Samples used. Their affect on the culture at the time, and the commercialization of it. It’s a subliminal shot. The entire thing. Good or bad.
He mentions cats from Ghost, Jay, Nas, to Eminem. The list goes on. There’s more here than I can figure myself, that someone else with a different background can pickup on.
This track is beyond fucking genius, and no one’s caught it. DOOM lays it the fuck out here, from his perspective. Hip-Hop. He’s covering it…
There’s even specific tracks that are mentioned. Stuff he’s found influence in, or his opinion on what it’s done for the art form at the time. It’s all there. Track is stupid fucking good.
Please, someone listen and hear it…
This is what makes DOOM so unique there’s a rhyme within a rhyme when he spits he doesn’t follow the universal hip hop pattern of saying one line that rhymes and then saying another. He try’s to fit in as many same sounding words// syllables in the span of two to four bars
That "universal hip hop pattern" isn't universal. Its easy and often lazy. lets artists focus on vibe and production over rapping skill. But thankfully almost all modern rappers are capable of going further than that. The ones that couldnt have already been forgotten.
Imagine trying to remember this to perform
that's what I was thinking about as well. He has A LOT of tracks with these complex lyricial schemes. How the fuck do you remember all of that to deliver on stage? Maybe that's why he never really performed live...
Ozarkii crazy right lol
I admit, as a silly college student, this very song was one I preformed on the open mic. All the students loved the finishing line of only letting him stick the head in XD
Just keep practicing and you will remember it. Great thing about music is how it helps aid in memory. The way MF Doom does some of his flows, despite how unorthodox it is, helps in just remembering how it sounds, and then you keep hearing the song over and over and you just get it. Now I can rap this entire song easily XD
Hill Smith interesting stuff
Thanks for sharing
I myself am trying to get into rapping and memory is one of my flaws but I will persist thanks again for your story
@@Mlj247 repetition is key
DOOM's utterly relentless rhyme scheme during certain parts of this masterpiece and many other songs is beyond amazing. How the man ever managed to fit so many pop culture references, double entendre's, metaphors, jokes, alliteration, and comically braggadocious lyrics in with so many surgically timed, crafted and spoken rhymes will forever be an enigma to me. He was and still is truly in a league of his own when it comes to his lyrical virtuosity.
Imagine if MF DOOM was fluent in Italian
EDIT: I imagine this because lots of words rhyme in Italian
(also capitalized MF DOOM)
We really have plenty of lyricists in Italy but fuck yeah I'd pay to have MF DOOM rap in Italian
I'd genuinely cum in my pants
Shit he probably is. This guy is the Chuck Norris of Rap. He probably taught the Italians Italian
MF DOOM* remember all caps when you spell his name
@@willjenkins8084 why u a bitch?
@@KaySwiss420 bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh
Rip DOOM the goat. Live alone, die alone no matter who your man's is, just try to live long enough to tell it to your grandkids
R.I.P professor.. the rap community are gonna miss your classes and magic
1:01 The "ters" in "masters" could also be highlighted in pink. Lyrical insanity.
and "mas" in yellow, if "ma'am" counts right after.
And the ‘for’ is pronounced (in the context of the song and DOOMs accent) “her fur her masters”
yess
I don't know if we will ever see another talent like this. Ever. rip MF DOOM
I am in the same age as MF DOOM, so have been fortunate to listen to many lyricist, No one will ever approach this gifted individual, There was a mad quirkiness but tamed and nurtured into a visionary.
I like how he inspired Earl, and I guess that's the closest we can get to him. Anyways RIP MF DOOM
Elzhi is an honorable mention. They don't have the same cadence at all, but they are both masters with schemes and patterns.
That subtle pause after “let me think” and the beat skipping when he says “skip” at the end just shows incredible attention to detail and just a mastery of the craft.
Wow, I never noticed that! Absolutely incredible!
“Off pride tykes talk wide through scar meat. Off sides like how Worf rides with starfleet” your favourite rapper rhymes words, my favourite rhymes lines.
“Off sides like how worf ride with starfleet”
Jesus Christ
Star Trek fans felt that one
😂
So goddam good.
