Twenty years ago, MF DOOM provided a decadent album with ‘MM…FOOD,’ leaving an everlasting impact since its release. It is crazy to think most people in college today are the same age as DOOM’s fifth studio album. In the two decades since its release, “MM…FOOD” has aged like fine wine, keeping young people hungry for more eccentric music like the album. Cooking up a new way to market the sequel to “Operation: Doomsday” (1999) came in hot with 11 new songs added to the 20th-anniversary edition of DOOM’s Food album that includes four remixes, seven unheard interviews with the late rapper. and new music videos for the songs “One Beer” and “Vomitspit,” that play into the sampled dialogue from cartoons and other TV programs. Each sample demonstrates a playful DOOM on a quest to obtain or poison the song’s food of focus.
A variety of color disc vinyls released on Nov. 16 to commemorate the delicious album with a new cover design of DOOM eating in a diner. Alongside this, there was a limited release of another style with DOOM’s iconic mask and various cartoons scattered in a tornado with food motifs flying out as well as an additional 7’’ picture disc vinyl with a chocolate chip cookie design for the song ‘Kookies’.
The marketing for DOOM’s “MM…FOOD (20th Anniversary Edition)” is fresh, appetizing and filling in the best way possible. This beloved album occupied an unorthodox flow of clips from cartoons, samples from classic R&B and Hip-Hop songs and bizarre instrumentals — pairing unconventionally with DOOM’s autobiographical lyrics. Its discombobulated flow of samples and DOOM’s lyrics create an immersive experience: Establishing the feeling of eating fruity pebbles in front of the TV and watching Saturday morning cartoons while feeling conflicted inside one’s mind battling a coerced consciousness. The project concludes DOOM’s plan to achieve total domination following the story arc of “Operation: Doomsday.” DOOM has delivered excellence again — serving it on a silver platter with innovative remixes and intimate unreleased interviews.
Disc 2 of “MM…FOOD” includes reimagined remixes of “One Beer” and “Hoe Cakes.” “One Beer” was originally composed with flamboyantly groovy sounds, making the listener feel as if they have been flung around trying to understand why there is only “One Beer.” The new “One Beer-Madlib Remix” differs from the original, with more futuristic and ambient audio and a steady 808-driven beat.
“Hoe Cakes” originally had a silly intro, consisting of someone beatboxing. The song also has a romantic glittery composition of instruments in the background of DOOM’s lyrics followed by the adlib “Super!” — a sample heard throughout the track from J.J. Fad’s “SuperSonic.” The “Hoe Cakes-Ant-Remix” introduces a new acapella sound from someone making a clicking sound with their mouth followed by a steady hollow drum — welcoming in a jazz-like composition of instruments with deeper notes.
There are two other remixes to “Hoe Cakes-Jake One remix” and “Hoe Cakes-Beatboxappella.” The Jake One remix provides a classic R&B acapella of women in the background with a timeless drum beat. “Beatboxappella” is DOOM’s raw vocals on top of the simple drum beat and mouth sounds made in the original song without the cartoon sampling. To express one song in three different varieties is mesmerizing and exactly the rearrangement DOOM fans need.
Disc 3 includes unheard interviews of DOOM explaining his realization of becoming MF DOOM and the influences that led him to his alter ego character. “The Tracks” describe the topic at hand that DOOM further goes into with “Being embraced by a Diverse Fanbase,” “Conquering writer’s block” and “Doing production vs. Working with producers.” Collectively, this creates a personal 10-minute interview of the late DOOM reflecting on his achievements and development of albums.
