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RIP to the SUPERVILLAIN 🙏🏼

So in the late 80's to early 90's, MF DOOM, was part of a rap group named KMD. Which consisted of him and his brother (there was a third guy but he dipped before they signed), unfortunately his brother died in a car crash just as they were about to get big. This was of course a huge hit to DOOM, but even worse was that nobody in the industry, at least not labels and such, dared to sign DOOM after that accident. He basically felt betrayed by the music industry and took a hiatus from music, until he started showing up at small venues freestyling in his mask. He chose this mask and the villain persona as a reference to Dr. Doom from The Fantastic Four, due to Dr. Doom having a similar backstory where he was on the expedition with the F4 that gave them powers. As far as I remember Dr. Doom felt he was betrayed by F4 and the company they worked at that time, which made him become a villain. So yeah, Metal Face was very intentional and has a tragic backstory to it, I urge you to study up on it, as I am writing this from memory and I could have gotten some things messed up.

MF stands for both Metal Fingers and Metal Face. He uses Metal fingers when he is producing songs as such on the special herbs pack. He uses Metal Face when he is Rapping on albums such as MM... Food or Madvillany.

"He wears a mask just to cover the raw flesh". Originally DOOM was in a hip hop group KMD with his brother in the 90s, but his brother died in a traffic accident and DOOM had many dark years in NYC being homeless. He arose from that as MF DOOM, wearing a mask to cover his face after going through so much trauma. I think another purpose was he thought hip hop was becoming too materialistic and so the mask represents how it doesn't matter what he looks like as long as the musics good.

20:40 - Forgot to mention on "Bistro" that DOOM also mentioned Madlib's aliases Yesterday's New Quintet & Quasimoto 57:22 - Wildchild was a co-member of Madlib's group from his early years Lootpack, Madlib did most of his rapping apart from Quasimodo in that group 1:09:59 - Madlib was producing this song as YNQ, which is mainly Madlib playing as 5 jazz artists that covered "How Can You Believe" by Stevie Wonder HAPPY BIRTHDAY RON🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Amazing to see how father and son enjoy this album at the same time. this shit is timeless (If it's classic, it's gon' last forever then)

You guys gotta do Black Star or Black On Both Sides pretty soon. Masterful and timeless hip-hop on those.

“This bass is so massive” me listening on my phone😭😭😭

DOOM being born in England was basically an accident his mother was visiting family there when she had him, because he was born in England he got automatic English citizenship and he never bothered to get US citizenship which would eventually come back to haunt him as he would eventually be denied entry to the USA and be forced to live in England, he is in reality from NYC he had absolutely no memory of his time in England so was completely influenced by growing up in NYC The MF DOOM persona comes from his experience as part of kmd and his love of comics, in the late 80's early 90's DOOM was a part of kmd with his brother sub rock and another guy, they had a fairly successful first album getting played on mtv and selling decent numbers, while making their second album sub rock was killed in an accident crossing a road shortly after their record lable dropped them feeling like their second album was too controversial this caused DOOM to have a major dislike of major labels combine that with a love for comic books and you get MF DOOM the supervillian here to destroy the rap game DOOM'S career started before wu tang formed i belive the earliest appearance of DOOM was in 1989 back then know as zev love x he was featured on the 3rd bass song the gas face, if you wanna see a super young maskless DOOM give the video for the song a watch it's on KZfaq pretty good song too

All the names DOOM mentions on Bistro are alter egos of him and Madlib (other than the two cats at the laundromat) Fancy Clown is brilliant because it’s featuring Viktor Vaughn, which is the alter ego of DOOM that’s his younger self, and Viktor is rhyming about his girl being with some “fancy clown” that wears a mask all day - himself as DOOM in the future.

Sun Ra is one of the greatest jazz pianist and a philosopher known for his unique style

I love hearing your pops take on DOOMS music because he sheds some light on context in the song I’ve missed in the past. Been a DOOM fan for over 7-8 years and I still learn and catch new stuff.

