MF Doom

I didn’t see MF Doom coming.

When I realized who the MC making me have an interest in hip hop again was, I was dumbfounded. I didn’t think there was anyone making hip hop worth my time or money until I heard MF Doom.

In 1989, 3rd Bass featured an MC named Zev Love X on their single The Gas Face. KMD’s debut Mr. Hood was released in 1991 and their second album was shelved because of its controversial title. Zev Love X changed his name to MF Doom and over the course of the last decade has become one of hip hop’s most notable figures. He teamed up with Madlib to produce what I and many consider to be the best hip hop album of the last ten years, Madvillany.

MF Doom found himself on my favortie MCs list after one listening of Kookies and the Madvillainy album. I desperately needed good hip hop at the time I heard him and think he was the perfect fit, mask and all. I still find it hard to believe he would emerge years later as a contender for my mic champion even though I was aware of him dating as far back as 1991. It just goes to show that any artist is capable of turning out masterpieces under the right circumstances. I wasn’t too blown away by Born Like This but hopefully the next Doom project will give more bang for the buck.

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The Suite Delight - April 1 Playlist:

1. James Last - Inner City Blues
2. Scrimshire - All I Do feat. Stac
3. Aloe Blacc & The Grand Scheme - The Dark End Of The Street
4. Greenwood Rhythm Coalition - Guajira '78 (Colman Bros. Remix)
5. Omar - Ghana Emotion (Una Mas Trio Remix)
6. Bob Marley & The Wailers – Get Up, Stand Up (Thievery Corporation Remix)
7. Mo Kolours - Bomptious (Shafiq Husayn Remix)
8. Fashawn – The Ecology
9. Jazz Spastiks - Move (Remix) feat. Apani B Fly
10. Moka Only - More Soup feat. MF Doom
11. Fat Joe - John Blaze Ft. Nas, Big Pun, Jadakiss & Raekwon
12. Jadakiss - Why (Remix) feat. Styles P, Common, Nas & Anthony Hamilton
13. Naughty By Nature ‎– Guard Your Grill (Smooth Mix)
14. EPMD - Total Kaos
15. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Robes feat. Earl Sweatshirt & Domo Genesis

The Suite Delight 1st Anniversary CKUT Playlist:

1.       The Monkees – Mary, Mary

2.       Harmonica Paul – Motherless Child

3.       Eddie Kendricks – Date With The Rain

4.       Yellow Sunshine – Yellow Sunshine

5.       Magic Disco Machine – Scratchin’

6.       The Incredible Bongo Band – Bongolia

7.       Lack of Afro – P.A.R.T.Y. (Instrumental)

8.       The Jimmy Castor Bunch – Troglodyte

9.       Booker T. & The M.G.s – Lady Madonna

10.   GZA & Ras Kass – Lyrical Swords

11.   RZA & MF Doom – Biochemical Equation

12.   Camp Lo – Luchini

13.   Digable Planets – 9^th Wonder (Blackitolism)

14.   Danger Mouse & Jemini – Ghetto Pop Life

15.   Hi-Tek – The Sun God

16.   K-os – The Love Song

Madvillain - Madvillainy (2004)

I didn’t see the Madvillainy album coming.

I desperately needed good hip hop at the time I heard the album.  I still do to this day actually.
From the moment I listened to Madvillainy, I understood why it made so many Best-Of year end lists when it was released. I and many consider to be the best hip hop album of the decade.  If non-hip hop magazines loved that album, then there was something there for me. Ever since then, I've been the biggest Madlib fan that either of us know.

MF Doom had become one of hip hop’s most notable figures and teamed up with Madlib to produce what I and many consider to be the best hip hop album of the last ten years, Madvillany.

I was so discouraged and disappointed at the lack of creativity, originality a the time that I almost didn’t want to hear Madvillainy when it was presented to me. 
It just goes to show that any artist is capable of turning out masterpieces under the right circumstances.  

