(Originally posted on 2025-10-02)

A few weeks ago, I was watching the Discord stream of a friend. She was playing some music in the background and one of the songs sounded really cool to me! It was a song by MF DOOM.

Now, I don't really listen to rap music, but this guy was really something else. My friends were surprised i didn't know about him, and recommended I should listen to some more songs.

Well, she started playing an album (Mm.. Food) from the beginning. We finished it and immediately went listen to another one. And just like that we entered a rabbit-hole and listened to six of his albums, for six hours straight. I just couldn't get enough of it!

I don't really care as much about a song's lyrics as i do about the non-lyrical aspects, which i guess explains why i'm kinda indifferent towards rap in general. But MF DOOM's tracks have some beautiful melodies, strong harmonies, even esoterical rhythms. And even for someone like me, the lyrics are really cool indeed, and quite humorous often times.

PixelJoint has been organising this little 'album collab' on Discord, where each participant makes a pixel-art version of any album cover art. So I decided it'd be nice to try and make a pixel-art interpretation of Operation: Doomsday, the album containing the song i first heard, and one whose cover art is interesting and simple enough at the same time.

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