Take Me To Your Leader - King Geedorah (2016)
A week of kings: I spun up my randomizer and randomly got 3 different artists with “King” in their names. So I’ve expanded it to a whole week
MF DOOM was a prolific rapper and producer, although he often released material under other pseudonyms like King Geedorah. The sobriquet comes from Godzilla’s rogue’s gallery, as does a lot of the chopped up dialog sprinkled throughout. There are also other monster movies, old tv commercials, and I’m pretty sure I heard some looney tunes samples.
This is mostly DOOM doing what DOOM does, cooler-than-you beats to make you want to swagger in like the coolest nerd in the room. He only takes a vocal on a couple of the tracks, The Final Hour and the incredible Anti-Matter. The rest of the record is manned with features from undergound MCs that some people will know but I mostly don’t, including the similarly Toho-monster-movie-obsessed Monsta Island Czars crew.
The second half of the record is especially strong, and stands with any of DOOM’s many underground masterpieces.
