![]() NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. PFEIFFER: That's Esoteric of Czarface talking about the group's new album called "Super What?" with the late MF DOOM.Ĭopyright © 2021 NPR. ![]() (SOUNDBITE OF CZARFACE AND MF DOOM SONG, "MANDO AND CALRISSIAN")ĮSOTERIC: DOOM'S gift is something that will last forever and never be duplicated. This was, you know, his record as much as it was ours. Whoop them like (inaudible) though, scrapped in a man hole, yo.ĮSOTERIC: Being that the record was made before he passed, I hope fans can appreciate this was DOOM on these beats, giving the gift in real time. ![]() Something that is akin to comic books, and you are escaping this real world that we're all living in, and you can just really attack in a heroic way or a villainous way and express yourself through the music. Alas, cheap cologne, cold swine, beer breath.ĮSOTERIC: I think when you grab a microphone, it's like putting on a cape, leaping off a building and doing something amazing or spectacular. Sounds brash, so imminent you can hear death. What he lacks in sentiment was stashed in the tenement. MF DOOM: (Rapping) Out your element, rational, irrelevant. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "MANDO AND CALRISSIAN") It's about the audience, for the ear and the brain, not necessarily the eyes. And where he becomes the villain and he puts the mask on, he's erasing all of the superficiality attached and stigmatized to hip-hop these days, you know? It's not about that. Action.ĮSOTERIC: I think the supervillain aspect was a persona for the music. Make you eat a (inaudible) with chips and a Heineken. Got you feeling guilty, Jedi tricks on the mind again. MF DOOM: (Rapping) Can't remember why or when. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: You're talking too much. Surrounded by snakes more meaner than a lion's den. Dripping the color envy, more greener than Ireland. It's a dirty game, getting hectic, real tiring. MF DOOM: (Rapping) Turn the world against you, even your mens buying. And it's why he's so special to so many people. But DOOM had a way of saying things and delivering things that can't be replicated.ĮSOTERIC: The way he says can't be stolen. A lot of people can be clever, intrinsic, go syllable for syllable. Why they always spying? Type of (inaudible) is this? Find nothing, get to lying.ĮSOTERIC: A lot of rappers can put words together. Ought to thank the good Lord that you ain't the type zip to line them. Might even think you talking about them when you rhyming. Don't let them sit behind you when you driving. MF DOOM: (Rapping) Soul surviving, DOOM's so conniving, never stop driving. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BREAK IN THE ACTION") And, you know, that was very relieving for me to hear. He wanted to take it in the direction of us working together. And in hip-hop, it's always man verse man and who bodied who and all that type of stuff. So you have a superhero, supervillain - super what? And one thing I wanted to stress about Doom is when we made that first record, we wanted to call it "Czarface Versus Metal Face." But he wanted to call it "Czarface Meets Metal Face." You know, he didn't want to look at it as battle. He's a member of Czarface and told us how MF DOOM brought superhero sensibility to his music.ĮSOTERIC: Doom is a villain, right? And Czarface is more like the anti-hero. We're turning this into NP-Czar for today. This is Esoteric from the mighty Czarface. (SOUNDBITE OF CZARFACE AND MF DOOM SONG, "BREAK IN THE ACTION")ĮSOTERIC: Yeah. Just before he died, he teamed up with the rap supergroup Czarface on an album called "Super What?" It's finally out now. In true superhero fashion, MF Doom was a prolific collaborator. His comic book parallels didn't stop there. The rapper MF DOOM, whose real name was Daniel Dumile and who died last fall at age 49, wore a large metal face mask on stage.
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