After
MF Doom
spent a few years off record (and maybe off stage, if the impostor rumors are true), he returned in 2009 with
Born Like This
. The album included production from
Dilla
and
Madlib
alongside
Doom
himself, plus features for a quartet of legendary compatriots (
Ghostface
,
Raekwon
Bumpy Knuckles
aka
Freddie Foxxx
, and
Slug
from
Atmosphere
). The productions are dense and dark, and
's unrelenting lyrical flow is as impressively dense as ever.
is among the best purveyors of absurdist metaphysical fantasies in hip-hop since
Jeru the Damaja
is another notch in his belt. ~ TiVo Staff