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About time you heard a rhyme flow with DOOM and Kweli Talib Kweli (Ft. MF DOOM) – Fly That Knot
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He’s saying it’s about time the two gargantuan artists made a song together..

Of course, we’ve heard Old School Rules that came out in 2005, likely heard that before this one.

(Kweli’s mixtape Right About Now came out in 2005 as well, but you most likely heard in on the 2009 DOOM compilation Unexpected Guests).

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y'all wanna see a wino? Bring the wine out Viktor Vaughn – A Dead Mouse
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This line is a metaphor to state that you have to have the right bait to catch the right prey, i.e., wine will bring out the wino’s.

It plays along with the villain concept, meaning he uses the right bait to catch his prey, or the “mouse”. It might be Viktor (beer drinker, like MF DOOM) catches wine-drinkers, or Vik himself is a wino.

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And you know he don't care like Jimmy Crack Corn Viktor Vaughn – G.M.C.
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Jimmy Crack Corn used to be a blackface minstrel song and now is a popular children song. It’s a black slave’s lament over his master’s death.

Refrain:

Jimmy crack corn and I don’t care,
Jimmy crack corn and I don’t care,
Jimmy crack corn and I don’t care,
My master’s gone away.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AK-C0ujQck

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(Make the Gas Face!) For those little white lies 3rd Bass (Ft. MF DOOM) – The Gas Face
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Play on the term ‘white lies’ to take the meaning of a lie that is propagated by white men.

Also harks back to the white guy that started to associate negative connotations with black stuff: white lies -as opposed to ‘black lies’- are lies that are considered harmless or beneficial.

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Who Me? (With an Answer from Dr. Bert) KMD – Who Me? (With an Answer from Dr. Bert)
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“Who Me?” is a single released prior to, then included on, the album Mr. Hood by the rap group KMD. It was a US Rap Chart top 20 hit in the summer of 1991.

Produced by 3rd Bass, it samples the Isley Brothers song “I Turned You On” and also features samples from Songs And Stories About Animals ( a children’s LP released in 1963), Shapes & Colors: Ernie’s Favorites! (a Sesame Street book available on cassette), and the perennially-sampled hip-hop classic “The Show” by Doug E Fresh & Slick Rick. The lyrics deal with ZLX’s discontent over the Sambo caricature, asking the question: “Who (is that supposed to be)? Me?”.

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An old man, at the top of the stairs, he just stare
Cause his mind ain't there, victim of the war
Polar signs, the times is near
He drop the jewels till you buy him a beer
He said he was a linebacker for the Bears
Said he did it all back, while he's drying his tears R.A. The Rugged Man (Ft. Killah Priest & Masta Killa) – Chains
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Battle weariness — the thousand-yard stare is characteristic of marines with post-traumatic stress disorder. The old man feels like melting ice caps indicate the end is near.

“To drop the jewels” means to educate someone. Old people in the hood frequently try to educate the younger people. That is, until they get to drinking.

The old man also reminisces of the times when he was a successful football player and played for the Chicago Bears. It makes him sad that he’s lost everything he had.

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She had the tightest grip around the head of my MF DOOM – Batty Boyz
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Classic DOOM rhyming misdirection, where the expected rhyme is changed or replaced with a different word, as he does on “Great Day” from Madvillainy:

Spit so many verses sometimes my jaw twitches
One thing this party could use is more… ahem
Booze, put yourself in your own shoes

Or from “The Drop” on Viktor Vaughn:

If I’m not working or putting work in
I’m either wheeling and dealing, or probably jerkin my—
Yep—listening to nothing, taking no suggestions

DOOM also uses the writing process itself as a common theme in his lyrics, as with this line from “Rhymes Like Dimes':

Gentleman who lent a pen to a friend who write with him
Never seen the shit again but he’s still my dunny
The only thing that come between us is krill and money

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Let Me Watch Viktor Vaughn (Ft. Apani B Fly) – Let Me Watch
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Viktor goes on a date with his “cousin’s friend’s friend”. Everything goes well until Viktor gets a little ahead of himself. I don’t think she’s even gonna let him watch.

DOOM has said he likes to put one feminine song in the second half of his albums: either sung, rapped by a woman or thematically feminine. This song is the one for Vaudeville Villain. For other albums:

album year song
Vaudeville Villain 2003 Let Me Watch
Madvillainy 2004 Eye
MM.. FOOD 2004 Guinnesses
Born Like This 2009 Still Dope
Key to the Kuffs 2012 Winter Blues

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Operation Doomsday: The Mic

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The song is called Can I Watch?

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“Let Me Watch” is not even the song’s name. It’s “Can I Watch? (feat. Apani B as Nikki)”

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its called can I watch?

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Fuck y'all niggas calling it “Can I watch”. DOOM himself says let me watch at the end of the song lmaoo

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Guys the sample of the song is: 6680 Lexington – Sara Lee!! Please put it into the track info box ! :)

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Holy fuck I can’t believe you motherfuckers switched this to Can I watch

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It’s called let me watch and if you need proof VIK SAYS SO AT THE END IT’S THE LAST FUCKING LINE

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Holy fuck someone change it back to its correct titling you guys are going to hell for this

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Holy fuck someone change it back to its correct titling you guys are going to hell for this

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Genius is officially on some 1984 rewriting history type bullshit if this doesn’t get changed lmaooo

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“Let Me Watch ft. Apani B as Nikki”

Sampled from 6680 Lexington’s “Sara Lee”; a cover of “Sara Lee” by Big Foot, which funny enough does not contain the sample. It seems like 6680 Lexington improvised parts of the solo to create this gorgeous melody.

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nice Barry White huh Ghostface Killah – Beauty Jackson
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Barry White is a soul and R&B singer, famous for his love songs and ballads.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlQBV67EACw

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She has a boyfriend Fatty
He comes from Cincinnati
With 48 toes and a pickle on his nose
And this is the way the story goes MC Paul Barman (Ft. Prince Paul) – Salvation Barmy
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This is one of the versions of the second verse of the Pretty Little Dutch Girl nursery rhyme that began the song, but sung from a male perspective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q221BgiqaI8

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