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Overview

This piece is an exploration into layout design and a contemporary presentation of my graphic design skills. Through the use of programs including, InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator I chose to clearly and aesthetically pleasingly present my content in my magazine. Whilst also correlating the content into web form in the website. Through both the layout and the interactive elements of the website I aimed to excite and engage the viewer.

Project completed for HSC Multimedia Major Project. Demonstrates layout design, typography, web design ui-ux, advert design, image manipulation. Programs used: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Maya, Atom (code editor). Website coded in: HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

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This piece is an exploration into layout design and a contemporary presentation of my graphic design skills. Through the use of programs including, InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator I chose to clearly and aesthetically pleasingly present my content in my magazine. Whilst also correlating the content into web form in the website.

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On this date in 2004, MF DOOM dropped his fifth full-length studio release MM..FOOD. Put out on the underground Rhymesayers Entertainment label, some songs from the project were previously released under the name Madvillian on another label. The album featured classic samples from several superhero cartoons including the Fantastic Four, Spiderman and Superman.

The album featured production mainly from DOOM himself, with Count Bass D and Madlib on the help out on just two tracks on the 15 track project. Some of the standout tracks include "Hoe Cakes", "Guinnesses", which featured Tennessee born/ATL bred femcee Empress StaHHr and 4ize and the kaleidoscopic "Fig Leaf Bi-Carbonate".

Salute to DOOM and everyone involved with this timeless album!

15th anniversary Madlib mf doom MM..FOOD album Rhymesayers Entertainment Stahhr today in hip hop history

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MF DOOM Dropped His Fifth LP 'MM...FOOD' 15 Years Ago

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On this date in 2004, MF DOOM dropped his fifth full-length studio release MM..FOOD. Put out on the underground Rhymesayers Entertainment label, some songs from the project were previously released under the name Madvillian on another label. The album featured classic samples from several superhero cartoons including the Fantastic Four, Spiderman and Superman.

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Cooking and music have always been my favorite hobbies. I have loved to cook before I could even reach the counter and picked up my first instrument when I was four year old. When I listened to the iconic record for the first time, I witnessed my two worlds collide.

It has been 15 years since Daniel Dumiele, better known by his stage name , released his iconic food-themed album, MM...Food (2004). Daniel Dumiele has released over 100 records under names such as Viktor Vaughn and Metal Fingers, and has also released work as a member of groups like Madvillian , Danger Doom , and Doomstarks . However, was only the second record he released as "MF Doom" and it has become one of his most critically acclaimed. Doom throws it back to what he believed was rap's golden age. Although the lyrics are not directly about food, Doom uses food-themed metaphors and titles to discuss the topics of hip-hop as a genre, his friends, and more. The album consists of Doom spitting verses over old-school funk beats. He brings us back to vintage hip-hop.

The first time I listened to I was intrigued by the theme: two of my passions, food and music, are masterfully brought together . My first listen to made me a little hungry - I mean, who wouldn't be after listening to an album with tracks that are named "Beef Rap," "Kookies," and "Hoe Cakes." I started looking around to see if anyone had written up some recipes inspired by this masterful record, and was utterly disappointed. Not a single article existed out there that provided the public with some recipes inspired by the album. This is practically a crime so I took the responsibility into my own hands. I couldn't simply let this amazing food-themed album exist out there without recipes to accompany the titles! This was my social, cultural and moral duty. So, here they are, the recipes that you never knew you needed that pair with MF Doom's iconic .
Appetizer:
"Rapp Snitch Knishes"

Mini Potato Spinach Knishes

Yileds 25 Mini Knishes

1. Preheat oven to 375° Fahrenheit.

2. Place potatoes and a teaspoon of salt in a pot and cover with enough cold water to submerge the potatoes. Bring to a boil and gently boil for about 2 minutes or until potatoes are tender. Drain and mash the potatoes.

3. Heat oil and butter in a large pan. Cook onions for 20 minutes, stir occasionally until they are golden brown. Transfer onions into a food processor,add the egg and a few pinches of salt and pepper. Pulse several times until the onions are finely chopped. Scrape mixture out of food processor and into a bowl with the mashed potatoes. Add matzo meal or flour and mix until the mixture is uniform.

4. Add chopped spinach to skillet previously used for the onions and sauté over medium heat until wilted. Add spinach to potato mixture and stir until uniform.

5. Grease two baking sheets lightly and scoop a tablespoon of the potato mixture and roll into ping pong sized balls and place on the baking sheet. Repeat until all of the mix is used then push down on each ball with your thumb to flatten slightly.

6. Bake knishes for about 30 minutes, then turn the oven to broil and move knishes to the top rack to brown for 2-3 minutes.

7. Set knishes on a platter and garnish with a small dollop of sour cream and sprinkle chives on top.

Main Course:
Vegetarian Beef Taco Wraps

Yields enough wraps to serve 5

1. Heat olive oil in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat and add the chopped onions. Stir occasionally and cook until onions are golden brown.

2. Add chopped fresh tomatoes and tomato paste to pan and mix until tomato paste covers everything, add 1 TB of water to help mix if needed. Then add the vegetarian ground beef alternative and mix thoroughly.

3. Sprinkle taco seasoning over the contents of the pan and cook for a few minutes until completely warm throughout.

4. Transfer contents of pan to a bowl and use the pan to cook the rinsed black beans with some salt and ground black pepper. Then, transfer black beans to a separate bowl.

5. Serve the wraps by taking one leaf of romaine lettuce and filling it with the vegetarian ground beef mixture and the black beans.

6. Repeat until all of the vegetarian ground beef mixture and beans are used.

7. Garnish lettuce wraps with pico gallo, sour cream and cheese. Sprinkle all of the wraps with chopped cilantro and lime if needed.

Shrimp and Okra Gumbo

Yields 5 servings

1. Melt butter in a large Dutch oven over medium heat. Add onion, bell pepper, and celery and sauté for about 15 minutes, until tender

2. Stir in thyme, salt, and pepper and cook for a few minutes before stirring in tomatoes, okra, vegetable broth and bay leaf.

