MF DOOM - Figaro | Rhymes Highlighted 

Man, what the fuck. This is so surreal... I discovered his music very late, but damn. His shit blew me away. Rest in Peace DOOM.

So sad 😞

why did he die he was only 49 this is so sad

Fuck 2020

Now he can rest and enjoy his ice cream forever 🐐

I thought I was the only one that caught that FIRE BAR 😂

definitely saved the best bars for last

💯

Thomas Freeman can you explain it for the kids in the back?

@@thizzellewashington1626 he likes ice cream

Why the freak does that really makes sense 😂💯

what a dumb comparison I love it

he sound like a old school ski mask

@@bowskee yooo fr

@@bowskee oh yeah... He really does.

My problem is most of the time I don't understand what he means, I'm not a native speaker so that could be why but it's a bit annoying to me that I love his sound so much but don't understand what he's talking about

@@francescoalexgiacalone878 Agree. As a non-native English speaker, some of the rhymes and references go over my head quite often, but the scheme in which he rhymes and the delivery makes me look past all that.

You guys aren’t having problems understanding. A lot of it is just silly rhymes to flow

Agreed. I think one aspect of DOOM's writing that gets overlooked or rarely mentioned is that, when he wants to be, he can be really funny!

So fucking true.

Ice cream has another meaning

@@CPUGaming wut is it?

@@naxotogo I think I heard some where that it he means he likes women of all races, cause ice cream comes in many colors

@@CPUGamingno I’m pretty sure he likes ice cream

ice cream is jus another way he talks abt fuckin 💀

For real man. Dude is amazing

@Thomas Pynchon LMFAOOO

Thomas Pynchon yes

Thomas Pynchon it’s called word play and metaphors cuzzo

Thomas Pynchon look up a lyricology 101 video on him you’ll get it a lil more. Even tho DOOM don’t make music for niggas that don’t get it

That’s what makes DOOM unique there’s a rhyme within a rhyme when he spits he doesn’t follow the universal hip hop pattern of saying one line that rhymes and then saying another. He try’s to fit in as many same sounding words// syllables in the span of two to four bars

yung corleone rakim been doing that 40 years ago

Revenant KZB I never said DOOM was the originator of the style and Rakim is one of the goats but he never rhymed like that where every consecutive word/syllable rhymes

MF DOOM be like: DOOM's spoons feed folks who don't follow, Soon goons need yolks boo won't swallow, 😂😂😂

😂😂😂

MF DOOM is overrated as fuck.

DOOM*

@@anti-bien-pensants6470 Just remember ALL CAPS when you spell the man name

DOOM*

@@mahmoudkhaled9271 i forgot the all caps when i spell the man name. fixed !

No (know) doz (those) pills

​@@theheezeI always thought it was "no-doz pills" as in dozing off, because he says not suppose to overdose. But I guess both are correct 🤔

​@@educostanzocuz it's a double

Agreed, that's some virtuoso shit right there. Bestest of best lyricist.

I KNOW MY MIND IS BLOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this might be the grossest bars i've ever heard. i had to listen to it 4 times just to take it in, and even now it's unfreakin believable

I thought it was toast po lils

I like the line right after a bit better though “Off pride tykes talk wide through scar meat Off sides like how Worf rides with starfleet” the way he delivers it is just chef’s kiss

@@eddyyt7466 💯

Just remember, all caps when you spell the man name

I stand corrected, Sir

@@andrejohnson6731 Lol

People think the same thing about Aesop Rock rhyming nonsense, when upon closer examination it’s anything but. The problem is rap has turned into a genre where most people expect to be spoon fed in plain language or don’t even care about lyrics.

@@dannysullivan6454 It's not because of that at all. It's because they're both so vague with what they're talking about, and because they provide no context to what they're talking about. And it's even harder with DOOM because he jumps from one topic to the next topic constantly with no segue. It's why I think Lupe is better than them both, because he has all the upsides of both of them with none of the downsides.