I cried out laughing the first time I heard that, couldn't really believe it but apparently DOOM's a Trek fan.
@@alex_inside hes known to be a really big nerd
this is one of the greatest rap songs of all time. no gimmicky chorus just straight fire for 2 minutes
Real, just straight bars
When you highlight important points in a document and turns out every word is important.
"Offsides like how Warf rides with Starfleet" is perhaps my alltime favorite line from MF DOOM
What does it mean?
@@exaucemayunga22 if you want my Rap Genius deeper breakdown my guess is, not to be afraid to do whatever it is you want to do even if ppl talk crazy about you for it. As far as my basic appreciation of the line, It's a Star Trek reference. Worf was the only klingon * blood thirsty uptight alien race* aboard the Starship Enterprise..god i hated that show
"Make a hick say "what the hey?" brought that chick from sick bay
Ensign, he shoulda asked his upperclassmen
Before he bust blast em, never trust no Cardassians
Captain's log supplemental
The Klingons are now aboard the Enterprise rental vessal
On my cue photon torpedo"
~VIC
The greatest to ever lift a mic. I will carry MF DOOM in my heart and soul forever. God Bless Daniel Dumile.
CEO of rhymes
I'm a Kendrick guy but this dude rhyme is next level
Agreed, I love Kendrick but DOOMS pen game and lyricism is just next level, RIP 🐐
The first verse of Kendrick Lamar - Momma
Will come out on Thursday. Stay tuned 👍🏾
Edit: It's out now!
@@Highlighted ay my man
Underrated song
Damn wtf. I’ve legit been sleeping on this dude. Man is straight hot flames!! 🔥🔥🔥
Welcome to the real Rap game.
Vaevictus dude he’s so lyrical af!. Listening to his has made me look rap so much different. He makes me wanna learn rap lol.
It's a deep rabbit hole, bruh. Gazillion Ear, Monkey Suite, the entire Adult Swim album... For real tho, there's a lot of DOOM for you to catch up on out there and it's almost always amazing.
Karlton Little bruh listening to Doom just rap is like 🤯. Makes me wanna learn how to rap lol. Dude was born a genius. He’s so slept on. & most don’t understand his flow or anything & I feel like I do . I like it.
@@unkwxnx I cant take people who denigrate hip hop as a whole because of what they heard on the radio or at a party. When language is your instrument anything is possible.
MF DOOM is in my opinion the best lyricist of all time. Not only the way he manages to rhyme literally every word that comes out of his mouth, a lot of the stuff he says has much more depth than most rappers, like "Everything that glitters aint fish scale, lemme think dot let her faint get Ishmael," because no one else except MF would come up with a bar that complicated. This guy reminds us that rap music is a form of poetry.
“You got blue sandals”
I felt that 😭
People wear sandals when the ground is too hot to walk on with bare feet.
The blue sandals may allude to the expression of “cold feet”. Usually, blue is used as a color of anxiety or “cold” emotions. So by DOOM saying “you have ‘blue sandals’” He could mean either:
You are literally trying to cool off. (its too hot to handle)
You are too cowardly to stand, or accost the heat the Villain is bringing. This wearing “blue” sandals.
0:15 he actually says "don't know *they* neck shine" so it rhymes with the *ain't* and the *faint* in the same spot in the next couple bars
Man, I always regret the fact that I wasn’t born in USA and English is not my main language. So even if I try really hard I usually get only the 5 or 10% of the lyrical content of any rap songs and this is driving me crazy! Holy respect for MF DOOM, he’s a great rapper, a great lyricist!
You can rap in your own language!
@@noahyudkin5458I know, but it's not as nice as with English(I’m from Italy), you see, you can easily distort English words, you can bend them, you can twist them, you can change their pronunciation and accent so that you can change the whole rhyming system, and all of this is possible only with English.
@@markdragon9395 I'm also Italian but English is basically my first language at this point but there is so much complexity and references in DOOM's music that it's like the final boss of English. Truly incredible work.