3. Bring to a boil and then cover. Turn the heat to low and simmer for 30 minutes.

4. Add shrimp, hot sauce and filé powder and cook for 3 to 5 minutes until shrimp turns pink. Remove and discard bay leaf. Serve over rice.

Dessert:
Chocolate Chip Oreo Chunk Kookies

Yields about 2 dozen cookies

1. Preheat oven to 350° Fahrenheit.

2. Cream together the butter, sugar and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in vanilla.

3. Dissolve the baking soda in hot water and then add it to the batter and add the salt as well.

4. Stir in flour, chocolate chips, crushed Oreo cookies and nuts (if you decide to include them).

5. Drop large tablespoon size balls of the dough onto a baking sheet leaving about an inch between each ball.

6. Bake for about 10 minutes in the preheated oven until the edges are a golden brown color.

Article by Tovah Popilsky

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By now, we consider MF DOOM's 2004 album, MM..Food, to be a hip-hop classic. Jason Jägel did the original artwork (below), but it hasn't stopped artists from adding their touches to the album throughout the years. Anhia Zaira Santana, aka Distortedd, the Philly-born visual artist, illustrator and animator, just did an animation for the track, "One Beer," which has all the style and originality of the track. Enjoy a little holiday week trippiness!

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Juxtapoz Magazine - MF DOOM As He Should Be: Tripped Out, Visually, In "One Beer" Animated Video by Distortedd

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MM.. Food is an album by American hip hop artist Daniel Dumile, his second full-length under the MF DOOM moniker. It was released on November 16, 2004 on Rhymesayers Entertainment.

MM.. FOOD is an anagram of M.F. DOOM. Throughout the album, DOOM employs many food-related samples, and many of his lyrical themes are based on food metaphors. It contains several songs which were recorded as early as 2002, some previously released on singles, and a track ("One Beer") previously released under the name Madvillain and released on another label earlier in the same year.

A bonus disc titled MM.. LeftOvers was released later in 2004 to promote the album.

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Illustration by James Joiner Food's been rapped about since some of hip-hop's earliest days. Like Fat Boys' " All You Can Eat" in 1985. Or Tribe's " Ham 'N' Eggs" in 1990. And Ice-T's " Fried Chicken" in 1991.

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Girls, cars and jewelry are well-documented tropes of hip-hop, but anyone who listens to enough rap knows that eating is one of the genre's most pervasive obsessions. From the Sugarhill Gang to Drake, MCs have demonstrated a constant urge to document what's on their plate. Sometimes, food is used as a cultural signifier to describe the rags-to-riches journey, which might start with Hamburger Helper but end with filet mignon. At other times it plays into metaphors of consumption, with artists such as Lil Wayne (who calls himself "the rapper eater") describing the ravenous manner in which they gobble up the competition. And that's not to mention all of the food-related slang in rap: cheese for money, beef for grudges and so on.

To survey the full breadth of culinary references in hip-hop, we've rounded up 50 of the lines that never fail to hit us in the gut. Did we miss any of your favorites? Leave a comment here, or holler at us on Twitter (@thefeednyc) using the hashtag #foodrap.

50. Ghostface Killah, "Apollo Kids" (Supreme Clientele, 2000)

The lyric: "Ayo, this rap is like ziti, facin' me real TV / Crash at high speeds, strawberry kiwi."

Ghost explained this enigmatic couplet in an interview with Entertainment Weekly: "The rap's good because it's like ziti, which was my best food back then. I threw 'strawberry kiwi' on because I'm into experimenting. I was thinking of a style to write without nobody knowing what I was saying except for me."

49. Big Daddy Kane, "Platinum Plus" (Big L's The Big Picture, 2000)

The lyric: "Come in the hood flippin' the chicken-and-broccoli Timbs."

Those would be brown-and-green Timberland boots, a must-have fashion accessory on the streets of late-'90s New York.

48. 50 Cent, "21 Questions" (Get Rich or Die Tryin', 2003)

The lyric: "I love you like a fat kid love cake."

Though purists balked at this corny line, Fiddyâ€"ever the shrewd marketerâ€"knew exactly what he was doing: turning a nation of teen girls into gangster-rap fans. It's safe to say that the line dominated the demographic's AIM away messages for much of 2003.

47. Kanye West, "Niggas in Paris" (Watch the Throne, 2011)

The lyric: "That shit cray, ain't it Jay? / What she order? Fish filet?"

We're not sure if this insta-meme boosted McDonald's Filet-O-Fish sales or sent them into a slump. Fertile ground for an infographic, it would seem.

46. Young Jeezy, "Put On" (The Recession, 2008)

The lyric: "Big wheels, big straps, you know I like it supersized / Passenger's a redbone, her weave look like some curly fries / Inside fish sticks, outside tartar sauce / Pocket full of celery, imagine what she telling me / Blowing on asparagus, the realest shit I ever smoked."

...and so on and so forth. Jeezy is a food-rap legendâ€"this snippet is merely a taster.

45. E-40, "Gouda" (My Ghetto Report Card, 2006)

The lyric: "Aye, I buy the weed man / Hella turkey bags just to put my weed in / Oh, we gettin' chalupa / Wrapped cheese in a rubber band and call it gouda."

It's safe to say that no rapper in history has known the name of more cheeses than E-40. If only he worked at Murray's.

44. The Notorious B.I.G., "Hypnotize" (Life After Death, 1997)

The lyric: "I can fill you with real millionaire shit: escargot."

If Biggie had written this song today, he might have replaced escargot with " omakase dinners at Masa."

43. LL Cool J, "Milky Cereal" (Mama Said Knock You Out, 1990)

The lyric: "Then there was Pebbles, times was rough / She was turning Trix, to get a Cocoa Puff."

LL sort of betrays the limits of his lyrical agility on this conceptual track, which is full of clunky puns on name-brand cereals. But there are a few choice lines, and we love the bizarre way in which he says "Cocoa Puff."

42. Childish Gambino, "That Power" (Camp, 2011)

The lyric: " MM..Food? like Rapp Snitch Knishes / Cuz it's Oreos, Twinkies, coconuts, delicious."

