STUDIO ALBUM BY MF DOOM

Year Released: 1999

Operation: Doomsday is the debut studio album by British-American rapper MF DOOM, released through Fondle 'Em Records on 19 October 1999 and reissued by Sub Verse Records in 2001 with a slightly altered track listing. It was his first solo release under the MF DOOM moniker after previously performing as Zev Love X in the group KMD. Operation: Doomsday is regarded as one of the most influential albums in independent hip-hop history. A deluxe remastered version of the album was released by DOOM's own Metal Face Records on 24 October 2011.

Following his debut in the late-1980s, Daniel Dumile, then known as Zev Love X, suffered a series of unfortunate setbacks, including the death of his brother and fellow KMD member DJ Subroc and the subsequent abandonment of the group's second studio album Black Bastards by Elektra Records due to its political message and cover art. After the untimely death of his brother and the disbanding of KMD in 1993, Zev Love X left the hip-hop community and would suffer years of homelessness and despair. In 1997 he would re-emerge as MF DOOM, covering his face at shows and releasing singles on Bobbito Garcia's label Fondle 'Em Records. The three singles released generated enough buzz for Garcia to agree to sign DOOM for an album.

TRACK-LIST:

Side A:

1. The Time We Faced Doom (Skit)
2. Doomsday
3. Rhymes Like Dimes
4. The Finest
5. Back In The Days (Skit)

Side B:

1. Go With The Flow
2. Tick, Tick...
3. Red and Gold
4. The Hands of Doom (Skit)
5. Who You Think I Am?

Side C:

1. Doom, Are You Awake? (Skit)
2. Hey!
3. Operation: Greenbacks
4. The Mic
5. The Mystery of Doom (Skit)

Side D:

1. Dead Bent
2. Gas Drawls
3. ?
4. Hero v.s. Villain (Epilogue)