Chords for VILLAINY - The MF DOOM Story

_ _ _ _ _ This is a video of rapper MF Doom performing live at Rock the Bells in 2008.
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_ [Dm] This is another video of rapper MF Doom performing live at Cool House in 2010.
_ _ _ _ This is a third video of rapper MF Doom once again performing live in 2019 at Adult Swim Festival.
While all these performances might seem normal, they all have one thing in common, one trait
that links each show together, and that is that none of them are actually rapper [Eb] MF Doom.
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_ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _ The [D] genre of music known as rap [B] is one of the most diverse and rapidly changing forms of music.
The rap genre [Bb] has come such a long way [Gb] from the beatbop style of the [F] 90s to the faster
paced trap beats my [B] generation knows [D] today.
From Eazy-E [Ab] to Playboi Carti, the [Eb] rap world has grown to become one of the [B] most popular
and beloved [D] styles of music for people all over the world.
But when you think of the changes that the [B] rap world has gone through, pointing a finger
at where a change [Eb] began can be difficult.
Somewhere in between the smooth talking MCs and the faster paced hard cut style rap artists,
someone had to break the boundaries of what was considered normal, a missing puzzle piece,
if you will, to connect the two.
Someone who was able to take the rap game and flip it on its head.
Let me paint a picture for you.
It's New York, and the year is 1994.
A man by the name of Daniel Dumoulet and his younger brother Dingillisway have formed a
small rap group called KMD.
The brothers are hard at work at finishing their second studio album when suddenly, Dingillisway
is hit by a car and is sadly killed.
However, Dumoulet, determined to finish what he and his friend started, finished the record
and brought it to his record label.
But due to the darkness of the album and the grim album cover which portrayed a Sambo character
being lynched, his [N] record label ended his contract.
_ Still fighting with the death of his brother, Dumoulet was thrown out in the streets, nearing
closer and closer to homelessness.
Dumoulet's rap career was over and he vanished from the underground rap scene for good.
Or so people thought.
As I tell the story of Dumoulet, you'll notice a very common theme, and it's that he is one
of the most private artists in rap history.
Very little is known about the five year hiatus that he took, except that on September 22nd,
1999, Dumoulet broke the silence with a new solo album, Operation Doomsday, under a new
name, MF Doom.
Metal Fingers when producing, and Metal Face when rapping.
Right from his very first album, there were some clear differences between him and the
rest of the rap industry at the time.
First and foremost were his use of samples.
Dumoulet's style involved taking old cartoon TV clips and using them to tell a story.
Let me show you what I'm talking about.
Every time Dumoulet begins to write an album, he writes it from the perspective of a certain
character, his most popular being MF Doom, a cartoon-like villain in his mid-40s whose
only goal is world domination.
However, this isn't the only character Dumoulet has created.
His other characters include Victor Vaughn, a young man in his 20s who looks up to Doom,
but secretly thinks he could do his job better.
And last but not least, King Ghidorah, a three-headed serpent creature who uses mind control to
take over the world.
Yeah, that last one took a weird turn.
But all of these characters are direct influences from Dumoulet's childhood.
Doom and Victor Vaughn are both influenced by the Doctor Doom character from the Fantastic
Four comics, and King Ghidorah is a character from the Godzilla universe.
Using these old characters allows Dumoulet to sample old clips from cartoons from these
franchises to help tell the stories.
Some of his songs don't even involve rapping and are just instrumentals over these cartoon
samples, devoting entire songs just to storyline.
As luck would have it, one of America's two most [Bb] powerful villains of the next decade
is [F] turned loose to strike terror into the hearts of men.
Dumoulet also had a wide variety of subject matter he covered in his lyrics, almost rarely
rapping about topics that were popular in the early 2000s such as drugs or sex.
He would write love songs, sometimes even just singing about being hungry.
He didn't care what the world wanted to hear him rap about, he cared about what he
wanted to rap about, which was a large part of what attracted people to his music.
Going back to the timeline, after Operation Doomsday was released, Dumoulet retired the
MF Doom name for a few years, working on building up his other characters.
After the release of Vaudeville Villain and Take Me to Your Leader, Dumoulet received
a call that would change rap history forever.
