MA_Doom: Son of Yvonne

by Masta Ace

Overview

The idea of a collaborative album from Masta Ace and MF Doom is exciting, interesting, and surprising all at once, and while MA_Doom: Son of Yvonne is all of three of those adjectives, it isn't really a collaboration. Doom is here for a verse, delivering the great "Think I Am" next to Masta and hip-hop royalty Big Daddy Kane, but the rest of the album is built mostly from Doom's old Special Herbs albums, the instrumental series he released between 2000 and 2005 under the name Metal Fingers (or Metal Fingaz). To top it off, MA_Doom is also a concept album dedicated to the Masta's late mother, and most of it focuses on the rapper's early life with tracks like "Me and My Gang" and "Home Sweet Home" delivering all the nostalgia and warmth their titles imply. Confusingly, the key track "Da'pro" grabs its beat from a Nas song and not Doom's, but like everything on the album, it works. Well worth a Masta, Doom, or underground hip-hop head's attention; just don't get hung up on the collaboration bit. ~ David Jeffries

Product Details

Release Date:	07/17/2012
Label:	Fat Beats
UPC:	0659123515726
Rank:	54133

Tracks

1. D Ski's Intro
2. Nineteen Seventy Something
3. Son of Yvonne
4. Da'pro
5. Store Frontin'
6. Me and My Gang
7. Crush Hour
8. Think I Am
9. Fresh Fest
10. Hoe-Tel Leftovers
11. Slow Down
12. Home Sweet Home
13. Dedication
14. I Did It
15. In da Spot
16. Outtakes

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Masta Ace   Primary Artist
Milani the Artist   Featured Artist
MF Doom   Featured Artist
DJ Skizz   Scratching
Reggie B   Featured Artist
Pav Bundy   Featured Artist
Big Daddy Kane   Featured Artist

Technical Credits

Masta Ace   Composer,Executive Producer
D. Clear   Composer
Robert Alphonse   Executive Producer
Daniel Dumile Thompson   Composer
Rich Ahee   Mixing,Executive Producer
Pav Bundy   Road Manager
Alfred "Big Benn Klingon" Morgan   Associate Executive Producer
Chimene "C.C." Cambell   Art Direction
MF Doom   Producer