Here's some meta food rap for you: Gambino (also known as comedian Donald Glover) references the MF Doom album MM..Food? and its track "Rapp Snitch Knishes," then meditates on biracial identity via some gastronomic allusions of his own ( Oreo, Twinkie and coconut are slurs for people who are said to be "white" inside despite the color of their skin).

41. Ludacris, "Southern Hospitality" (Back for the First Time, 2000)

The lyric: "Dirty South mind-blowing Dirty South bread / Catfish fried up, Dirty South fed."

Luda would later release an album called Chicken-n-Beer, but it was here that he established his love for Southern-fried delicacies.

40. Edan, "Beautiful Food" (Sprain Your Tapedeck, 2001)

The lyric: "I'm talking about Chicken la King / Mango and garbanzo / Tabouli / Grilled potatoes and vegetables / With roasted garlic and basil / Zucchini ziti / Granola fruit bar..."

This grocery-list--style joint from the Boston-based emcee is comprised solely of the names of different foods. To our knowledge, it is also the only rap song to ever feature a shout-out to tabouli.

39. Das Racist, "Rainbow in the Dark" (Shut Up, Dude; 2010)

The lyric: "I'm at White Castle, tiny-ass hamburgers, tiny-ass cheeseburgers, tiny-ass chicken sandwichesâ€"it's outlandish kid."

The duo behind the oddball hit "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" celebrate their fast-food fetish once again on this track. But don't pigeonhole them as lowbrow eatersâ€"later in the song, they hint at their refined tastes with the line, "We could eat the flyest cave-aged cheese for sheez, ma."

38. Rick Ross, "I Love My Bitches" (God Forgives, I Don't; 2012)

The lyric: "Am I really just a narcissist / 'Cause I wake up to a bowl of lobster bisque?"

Narcissist? Maybe. Fatso? Most definitely.

37. Cee Lo Green, "Soul Food" (Goodie Mob's Soul Food, 1995)

The lyric: "A heapin' helpin' of fried chicken, macaroni and cheese and collard greens / Too big for my jeans."

Before he became a global megastar with hits like "Crazy" and "Fuck You," Cee Lo rapped about getting fat on delicious food in Atlanta.

36. Kelis, "Milkshake" (Tasty, 2003)

The lyric: "My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard / And they're like, 'It's better than yours.'"

Love it or hate it, Kelis's euphemistic chorus has successfully cemented its spot in the pop lexicon.

35. Young Dro, "Grand Hustle Mafia" (Grand Hustle Presents: In da Streetz Volume 4; 2006)

The lyric: "What you know 'bout shark meat, perch and tilapia?"

That sounds like some big-boss pescatarian eatin' right there, Dro. But we're concerned about the rest of your diet: "Alligator, dog meat, caviarâ€"we mafia."

34. Lil' Bow Wow, "Take Ya Home" (Doggy Bag, 2001)

The lyric: "I got 'em scattered, covered, smothered like hash browns / See I'm the best just ask around."

Back when Bow Wow was still li'l, he paid homage to the famous hash browns at Waffle House, which you can get "scattered" (spread on the grill), "smothered" (with onions) and "covered" (with cheese).

33. The Streets, "Don't Mug Yourself" (Original Pirate Material, 2002)

The lyric: "Chatting shit, sitting at the wall table, telling jokes, playing with the salt, lookin' out the window / Girl brings two plates of full English over, with plenty of scrambled eggs and plenty of fried tomato."

Mike Skinner, the original don of geezer rap, refers here to a full English breakfast, which traditionally includes some combination of eggs, tomato, toast, sausage, mushrooms, bacon and baked beans.

32. Action Bronson, "Tapas" (Peter Rosenberg's What's Poppin Volume 1 Mixtape, 2011)

The lyric: "I'm on the art and the food scene / Fuck rap, laying back eatin' poutine."

After giving up cooking for music, Queens rapper Action Bronson has quickly become one of the most fecund practitioners of food rap, lacing songs like "Brunch" and "Jerk Chicken" with culinary references. He even dropped a mixtape called Bon Appetit...Bitch!!!!!

31. Fat Boys, "All You Can Eat" (Krush Groove Original Soundtrack, 1985)

The lyric: "$3.99 for all you can eat / Well, I'm a stuff my face to a funky beat."

If this video is any indication, Sbarro used to be the greatest restaurant in New York.

30. Fabolous, "You Ain't Got Nothin' " (Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III, 2008)

The lyric: "My lil' man is on ya, Marlon and Shawn ya / Lay the beef on his noodle / Make some luger lasagna / 40-cal fettuccine, trey-pound pasta / You reach for this medallion, you must like Italian."

Guns made out of pasta sound like a gangster Giuseppe Arcimboldo painting. Side note: On the same track, Juelz Santana reminds us to never invite him to a cocktail party with the line, "Haven't you all heard? / Y'all all herbs (yep) / I stick toothpicks (where?) / In y'all hors d'oeuvres." Cheeky bastard!

29. MF Doom, "Beef Rapp" (Mm.. Food, 2004)

The lyric: "Beef rap could lead to getting teeth capped / Or even a wreath for ma dukes on some grief crap / I suggest you change your diet / It can lead to high blood pressure if you fry it."

The masked indie rapper crafted this entire indie albumâ€"an anagram of the name MF Doom â€"around food-inspired samples (including "Would You Like a Snack?" by Frank Zappa) and lyrical references. Other tracks include "Hoe Cakes," "Fillet-O-Rapper" and "Kon Queso."

28. Puff Daddy, "It's All About the Benjamins" (No Way Out, 1997)

The lyric: "Yeah, living the raw deal, three-course meal / Spaghetti, fettuccini and veal."

Six years later, Diddy would put all that carbo-loading to good use by running the New York City Marathon.

27. Jay-Z, "Go Crazy" (Young Jeezy's Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101, 2005)

The lyric: "More than a hustler, I'm the definition of it / Master chef, lord of the kitchen cupboard."

Sure, Jigga's talking about cooking crack, not duck confit. Nonetheless, we appreciate his Gordon Ramsay-like vigor behind the burner. If only he would lay down a verse over some "buttery biscuit base."

26. Method Man, "Ice Cream" (Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, 1995)

The lyric: "Watch these rap niggas get all up in your guts / French vanilla, butter-pecan, chocolate deluxe / Even caramel sundaes is getting touched / And scooped in my ice cream truckâ€"Wu tears it up."

