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MF Doom

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Q&A: Joey Bada$$ On Singing Biggie At Two, Tumblr Stalkers, And Finishing High School

    Joey Bada$$ is perched over a Pac-Man tabletop arcade machine at a neighborhood bar in Flatbush. With a glass of Sprite resting on the video game's screen, he confesses that he's never played Pac-Man before, gives a laugh, and says, "I probably suck at this." Bada$$'s lack of experience at early-'8 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2012

    Hip-Hop's Top Ten Aretha Franklin Samples

    ​Rap royalty loves the Queen of Soul. Or, at least, some very prestigious hip-hop types have found the intimate grooves of Aretha Franklin's discography to be fine and fertile fodder for their sampling kicks. So with Franklin preparing to warble her way through a couple of back-to-back shows a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    Blue Note Records' Ten Best Sample Sources

    Blue Note's cover art: Also an inspiration. (Original on the left, homage on the right.)​Hip-hop artists have never been shy about sampling songs from the vaults of the Blue Note jazz label, and few have pilfered with as much creativity and gusto as A Tribe Called Quest's one-time de facto lea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2011

    Five Great Records On Fondle 'Em That Aren't By MF Doom

    ​This week, Metalface Records reissues MF Doom's Operation Doomsday (in a lunchbox, for some reason) and that seems like a good excuse to look back on the label that first released the project--Fondle 'Em. While Rawkus, through its feats of star-making and self-mythologizing, now stands as the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    Curren$y And The Alchemist Get Chilly On "Covert Coup"

    ​The New Orleans-based Curren$y is a weed rapper, which means his job is to make something usually associated with directionless demotivation seem badass. The art of weed rapping is the art of bragging about surpassing low expectations, and there are a couple ways to do this: the current big m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    Hip-Hop's Top Ten Greatest Sneaker Songs

    Kid Cudi, going all out for Converse.​Sneakers have long been hip-hop's footwear of choice. The links between the artists making the music and the companies behind the kicks are now totally intermingled, from top-end exclusive lines like Jay-Z's limited-to-five-pairs all-black Air Force 1s (de ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    The 10 Greatest Rap Songs About Video Games

    ​Def Jam Rapstar is the latest attempt to merge the worlds of hip-hop and video games. In the past, this has involved shoehorning playable rapper characters into cliched genres -- a Wu-Tang Clan beat-'em-up! 50 Cent's first-person shooter! -- or rappers licensing a few throwaway songs to the l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2010

    The Top Ten Rap Supergroups That Never Happened

    Over the weekend, the rapper Sean Price took to Twitter to propose a collaboration album between his own Brooklyn-based Boot Camp Clik hip-hop crew and Staten Island's mighty Wu-Tang Clan. The idea has been received rapturously. But then again, theoretical hip-hop supergroups usually are. Rap's hi ... More >>

  • Music

    January 19, 2010

    Michael Jackson and Hip-Hop

    Guess which one of those things didn't die this year

  • Music

    January 5, 2010

    MC Paul Barman Perseveres

    Reintroducing the lewdest, brainiest, unlikeliest white rapper of them all

  • Blogs

    January 4, 2010

    The New York City Record Store Year-End Roundup

    ​In 2009, we began the weekly Local Top 10, a series we hoped would prove that New Yorkers were far too stubborn to let the record store go. The series ran until last month, when we literally ran out of stores to cover--not the best sign for the future of music retailing in New York City. Befo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Thanksgiving Playlist 2009: 100-Plus Songs Better Than Your Grandma's Lumpy Squash

    Two years ago, William Bowers compiled this playlist. Any further additions? This holiday's abstract mandate can be sorta barren for us patriotically-challenged atheist vegetarians who maintain cosmic equidistance from our bloodkin. The term for it is even weird: "Thanksgiving" is a syntactical c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2009

