

MF DOOM descends on top of ‘Belize’ like a true champion. Thought leadership has been a much bandied-about and ballyhooed term for law firms long before 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic supercharged it. In just 38 minutes we’re taken from the soul-infused ‘Sometimes’, to the ride-with-me funk of ‘No Gold Teeth’, right on down to the sonic heatwave of ‘Violas & Lupitas’, proving that not all albums have to run longer than a feature-length film.Īs you’d expect, they rack up one hell of a guestlist along the way. Raekwon, Michael Kiwanuka, Joey Bada$$ and Run the Jewels stop by for a verse or two, but as great as these moments are, they are all overshadowed by one man. Putting Thought Back Into Thought Leadership. The birth of a calf and the life cycle of his familys. There’s no messing around, with the duo attacking the album as if it’s their last. For an urbane young man a return to the farm that he grew up in could have been seen as a failure but it turned out to be anything but. The album sees both artists return to their stylistic origins with 12 tracks of widescreen hip hop delight. By genre-hopping throughout the 2010s he’s ended up in a weird state of limbo.Ĭheat Codes, his first record in collaboration with The Roots’ Black Thought, addresses this issue head on.

However, as intriguing as some of these detours have been, you can’t help but feel like it’s time for Danger Mouse to focus on himself for once. By diving into the pool of soul, pop, rap and rock he’s helped take some of the biggest names of his generation to the next level.