Fun fact: That guy in the background yelling, "The ice cream man is coming!" is Eddie Murphy.

25. Talib Kweli, "Back Up Offa Me" (The Beautiful Struggle, 2004)

The lyric: "Tried to tell you not to fuck with these debutantes / That's more Kobe beef than Japanese restaurants."

In the wake of Kobe Bryant's 2003 sexual assault case, Talib reiterates some oldie-but-goodie advice.

24. Ice Cube, "It Was a Good Day" (The Predator, 1992)

The lyric: "No barkin' from the dog, no smogâ€"and momma cooked up breakfast with no hog / I got my grub on but didn't pig out, finally got a call from this girl I want to dig out."

Best. Day. Ever.

23. Lil Wayne, "6 Foot 7 Foot" (Tha Carter IV, 2011)

The lyric: "Paper chasin', tell that paper, 'Look I'm right behind ya' / Bitch, real Gs move in silence like lasagna."

Is Lil Wayne employing metonymy here, using lasagnaâ€"a dish associated with Italian gangstersâ€"to represent the mob as a whole? Or does he just not realize that the g in lasagna isn't actually silent? (Or maybe it is silent?) These are the questions that keep us awake at night.

22. Big Pun, "Banned from TV" (Endangered Species, 2001)

The lyric: "Champagne on the rocks, rockin' a Fort Knox Lazarus / Shark salad with carrots, pork chops and applesauce."

Further evidence that Big Pun would eat absolutely anything.

21. Roots Manuva, "Witness (1 Hope)" (Run Come Save Me, 2011)

The lyric: "Right now, I see clearer than most / I sit here contented with this cheese on toast."

Other rappers obsess over caviar dreams and how many bottles of Ciroc are at the table. But Roots Manuva is happy with the simplest of English comfort foods: some melted cheddar, a piece of toast and a splash of Worcestershire sauce. Lovey jubbly.

20. Snoop Dogg, "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" (Dr. Dre's The Chronic, 1992)

The lyric: "Falling back on that ass, with a hellafied gangsta lean / Getting funky on the mike, like a old batch of collard greens."

File next to kombucha, Dr. Dre beats and fermented pork sausage at Zabb Elee on the list of stuff that's funky.

19. Guerilla Black, "Compton" (Guerilla City, 2004)

The lyric: "Keep my enemies on IV, once I toast them / Just like my bagels / Have 'em like Christians over they head, smoking halo."

We could never figure out if this was some sort of subversive commentary on Jewish-Christian relations. Unfortunately, Guerilla Black's flash-in-the-pan career didn't provide further opportunity to dig into his religious views.

18. Necro, "Food for Thought" (The Pre-Fix for Death, 2004)

The lyric: "You're lost in the sauce as it clogs your vessels / I'll undo the blouse of your spouse and give her my house special / My raps are hot and sour, they choke you / You make no moves like a vegetable, you're fake like tofu."

Horrorcore legend Necro reimagines the local Chinese joint as a hellish torture chamber, where fortune cookies read: "Very soon in the future you'll vomit green."

17. Jay-Z, "Maybach Music 2 (Lost Verse)"

The lyric: "Six-deuce every time, I never had the Heinz / Fifty-seven can't ketchup [catch up] to mines."

This clever double entendre requires some unpacking: The Maybach 57 and 62 are models of Mercedes-Benz's most luxurious line of cars. Jay-Z calls the 57 "the Heinz," referring to the Heinz 57 slogan found on ketchup bottles. The 62, which he prefers, is referred to here as the "six-deuce."

16. Dead Prez, "Be Healthy" (Let's Get Free, 2000)

The lyric: "I'm from the old school, my household smell like soul food, bruh / Curried falafel, barbecued tofu."

Ignore the part about smoking ganja, and this ode to healthy eating provides a great rebuttal to critics who say rap music is a bad influence.

15. The Sugarhill Gang, "Rappers Delight" (Sugarhill Gang, 1980)

The lyric: "Have you ever went over a friend's house to eat and the food just ain't no good? / I mean the macaroni's soggy, the peas are mushed, and the chicken tastes like wood."

In his verse from hip-hop's foundational posse cut, Wonder Mike describes that awkward experience of going to someone's house and trying to weasel out of eating a crappy meal.

14. Drake, "The Ride" (Take Care, 2011)

The lyric: "And you do dinners at French Laundry in Napa Valley / Scallops and glasses of Dolce, that shit's right up your alley."

While most new-money rappers are still talking about surf and turf and bottle service, Drizzy separates himself from the pack with this knowing nod to Thomas Keller's haute-cuisine temple. We'd love to know if the French Laundry sommelier really recommended that Dolce for the scallops.

13. Fat Tony, "U Ain't Fat" (RABDARGAB, 2010)

The lyric: "I was once a chubby brat / Chillin' with my mom, buying jeans off the husky rack / Skipping collard greens and beans for a Kit Kat."

If you've got food issues, here's your theme song. Houston-based rapper Fat Tony raps frankly about his body-image struggles, and in the video finds himself hallucinating about a waiter with a face made of pizza and a store clerk with Kit Kats for hands.

12. Kanye West, "Last Call" (The College Dropout, 2004)

The lyric: "Mayonnaise-colored Benz, I push Miracle Whips."

While plenty of hip-hop heads have questioned Kanye's lyrical dexterity, this witty bit of wordplay had everyone pressing rewind on his debut album. Whips refers to cars, while miracle may be a reference to the near-fatal crash that 'Ye survived in 2002.

11. Inspectah Deck, "House of Flying Daggers" (Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Part II, 2009)

The lyric: "I pop off like a mobster boss / Angel hair with the lobster sauce."

We might go with linguine when enjoying a nice lobster sauce, but we know better than to mess with the Wu-Tang Clan.

10. Run-D.M.C., "Christmas in Hollis" (A Very Special Christmas, 1987)

The lyric: "It's Christmas time in Hollis, Queens / Mom's cooking chicken and collard greens."

Hip-hop's finest contribution to the Christmas song canon includes a rundown of Run-D.M.C.'s preferred holiday spread.

