MF DOOM - Born Like This (USED)
Used 2009 Lex Records Pressing. UK Variant.
Media Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-) A nearly perfect record. The record should show no obvious signs of wear.
Sleeve Condition: Very Good (VG)
After MF Doom spent a few years off record (and maybe off stage, if the impostor rumors are true), fans were ready for another classic from the man who never met a bar he couldn't tack four extra syllables onto. And as if expectations couldn't be ratcheted any higher, the album included a few productions from Dilla and Madlib alongside Doom himself, plus features for a quartet of legendary compatriots (Ghostface, Raekwon, Bumpy Knuckles aka Freddie Foxxx, and Slug from Atmosphere). Still, it's hard to stifle the disappointment. Doom hasn't changed a whit, but by the same token, he sounds like he's repeating himself. Deft diction is one thing he's got in spades, but there aren't many lines here that will get burned into your neurons. The productions are dense and dark as usual, but Doom's unrelenting lyrical flow has reached some kind of endpoint where he can't torture his internal rhymes any more without just repeating "how now brown cow" for three minutes on end. Even more unfortunately, the best production by Doom is the homophobic "Batty Boyz," and Ghostface, on his lone feature, does little more than obsess over Charlie's Angels. (Their other contemporary collaboration, "Chinatown Wars," is tragically nowhere to be heard here.) Doom may still be among the best purveyors of absurdist metaphysical fantasies in hip-hop since Jeru the Damaja, but Born Like This is a back-to-reality call.
A1 Supervillain Intro
Featuring – Mr. Chop
A2 Gazzillion Ear
A3 Ballskin
A4 Yessir!
Featuring – Raekwon
A5 Absolutely
A6 Rap Ambush
B7 Lightworks
B8 Batty Boyz
B9 Angelz
Featuring – Tony Starks
C10 Cellz
Featuring – Mr. Chop
C11 Still Dope
Featuring – Impress Stahhr Tha Femcee*
C12 Microwave Mayo
D13 More Rhymin'
D14 That's That
D15 Supervillainz
Featuring – Kurious, Mobonix (2), Mr. Chop, Slug
D16 Bumpy's Message
Featuring – Bumpy Knuckles, Mr. Chop
D17 Thank Yah
Barcode (Text and scanned): 878390001286
Label Code: LC14534
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A etched): MPO LEX 069 LP A
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B etched): MPO LEX 069 LP B
Matrix / Runout (Runout side C etched): GRAZZ–THE EXCHANGE MPO LEX 069 LP C
Matrix / Runout (Runout side D etched): MPO LEX 069 LP D
Rights Society (D15): SESAC
Rights Society (A2 to A5, A6 to B9, C12 to D15, D17): ASCAP
Rights Society (A1, A5, C10, D15, D16): BMI