By wearing a mask, and bantering to a cartoon image, he satirizes the record industry gimmicks. MF Doom is a political statement, almost a pun to the industry. Viktor Vaughn is to MF DOOM what Bobby Digital is to the RZA their teenage manifested Tyler Durden: the mischief-maker created to counter acts the serious, cynical Edward Norton-ness of being a independent artists. His younger alter ego, Viktor Vaughn, championed fans, rappers, and critics alike with his laconic, nonchalant flow and whimsical witticisms in "Vaudeville Villain." But it wasn't the Metal Faced Doom who laid claim to the crown. But he is just recently emerging as a fan favorite from his two latest releases: "Madvillainy," a coo-coo combo album with the cartoon producing Madlib and his alias album as Viktor Vaughn, "Vaudeville Villain." The former inched its way into the indie mainstream to sit proudly price-gouged around college campuses and even managed to win some serious stars in a feature review by Rolling Stone (surely out of its pure strangeness). Doom has been surmounting street credit from way back in his boyhood, beat breaking days on his "Special Herbs" mixes. If you don't concur at least agree he's the closest…maybe Royce Da 5'9" but he's really in-between leagues. If there was one acceptable underground king right now, it would be MF Doom. MF Doom is Viktor Vaughn :: Venomous Villain (VV2) :: Insomniac Records
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