9. De La Soul, "Bitties in the BK Lounge" (De La Soul Is Dead, 1991)

The lyric: "Well, it was a Wednesday, me and Boss Hog was kinda hungry / Like two eggs, and a slop beef slice of lettuce / And a glass of milk and some cookies."

This fine example of storytelling rap recounts the perils of hollering at women in a Burger King.

8. Jay-Z, "Success" (American Gangster, 2007)

The lyric: "How many times can I go to Mr. Chow's, Tao's, Nobu? / Hold up, let me move my bowels."

In chronicling the nihilism of fame and wealth, Mr. Carter wonders how much fine dining one man can stomach. #rapperproblems

7. Cam'ron, "Wet Wipes" (Killa Season, 2006)

The lyric: "Had a drunken mind, club wobbled out / Next stop: Start trouble inside the Waffle House."

It's tough to choose just one foodie reference from the man who once referred to himself as "the sushi king," but this example remains an all-time favorite. Taken in the context of "Killa Cam," on which he calls himself "the hooligan at Houlihan's," it's clear that Cam'ron is a restaurant manager's worst nightmare.

6. Juelz Santana, "S.AN.T.A.N.A" (The Diplomats's Diplomatic Immunity 2, 2004)

The lyric: "I ain't here to wine ya / I ain't here to dine ya / I came here to pop ya / And I came here for lobster / The whole damn shebang, and they ain't bring the pasta."

This video always makes us feel a little sorry for Juelz: Even in the trattoria of his wildest dreams, he can't get good service. Get this guy to a Danny Meyer restaurant, stat.

5. Nas, "Fried Chicken" (Untitled, 2008)

The lyric: "Mmm, fried chicken, fly vixen / Give me heart disease but need you in my kitchen."

This love letter to deep-fried fowl is perhaps the best high-concept food rap of all time. Nas and Busta Rhymes both deliver well-crafted verses about how the food they love the most is killing them.

4. Slick Rick, "Mona Lisa" (The Great Adventures of Slick Rick, 1988)

The lyric: "I went into a store, to buy a slice of pizza / And bumped into a girl, her name was Mona (what?) Mona Lisa."

Eminem gives Slick Rick's old-fashioned courtship a more sinister spin on "As the World Turns," when he raps, "I met a slut and said, 'What up, it's nice to meet ya / I'd like to treat ya to a Faygo and a slice of pizza.'"

3. Beastie Boys, "3 the Hard Way" (To the 5 Boroughs, 2004)

The lyric: "Oops, gotcha, clutch like Piazza / Sneak between the sheets so hide the matzo / Holler back challah bread...next."

Thanks to the Beastie Boys, Jewish foodstuffs like matzo and challah found their way into the rap vocabulary.

2. A Tribe Called Quest, "Ham 'N' Eggs" (People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, 1990)

The lyric: "I don't eat no ham and eggs, 'cause they're high in cholesterol / Ayo, Phife do you eat 'em? No, Tip do you eat 'em? / Uh-uh, not at all."

If you yearn for the days when a rapper could say, "asparagus tips look yummy, yummy, yummy" and still sound dope, this is the track for you.

1. Rakim, "Eric B. Is President" (Eric B. and Rakim's Paid in Full, 1987)

The lyric: "You scream I'm lazy, you must be crazy / Thought I was a donut, you tried to glaze me."

Rakim is likely the most oft-quoted MC in hip-hop history, and this line ranks among his most memorable.
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Girls, cars and jewelry are well-documented tropes of hip-hop, but anyone who listens to enough rap knows that eating is one of the genre's most pervasive obsessions. From the Sugarhill Gang to Drake, MCs have demonstrated a constant urge to document what's on their plate.

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This week, VH1 is premiering their much hyped new cooking show, "Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party," hosted by, you guessed it, Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart. Now, despite the fact that Snoop and Martha have quite the history, many see this as yet another tacky contribution to the typical unscripted and pulpy celebrity-centered programming for which VH1 is famous. And that's not to say this isn't going to be a silly, marijuana-infused hang-sesh with dope recipes to match. We all know most of the punchlines will revolve around the fact that the hosts are being who they are, but just, together.

Watch the full episode of "Martha and Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party" here.

But the way I see, "Martha & Snoop" is a mainstream manifestation of the very real and long lasting relationship between hip-hop and food. And I'm not the first person to have picked up on this cosmic creative coupling.

"Food and music, particularly hip-hop, are inextricably related," says "Dorm Room Chef" (and personal friend and collaborator), Jonah Reider, founder of the pop-up restaurant, Pith. "Both are ephemeral, cathartic, and connecting. Both are highly improvisational. They're both dope and should be explicitly intertwined more often!"

And we're seeing a lot more of these two interests intertwining in the mainstream these days. The unveiling of a Vice television station this spring brought to new viewers the life and times of Queens rapper and chef, Action Bronson, with his culinary travel show, "F*ck, That's Delicious."
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Having been a chef at well-respected New York restaurants well before signing a record contract, Action personifies the "finer things" side of modern hip-hop: strong weed, expensive liquor, and high class eating. And while Action Bronson may stand alone with his formal culinary training in the hip-hop world, he's certainly not the first rapper to talk about food in their rhymes or to have food-based side projects.

Bohan Phoenix is one of the hardest working MCs in Brooklyn, and he's certainly the onlyrapper I know who can spit in fluent Mandarin. I caught up with him after he got back from another tour in China, or a "Motherland Tour" as he calls it. We talked about the importance of food in his work and within the circles of rappers and producers in China.

"The only thing consistent with the variety of music we got to experience [ on tour in China] was the variety of food we got to enjoy. In the southern and eastern parts of China where the food is milder and blander, the style of hip-hop coming out of these regions are also bit more smooth and non-conflicting. But areas like Sichuan and Chengdu - in central China, also the spice center of China - produce artists with much sharper and 'harder' styles. I just finished a song called 'Jala,' which means extra spicy, in homage to where I'm from, Chengdu, and already people who have heard the song, whether they've been to Chengdu or not, they are relating to it."