There was a hope that the next Madvillain project would give even more bang for the buck than the first.  Unfortunately, we lost M.F. Doom a few years ago. 

Madlib

I haven't been as excited for a hip hop producer's work since DJ Premier.

During the Jiggy era of hip hop, I couldn't care less who or what was going on. I was frustrated at the direction hip hop was going and sought refuge in classic rock, soul and breaks. I went to where hip hop music started from.

I was reintroduced to the name Madlib who I barely knew of through his connection to Lootpack/Alkaholiks. The unlikely combination of MF Doom and Madlib worked perfectly. It stands to reason that I see them individually and collectively as hip hop hopes. I continue to hope they recreate their magic again.

I love Madlib! I tweeted Thank Heaven for Madlib one night during my Suite Delight show and meant it.

There have been debates as to whether Madvillainy is a better album than Champion Sound. For Champion Sound to be pitted against my champion meant I had to check it out. The album featuring the legend-in-his-time Dilla working with my current producer of choice by default would indeed find itself on my Best Hip Hop Albums list. 



Madlib's production manges to incorporate my musical past, present and future. I'm hungry for songs using classic samples. I enjoy what he makes now and probably will tomorrow. Just as Theo Parrish embodies everything I want to be as a DJ, Madlib embodies everything I want from a producer. With that said, his sounds are in tune with my frequency or wavelength. Like Pavlov’s dog, all I need is to see and hear his name or that he's involved in a project and my face lights up like a kid on Christmas. His production takes me back to the wonder years of golden era hip hop when the productions were not only creative but innovative. 

I'm in awe of his creativity and the sheer output of projects he's involved with. If I were a producer, I'd do what Madlib does, at least in my way. Whether I'm as incredible with my work as him would remain to be seen & heard.

He is quite possibly the only artist in hip hop, with the exception of DOOM, that I look out for. What a coincidence! The two form Madvillain and I'm waiting for their next album together now. 

Who said lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place?

The Suite Delight - April 1 Playlist:

1. James Last - Inner City Blues 
2. Scrimshire - All I Do feat. Stac
3. Aloe Blacc & The Grand Scheme - The Dark End Of The Street 
4. Greenwood Rhythm Coalition - Guajira '78 (Colman Bros. Remix)
5. Omar - Ghana Emotion (Una Mas Trio Remix)
6. Bob Marley & The Wailers – Get Up, Stand Up (Thievery Corporation Remix)
7. Mo Kolours - Bomptious (Shafiq Husayn Remix)
8. Fashawn – The Ecology
9. Jazz Spastiks - Move (Remix) feat. Apani B Fly
10. Moka Only - More Soup feat. MF Doom
11. Fat Joe - John Blaze Ft. Nas, Big Pun, Jadakiss & Raekwon
12. Jadakiss - Why (Remix) feat. Styles P, Common, Nas & Anthony Hamilton 
13. Naughty By Nature ‎– Guard Your Grill (Smooth Mix)
14. EPMD - Total Kaos
15. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Robes feat. Earl Sweatshirt & Domo Genesis

The Suite Delight - February 25, 2014 (2) Playlist:

1. Nas - It Ain't Hard To Tell (Large Professor Remix)
2. Diverse - Uprock
3. Jay Dee - Pause feat. Frank-N-Dank
4. Strong Arm Steady - Questions featuring Planet Asia & Fashawn
5. Souls of Mischief - That's When Ya Lost (Remix)
6. Soul Khan - Knuckle Puck featuring Koncept, 8thW1 & Homeboy Sandman
7. Quasimoto - Rappcats, Pt. 3
8. Supastition - Yada Yada
9. Murs & 9th Wonder - Murs Day
10. Mobb Deep - Win or Lose
11. Wale - Um'Ricka feat. K'Naan
12. K-Solo - Letterman (Pete Rock Remix)
13. The Extremities - Cold Cheese
14. D-Sisive x Tone Mason – Maybe I Will feat. DJ Grouch