But for the most part Doom’s third full-length under his “real” name is a triumph of familiar tools: exultantly rapped boom-bap fragments that sound like they just rolled off his tongue, broken up by crucial guest contributions known (Raekwon and Ghostface share one excellent turn apiece) and unknown (the spunky Empress Starhh verse “Still Dope”). And Born Like This starts off with another unpredictable opener, “Gazillion Ear,” which contains a beat skillfully concealed inside another beat within the same song we can hear the box opened to play with the other and then sealed back up again before it ends. It’s not that Doom never experimented he and Madlib took the least banging sample possible - a sighing accordion - and made it the lead “Accordion” on consensus champ Madvillainy (even Clipse’s own leadoff “Momma, I’m Sorry” two years later made the accordion far more menacing).
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