Bomb Thrown - CZARFACE & MF DOOM
A rule of thumb, if you see the name MF DOOM attached to anything, immediately listen to it. "Bomb Thrown" is the lead single off the CZARFACE and MF DOOM collaboration, Czarface Meets Metal Face, and as imagined, it's rife with impressively witty verses and superhero themes mixed with enough traditional elements to give you nostalgia for 90's Hip Hop. What's interesting about "Bomb Thrown" and Czarface Meets Metal Face, is the flow of the instrumentation: sounding like a 60's cartoon score, with an exasperated snare. The end result is a mix between a classic Hip Hop beat and and an echoed superhero cartoon of the 60's...now that's worth a listen.
However mesmerizing the nuanced beat may be, the best thing about "Bomb Thrown," and both CZARFACE and MF DOOM individually, is their word play and witty verses. In particular, MF DOOM is known to use an incredible amount of assonance (vowels repeating the same sounds) in his raps so much so that trying to rap along is like trying to speak with marbles in your mouth. That's not to say CZARFACE is not on the same level (the likes of Inspectah Deck from Wu-Tang Clan being part of the ensemble), as both parties spit some sweet rhymes. Some of my favorite verses being DOOM's "And the game's potent, it's like a never-ending quotient/A minute ago it was all smiles and hugs, now where the fuck the dough went," "Detrimental to a culture that they lack sight, ass-wipe/Catch him on stage, mad hype, with a trashed mic" and my favorite from Esoteric, "Generally speaking, each rhyme is five star/Split personality, I ride with a side car."
There's nothing vulgar or demeaning about any of their verses which is refreshing due to that consistency in Hip Hop, but that's not to say it's a straight up squeaky clean Will Smith rap. There is a focus on the verses being clever and the idea of commercialism ruining the game. The song is a metaphoric bomb thrown on conventional Hip Hop and these masked superheroes (CZARFACE and MF DOOM) are here to save the day.
Czarface Meets Metal Face is out now and I suggest listening to it attentively to really take it all in. The album never gets tired to where you wanna skip a track, it has depth, a strong consistency in its superhero antics, and is one of the best collaborations that MF DDOM has been a part of in recent years...and that's saying something.
However mesmerizing the nuanced beat may be, the best thing about "Bomb Thrown," and both CZARFACE and MF DOOM individually, is their word play and witty verses. In particular, MF DOOM is known to use an incredible amount of assonance (vowels repeating the same sounds) in his raps so much so that trying to rap along is like trying to speak with marbles in your mouth. That's not to say CZARFACE is not on the same level (the likes of Inspectah Deck from Wu-Tang Clan being part of the ensemble), as both parties spit some sweet rhymes. Some of my favorite verses being DOOM's "And the game's potent, it's like a never-ending quotient/A minute ago it was all smiles and hugs, now where the fuck the dough went," "Detrimental to a culture that they lack sight, ass-wipe/Catch him on stage, mad hype, with a trashed mic" and my favorite from Esoteric, "Generally speaking, each rhyme is five star/Split personality, I ride with a side car."
There's nothing vulgar or demeaning about any of their verses which is refreshing due to that consistency in Hip Hop, but that's not to say it's a straight up squeaky clean Will Smith rap. There is a focus on the verses being clever and the idea of commercialism ruining the game. The song is a metaphoric bomb thrown on conventional Hip Hop and these masked superheroes (CZARFACE and MF DOOM) are here to save the day.
Czarface Meets Metal Face is out now and I suggest listening to it attentively to really take it all in. The album never gets tired to where you wanna skip a track, it has depth, a strong consistency in its superhero antics, and is one of the best collaborations that MF DDOM has been a part of in recent years...and that's saying something.
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