The Mouse And The Mask - DangerDoom
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Universal acclaim - based on 34 Critics What's this?

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Universal acclaim- based on 50 Ratings

  • Summary: This collaboration between MF Doom and Danger Mouse includes voices and skits from Cartoon Network's Adult Swim shows. Non-animated folks like Ghostface Killah, Cee-Lo & Talib Kweli also lend a hand.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 34
  2. Negative: 0 out of 34
  1. 100
    As subversive as it is weird.
  2. 80
    This is MF Doom's most accessible moment to date. [Nov 2005, p.108]
  3. Proof once more, that you can be experimental, extreme and eccentric but be excellently hip hop all at the same time.
  4. Both participants' artistic weaponry [is] set for "stun" instead of "kill." [Dec 2005, p.216]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 32
  3. Negative: 3 out of 32
  1. Mr.E.S.Pony
    9
    Since I'm both a fan of the two primaries on the album and of adult swim this was a marriage made in heaven. A sick, twisted heaven where milkshakes run amok on answering machines and balls of ground meat freestyle, where the master of ceremonies wheres a metal mask and the score to it all is arranged by a rodent. Expand
  2. ObaloidF
    8
    Though one of this albums two collaborators is a Madvillain alum, this album bears little resemblance to that Tour de Force. This album, a good one by all means, does not achieve the "Wow" factor that Madlib brought to the imaculate duo. Madlib is better suited to providing beats for Doom's two+ minute flows. Dangermouse should stick to extremely out-there projects (The Infamous Grey Album) or his recent procudtion job with the Gorillas. His beats are not as coherent to Doom as they could be, but the album succeeds in being a comedy/rap/other album, whether it wanted to be or not. -QWERTY Expand
  3. DillonG
    7
    danger doom rocks the hip-hop scene with their intelligent use of comical rhymes, comic book and cartoon characters, and danger mouse is great at mixing beats and at producing. their best guest appearances were obviously Talib Kweli and Ghostface. (cee-lo was alright.) it was abstract and surreal, but it could've integrated more social commentary and been more straight-forward at times....other than that, very solid first album, and hopefully many more to come. Expand
  4. ChaseM
    2
    Extremely overrated. The Adult Swim drops make this a complete novelty. Doom's performances have a distinct "phoned in" feel to them. Danger Mouse's tracks are hot. Doom has done so much better (see Vaudeville Villain). Let's Hope the Ghostface collab. has him back on track. Expand

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