MF Doom - Born Like This (2023 Re-Issue)
Released in March 2009, ‘Born Like This’ was MF Doom’s last solo album.
Featuring Ghostface Killah, Raekwon and seminal American poet and writer Charles Bukowski with beats from J Dilla, Madlib and ol’ Metal Fingers himself.
“I’ve been a fan of Bukowski for a while. It was a friend of mine – damn, I forget the n*gga name – from Life Sucks Die, it’s a graffiti magazine but it’s real kinda edgy, out of Minneapolis. They did an interview with me and then me and Andrew [Broder] was friends ever since then. He said, ‘Your shit reminds me of this dude Bukowski, you gotta read his stuff.’ I was a little apprehensive at first, ‘cos I was like, ‘What kinda weird shit is this?’ Then he gave me a book, The Most Beautiful Woman In Town, and after that I just got into it.
“So for this album, to celebrate all us writers, emcees, if you look at it, it’s a lot of words that we say, and we all write those words: if it was written down on a piece of paper it could be a short story or like a good book. So I saw where Andrew was coming from where he sees the similarities. In tribute to Bukowski I said let me get him as a guest appearance…” DOOM as quoted in HHC.
“Whatever caused DOOM to scale back his output and go off the grid, he’s only come back from it sharper, stronger, and more powerful than before.” Pitchfork
“DOOM still has the sickest vocabulary, broadest frame of reference, and densest, most quotable rhymes in hip-hop… he has created an album of sublimely half-assed super-genius.” Onion AV Club
TRACKLISTING
Supervillain (Intro)
Gazzillion Ear
Ballskin
Yessir!
Absolutely
Rap Ambush
Lightworks
Batty Boyz
Angelz
Cellz
Still Dope
Microwave Mayo
More Rhymin'
That's That
Supervillainz
Bumpy's Message
Thank Yah
PRODUCT DETAILS
Artist: MF Doom
Label: Lex Records
Condition: New
Genre: Hip-Hop
Format: Vinyl LP
Cat Number: LEX069LP
Released: 6th June 2023