The Sharpening
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Hassan Chop philosophizes on life choices that he’s made on this track from King Geedorah’s "Take Me To Your Leader". Each verse highlights a person close to Chop who dies in a fight or beef. Chop struggles with his regret over not helping those close to him, but also knowing that he’s alive today because of his seemingly nonviolent nature. Read more on Last.fm.

King Geedorah was an MF DOOM side project. A concept album drawing on samples from sources as obvious as Godzilla movies (specifically "Kaijū Daisensō," titled "Invasion of Astro-Monster" for English release) to those as obscure as the closing theme from the original Gatchaman anime. Other notable samples include one from Just-Ice's song "This Girl Is A Slut" which appears in the song "The Fine Print" and the original Dark Shadows theme song (which appears in two tracks), to say nothing of an inspired use of a Hall & Oates song opening, "Take Me to Your Leader" offers a diverse and yet strikingly coherent pastiche of cultural artifacts. Of course, DOOM himself raps but very little on this disc, but the "rap-by-committee" approach works so well that you'll hardly notice the variety of styles, flows, and voices. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.