Editorial Review:Album Description:The industry has churned out many rap stars during the last few decades, but it has delivered very few Hip Hop super heroes and only one Super Villain. MF DOOM, is definitely underground Hip Hop’s most mysterious entity, and his alter ego, VIKTOR VAUGHN, is even more shadowy.
The faceless rhyme scoundrel has returned to bring a new era of cyber rap with 'VV:2' aka 'VENOMOUS VILLAIN.'
'VV:2' is a different kind of Hip Hop record; it’s engulfed in cryptic messages and stellar production that delivers both a classic Hip Hop vibe and a cutting edge one. Vaughn is also accompanied by some underground contenders including KOOL KEITH (aka Dr. Dooom, aka Dr. Octagon, etc.). The synthesized, beat-burned 'Doper Skiller' delivers Hip Hop’s two cult favorites bringing lyrical carnage like only they can.
VIKTOR is in prime lyrical form, continually bringing verbal onslaught and dark dramatic tales of blight from outside the space-time continuum. Personality #1, DOOM, also makes appearances on tracks including the high energy, electro-hyped, 'Pop Quiz' (Extra Credit Remix).
What is 'VV:2'? Among other things, it’s a dramatic, progressively thugged-out, future-rap, classic soundtrack for fans of a genre without boundaries.
Amazon.com:Avant-garde MC Viktor Vaughn (a.k.a. MF Doom, among other names) is the Ornette Coleman of rap; or to put it another way, musical boundaries are for suckers. Like Sun Ra before him, Vaughn must've been sent to Earth from outer space to save musical humanity, because there's no other way to explain the oddball genius of 'Back End,' a gorgeous track drenched in electro-sci-fi noise that sounds like it could have come from some '80s Art of Noise record, or perhaps Andre 3000. 'Rap Game' (featuring Manchild) will appease traditional hip-hop heads attracted to keyboard-fuelled, boom-bap breakbeats. Between all of the skits, interludes, instrumentals, and found-sound constructions,
Venomous Villain actually contains very few rhymes. The album's highpoint comes when Kool Keith drops by to flip some sex-rated rhymes on 'Doper Skiller,' a cool meeting of warped minds. Whatever you call him, Vaughn should be anointed the crown prince of bedroom, backpacker hip-hop.
--Dalton Higgins
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Disc 1:- Viktormizor (Intro)
- Back End
- Fall Back/Titty Fat
- Doom On Vik
- Rap Game (Manchild & Iz-Real)
- Dope Skill (F/ Carl Kavorkian)
- Doper Skiller (F/ Kool Keith)
- Haberdashery (Interlude)
- Ode To Road Rage
- Bloody Chain (F/ Poison Pen)
- Strange New Day
- Pop Quiz (Remix)
Customer Reviews
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Not as good as Vaudeville...
...but how could it be? Vaudeville Villain was spectacular. This record has some great tracks and some decent ones, and none are bad or even mediocre. This record feels too short and hastily thrown together. Rap Game, Dope Skill and Pop Quiz are great, and the Kool Keith team-up doesn't disappoint; it's the highlight of the set. Production on Doper Skiller is of the caliber of Vaudeville, but most of the record suffers from less assured production. This would make a good B-Sides set, if only that were the case.
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Great album with fast shipment
The album is a rare and very hard to find treasure, and I thank Amazon and the store that it came from.
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Another Classic From A True Hip Hop Master
MF DOOM or in this case Viktor Vaughn can't do wrong, just at a time when everybody is convinced hip-hop is dead MF Doom is definitely what you need. Imagination, Lyrics, reference, punch line, guests, beats, it's all there hip hop culture right out of the box!
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Viktor Vaughn returned to deliver the heat.
MF DOOM just can't be stopped. He's released so many classic albums in the last seven years, that it's nearly impossible to keep up with the Super Villain. Hardcore DOOM fans do manage this, and as one, I can speak for the rest of us when I say we've come to expect nothing but dope releases from DOOM. It's amazing that on at least ten albums, he has yet to fail, when so many other artists would. Look at Kool Keith(who makes an appearance here) for example; the dude's one of the most skilled in the game, yet he still drops a mix of wack and dope albums consistently; i guess he's consistent in being inconsistent. MF DOOM is exactly the opposite.
This release was lauded for the production on it, which is completely handled by some unknown cats and their Fruity Loops programs. The production, at first, is definitely weird; however, after three or four more listens, you begin to notice just how dope it is. It's stark, and minimal in some areas, while projecting the image of DOOM being on an industrial rock tip in others. You will NOT hear this type of production anywhere else, and that's only because some people are too closed-minded to accept this different sound.
DOOM himself is in top form as always. The Venomous Villain, Viktor Vaughn, continues to give you DOOM's darker side. DOOM has said that Viktor Vaughn is his teenage self, and if this is true, then he must've been one disturbed young man, because he had some macabre fantasies. At the same time, DOOM is able to take you through these dark escapades with his unique touch of wry humor, never making you feel down, and actually making you laugh when you should be creeped.
In the end, Venomous Villain is a prime release from the Super Villain. It may not be the classic his OD, Vaudeville Villain, and Madvillainy joints were, but it's still just as dope as anything else in his large catalogue. If you're a fan of DOOM, you've gotta check this out.
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VV2: The Future
This is just as good as Vaudeville Villain. As we already know MF DOOM as Viktor Vaughn in Vaudeville Villain is well worth having in your MF DOOM collection... heck any collection. Everyone listens to MF DOOM after a bit of hip-hop, and as was Vaudeville Villain, Venomous Villain is like some sort of a freakstyle DOOM with live sections recorded at various gigs mixed in with some of the most original hip-hop heard this 21st century. Not only can DOOM rap with some awesome lyrics but his backbeat mixes is like he has hijacked the brain of Aphex Twin and plugged it into his beat box and pumped it through some DTS and then ripped everything up a number of notches with Dolby Digital 5:1 while MCing with some serious grooves that make you think you are in downtown neo-Tokyo. It is all very far out spacey wisdom. This is the future of hip-hop.
