MF Doom Operation: Doomsday (2-LP)

Description

Double Black Vinyl LP

After his first groups (KMD) sophomore album was shelved by Elektra in 1994, and his brother Subroc one-half of the sibling rap duo passed away, surviving frontman Zev Love X slowly mutated into the supervillain MC known as MF Doom.

The 1999 release of Operation: Doomsday marked MF Dooms official debut, introducing a mysterious figure who would soon become one of underground raps greatest voices. Within its 19 tracks, Operation: Doomsday reveals the confluence of Dooms tragic past, personal interests and daring creativity. His clever rhymes and remarkable schemes stood out against the landscape, and every sound he touched from cartoon theme songs to 80s soul to rap classics and more got reinterpreted into something brand new and surreal.

Dooms collaborators include fellow members of the Monsta Island Czars collective, for which each artist took on the persona of a monster from the Godzilla films. In a review, Jon Caramanica called the album one of the most idiosyncratic hip-hop albums of the 1990s, and one of the defining documents of the independent hip-hop explosion of that decade.

Features a variant cover based on original cover art.

Reissued: 3/31/23