Easily THE best

Idk man... Pitbull is better tbh...

lol u forgot nav n soulja

Ya forgot lil pump....gucci gang 100% rhymes with gucci gang

Alright, but all joking aside, Aesop Rock and Doom are probably up for grabs as best lyricists.

ALL CAPS WHEN YOU SPELL THE MANS NAME.

Wait MF stands for METALFACE? Thought Is stood for motherfucking as in motherfucking DOOM. Anyway rest in peace man

I lmfao’d but fr RIP to the legend. Changed hip hop forever

You not allowed to be c walkin

NYC Empire and a 69 fanboy is? Nice one g

@@basedmod2139 😐 fuck is you even talkin about

NYC Empire I seen ur channel homie don’t front

yes please!

100%

He can't, he'll get sued

@@MonkeyDLuffy60073 DOOM should do it

Um just make one. Hardcore basic Photoshop all you need

Earl: Hold my lyrics

@@Hip-h0p2b0 I know. In fact they even met in real life. I do personally prefer the way how Earl's rhyming better.

Nobody really wants to touch him that's the reason ..

He's fallen sharply over the last decade, hate to admit it. When Freddie Gibbs said he raps better than DOOM, he caught some heat, but at this time it's abundantly clear that is true.

@@m-mori earl who?

I love how the line can also simply be interpreted that other rappers don't know their own shit or the chain on their neck from fake shine like shinola. Just because it glitters doesn't mean its quality fishscale.

Fishscale is also slang for quality cocaine because it sort of glitters. So it connects to that as well.

Also, fishscale is a version of cocaine that looks glittery.

Lol yea right

There’s a mention to Ghostface in that bar. He mentions a ton of MC’s through this whole track. I’ve been trying to make people aware to it. Always going unnoticed. Song has a completely different meaning than face value. He’s dropping a timeline of the art form here. The artists. The songs. Samples used. Their affect on the culture at the time, and the commercialization of it. It’s a subliminal shot. The entire thing. Good or bad. He mentions cats from Ghost, Jay, Nas, to Eminem. The list goes on. There’s more here than I can figure myself, that someone else with a different background can pickup on. This track is beyond fucking genius, and no one’s caught it. DOOM lays it the fuck out here, from his perspective. Hip-Hop. He’s covering it… There’s even specific tracks that are mentioned. Stuff he’s found influence in, or his opinion on what it’s done for the art form at the time. It’s all there. Track is stupid fucking good. Please, someone listen and hear it…

General Feldsalat. Oh look, another lyrical miracle flow😒

@@user-xs3ps1nq3e in 11 lines DOOM had 3 non rhyming syllables. That's no lyrical miracle amateur bs, just pure raw skill.

@@user-xs3ps1nq3e This is so far from a lyrical miracle flow, what are you talking about? That's like saying NWA made Crunk music, it's just stupid.

bill bill. There was a guy here trying to do a DOOM verse and he said something alone the lines of “Im a lyrical miracle” and ended it with “I’m drunk right now so it ain’t that good”. I’m not a Mong, I can tell that this is far from a lyrical miracle flow, I’m a huge DOOM fan afterall

Eminem has 13 lmao

DOOM*

or u can just mumble rap lmao

what the devil

Like any Joe Schmoe starting rapping is trying to be the GOAT.

You dont gotta sound like DOOM to be the best version of yourself. Not to be cheesy or anything cause I bet you were just joking but dont feel discouraged, just take what you like from him and try to warp it into your own style

I am in the same age as MF DOOM, so have been fortunate to listen to many lyricist, No one will ever approach this gifted individual, There was a mad quirkiness but tamed and nurtured into a visionary.

I like how he inspired Earl, and I guess that's the closest we can get to him. Anyways RIP MF DOOM

Elzhi is an honorable mention. They don't have the same cadence at all, but they are both masters with schemes and patterns.

Sadly I don’t think there is, there’s only One Beer.....

