MF DOOM
“Living off borrowed time, the clock tick faster / That'd be the hour they knock the slick blaster.”
Behind the rusted gladiator mask, Daniel Dumile constructed the highest syllable-per-bar rhyme density in underground rap history. Every noun, verb, and conjunction in a DOOM verse links into a continuous chain of internal slant rhymes, comedic misdirection, and dusty cartoon samples.
RHYME DENSITY
100
MULTIES
100
STORYTELLING
93
PUNCHLINES
97
FLOW POCKET
96
VERIFIED FREESTYLES & CLASSIC 16s (1)
Classic 16 • Madvillainy (Stones Throw Records) (2004)
'Accordion' — Madvillainy Mosaic Rhyme Clinic
“Living off borrowed time, the clock tick faster / That'd be the hour they knock the slick blaster.”