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_ _ _ _ In March of 2004, Madlib and MF Doom released the project titled Mad Villainy, and it is
considered by many to not only be one of the greatest rap records in history, but also
one of the most influential.
This album gave Doom the nickname, your favorite rapper's favorite rapper, because of how
many people heard this album and [E] lashed onto it, aspiring to be the next Doom. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Rap Snitches, tell them the way business, take it to court, they be the own star witness,
do you see the perpetrator?
Yeah, I'm [Eb] right here.
_ _ [Bb] We can't leave Sid [Ab] out, we have some other rare item for you.
Right here is the Mad Villain demo tape for you.
That's the original Mad Villain demo tape.
Wow.
_ Wow.
Where did you procure this item?
Is that better than the box set?
I don't know.
A, _ maybe for me at least, because this is the first thing that hooked me onto him.
Peace.
Hell yeah.
[Bb] Hell yeah.
Hell yeah. Hell yeah.
[Ebm] Hell yeah.
Hell yeah.
[Gb] Hell yeah.
Hell yeah.
[F] Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Hell yeah.
Hell yeah.
Hell yeah.
Hell yeah. Hell yeah.
[Dm] Hell yeah.
Hell yeah.
[Ebm] _ [G] _ _
_ _ Sort of [E] two different faces, Emmerd Doom is like a non-sequitur rapper.
He's not really sticking to a subject.
It's just about rhyme schemes and rhyme patterns.
As an MC, I know there's probably a lot of MC's in the building, if you're a fan of Doom. _ _
He [Ab] makes you jealous.
He makes [Eb] you wish that you thought to rhyme.
Terrycloth Kangol's with Very Soft [G] Mangos.
But Doom was [Eb] still hungry, literally.
In November of the [D] same year, Doom released,
mmm, food, his most popular solo album [Ab] to date.
Every track is named after a
different food item, with tracks like beef wrap, gumbo, poo-putt platter_
what?
Anyways, these two massive releases in [N] 2004 game Doom a lot of followers in the
underground rap community, making him the most popular figure amongst the
underground rap scene.
But he was never able to break into the mainstream, and I
have a few theories on why that is.
Doom, as I said before, is one of the most
private figures in rap.
He has a reputation of keeping quiet about his
personal life.
He rarely ever does interviews, and when he is seen in public,
he keeps in his Doom character, always wearing a mask.
For a long time, people
would pay to see Doom perform live, just to have a different [Ab] person under the
mask come on stage and perform.
This leads us back [Gm] to where I started.
Three
different examples of [N] performances where people paid to see Doom perform, just to
get a different person underneath the mask.
And while I'm sure most people
watching this are thinking about what kind of a [G] jerk would do that, but take a
minute to think about [Gb] Doom.
The character, not the person.
Doom isn't a hero.
He's
the villain in every story.
He doesn't like being the good guy, and Doom-m'lay
doesn't like to write about heroes.
When confronted about the Doom
impersonators, Doom-m'lay [A] said that, quote,
when you come to a Doom show, [Ab] come expecting to hear music.
Don't come
expecting to see.
Everything we do is villain style, end quote.
[N] He's not a good
guy, and his fans don't like the good guy.
They listen to his music to hear the
villain, and this is why he's not compatible with mainstream life.
He's too
rough cut and private, too many cameras and people looking his way, wanting to
know what's next.
In fact, I don't even think he knows what's next.
Doom-m'lay
hasn't released any solo projects under any of his many monikers since 2009, and
while he has partnered up with other artists and produced a few tracks here
and there, I think that he's waiting for the right time.
Waiting until he's ready,
not when the audience is.
Waiting until he meets a villain.
Thanks, Ari.
You look like you have one more thought.
_ _ Well, me?
I did.
I was just gonna tell you that I
know what you were thinking about Mike Flynn today.
It was the old MF Doom wine.
Snitches telling all their business, sitting in court, and being their own star witness.
[Gb] _ _ _ _ [Bbm] _ _ _
_ [B] _ Here's to a strawberry morning, [Eb] gone and more important, spawning, [Ebm]
taunting, poor men
[Gb] swarming, carnage ends, switching positions, [Bbm] auditioning morticians, soaring in a
vision, [B] ignoring prison, ignoramuses enlisting, sound [Bb] dumb, found them, [Gb] drowning
cows