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Dissect

S12E4 - Meat Grinder by Madvillain

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Arts, Society & Culture

4.910K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Our season long dissection of MF DOOM and Madlib's Madvillainy continues with its third track "Meat Grinder" - a complex lyrical odyssey accompanied by an equally impressive beat. Dissect S12 merchandise is now available here. 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

From Spotify and the Ringer, this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible episodes.

0:09.0

This is episode four of our season-long dissection of M. F. Dune. I'm your host Cole Cushin. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Oh, oh, In interviews throughout his decades-long career, Daniel Dumelay often made it a point to distinguish himself not as a rapper, not as a musician, but a writer.

0:46.0

In 2005 he told the wire, quote, I'm an author.

0:50.0

It just so happens that what I write is in rhythmic form and it's over music."

0:54.0

Four years later in 2009, Dumle told Hip Hop DX, quote,

0:59.1

Writers are born and we're not doing it like, yeah, I think I'll be a writer today we can't help it if I had another job if I was a gardener or a city worker I would still be writing rhymes unquote

1:10.0

As we noted earlier this season Daniel's innate love for the written word can be traced all the way back to the third grade,

1:16.0

when he carried a notebook dedicated to putting words together for fun.

1:19.0

That youthful fascination with language would sustain his entire life,

1:23.6

manifesting at a macro and micro level,

1:26.1

with both Dumelay's authorship of a multi-character musical universe

1:29.6

with interacting narrative-driven albums

1:31.8

and the anomalous poetic lyricism of his intricately

1:34.6

composed verses, where each line is rich with literary devices like alliteration,

1:39.1

synectaky, enjabment, and of course, high-density multi-syllabic rhyme.

1:43.6

And there's perhaps no better example of Daniel Dumelay's relentless line after line

1:48.0

display of linguistic mastery than Mad villainy's third track,

1:51.5

the subject of our episode today, Meat Grinder.

1:54.1

Tripping off the beat kinder, dripping off the meat grinder, he's nineer, pimping, stripping,

1:59.0

sauce sweet miner. China was a first song Doom and

2:05.0

According to Stone's

2:11.0

art director Jeff Jank. Meekrinder was the first song Doom and Mad Lib composed for Mad Villeney after meeting up in LA.

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