@@inthedream9127 and rappers screaming in his ears like he’s deaf 😔

It least they got Doritos Cheetos and Fritos

They probably have some delicious rap snitch knishes tho

And don’t forget about the Hoe Cakes too

One unhighlighted word from this to 1:30 ONE word doesn't rhyme in 20 SECONDS

Takato Takasui not even one word its one syllable bruh! 🥵🥵

Remember All Caps when you spell the man's name

That is the work of a genius its called holorhymes very few have ever used holorhymes in their music

It’s DOOM mate, have no clue how so many people get it wrong...

Agreed, I love Kendrick but DOOMS pen game and lyricism is just next level, RIP 🐐

People wear sandals when the ground is too hot to walk on with bare feet. The blue sandals may allude to the expression of “cold feet”. Usually, blue is used as a color of anxiety or “cold” emotions. So by DOOM saying “you have ‘blue sandals’” He could mean either: You are literally trying to cool off. (its too hot to handle) You are too cowardly to stand, or accost the heat the Villain is bringing. This wearing “blue” sandals.

Ya profile pic was me the whole song

@@drummerboy7798 *stank face activated

@Thomas Pynchon Huh?

Thomas Pynchon I think someone doesn’t know good music

Thomas Pynchon Dooms a god

that's what I was thinking about as well. He has A LOT of tracks with these complex lyricial schemes. How the fuck do you remember all of that to deliver on stage? Maybe that's why he never really performed live...

Ozarkii crazy right lol

I admit, as a silly college student, this very song was one I preformed on the open mic. All the students loved the finishing line of only letting him stick the head in XD Just keep practicing and you will remember it. Great thing about music is how it helps aid in memory. The way MF Doom does some of his flows, despite how unorthodox it is, helps in just remembering how it sounds, and then you keep hearing the song over and over and you just get it. Now I can rap this entire song easily XD

Hill Smith interesting stuff Thanks for sharing I myself am trying to get into rapping and memory is one of my flaws but I will persist thanks again for your story

@@Mlj247 repetition is key

dont know why all rappers need to rap about guns and shit tho, kinda lame like its 2020.. then they get mad when ppl suspect them of having a gun

@@harambe1331 it's just a front bro, at the end of the day they are doing whatever it takes to earn some dough

@@JoseSilva-ht8es thats cool w me everyone earning a living but the dishonesty bugs me i guess. to each their own but id still give a listen even if youre not flexing a gun or your bullets

@@harambe1331 what does this have to do with him dying 😂

@@harambe1331 that sounds like an anti American opinion hating on guns

We really have plenty of lyricists in Italy but fuck yeah I'd pay to have MF DOOM rap in Italian I'd genuinely cum in my pants

Shit he probably is. This guy is the Chuck Norris of Rap. He probably taught the Italians Italian

MF DOOM* remember all caps when you spell his name

@@willjenkins8084 why u a bitch?

@@KaySwiss420 bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh

Wait there's songs they didn't release

St0rmFlake. Literally says “not enough tracks” on this song in reference to how they left loads out of the album

Oh really? What a pity

@@maurirodriguez8753 Madlib likes to tease with the fans. According to him we literally could potentially have a Madvilliany 2 worth of unreleased materials.

@@shirashirashirashirashir omg 🤦🏻‍♂️ that would be awesome I can't imagine it

Idk man, the beat was kinda annoying to me. But hey, if you like it good for you. Doom on the other hand....was fire

@@splash8594 dont see the annoyingness

@@butcracjack idk how to describe it, maybe it was just the pitch combination of the high hats and the other stuff that just sounded off to me

Zaydan Aziz I like the beat but some people don’t like that constant beeping in the background.

@@splash8594 we need more people like you on the internet. You disagree with me about the beat yet you arent toxic about it. Be more like Zaydan.

Star Trek fans felt that one

😂

So goddam good.

I cried out laughing the first time I heard that, couldn't really believe it but apparently DOOM's a Trek fan.

@@alex_inside hes known to be a really big nerd

Will come out on Thursday. Stay tuned 👍🏾 Edit: It's out now!

@@Highlighted ay my man

Underrated song

That "universal hip hop pattern" isn't universal. Its easy and often lazy. lets artists focus on vibe and production over rapping skill. But thankfully almost all modern rappers are capable of going further than that. The ones that couldnt have already been forgotten.

