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This is Marty McFly trapping with a chip on his shoulder, a miscreant who would rather grab a G-pack than snatch a sports almanac – and all while dressed like a hood Inspector Gadget.Īs is to be expected, Dumile’s penmanship is near-immaculate on ‘Vaudeville Villain’. He attempts to bend the space-time continuum just to cop cheap blow in ‘Lactose and Lecithin’, which ends with his vow to “ next time bring men who speak Mexican and let the Tecs spin”. We are then hit with an auditory assault 36 seconds as the brash hoodlum states his intent to “ direct and flip a script like Rob Reiner’‘ and mocks his mediocre opposition for acting like they can “ heal back like Wolverine”. Vik’s tale begins the nutty professor stumbling out of his busted time machine and into the underbelly of New York City. Dumile was free to focus on spitting masterful metaphors over dark, inventive beats that are a melange of soul, jazz and futuristic electronica. Stuttering keys give off a sense of imminent dread during ‘Popsnot’’s first half, before the track switches into something more serene.

With Indian sitars and drums, ‘Dead Mouse’ sounds like a surreal trip through a back alley opium den during dystopian times. Having overseen the production of ‘Take Me to Your Leader’, Dumile was happy to let little-known electronic music collective Sound-Ink and indie producer RJD2 take over beatmaking duties on ‘Vaudeville Villain’. Such simplicity establishes this record as arguably Dumile’s most visceral, and his most fully formed from a narrative standpoint.

While DOOM and Geedorah were comic book bad guys all about total destruction and world domination, Vik Vaughn simply wanted to sell dope and spit bars (and, yes, time travel). Released just a few months after ‘Take Me to Your Leader’, a wildly experimental space rap odyssey recorded under the guise of three-headed intergalactic kaiju King Geedorah, ‘Vaudeville Villain’ showcased the day-to-day life of a character who possessed more grounded ambitions than his predecessors. One of those personas was Viktor Vaughn, a time travelling street hustler Dumile introduced on 2003’s ‘Vaudeville Villain’. Before his own tragic death, announced on New Year’s Eve, 49-year-old Dumile had gained an intensely loyal fanbase who fell in love with his ostentatious punchlines, obscure pop culture references and outlandish trio of alter-egos that would make Mick Foley appreciatively wave pistol fingers in the air. Dumile had crafted the persona of DOOM, a maniacally vengeful supervillain hell-bent on making a mark on the music industry, after the death of his brother Dingilizwe (aka DJ Subroc) and the dissolution of their early ‘90s rap group K.M.D.

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