For what it's worth, DOOM is so complex that even as a native English speaker I have to listen multiple times before I even feel close to real comprehension. By the time you've figured out what he's saying, he's already two lines ahead of you. So don't judge yourself for not keeping up with DOOM - no one else can either
As an american, i can barely understand what MF DOOM is saying half the time but hes still hard 🔥
the unhighlighted words are just there to give your brain a break
Here after learning that DOOM passed away. Legend, rest in rhymes!
DOOM SINGS SOPRANO LIKE 'UNA DUOCIANO'
RIP DOOM, BEST MF'ing Supervillain to ever exist.
To this day the, "OFF PRIDE TYKES TALK WIDE THROUGH SCAR MEAT, OFFSIDES LIKE HOW WARF RIDES WITH STARFLEET" is one of the hardest bars I've ever heard
MFDOOM IS THE GOAT OF LINGUISTICS BY MANY ORDERS OF MAGNATUDE. HE WILL SHARPEN YOUR VOCABULARY AS A GROWN ADULT STUDENT OF HIP HOP. LONG LIVE THE METALFACE SUPER VILLIAN.
I swear I started crying just because no one will ever be better than this man.
many artists are
@@inutero3516 yeah but like only 4
@@furrychiefkeef2454 depends really, lyrically he is pretty good i'll give you that, but flow and just overall complexity he's relatively mediocre. His flow sounds like your average rapper with his complexity being insanely low as he barely uses any entendres. Overall hes maybe top 90% but theres countless other rappers who could outperform him in most categories
@@inutero3516 yeah but i mean discography wise theres only 4 rappers who are better
Respectfully, DOOM has 3 classics
His flow is so unique n odd. Even in his kmd days,he's always had an interesting flow. Not like any other.
One of, if not the most impressive showcase of lyricism, flow switching and rap performance ever
It’s genuinely too good for me to comprehend right now. I’m too fkn stoned and all I can do it sit in actual awe watching these colours and hearing his pure talent dripping off every line.
RIP one of the greatest to ever do it
RIP too the best MC with no chain we ever heard
Ngl, I never heard his music so I thought I'll give him a listen now that he has left us. RIP MF DOOM🕊
If MF DOOM is not in your top 5 then I don't know what to tell you
RIP an absolute legend.
this was my introduction to MF DOOM. Thank you
"The rest is empty with no brain"= 98% of rappers who are not wordsmiths on DOOM's level
"but the clever nerd, The best emcee with no chain you ever heard"= A majority of the rappers who are popular are materialistic, but have 0 bars compared to DOOM who in the first bar drops a punchline (Best emcee with no chain you ever heard), while rhyming the beginning of the bars (The rest is empty+the best emcee) with the ending of the bars (clever nerd+ever heard) and the middle parts together (no brain+no chain). That's just bar 1.
And that was also an easy bar to clock one of the worst bars to choose from for lyrical ability
He's OK. His music gets boring to listen. Lyrically. He's great but Nas is better
@Гошо Филмара Also "the best MC with no chain you ever heard" is a double entendre as in gold chain and a slave chain (implying that most rappers are slaves to their record labels)
@Гошо Филмара oh ye sry, actually I thought what u said was pretty good so I wanted to quote ur comment in dc, however bc I was on my phone I had to do it this weird way to copy it :)
edit: i made sure to tell the people I quoted this to it was a quote of a yt comment, sry wasnt trying to offend you in any ways
@@sobiap3786 bruh that's straight up blasphemy
I've heard this song many times. This is the first time it made me cry. RIP MF DOOM
no one is talking about how crazy "Off pride tykes talk wide through scar meat, Offsides like how Worf ride with Starfleet" really is
One thing I notice is how for other artists you reuse the most rhyme heavy parts as the thumbnail but DOOM can rhyme entire verses so you don't reuse anything for the thumbnail
There are entire consecutive lines that rhyme. That's incredibly impressive
WOOOOOOOW that was talent holy shit. Never heard of him till now and floored me
To the peeps saying none of this makes sense, I say they’re just so over your head you’re drowning.
it makes sense its just so fucking dense its really hard to wrap my head around
Damn right, those idiots don't get the genius behind 'colder than a witch tit'. Maybe they need blue sandals since it's too hot too handle
The Shakespeare of rap. Future kids will study DOOM at school.