Figaro Figaro 😔

What does it mean?

@@exaucemayunga22 if you want my Rap Genius deeper breakdown my guess is, not to be afraid to do whatever it is you want to do even if ppl talk crazy about you for it. As far as my basic appreciation of the line, It's a Star Trek reference. Worf was the only klingon * blood thirsty uptight alien race* aboard the Starship Enterprise..god i hated that show

"Make a hick say "what the hey?" brought that chick from sick bay Ensign, he shoulda asked his upperclassmen Before he bust blast em, never trust no Cardassians Captain's log supplemental The Klingons are now aboard the Enterprise rental vessal On my cue photon torpedo" ~VIC

and "mas" in yellow, if "ma'am" counts right after.

And the ‘for’ is pronounced (in the context of the song and DOOMs accent) “her fur her masters”

yess

Welcome to the real Rap game.

Vaevictus dude he’s so lyrical af!. Listening to his has made me look rap so much different. He makes me wanna learn rap lol.

It's a deep rabbit hole, bruh. Gazillion Ear, Monkey Suite, the entire Adult Swim album... For real tho, there's a lot of DOOM for you to catch up on out there and it's almost always amazing.

Karlton Little bruh listening to Doom just rap is like 🤯. Makes me wanna learn how to rap lol. Dude was born a genius. He’s so slept on. & most don’t understand his flow or anything & I feel like I do . I like it.

@@unkwxnx I cant take people who denigrate hip hop as a whole because of what they heard on the radio or at a party. When language is your instrument anything is possible.

many artists are

@@inutero3516 yeah but like only 4

@@furrychiefkeef2454 depends really, lyrically he is pretty good i'll give you that, but flow and just overall complexity he's relatively mediocre. His flow sounds like your average rapper with his complexity being insanely low as he barely uses any entendres. Overall hes maybe top 90% but theres countless other rappers who could outperform him in most categories

@@inutero3516 yeah but i mean discography wise theres only 4 rappers who are better

Respectfully, DOOM has 3 classics

You deserve a sub

it makes sense its just so fucking dense its really hard to wrap my head around

Damn right, those idiots don't get the genius behind 'colder than a witch tit'. Maybe they need blue sandals since it's too hot too handle

And that was also an easy bar to clock one of the worst bars to choose from for lyrical ability

He's OK. His music gets boring to listen. Lyrically. He's great but Nas is better

@Гошо Филмара Also "the best MC with no chain you ever heard" is a double entendre as in gold chain and a slave chain (implying that most rappers are slaves to their record labels)

@Гошо Филмара oh ye sry, actually I thought what u said was pretty good so I wanted to quote ur comment in dc, however bc I was on my phone I had to do it this weird way to copy it :) edit: i made sure to tell the people I quoted this to it was a quote of a yt comment, sry wasnt trying to offend you in any ways

@@sobiap3786 bruh that's straight up blasphemy

You can rap in your own language!

@@noahyudkin5458I know, but it's not as nice as with English(I’m from Italy), you see, you can easily distort English words, you can bend them, you can twist them, you can change their pronunciation and accent so that you can change the whole rhyming system, and all of this is possible only with English.

@@markdragon9395 I'm also Italian but English is basically my first language at this point but there is so much complexity and references in DOOM's music that it's like the final boss of English. Truly incredible work.

For what it's worth, DOOM is so complex that even as a native English speaker I have to listen multiple times before I even feel close to real comprehension. By the time you've figured out what he's saying, he's already two lines ahead of you. So don't judge yourself for not keeping up with DOOM - no one else can either

As an american, i can barely understand what MF DOOM is saying half the time but hes still hard 🔥

Well it's not really about anything, the lyrics are nonsense, that's part of how he's able to make the rhymes so great. (The other part is that he's still seriously talented.)

@@snapgab Well, it doesn't really have substance, but that doesn't mean he's just saying random words that rhyme they do have meaning.

@@Skooters a lot of this doesn't have meaning

@@justinmontalvo2819 do you speak English bro?

@@Skooters so you actually understand this?