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November 18,2005 — The Clarion ARTS & LIFE Page 9 DANGER DOOM The Clarion Review Rating Guide ■k ir-k-k : Outstanding, worth time & $$$ ***: Not great, but still worth a look ★ ★; May do in a pinch ★: Don’t bother by Matt Rutherford Arts&Llfe Editor Danger Doom Danger Mouse, MF Doom (Universal, 2005) ■kick -k Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for the past five years, or you’re part of a much older generation, you more than likely know what Adult Swim is. In the previous four months Adult Swim has launched a rather large advertising ad cam paign for the album. Danger Doom. But who exactly are the artists behind the music? Both Danger Mouse and MF Doom have been sly about avoiding the limelight, letting their work do all of the talking. DJ Danger Mouse is best known for his work on the Grey Album', which combined Jay-Z’s lyrics from the Black Album and the music from the Beatles White Al bum. This album was an under ground item that surfaced and gained recognition from infa mous publications such as: Spin, Gentleman’s Quarterly, and Weekly Entertainment. MF Doom or Kev Love X is mainly known from a hip-hop group from the early nineties called KMD. Later he reappeared in un derground albums with a new name and an iron mask, claiming it was from the “disfigurement of the industry”. More interest ingly, the songs are laced finely with voiceovers from some of our favorite Adult Swim characters; such as: the Mooninites, Brak, Stormy, and Harvey Birdman. Hip-hop and rap as of late have has become quite the cha meleonic genre. With the emer gence of such new areas of hip- hop like. Crunk, the genre is open for anything. It would be extremely difficult for an album on the current charts to contest with the extreme outrageousness that Doom and Mice’s magnum opus emits. Throughout Danger Doom its much like a trip down memory lane for the younger generation. The lyrics speak of things like watching Saturday morning cartoons with cereal. While it may seem like a plam The Clarion is now online www.brevard-edu/clarion image. Doom’s lyrics speak out about the popularization of violence within hip-hop and his ins and outs within the hip- hop industry. Now before you write this album off as simply another artist going off, there are some other great features. Artists like Cee-Lo, Talib Kweli, and Ghostface Killah, lend their talents. My personal favor ite track from Danger Doom is “Old School”, which is a perfect of example of how he uses sym bolic imagery to make us remem ber childhood and talk about the problems of today, meanwhile rattling of some of Hanna- Barbara’s character’s names. The only complaint I have about the album is the use of the Adult Swim characters voices, which eventually get annoying. While the sheer idea of it just makes the album that much more outra geous, 1 can only help but won der if the voiceovers weren’t in cluded in Danger Doom would the album have been heard of? Or what it have reached the suc cess that the current album has? Let’s face it. Not many people are going to understand what’s going on when Master Shake pops into a song and starts up with his insane sense of humor and arrogance. But for those of us who know what s up. this album is worth your dollar Brevard’s student produced literary magazine is now accepting your work. Wp are soliciting poetry, short stories, and “rk. Please submit written work as Microsoft Word documents and drawings or U as Joees or scan-worthy copies ihai will reproduce well in black and white. Please e-mail your submissions to Hil.^^hrevard.edu or put them jfe ^VeloDe m the secieT^y’s office m MG 101. Include your name, phone number, and e-mai address. If you haw any %Z%>>reJfe2reM,o. Ken %ZKadvisor (MG W4. ext. 2237). mm
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