With the success of the podcast "MF Doom: Long Island to Leeds" by shop friend Adam Batty and Afrodutsche, we've loved seeing the stories resurfacing and seeing how much the masked villain still means to the people locally.
Rather than retell the history (you should definitely check the podcast out for that, if you havent already), we asked the people around the shop something simple:
"What's your favourite DOOM track and why?"
Here's what came back!
Paul - Shop Owner
Track: Benzie Box
What more could you ask for Doom & Dangermouse, Adult Swim, insane packaging with a sprinkle of CeeLo.
Adam Batty - MF Doom: Long Island to Leeds - Presenter/Producer/Writer
Track: Krazy World
One of my favourite things about MF Doom's work is how obsessive you can be about it. I've been spending the last week dissecting this track and pulling the samples. The OG song for this for me was Rapp Snitch Knitches, with that mad Bowie space odity sample, but it's something that happens to me with a different track on a semi-regular basis.
Jim - Long Time Customer
Track: More Soup - Moka Only Ft MF Doom
Funkier than a gallon of gazpacho and more flavours than a mouthful of minestrone. Dooms serving up his usual rhymes with a different pan on this particalar collab.
The best song about soup since Dr John's 'Gris-gris Gumbo ya-ya'.
Jed - Crash Hip-hop head / DJ
Track: Rhymes Like Dimes (Ft DJ Cucumber Slice)
One of my first introductions to DOOMs music and it still slaps, upbeat yet relaxed, great flow and has that DOOM wit throughout.
Mike - Long time customer
Track: Meat Grinder
Some of DOOM's best, most complex rhymes ocer some of Madlib's best beats, a match made in heaven and the track that introduced me to both of their discographies.
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