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...Daniel Dumile, Brian Burton, Dennis Coles, Thomas Calloway, Talib Greene. Now if that isn’t an all-star line-up for a hip-hop album?...
...Impressed yet? You should be, because Danger Doom’s debut, “The Mouse and the Mask,” is a hip-hop cocktail party of the scene’s brightest stars, brought together under the bizarre theme of Adult Swim cartoons...
...Doom, who broke out with last year’s collaboration with producer Madlib “Madvillainy,” is infamous, at least partially, for channeling Marvel Comics super villain Dr. Doom in his metal-faced stage persona. Danger Mouse became a hip-hop household name through his unauthorized mash-up project “The Gray Album” (a mixture of Jay-Z’s Black Album and the Beatles’ White Album). Many Adult Swim cartoons borrow liberally from past Hanna-Barbara productions (Aqualab and Space Ghost, in particular). In this way, collaboration...
...Sure, hip-hop legends like De La Soul have been known to pull off entertaining skits (“Brain-Washed Follower” is a stand-out example), KMD’s albums are peppered with them, and even “Madvillainy” features a somewhat light-hearted paean to the glories of “grass.” But having almost every track either begin and/or end with a skit seriously impacts the repeat listening capacity of the album...
...Mask”) and supervillain Doom have plans for a collaborative project (tentatively titled “Iron Man meets Metalface”) as well. Here’s hoping they drop the gimmicks on future projects, and that Adult Swim fans new to the hip-hop savants assembled here explore more of their extensive back catalogs...