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Album Review: Viktor Vaughn & King Geedorah That wily bastard MF Doom unleashes two psuedonyms and two gems. I want to write a legitimate review of both Viktor Vaughn’s “Vaudeville Villain” and King Geedorah’s “Take Me to Your Leader”. But I’m not even going fuck around like that. Just buy both of them shits. Okay, I relent. We have to say at least enough to whet the appetite of the ignorant. For the uninitiated, MF Doom is both Vaughn and Geedorah. And he’s essentially the only artist that it’s completely acceptable to blatantly cockride harder than a favorite codpiece. If you’re still clueless to the fellow’s identity, he’s Zev Love X from KMD. You know, asshole, the guy from 3rd Bass’s classic track “The Gas Face”. If that doesn’t help, at least consider this -- any man that releases simultaneous concept albums under pseudonyms must deserve a listen, right? If you figured the success of Operation: Doomsday would convince Doom to make more commercially accessible music, you’re forgetting that this is the dude who lost a label deal because he wanted to put a picture of a lynched tarbaby on his album cover. Both albums feature his standard cartoon sci-fi effects, gritty production and muttered multi-syllable non-sequiturs. Lines like “Sparky, I’ve had enough of your malarkey, for one, don’t mark me -- and who you calling darky?” are pretty much par for the course. “Vaudeville Villain” features production from King Honey, Heat Sensor and Max Bill. I don’t know who any of these motherfuckers are, but they contribute a plethora of cohesive yet uniquely dark electronic beats. I know who RJD2 is, and he produces “Saliva”, a track with herky-jerky drums over which Doom boasts that he “plays the back and gets bent like scoliosis”. Doom handles the vast majority of the rhyming duties of “Vaudeville Villain” but M. Sayyid, Apani B., Lord Sear and a few other dudes spit verses. Of the two albums, the Vaughn project is more slickly produced. Of course, Slick is definitely the wrong adjective to associate with anything Doom-related. Let’s just say that “Vaudeville Villain” is less sloppy than “Take Me to Your Leader”. But again, we’re unsuccessfully grasping at verbal straws. “Take Me to Your Leader” features the intentionally haphazard drums, disjointed samples and hook-less posse cuts that made Doom’s music so appealing in the first place. Doom doesn’t rap nearly as much on the Geedorah album, but his boys are entertaining and the beats are definitely reminiscent of “Operation: Doomsday” – he even revisits the idea of flip-flopping the tempo of a track. If you had to only own one, the Viktor Vaughn joint is the better album. But they’re both great, so stop being a filthy miser and pony up. Read more articles in Arts » |
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