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Dissect

S12E10 - Beef Rap by MF DOOM

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Arts, Society & Culture

4.910K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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We continue our season-long dissection of MF DOOM with a two part survey of 2004's MM..FOOD. We discuss the album's central concept and themes before a line by line analysis of its first track, "Beef Rap." Support Dissect by leaving a review or sharing this episode on social media. It really helps. Follow @dissectpodcast on Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter. Host/Writer/EP: Cole Cuchna Co-Writer: Camden Ostrander Additional Production: Justin Sayles Audio Editing: Kevin Pooler Theme Music: Birocratic Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Wake up, babe. Band's plan is back.

0:04.0

That's right, your favorite extremely long music podcast has returned,

0:08.0

and this season, we're talking grudge.

0:10.0

As usual, there's goss, there's tea, there's an excessive amount of facts and info, and you know what?

0:16.0

There's nine hours on a band that rhymes with Schmurlshmam, plus much, much more.

0:21.0

Listen to new episodes of bandsplaying with me Yossi Solak every Thursday. From Spotify and the Ringer, this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible episodes.

0:37.0

This is episode 10 of our season-long dissection of M.F. June.

0:40.0

I'm your host cool Krishna. Our last On our last episode, we concluded our multi-part dissection of M.F. Doom and Mad Libs

1:08.6

Mad Villaini. Officially released in March of 2004, the album was universally praised from day one, beloved by hip-hop purists, critics, and casuals alike, exposing both artists to new audiences beyond the underground hip-hop community.

1:22.0

In subsequent years, Mad Villaini has solidified itself

1:25.2

as an undisputed classic that continues

1:27.2

to assert its influence across multiple generations and genres.

1:31.1

Both Madlim and Doom followed Mad villainy by releasing solo projects in the same year.

1:35.2

Mad Lib returned to his live jazz experiments, releasing the album a tribute to Brother

1:39.7

Weldon under the pseudonym Monkews, the keyboard player in Mad Lib's fictional jazz band

1:44.6

Yesterday's new Quintet. Doom for his part released two more projects in 2004. First came V. Veev2,

2:01.4

aka Venomous Villain, the second and final album from Victor Vaughn released on the underground

2:06.3

label Insomniac. VVie2 was met with sub-par reviews mostly because Victor doesn't actually

2:15.0

V. V2 was met with sub-par reviews mostly because Victor doesn't

2:21.2

actually appear all that much on his own album.

2:23.4

Many of the songs feature underground up-and-coming rappers on Insomniacs label,

2:27.3

with Vic himself spending less than 10 minutes on the mic across the album's 32 minute

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