Back here in the States, culinary moves on the hip-hop scene have been happening for years. Last year, Jadakiss and Styles P founded Juices for Life, a chain of juice bars located in Yonkers and the Bronx, as a way to provide healthy snacking alternatives to the low-income communities that nourished the artists themselves.

Beyond the fancy and organic, even Flava Flav had a run of soul food restaurants in the early 2010s, and Raekwon of Wu-Tang fame has been posting home cooking videos to Youtube since 2009 under the title "Inside the Chef's Kitchen."
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And the food media establishment is catching on as well. Just this year, Bon Appétit combined forces with Genius to create an in-depth chart illuminating the relationship between rap lyrics and fine dining trends, shown below.

And that's just the statistics. Any hip-hop fan could name a track or verse, or even an entire song that imparts some culinary wisdom. A personal favorite of mine that doesn't waste any time cutting to the chase is the MF Doom masterpiece LP, Mm.. Food.

"Beef rap, could lead to getting teeth capped
Or even a wreath for ma dukes on some grief crap
I suggest you change your diet
It can lead to high blood pressure if you fry it
Or even a stroke, heart attack, heart disease
It ain't no starting back once arteries start to squeeze"

- MF Doom, "Beef Rap" off Mm.. Food

With each song title named in reference to a dish, Doom's witty lyricism and swung flow, combined with his signature homemade sound collage instrumentals, make this record a hip-hop classic, while adding another brick in the wall of marriage between the culinary and the fine art of rap.
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And if all this weren't enough to adequately convince the non-believers in this holy union, here's something that might.

The annual Stay Hungry event in New York City, founded by Syreeta Gates in partnership with Chef Elle Simone of She Chef, is a competition that inspires high school students to pursue the culinary arts by connecting cooking with hip-hop. The competition pairs students with experienced chef-mentors to learn skills and build dishes inspired by hip-hop lyrics, giving new relevance to the students' relationship with food. Food, like hip-hop, becomes a vehicle for self expression. Next year, the competition hopes to expand to include students from elementary through college levels.

From Ludacris' Chicken & Beer toJ Dilla's Donuts, Beyoncé's Lemonade to Kelis' Milkshake, food serves as a topical vessel in hip-hop. Whether it's witty lyricism, sexually suggestive analogies, or direct samples of culinary audio, food is an inescapable theme in hip-hop and always has been.

As Bohan Phoenix put it in our talk, "hip-hop and food are exactly the same when it comes to bringing together and sharing cultures... It's the concept of human connection, and that is what they both offer, especially when bundled together."

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Food & Hip-Hop: A Love Story for the Ages - Soundfly

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This week, VH1 is premiering their much hyped new cooking show, "Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party," hosted by, you guessed it, Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart. Now, despite the fact that Snoop and Martha have quite the history, many see this as yet another tacky contribution to the typical unscripted and pulpy celebrity-centered programming for which VH1 is famous.

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About "Kookies"

"Kookies" is the closing song from the classic DOOM album MM.. FOOD. On the song, DOOM makes reference to a variety of different types of cookies such as Girl Scout Cookies, Oreos, wafers, and others. Aside from talking about cookies, DOOM also talks about masturbating to internet porn and eventually getting caught by his wife. Cookies are used as a double entendre with edible cookies and the HTTP version.

Intentional or not, the song is closely tied to a Langston Hughes poem, Harlem Sweeties, that compares women to various treats.

The original version of the song samples the closing theme music from Sesame Street.

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About "Kookies" "Kookies" is the closing song from the classic DOOM album MM.. FOOD. On the song, DOOM makes reference to a variety of different types of cookies such as Girl Scout Cookies, Oreos, wafers, and others. Aside from talking about cookies, DOOM also talks about masturbating to internet porn and eventually getting caught by his wife.

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Happy 15th Anniversary to MF DOOM's fifth studio album Mm.. Food, originally released November 16, 2004.

When Daniel "MF DOOM" Dumile released MM.. Food 15 years ago, he was wrapping up one of the best and most unorthodox album runs in hip-hop history. In the space of a little under a year-and-a-half, he released four classic projects, each under a different name/alias. After getting experimental with King Geedorah's Take Me To Your Leader (2003),Viktor Vaughn's Vaudeville Villain (2003), and Madvillain's Madvillainy (2004), DOOM returned to familiar ground, releasing his second album under the MF DOOM moniker, his fifth album overall, and continuing the astonishing tales of the Metal-Faced Villain.

I've written tributes to all of the DOOM-related albums released during this period, and MM.. Food is of the same caliber as the others, which is to say that it's among the best albums of the '00s. DOOM maintains his creativity both in front of and behind the boards, remaining one of the most gifted rapper/producer double-threats of all time. The album remains an immensely enjoyable listening experience to this day.

By the time that MM.. Food dropped through Rhyme Sayers Entertainment, DOOM enthusiasts had already been exposed to the instrumental version of much of the musical backdrop. DOOM had begun releasing his Special Herbs series of beat CDs in the early '00s, eventually reaching ten volumes of the material. However, while the music may have been familiar at times, DOOM was improving as an emcee. DOOM continued to adapt his rhyme style; very few songs on the album feature traditionally structured verse-chorus hip-hop tracks. Instead, DOOM often unleashes a stream of lengthy verses, only to be broken up by sampled pieces of dialogue.

MM.. Food serves as the sequel to Operation: Doomsday (1999). It's the next "issue" or story-arc in DOOM's plans to achieve total domination. During the skits between the songs on the album, he incorporates more samples from the aforementioned Spider-Man vs. Dr. Doom episode, as well as other cartoons and records that feature the Metal Fingers as the main antagonist. As an added bonus, many of the songs are food or drink-themed, or at least share a title with something having to do with food and/or alcohol.

As a producer, DOOM has an amazing ear for samples. Throughout his career he's been able to pull out the exact right sections of tracks, be they popular R&B songs or soundtracks to obscure anime, and transform them into perfect tracks. The only artist who rivals DOOM's talent in this area is early to mid '90s era RZA.

