“Doomsday” by MF Doom

"Doomsday" comes off Operation: Doomsday, the 1999 debut album from British-American rapper MF Doom. Doom produced it himself, and the writing credit goes to Daniel Dumile. He built the beat from a smoothed-out lift of Sade's "Kiss of Life" and a piece of Boogie Down Productions' "Poetry", with Pebbles the Invisible Girl chiming in on extra vocals.

Doom later shrugged that it was simply bragging rap, a rundown of the rules of rhyming and the things hip-hop had let slip from memory. But there's a darker undertow: at one point he pictures what his own tombstone will say, and he explained that as a vow, his version of swearing his word is bond until the day he dies.

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