    This Week in the Voice

    The American military presence in Afghanistan costs about $16 billion a month. What are we getting for the money? "Afghaniscrewed: How I Spent My Fall Vacation" by P.J. Tobia. When Alan Hevesi was the city's, then the state's comptroller, Jack Chartier and Hank Morris were his "two loyal gatekeepe ... More >>

  • Music

    March 25, 2009

    DOOM Laughs Last

    Rap's biggest enigma is back with more off-color jokes and apocalypse theories

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2008

    A Thanksgiving Playlist

    Rap's biggest enigma is back with more off-color jokes and apocalypse theories

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2008

    The Week of Obama Odes. Plus, Kool Keith, Still Batshit and Pervy

    Rap's biggest enigma is back with more off-color jokes and apocalypse theories

  • Music

    October 15, 2008

    Murs Hits the Big Time, If 'the Big Time' Even Exists

    Rap's biggest enigma is back with more off-color jokes and apocalypse theories

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2007

    Provincializm #16: Thank-Rock Playlist

    Rap's biggest enigma is back with more off-color jokes and apocalypse theories

  • Music

    August 28, 2007

    From Madvillain to Milli Vanilli

    Angry fans allege that mysterious rapper MF Doom won't even play his own shows anymore

  • Music

    December 12, 2006

    Ghost's Second Kilo From 2006 Cut With Filler, But Pure Enough

    Angry fans allege that mysterious rapper MF Doom won't even play his own shows anymore

  • News

    November 7, 2006

    Reader: Sex, Sure, But Where Is the Love?

    Angry fans allege that mysterious rapper MF Doom won't even play his own shows anymore

  • Music

    October 31, 2006

    Private Enemy

    Two New York rappers dreamed of stardom. MF Doom got it. MF Grimm didn't.

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2006

    A Conversation Between Just Blaze and Alchemist

    Two New York rappers dreamed of stardom. MF Doom got it. MF Grimm didn't.

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2006

    Rakim Vs. Big Daddy Kane

    Two New York rappers dreamed of stardom. MF Doom got it. MF Grimm didn't.

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2006

    MF Doom: Worst Rapper Ever?

    Two New York rappers dreamed of stardom. MF Doom got it. MF Grimm didn't.

  • pazzandjop

    January 24, 2006

    Listening in Real Time

    Eclectic neoclassicism versus childhood-oriented avant-primitivism as global warming swamps our history

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2005

    Pitchfork's Year-End List Vs. Haters

    Eclectic neoclassicism versus childhood-oriented avant-primitivism as global warming swamps our history

  • Music

    August 9, 2005

    Gypsy Part of Town

    Come savor the beaty delights of European multiculturalism, Arabski kjuchek included

  • Music

    January 25, 2005

    Harmonies and Abysses

    Across the sky sheet the impossible birds in a steady illiterate movement homewards

  • Music

    December 28, 2004

    Music

    Across the sky sheet the impossible birds in a steady illiterate movement homewards

  • Music

    November 9, 2004

    Diphthong Songs

    Rap's James Thurber welcomes you to his world once more

  • Music

    March 23, 2004

    Disguised Rappers Fight Crimes of Hip-Hop Normality

    Rap's James Thurber welcomes you to his world once more

  • NYC Life

    November 4, 2003

    Listings

    Rap's James Thurber welcomes you to his world once more

  • Music

    September 2, 2003

    It Was Rewritten

    Nas-postles Remix and Retool the Prodigal Son of Hip-Hop

  • Music

    October 29, 2002

    CMJ Musicfest 2002

    Nas-postles Remix and Retool the Prodigal Son of Hip-Hop

  • Music

    July 9, 2002

    Tigers in a Spotlight

    Nas-postles Remix and Retool the Prodigal Son of Hip-Hop

  • Music

    September 11, 2001

    Sound Checks

    Your Choices Guide to Four Nights of CMJ Music

  • Music

    August 7, 2001

    The Nerd Behind the Mask

    Your Choices Guide to Four Nights of CMJ Music

  • Music

    July 31, 2001

    Rock 'n' Rai

    Your Choices Guide to Four Nights of CMJ Music

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