KING GEEDORAH
Take Me To Your Leader (Big Dada)
Reviewed by Jason Thornberry

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MF Doom aka Zev Love X, aka Viktor Vaughn aka Daniel Dumile is still rewiring independent hip-hop, and this time he's become an enormous three-headed reptile instructing a military bent on protecting/containing its people to get fucked. King Geedorah, as he's called just now, is looking down upon the desperate fools scrambling about making their way in life -- getting paid, laid, toupee'd and drinking Gatorade. "This whole album is Geedorah's alien perspective on humans," he explains. "This is done intentionally to show the listener a mirror image of his/herself and the way we see each other." Take Me To Your Leader fuses his cut-up homemade sounding beats to rhymes in the off-center style he's becoming notorious for -- rapping just outside the drumming, almost like a jazz saxophone. Some of it works, and some of it really, really works. The Monsta Island Czars guest star, and a track from his split ep with MF Grimm gets revised here ("No Snakes Alive"). If you're already a fan, you won't care, but if you aren't yet, Take Me is a good place to start.

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