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MF DOOM

Doomsday

Release date: 19th October 1999

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About This Track

MF DOOM produced this track for his debut solo album 'Operation: Doomsday', released in January 1999 through Fondle 'Em Records. The album marked his return to hip hop after the dissolution of K.M.D., built over quiet storm balladry and smooth jazz loops that balance muffled soundscapes with minimal percussion. 'Doomsday' samples Sade's 'Kiss of Life' and Boogie Down Productions' 'Poetry', with additional vocals from Pebbles the Invisible Girl.

The lyrics establish DOOM's self-styled villain persona, trading intricate wordplay across two verses that move from boastful technical prowess to darker autobiographical detail. The second verse was written whilst incarcerated, DOOM noting the cell number and bunk position with documentary precision. The chorus frames mortality plainly, referencing his birth name Dumile and his brother's death, the tomb imagery delivered without sentiment.

The track opens DOOM's solo catalogue with the production approach and lyrical density that would define his work: effectual rhyming over original musical backgrounds, the voice slightly muffled, the references oblique, the technique double-clutched.

"Doomsday" is a track by MF DOOM, from the album Operation: Doomsday, released 19th October 1999. Full lyrics are available below.

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Lyrics

Doomsday

[Intro: Pebbles the Invisible Girl & MF DOOM]

Mic check

When I was led to you

I knew you were the one for me

Come through, dig the sound

I swear the whole world could feel you, MC

Crowd around

[Verse 1: MF DOOM]

I used to cop a lot, but never copped no drop

Hold mics like pony tails tight and Babolats

Stop and stick around, come through and dig the sound

Of the fly brown 6' 0" sicko psycho who throws his dick around

Bound to go three-plat, came to destroy rap

It's a intricate plot of a b-boy strapped

Femstat cats get kidnapped

Then release a statement to the press, let the rest know who did that

Metal Fist terrorists claim responsibility

Broken household name usually said in hostility

Um, what is MF? You silly

I'd like to take "Mens to the End" for two milli'

"Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo!" That's a audio daily double

Rappers need to fall off just to save me the trouble, yo

Watch your own back; came in and go out alone, black

Stay in the zone, turn H2O to Cognac

[Chorus: MF DOOM]

On Doomsday, ever since the womb

'Til I'm back where my brother went, that's what my tomb will say

Right above my government; Dumile

Either unmarked or engraved; hey, who's to say?

[Verse 2: MF DOOM]

I wrote this one in B.C. D.C. O-section

If you don't believe me, go get bagged and check then

Cell number seventeen, up under the top bunk

I say this not to be mean, wish bad luck or pop junk

Pop the trunk on Cee Cipher Punk, leave him left scraped

God forbid, if there ain't no escape, blame MF tape

Definition "super-villain": a killer who love children

One who is well-skilled in destruction, as well as building

While Sidney Sheldon teaches the trife to be trifer

I'm trading science fiction with my man the live lifer

A pied piper holler a rhyme, a dollar and a dime

Do his thing, ring around the white collar crime

Get out my face, askin' 'bout my case, need toothpaste

Fresher mint, monkey-style nigga get Mentadent

And dope fiends still in they teens, shook niggas turn witness

Real mens mind their own business

That's the difference between sissy-pissy rappers that's double-dutch

How come I hold the microphone double-clutch?

C.O.'s make rounds, never have ‘ox found

On shakedown, lock-down, wet dreams of Fox' Brown

[Chorus: MF DOOM]

On Doomsday, ever since the womb

'Til I'm back where my brother went, that's what my tomb will say

Right above my government; Dumile

Either unmarked or engraved, hey, who's to say?

[Verse 3: MF DOOM]

Doomsday, ever since the womb

'Til I'm back to the essence, read it off the tomb

Either engraved or unmarked grave, who's to say?

Pass the mic like "Pass the peas like they used to say"

Some M-er F-ers don't like how Sally walk

I'll tell y'all fools it's hella cool how ladies from Cali talk

Never let her interfere with the Yeti ghetto slang

Nicknames off nibblin' tip of nipples, metal fang

Known amongst hoes for the bang-bang

Known amongst foes for flow without no talking orangutans

Only gin and Tang guzzled out a rusty tin can

Me and this mic is like yin and yang

Clang; crime don't pay; listen, youth

It's like me holding up the line at the kissing booth

I took her back to the truck, she was uncouth

Spittin' all out the sunroof, through her missing tooth

But then she has a sexy voice, sound like Jazzy Joyce

So I turned it up faster than a speeding knife

Strong enough to please a wife

Able to drop today's math in the forty-eight keys of life

Cut the crap far as rap

Touch the mic, get the same thing a Arab will do to you for stealing

What the Devil? He's on another level

It's a word! No, a name! MF the Super-Villain!

[Outro: Pebbles the Invisible Girl & MF Doom]

Doomsday

To dig the sound

Crowd around

When I was led to you

I knew you were the one for me

I swear the whole world could feel you, MC

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Track details

From Operation: Doomsday

1999
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Operation: Doomsday
Operation: Doomsday
MF DOOM
Release year
1999
  1. —Doom, Are You Awake? (Skit)
  2. —Back in the Days (Skit)
  3. —The Hands of Doom (Skit)
  4. —The Mystery of Doom (Skit)
  5. —Gas Drawls
  6. —Hero vs. Villain (Epilogue)
  7. —? (Question Mark)
  8. —Red and Gold
  9. —Doomsday
  10. —Rhymes Like Dimes
  11. —The Time We Faced Doom (Skit)
  12. —Tick, Tick...
  13. —The Finest
  14. —Hey!
  15. —Dead Bent
  16. —Go With the Flow
  17. —Who You Think I Am?
  18. —The M.I.C.
  19. —Operation: Greenbacks
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Credits

Production & Engineering

Writer
MF DOOM, Pebbles the Invisible Girl
Producer
Metal Fingers, X-Ray Da Mindbenda
Co-Producer
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Executive Producer
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Mastering Engineer
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