The World is Doomed Like a MF

I have no idea what it means at this point in time that MF Doom can release a single track that clocks in at a minute and a half and have the interwebs up in arms.

“Ballskin” is a dense, mind numbing rip of non stop raps. And if you didn’t already know that Doom was one of the most talented and intelligent rappers on the plant, on this new track, he’s able to rhyme ‘hyperbole’ and ‘get snipped verbally.’ That’s pretty awesome, but even more incredible is that the song is about his ballskin in the mouth of some undeserving fool. He wants ‘em to “taste ‘em like a pastry.”

Yup, that’s gross.

There’s no time stamp on the track itself, but on the post that accompanies it on his MySpace page reads 12.21 pm. There are forty plus comments thus far and an astounding 27,000 people listened to the track through his page. But you can download it HERE.

There hasn’t been a new album from the masked villain for a while, although he re-released MM…Food last year in a slightly altered format. But the anticipation for the upcoming Born into This is reaching a fever pitch considering that it was originally due out last September some time.

But now attached to Lex Records, who was responsible for putting out the abysmal Non-Prophets record, it seems like a release might actually occur. Considering the scant official releases from Doom, the longer the wait, the more people are gonna want to go out and cop it. It’s almost become a silly monetary game.

Doom, who already should be considered an astute business man, has merchandised his façade pretty well. And even despite the alleged stand-ins he’s paid to appear at shows, his fan base remains varied and willingly the throw down loot to get something in limited quantity – which explains the previously mentioned re-release as well as the Special Herbs series which has now hit the number ten.

The remarkable thing about those instrumental releases – apart from the fact that there aren’t any bad tracks – is that a great many of those beats have been recycled, often in two places. And people still want ‘em But Doom’s found his demographic and as long as he keeps working to put out what they want, everyone’ll be happy.