Such and eerie track...
Some of the best DOOM rhymes paired with some creepy production by Madlib. Definitely one of his best songs.
RIP ILLEST VILLAIN
RIP this dude, he was truly something else
Rest in power to the best emcee with no chains you've never heard .
Once in a generation talent! His combo of rapping style and use of samples is untouchable!
I fear I will never see another artist like DOOM in my lifetime. He was truly a one-of-a-kind
MF DOOM to this very day is nearly incomparable to ANY emcee. I’ve heard him on tracks with some of the best and his style, his CONTENT, his SKILL outlasts others and makes them look like ROOKIES. Crazy thing is, he’s not even disrespectful or dissiny A hypothetical opposer he is simply being A master at what he does and FEW can sound good on the same track as him. That’s what being A TRUE master is like. Time passes and we are still absolutely ASTONISHED at the level he was on. We knew he was great, but we never truly understood how great of A level he was at. Crazy thing is, he sounds at ease. Just imagine if he were in the state of mind to prove himself….he’s been proved himself…his standard is just beyond what we think is “serious”. Mf doom is one of my favorite emcees ever for so many reasons, but some of my favorite amongst many features are his everlasting style, his wittiness and trickery, his strong level of skill, his storytelling, the captivity of his rhymes, patterns, and subjects, his ability to hold up with other styles we thought were powerful, etc…, not to mention the NUMBER of times he rhymes, his level-headed vocals, he always seems like he never loses control of his emotions on his tracks. Knows just what he’s gonna say. Never sounds like he makes even the smallest of mistakes- i can compliment this dude all day and that’s what i mean- we didn’t truly appreciate what level of master he was and of course some of us did, but we still learn as the years pass because he didn’t just give one or two things. He offered us the future and for that, I am greatful. I can always learn A thing or two from mf doom no matter who i think is great, mf doom has it covered in almost EVERY category there is.
It's a shame that nobody ever dissed him. The reason is pretty obvious tho
Bro DOOM also already so incomparable with all hiphop artists in the whole history ❤
Smooth as melting butter
Before i said this was my favorite beat of all time but now this is tied for my favorite song of all time with rhymes like dimes. Both are so incredible.
With the word Figaro, he completes 3 rhyme schemes. DOOM is truly legendary.
1:26 "Not supposed to overdose No-Doz pills" woah
Absolute legend
“I like ice cream”
- MF DOOM
God level mc. Rest in Power.
I always got so into DOOM’s music as a whole vibe, sometimes I need to see the lyrics and how intricately crazy they were, because I would just smoke and Bob my head and loved DOOM’s voice and style, but when you see it laid out in front of you.. pure art. RIP villain
It's all about that super unconventional flow that people don't understand this is another factor that makes this track actually insane, it's easy to go ABAB
0:20 I’m in a rap song
this man is the goat
I don't even know what this was about, but the rhyming was just out of control.
Well it's not really about anything, the lyrics are nonsense, that's part of how he's able to make the rhymes so great. (The other part is that he's still seriously talented.)
@@snapgab Well, it doesn't really have substance, but that doesn't mean he's just saying random words that rhyme they do have meaning.
@@Skooters a lot of this doesn't have meaning
@@justinmontalvo2819 do you speak English bro?
@@Skooters so you actually understand this?
MF DOOM is proof that to be an actual rapper you can't just have a backstory of being introduced to gang violence and a really talented producer. This guy is a MASTERMIND in the English language.
ALL CAPS WHEN YOU SPELL THE MANS NAME
@@travisroe9261 ALL CAPS
this channel is how i found a lot of my favorite songs and rappers, thanks bro:)
Rest In Peace to the best emcee with no chain you ever heard... the King, the GUV’NOR, one of the greats. One day in my future I want to travel to eyjafjallajökull the volcano in Iceland to pay tribute to this man and one of the best lines he ever wrote 🤟🤟
the best emcee with no chain ya ever heard