I remember the first time I heard M.F. DOOM…I was listening to this track titled “Dead Bent” off of the Farewell Fondle ‘Em compilation (Released by Bobbito through Definitive Jux Records, October 30, 2001).
I was just riding chilling and enjoying another ridiculously tight definitive jux compilation (prior to this they had dropped the Definitive Jux presents volume 1 compilation which served as my introduction to a host of acts like Cannibal Ox, Aesop Rock, Mr. Lif, Copywrite, Ill Bill, RJD2, MHZ, Copywrite, etc. etc…they just don’t make rosters like they used to…then again Duck Down is doing a damn fine job of bringing focus back to the music with their roster…but as usual I digress)
M.F. DOOM…so I’m riding around town with my boy Joe, just listening to our latest CD purchase (yep, your broke when 2 people go in on a CD), and then all of a sudden…
I hold the mic, like niggas hold they girls tight/but I ain’t after her prolly your acura pearl white
Next up, it was 1998 and I just got a new vhs…yeah man M.F’n VHS…Shorty’s Fulfill the dream In addition to showing team members like Chad Muska, Steve Olson, Sammy Baptista, Toan Nguyen, Jesse Silvey, Aaron Snyder, Brandon Turner, Peter Smolik and an ill ass soundtrack. Enter Quasimoto…now don’t ask me what track was playing…but I know it was off of the unseen, which until then I had yet to discover.
Nope nope that was Brandon skating to Company Flow…damn…does anyone know which late 90’s skate video featured Quasimoto?!? Moving along.
It’s amazing how great things, great sounds, great people are naturally drawn together. I never would have thought that years down the line these two musical forces that I’d stumbled across would get together to form one of the most ridiculous hip hop albums of this decade
With all of the “build up” in this post you can imagine how happy I was to see Madvillain come to fruition (unlike the unlikely swift and changeable…damn). Well at least I can relive the magic again with a superior box set put together by Stones Throw Records to accompany Madlib’s remix of the Madvillainy masterpiece.
The pre-orders for the Madvillainy 2 set have ended but the album is available everywhere. Don’t lose hope just yet though, after the september 15th stones throw will be departing with a small reserve of the set…enjoy





