DOOM puts his ear to excellent use throughout MM.. Food, starting with "Beef Rapp," the album's opening track. Here he samples sections of an episode of the 1980s version of the Spider-Man cartoon, repurposing its music and re-cutting vocal samples to advance the song's "story." When on the mic, DOOM is in peak form, weaving in his vast pop culture knowledge into his clever rhymes, filtering it through his drunken slur. He describes himself in the third person as "a rhyming cannibal who's dressed to kill and cynical / Whether is it animal, vegetable or mineral / It's a miracle how he get so lyrical / And proceed to move the crowd like an old Negro spiritual."

MM.. Food is also a sequel to Doomsday in terms of DOOM's approach to production. Like his first solo album, he continues to pair late '70s and early '80s Quiet Storm R&B with hard-hitting hip-hop drums. Or, in some, cases, beat boxes, like on the album's first single "Hoe Cakes." DOOM chops the vocal percussion from the intro to J.J. Fad's "Supersonic" and pairs it with the shimmering keys and bass from Anita Baker 's "Sweet Love." Alternately describing himself as the hip-hop D.B. Cooper and "the boss like King Koopa," DOOM brags about his extra-curricular exploits with the lovely ladies of the world, and throws in a reference to Foofur for good measure.

Songs like "Kon Carne" and "Deep Fried Frenz" also both fall into the previously described production style. DOOM shows his continued affinity for beat boxes, mixing the intro to Just Ice's "LaToya" with a brief snatch from Sade's "Is It a Crime." Meanwhile, on "Deep Fried Frenz," DOOM blends the drum track and vocals from Whodini's "Friends" with a horn breakdown from Hubert Laws' "Friends and Strangers." It's the ideal backdrop for DOOM to discuss the complicated dynamics of friendship and loyalty, and learning when to trust someone and when to watch out for betrayal.

"Rap Snitch Knishes" is one of MM.. Food 's most enduring entries. The song is a team-up with the elusive Mr. Fantastik that they use to ridicule rappers who "snitch" on themselves through their rhymes, expressing disgust towards any rapper who would "sit up in court and by their own star witness." The song features the second and likely final performance from Mr. Fantastik, a longtime friend of DOOM's who moved from New York to Atlanta a little while before DOOM did. While rhyming on a sample of the guitar break from David Matthew's "Space Odyssey," DOOM warns, "Informer, keep it up and get tested / Pop through your bubble vest or double-breasted."

DOOM is also extremely skilled at putting together sound collage tracks, where he tells a story through vocal samples taken from many different sources. On Take Me To Your Leader, he created the track "Monster Zero," made up of dialogue from old monster movies and other associated dramas. For MM.. Food, he puts together a four part food-themed suite, expertly taking and rearranging vocals from obscure Saturday morning cartoons, news broadcasts, and children's programming. Through his manipulations, he fashions conversations with superheroes who call each other "chicken heads," characters from the Electric Company talk about tripping on hallucinogens, and Sesame Street 's Roosevelt Franklin cautioning the album's listeners about the dangers of food additives.

MM.. Food features a few instances of outside production, which wasn't that commonplace for him. Usually DOOM projects either featured the Metal-Faced Villain handling all of the production or none of it. However, all of these tracks fit in well within the flow of the album and aren't vastly different stylistic departures. For example, on "Potholderz," DOOM teams with longtime friend Count Bass D, a fellow Atlanta resident who rhymes and produces the track. Over a slightly sped-up and quirky loop of Billy Butler's "400 Girls Ago," the two trade verses, providing more hot shit for eager listeners.

"Kon Queso," produced by PNS of the Chicago-based production crew the Molemen, fits in well with the sound of the rest of the album. With its pulsing synthesizers, the track sounds like the early '80s video-game version of a network news theme song. Originally titled "Yee Haw" and released as an independent 12" in 2003, DOOM explains at length how he'll "Train a sane brain to an insane train of thought / On a campaign trail he came to gain your support / Charge cash for an autograph / Say some shit to make your daughter laugh, then slaughter the ass."

"One Beer" is one of the best and weirdest tracks on the album. Produced by Madlib, it was an unused track from the Madvilliany recording sessions; Stones Throw released the song on a limited 45 RPM not long after Madvillainy dropped. One reason that it might not have been included on the Madvillain album is that DOOM raps over a version of Jaylib's "No Games," one of the better songs on Champion Sound (2003), also released on Stones Throw.

DOOM takes a track that Jay Dee blessed and transforms it into a separate and equally dope entity, making it very much into a "DOOM" track, rather than a Madvillain jam. Over slightly sped-up sections of Cortex's "Huit Octobre 197," DOOM begins the song by warbling a drunken rendition of "I Get a Kick Out Of You," then launches into another prolonged verse fueled by stream of consciousness imagery. He mocks wack rappers who "sound like cheerleaders, rapping and dancing like Redhead Kingpin" and professes to "wear a mask like a 'tarded helmet."

MM.. Food closes strong, first with "Vomitspit," where DOOM again kicks a lengthy verse on top of a piano sample from Mashmakhan's "Happy You Should Be." Lyrically, the song features some DOOM braggadocio and other kernels of wisdom outlining what's required to survive in the New York streets. "Plead the fifth, sip wine stiffly," he raps. "Patiently come up and be spiffy in a jiffy / Gift for the grind, criminal mind shifty / Swift with the nine through a fifty nine fifty."

The album then wraps up with "Kookies," DOOM's account of addiction to online pornography, while incorporating references to many brands and types of cookies and sweet treats. The original version of the song was built around a sample of the closing credits to Sesame Street and featured vocal samples of the Cookie Monster and The Count. Later pressings of the album feature DOOM rhyming over a stripped-down drum track, with the track likely altered due to sample clearance issues.

DOOM's career since MM.. Food has featured some good music, but also a lot of stops, starts, and obstacles. He began recording an album with Ghostface Killah, which may or may not have been completed and may or may not ever be released. He took most of the mid to late '00s off, finally releasing a proper follow up to MM.. Food when Born Like This(2009) dropped a little less than a half decade later. During the intervening five years, DOOM endured health scares and eventually began the "DOOMposter" live show fiasco, where he wouldn't appear at his own concerts, instead hiring someone else to lip synch his lyrics on stage.

In 2010 he went to Europe to tour, but wasn't allowed back in the United States due to complications with his passport. During the subsequent years he's recorded and released material sporadically, often working in the production capacity. The last album he released was last year's Czarface Meets Metal Face (2018), his team-up with the duo of Esoteric and Inspektah Deck.