A few things…. 1.) Happy belated birthday. 2.) instant sub. 😎 3.) I dig your pops insights. I’ve listened to this album hundreds of times always trying to find something new. But the point your pops made about not focusing too much on the lyrics but listen to the beats and the individual parts, wow 🤯 Good shit bruv.

MF Doom is Zev Love X from the group KMD. He was first featured on 3rd Bass' Gas Face back in 1989. So technically he was out as a rapper before Wu Tang.

Aye happy birthday Rod! this is absolutely one of my personal favorite records, glad to see your dad enjoying it.

The pure joy on your dad's face after money holder is priceless

bro its so fire how ur dad fill in the lines when its some deep cut ass reference from his child hood thats so dope and special bro keep it up w yall i fw it

The wildest thing about the crazy surgical sampling is that Madlib made most of these beats with just a kids Fisher Price toy record player and an MPC

Your dad a real one for saying hardcore hustle was too short, that's gotta be one of my favorite tracks that I wish was longer

Happy Birthday Rod, hope you have a wonderful and fruitful year ahead, great reaction!

I'm pretty sure DOOM was always his nickname. Comes from Dumile. Pronounced "Doo-mih-lay" if that makes any sense. But yeah, the mask came first I think. It was part of his persona. The super villain coming for revenge on the industry that dropped him when his brother got killed. He's coming with bars to murder these weak emcees too. He's just a villain with a metal mask. So it made sense to add Metal Face to DOOM. Then shorten it to MF DOOM for the play on words.

He became MFDOOM after his brother died. Just like Doom from the comics the mask came to be a much more ell known and "darker" version of the man that once was

This is my favorite album. Thanks and happy birthday bro.

You mofos had me tweakin thinking my headset was broken but you guys just had some audio issues hahaha

DOOM and Madlib are so dope.... and I like pops idea of a hero answer to this maybe Nas and Hitboy makes an album called the greatest hero

Hope you have a wonderful birthday and enjoy good times with your father and family! All love man❤️ would LOVE to see y’all react to some Clipse albums!🔥

I'm here for this. Rest in Beats DOOM

love the channel love how you can listen toball these classics with a cool ass dad

One of my favorite albums of all-time, rip to the VILLIAN, also Happy Birthday

i just want to say that i am so happy that you guys finally reacted to this🙏

The old dude is right. DOOM has mad flow but it distracts you from the song itself. You either pay attention to the beat, or DOOM. After a listen or two you get the whole experience. That is why DOOM is so good. He really makes you listen to the music. He wants you to recognize the samples and be like "AYY I LOVED THAT SHIT FROM BACK THEN". DOOM was apparently an old head and didn't really enjoy rap music. He just used it as a means to make money. Yet you can tell there is a passion behind his work. A true artist. Fuck why is he gone..

I just came to hear accordion one more time. Timeless.

Happy Birthday Rod, great video as always. 🎉🔥💯

happy birthday bro!! best of wishes for you and your pops

this the type of music i like to skate to or work on homework with its just some good music to put me in a mood. also feels like i could be transported into this record with its very cool sounds

happy birthday! been waiting for this one phenomenal album

MAD LOVE FOR YALL!!! I Never understood the joe tex til now

happy birthday brotha, love your content!

Much Love to the BTG Fam. HBD!

One of my fav reactions to MadVillain. Happy Birthday

the illest been waiting for this one 🔥

After hearing how DOOM died, I'm sad. They didn't attend to him and he died. He was sick, yes, but it could've been easily avoided if they did routine checks as per usual. They also didn't come when he rang. So bad. Some hospital in Leeds, UK I think. Why not London? Thought he was here. Sucks man. Hated how the US never allowed him back in.

HAPPY BDAY BRO!! Great video as always 🎉❤

I love this channel coz it expains everything SO WELL

The laundromat was in the song bistro because DOOM lost a bet with someone and he had to put a few words in a song somewhere on the album. It ended up being the word laundromat. There is more to this but this is what i remember.

OMG, i’ve been waiting for this one!

My favorite album of all time :) thanks for the reaction!!

