Ask any true hip-hop fan and he can tell you exactly
where and when he first heard DOOM's Operation:
Doomsday. Against seeming insurmountable odds, the
album - bootlegged mercilessly, floating in and out of print on various labels since it’s release in 1999 gained mythical status amongst music aficionados of all backgrounds as one of the landmark releases of the past decade. At its core? One man, a microphone, an MPC 2000 and a Roland VS 1680. By the time of Operation: Doomsday’s recording, DOOM was a transformed man: a veteran of hip hop’s aging “new school” reinvented as the masked, abstract wordsmith of the NOW. His pointed wit, subtly subversive lyrics and stream-of-consciousness flow over adventurous
sample-based production created the measuring
stick by which rappers in the coming decade would
measure themselves.
Now, DOOM’s own Metal Face Records will release
Operation: Doomsday as it was intended to be heard:
as a special remastered and expanded four - LP set,
featuring a 32-page lyric book and a complete collection of alternate versions, b-sides and instrumentals, packaged in a collectible tin case with the iconic ‘Mask’ logo embossed onto the front. Stones Throw’s Jeff Jank, an often DOOM collaborator, and San Francisco based
artist Jason Jagel, who provided the painting for
DOOM’s MM...Food album, were enlisted to create
both an updated version of the album’s iconic comicbook
style cover art for the box and a set of 10 Doomsday
MCs trading cards (featuring DOOM, Kurious and
others) especially for this release. Produced by Stones
Throw Records GM and A&R Egon and under the
watchful eyes of DOOM himself, this is Operation:
Doomsday as it was intended to be experienced.
GetOnDown.com EXCLUSIVE
Rhymes Like Dimes Puzzle included.
Due to a manufacturing issue, we came up on a grip of MF Doom Rhymes Like Dimes puzzles housed in the original box that the Rhymes Like Dimes 7" box set dropped in. You get the box + puzzle when you order this tin via GetOnDown.com.
Boom.