But while it was happening, DOOM's album run was amazing to behold and helped inspire a whole younger generation of rappers, who were influenced by his quirkiness and unorthodox approach to rapping and production. And it cemented him as one of the best artists of his generation.

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Revisiting MF DOOM's 'MM.. Food' (2004) | Retrospective Tribute

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Happy 15th Anniversary to MF DOOM's fifth studio album Mm.. Food, originally released November 16, 2004. When Daniel "MF DOOM" Dumile released MM.. Food 15 years ago, he was wrapping up one of the best and most unorthodox album runs in hip-hop history.

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Rap loves food. Skeptics: name another genre that has its own brand of potato chips, or counts as heroes men named Notorious B.I.G. and Big Pun and Puffy and Fat Joe and Raekwon the Chef, or singlehandedly stabilized a dying French wine town with an MTV spot and a few choice Diddies. Foodtalk is facile shorthand, and after 15 years in the game, MF Doom has had his share of Warren G Cheezie Nachos and Master P Platinum BBQ Rap Snacks. But when hip-hop got fat and gangsta and lucrative-- as well as massively important, culturally influential, and-- Doom kept low, disgruntled by what he saw as big-money rap's new self-importance. "Only in America could you find a way to earn a healthy buck/ And still keep your attitude on self-destruct," Doom would say later in "Rhymes Like Dimes". By 1993, rap had toasted to The Chronic, Illmatic, and 36 Chambers; had it been released then, KMD's pointed and confrontational Black Bastards would have sounded but a wolf cry while the rest of hip-hop was taking its first sips of gin and juice.

"There are different topics besides murdering everybody. That seems to be the in thing-- how many people you can murder on a record. So I'm bringing it back to the old, bragging about how nice you are with the words." Doom said this on NPR in 2003, but the sentiment holds true for his 1999 comeback solo full-length Operation: Doomsday. Like other rap heavyweights at the time, Doom promised world domination, but with tongue firmly in cheek, making tall boasts only to undermine them with nerdy self-deprecation and high-falutant science-fiction soap-ops. Doom "came to destroy rap" because rap had betrayed itself: Operation: Doomsday was the story of-- and vehicle for-- his return-to-roots revenge.

"Operation Doomsday complete," we're told in the opening sound collage of Mm..Food?. As an official follow-up to Operation: Doomsday, Mm..Food? is an attempt to make good on Doom's almost fascist conceit to restore rap's golden age despite its loss of innocence. While Doom doesn't drop strictly food-related rhymes, the album's subject matter is always commonplace: friends, sucka MCs, girls, weed, and hip-hop. Post Doomsday, MF Doom as MF Doom has no interest in the space-laser rapocalypse of King Geedorah's Take Me To Your Leader or the dysfunctional gangster whim of Madvillain's Madvillainy. Here Doom wants nothing more than to score some Clever Points with quirky one-liners over tight beats.

"On his own throne, the boss like King Koopa", Doom spits silver dollars like a subway-card dispenser, but he also loosens his mask a bit for a few tender bleats: "Look like a black wookie when he keeps his hair low," he confesses on "Beef Rapp". There aren't as many belly laughs on Mm..Food? as there were on VV1 or Madvillainy, but Doom does manage this spam-mail slam on "Kookies": "Supposed to be checkin e-mails/ All I got is messages from ass naked females [cookies]/ I don't know no Jenny, she said it's free/ And I won't owe her a penny, and that's the last time I saw her/ But thousands of more horrors are on line (Gomorrah...)". Unlike Doomsday, guest spots are smartly kept to a minimum, though in fairness, "Rapp Snitch Knishes" co-emcee Mr. Fantastik hardly embarrasses himself: "True to the ski mask New York's my origin/ Play a fake gangsta like a old accordian."

Most of Doom's raps on Mm..Food? sacrifice cohesion for maximum punch. When Doom does muster some self-restraint, he comes off triply brilliant. From the beginning, the Count Bass-D production "Potholderz" darts back and forth across the metaphor until we simply can't tell whether Doom's talking about gloves or roach clips: "What-- these old things?/ About to throw them away with the gold rings that make them don't fit like OJ". The Whodini sample on "Deep Fried Frenz" is awful in that purposeful maybe-Eminem sort of way. Here Doom turns a feel-good song into a mess of betrayal, bitterness, and matter-of-fact credos: "You could either ignore this advice, or take it from me/ Be too nice and people take you for a dummy."

With the exception of the album's two older tracks-- the Madlib-produced, Madvillainy leftover "One Beer" and the PNS-produced "Yee Haw", here re-recorded as "Kon Queso"-- and "Potholderz", Doom controls all the production on Mm..Food?. A lot of these beats are old no-frills Special Herbs loops, most lacking the marks of Doom's science-fiction fetish. Of the newer beats, the 70s Blue Note funk on "Vomitspit" is up there with Doom's best production work, and the stuttery "Potholderz" has the best bassline on any hip-hop album this year. Doom is also one of the few producers who should be allowed to do sound collage skits: "Poo-Putt Platter" has sample sequences that at one point reads, "'You risked your life for us.' 'Thanks.' 'I've lost an arm.' 'Good.' 'Stop it father!'" One skit would have been plenty though; instead, Doom dumps four of these right in the middle of the album, a nasty rut that makes Mm..Food? pretty much unplayable front-to-back after the first few spins, especially since the tracks that follow these skits-- the elevator-rap "Kon Karne" and the maudlin "Guinnesses"-- are among Doom's worst.

If Mm..Food? feels merely good or somewhat inconsequential, it's because it is that way by design. Doom has no pretense here-- he's an equally great rapper and producer, and he wants people to respect him for his skills alone: "It's about the beats/ Not about the streets and who food he about to eat". On one hand we can admire his intentions; on the other we can criticize his pigheadedness. Hip-hop can be consequential and important when it wants to be, and perhaps the capable Doom is keeping his aspirations too far in check. The truth is that Doom could go on making five or six Mm..Food?'s each year for the rest of his career-- but when will "merely good" not be good enough?

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