Apologies if I’m late but happy bday Rod! Hope it was a good one man thanks for the content as always, be safe y’all :)

I just now seen this but ayy thanks for doing the react/listen bro, and happy late birthday 💯

Wildchild was in a group with Madlib called Lootpack in the late 90s, along with DJ Romes. They have one creative dope album called DA soundpeices I think. MED's solo work is great as well. He had a album with all Madlib production called Bad Neighbor in 2015, which featured Doom. His first album had just blaze, Madlib, and J Dilla production. Worth checking out.

Love this one, keep up the good work and happy birthday ! 🎉

love this album, its amazing how fast your dad can analyze the music. took me many listens to do it 😅

IVE BEEN WAITING SO LONG FOR THIS

mf=metal face while rapping and metal fingers while producing

Love this whole channel my boy

Happy bday Rod

Happy bday man love your vids

love your vids fellas keep up the good work

DOOM did not do the theme song for the boondocks that was asheru, but he did have multiple songs featured in different episodes

"he could probably make a whole instrumental album" madlib was the main producer and made a (basically) fully instrumental album entirely of jazz. Its noice.

You gotta let the opening verses play bro 🤣 I was waiting for that “hold a cold one like he hold an old gun” on rhinestone 🔥

DANGERMOUSE - CHEAT CODES Is such an incredible production. Highly suggested. Just such an important collaboration. I feel like it's essential to Hip Hop.

Yeeees, been waiting for this

oh yuh make sure to tell ur dad to pay attention to the beat

This one of if not my fav channel

Happy bday dawg

HAPPY BIRTHDAAAAY RAAAAAAAAAH, hope you ate good food and listend to sum bangers with your dad (also congrats on the sponsor lol)

Happy birthday my man , yall to cute with the gift part haha

HBD Rod!

You two are perfect for reaction videos! Y'all seem like wicked good dudes. I've subbed after discovering your channel via this video, and I'll be watching your 'MM.. FOOD' review as well (my fave DOOM album)! EDIT- Happy Belated Birthday, dude!

I love this so much!

Can’t wait for this

liked watching this reaciton a lot! keep it up

Just a big thanks to Madlib for bringing us another album posthumously with DOOM! Can’t wait

Frank Zappa testified before the PRMC Senate in protest of censorship in music back in like the 70s or something. My dad loved him so I heard a lot of his shit growing up, your dad should def check him out! Edit: it was in 1985 lol

FINALLY!!! Thank you!

been waiting im hyped up

Had to like for the born day not like I wasnt gonna enjoy your dad thoughts on the mad villain himself and end up liking anyways all the love man💯🙏🏽

Rodeo soon ?

Was waiting for this to drop and low and behold the holy grail also RIP to the Mad Villain!

Happy Birthday!!!!!

Absolutely love this album meatgrinder is one to unpack

doom is also a marvel character in which the opening of operation doomsday is from a doom scene from the old marvel tv show

Top 5 album of all time

Love the villain!! When are we getting Aquemini? Good stuff as always.

That was nice video didn’t really listen to the full album and I really enjoyed watch y’all react to it. Y’all should react to alchemist albums for sure❤

"sleeping in a jar? whats that referring to?" Zappa fans been asking that question for 50+ years

Gotta do Operation:Doomsday after this one 🙏

Aye yall from 49 min onwards the audio got messed up just so yall are aware!

never heard this but its friggin amazing

happy late birthday sounds like your dad really likes doom and madlib. He also might like pinata by freddie gibs and madlib

happy birthday dawg!

Fun fact we almost got an album from the super group madvillanz (with a Z) the members of this super group consisting mf doom,madlib,Kanye west (the Z comes from yeezy) . Kanye was in another super group called child rebel soldier which was Kanye lupe fiasco and Pharrell

the reaction to the "take no like Kobe" line is so funny lmao

Happy late birthday Bro!! 🔥🐐

MF was definitely intentional. He literally did wordplay as a job.

happy bday cuh

Dope reaction, just had some audio issues from Operation Lifesaver and onwards.

my all time fav album