Run-DMC had the hats. Flavor Flav had the clock. Kool Moe Dee had those stupid wraparound sunglasses. The Fat Boys had their, uh, fat…ness.
DOOM has the mask. It’s iconic; maybe the most iconic piece of hip-hop regalia. It’s like Van Gogh’s ear–it defines him, has only a little to do with his work, obscures the work, and everyone reads a lot into it. But it’s that killer symbol everyone knows.
So here we gots some remixes, official and unofficial, released and unreleased.
Who Is DOOM?!
It Ain’t Nuttin’ (The Dirty Sample Mix)
Monday Night At Fluid
All Outta Ale (Blockhead Mix)
Change The Beat (DJ Phonetic Mos Def Mix)
My Favorite Ladies (Inhumanz & Latina Mixes)
Ghostwhirl/Rock Co Kane Flow (PSY/OPSogist Mix)
Rhinestone Cowboy (Doom & Four Tet Mix)
Vomitspit (Problem Child Mix)
Melody (PSY/OPSogist Mix)
Distant Star - Heliocentrics (feat. Doom)
Strange Ways (Koushik Mix)
Melody (Komsik Ridiculoid Mix)
Gazzillion Ear (Dr. Who Dat? Mix)
Air (Black Cat The Mouse Trainer Mix)
Impending Doom (Clutchy Hopkins Mix)
Rock Co Kane Flow (Tom Caruana Mix)
Melody (Bla...

So it turns out that ‘dubbing a chicken’ is an actual livestock thing, where you cut off its comb and wattles so they don’t get frostbite. (That’s those red crinkly things on their heads.) Who knew? The guy at Ultimate Fowl Blog, that’s who.

Meanwhile, here’s some more dub-hop for y’all.

Super Chicken Returns
Satisfied? - J-Live
Back Stage Pass - Qwel & Maker
The Jam - Shabba Ranks (feat. KRS-One)
Made I Look - June22 vs. Nas
Dub Explosion Interlude - Lyrics Born, DJ D-Sharp & DJ Icewater
Dubbing It Raw - King Tubby Vs. Ol Dirty Bastard (Macro Dubplates Mix)
Who Can Get Busy Like This Man… - Brand Nubian
Melody (Tom Caruana Remix) - DOOM
Truth Be Told - DJ Babu & Defari
Shinin’ - Billy Woods
Money Rules Everything Around - King Tubby Vs. Wu Tang (Macro Dubplates Mix)
Hotter Reggae Music - Welton Irie
Is It Because I’m Black? - Ken Boothe
Tomorrow Dub - Gorillaz
Last Words - Ras I. Zulu vs. William S. Burroughs
Doom’s Day Machine - Brain Damage
Clint Milkwood - Audio Two vs. The Upsetter vs. Rose, Age 9

Next piece in the bucket moves from head-nodding to nodding out to head-scratching tracks.

Super Chicken Meets Ice Cube Uptown
PLO Styles (Odd Nosdam Mix) - Method Man (feat. Carlton Fisk)
9 Hip-Hop Samurai - Kode 9 vs. Dead Prez
Hip Hop (DFRNT Dubmix) - Dead Prez
Skank In The Air - Chinese Man
Poison Dart - The Bug & Warrior Queen
Stone - Spectre
Easy Way Out - Strangebrew
Close to the Fire - Teledubgnosis
Always Late - Booka B
Genetic Weapon - Brain Damage (feat. Tena Stelin)
Eyupsultan (King Fader Mix) - Systemwide
Seeing n=0 - Mormon Freegan
Upsetter - Odd Nosdam