Silver Vinyl. In 2003, MF DOOM introduced us to one of his most intriguing alter egos, Viktor Vaughn. As the story goes, Viktor Vaughn was an interdimensional time-traveling MC from another realm where Hip-Hop was banned. He'd been exploring time and space looking for new dimensions to sharpen his MC skills, which eventually led him to 90s era NYC, where he found himself stranded from a mechanical mishap with his time machine. He began hitting open mics and small venues, battling other MCs and picking up side-hustles in order to raise the funds to repair his time machine.
Vaudeville Villain is a concept album like no other, where MF DOOM re-envisions himself as a younger, hungrier, more brazen persona in order to explore a different point of view. Of course, developing a second self from a more technologically advanced universe, he took a new approach to the production too. Viktor Vaughn fittingly raps over next-school beats that move freely in spaces between Electronica and Hip Hop, courtesy of Sound-Ink producers King Honey, Heat Sensor and Max Bill, along with one track from RJD2. Vaudeville Villain is one of the more uniquely creative entries in the MF DOOM universe.
A1 Overture
A2 Vaudeville Villain
A3 Lickupon
A4 The Drop
A5 Lactose & Lecithin
B1 A Dead Mouse
B2 RaeDawn
B3 Let Me Watch (feat Apani B as Nikki)
B4 Open Mic Nite Pt. 1 (feat Brother Sambuca, Lord Sear, Louis Logic, Rodan as Dr Moreau)
C1 Saliva
C2 Modern Day Mugging
C3 Open Mic Nite Pt. 2 (feat AJ Ready Wright, Creature, Lord Sear)
C4 Never Dead (feat M Sayyid as Curtis Strifer)
D1 Pop Snot
D2 Mr Clean
D3 GMC
D4 Change The Beat
