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Operation: Doomsday
Operation Doomsday
Studio album by MF DOOM

Released

April 20, 1999

Recorded

March 1997 - February 1998

Studio

MF Grimm's Basement
(Manhattan, New York)

Genre

East Coast hip hop, Underground hip hop, Jazz rap, Conscious hip hop. Alternative hip hop

Length

57:58

Label

Metal Face Records / Fondle 'Em Records

Producer

MF Doom (exec.), X-Ray Da Mindbenda (co.), Bobbito (exec.), Ill Clown (co.), Big Lou (co.), MF Grimm (exec.)

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Operation: Doomsday is the debut solo studio album by British-American hip hop musician MF DOOM, It was released on April 20, 1999 via Fondle 'Em Records. Recording sessions took place at MF Grimm's Basement in New York City from March 1997 to February 1998. Production was handled entirely by MF Doom himself, with co-production by X-Ray Da Mindbenda, Ill Clown and Big Lou. It includes guest appearances by Pebbles the Invisible Girl, Doom's alias King Geedorah and Monsta Island Czars members: Kong, Kwite Def, Megalon, X-Ray, Rodan, MF Grimm and Kurious. It marks his return to the hip hop scene after the disestablishment of his former group KMD in 1993. The album is produced entirely by DOOM himself.

Operation: Doomsday released the four singles: "Hey!", "Gas Drawls", "Dead Bent" and "?".


Track listing[]

All songs produced by MF DOOM.

No. Title Performer(s) Time
1. "The Time We Faced Doom" - 2:04
2. "Doomsday" MF DOOM 4:58
3. "Rhymes Like Dimes" MF DOOM 4:18
4. "The Finest" MF DOOM, Tommy Gunn 4:01
5. "Back in the Days" - 0:45
6. "Go with the Flow" MF DOOM 3:36
7. "Tick, Tick..." MF DOOM, MF Grimm 4:04
8. "Red and Gold" MF DOOM, King Geedorah 4:42
9. "The Hands of Doom" - 1:50
10. "Who You Think I Am?" MF DOOM, X-Ray, Rodan, Megalon, K.D., King Geedorah, Kong 3:24
11. "Doom, Are You Awake?" - 1:12
12. "Hey!" MF DOOM 3:46
13. "Operation: Greenbacks" MF DOOM, Megalon 3:46
14. "The Mic" MF DOOM 3:02
15. "The Mystery of Doom" - 0:21
16. "Dead Bent" MF DOOM 2:22
17. "Gas Drawls" MF DOOM 3:43
18. "?" MF DOOM, Kurious 3:33
19. "Hero vs. Villain (Epilogue)" MF DOOM, E. Mason 3:33

Credits[]

  • Everybody wrote they own rhymes & did they own cuts.
  • Illustration: MF DOOM
  • Art Direction: SCOTCH 79


Album liner notes[]

DOOM would like to thank everybody.

REST IN PEACE-

The grand wizard D.J. SUBROC
K. NIT & J. BLACK


Samples[]

The Time We Faced Doom (Skit)

  • "No Stranger to Love / Want You" by Roy Ayers
  • "The Article" from Wildstyle

Doomsday

Rhymes Like Dimes

  • "One Hundred Ways" by Quincy Jones feat. James Ingram

The Finest

  • "The Finest" by The S.O.S. Band feat. Alexander O'Neal

Go With the Flow

Tick, Tick...

  • "Glass Onion" by The Beatles

Red & Gold

  • "Shoot 'Em Up Movies" by The Deele

The Hands of Doom (Skit)

  • "There Was a Time" by Dee Felice Trio
  • "Got to Get a Knutt" by The New Birth

Who You Think I Am?

  • "It's a New Day" by Skull Snaps
  • "Eastern Market" by Yusef Lateef

Hey!

  • "Theme Music" from The New Scooby-Doo Movies
  • "Mona Lisa" by Slick Rick

Operation: Greenbacks

  • "Our Day Will Come" by Isaac Hayes
  • "I Need Your Lovin'" by Teena Marie

The MIC

  • "Microphone Fiend" by Eric B. & Rakim
  • "All In the Name of Love" by Atlantic Starr

Dead Bent

Gas Drawls

  • "Black Cow" by Steely Dan
  • "Get Out of My Life Woman" by Q65

?

  • "Catch the Beat" by T-Ski Valley
  • "Vykkii by Isaac Hayes Movement

Hero vs. Villain (Epilogue)

  • "Come Dancing" by Jeff Beck


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