Loosie, a strange musical-political online publication has a pretty good 3-part interview with MF Doom.
Highlights include him explaining his use of ridiculous words:
Every time I find a weird word, I’m going to try to rhyme it with something. It’s natural, it just comes to me like that. The more weirder the word sounds, there’s gotta be something that can go with that and be funny. That one came out like that: Zizmor.
why he jumps from label to label:
To me, you can’t sign me. The only way you can find me is if you got the paper; so usually they tempt you with the paper and there’s some other hitch to it. They want you to do this. So anybody with any intention of wanting anything other than giving me my paper and letting me do my thing, you ain’t gonna find me. There’s no way to sign me. I haven’t heard about no labels really trying to do it like that. But I’m like this; whatever makes it major –everybody in the world hear it – everybody can hear it still without it being on any particular label. So what makes a major label really a major label if it’s not the broadness of your spectrum or how many people you can get you music to? If that’s the case, we get our music to the whole world too. So it ain’t no difference.
and his reluctance to use “hooks”:
When you say hook, you’re using the hook to hook people in. […] So you’re putting something in extra to gas them up. It’s part of the game, some people like it. But my music is for people who chose to think for themselves and I’m adding a piece of my conversation to it. I’m not trying to hook you, like I’m trying to put my foot in your front door to sell you a fucked up vacuum cleaner or nothing. I’m just adding on to the convo.
: Dangerdoom (feat. Ghostface) - The Mask :
: MF Doom (feat. Kurious & King Geedorah) - Monday Night At Fluid :
Where in the world is that second track from? That’s the nicest I’ve heard Doom on the mic in a whille… Thanks.
i think it was released as a 12″… around the same time as the first viktor vaughn album.