Tell me that Leonardo da Vinci is the greatest artist that has ever lived and I'll show you MF DOOM. Tell me that da Vinci's Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk is underrated and I'll show you DOOM's Born Like This. Tell me about da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks and its two versions and I'll show you the two versions of MF DOOM's Operation Doomsday. Tell me a lot more about da Vinci's art and I'll show your ears a lot more about MF DOOM's music. Tell me your willingness to collaborate on a Vinci x DOOM essay and I'll show you how it's done. This is how: DOOM like Vinci. Sorcerer, scientist, wordsmith, foodie and supervillain monarch for draughtsman, scientist, engineer, artist and architect. They both polymaths, same Renaissance men, different ages.
Vinci like DOOM. Art and science comparable to food and villainy. Peaked at immortalized Vitruvian Man as did unscalable Mm...Food. Art's 1510 had Da Vinci with a self-portrait, only drawn and villainy's 2009 had Doom with a self portrait, only released as DOOM. Da Vinci's Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk is underrated for it is not painting and DOOM's Born Like This the same because a MF did not release it. Vinci like DOOM.
Vinci like DOOM. St John points up to salvation, making one uncomfortable in the process. Is that a fore- shadow of the nature of salvation.Take Me To Your Leader demands a three headed monster. Should you feel uncomfortable. Led to the Vaudeville Villain, the monster's not impressed. Can see through the villain in glance. "He's anti-hero, not a villain, unworthy." Up is Salvador Mundi, saviour of the world but he's not salvation. Saved only the world, humanity still damned. "And so what then," ask the seekers. "If the 'Saviour' is not the saviour, who or what is?" St John still points up, the answer is above the "Saviour," above half a billion stacks. St John points to the priceless, Mona Lisa whose enigmatic smile hides the very heavens within it and hints at vizarded mysteries in the clouds far above the sea of stars. Madvillainy is worthy, got King Gheedorah the three headed monster starstruck when you led it to him. After all, what's more alien to a star strider that has seen it all than an inscrutable face? St John for the enigma and King Gheedorah for the the inscrutable, both mysteries unsolved, Vinci like DOOM.
Vinci like DOOM, Virgin of the Rocks like Operation: Doomsday. Simple as that. Okay, maybe not so simple cause they is the whole two versions thing to explain. Explanation: Louvre and London are versions for Virgin of the Rocks whilst Operation Doomsday's got its Fondle'Em Records and MetalFace Records too. 1486 and 1508 for Virgin of the Rocks, Operation Doomsday matches it with 1999 and 2011. As for the differences, 2011 Operation Doomsday got more songs than the 1999 version just like the 1486 Virgin of the Rocks' figures are compositionally larger than the 1508 version. All in all, Operation Doomsday is Virgin of the Rocks. Continuing on with the religious leanings, Saint John the Baptist points up to salvation. Who else he pointing to if not Salvador Mundi? That's Vaudeville Villain who is being pointed to by King Gheedorah of Take Me To Your Leader. The King will take you to the Leader if you but ask like a Q&A.
Q: Who's the Lady and Ermine? Mona Lisa too. A: Underground and on-ground masterclasses, thats 2004's Madvillainy and Mm..Food. Genius and madness like The Lady and Ermine, they MF DOOM and Madlib, the duo that combine for the fine line. Fine wine, thats Mona Lisa who aged from ordinary to most famous and Mm…Food from mere raps to a seminal solo masterpiece, an art piece like Giuseppe's Vertumnus, all Emperor. Imperial decree is an angel's words if God was a king but leaving aside what God is, the angel Gabriel speaking to Mary is The Annunciation. A collaborative effort between Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci, they are The Mouse and The Mask respectively. Angel tells Mary he will conceive miraculously and give birth to a son to be named Jesus. Note: A son IS born. His name is DOOM and he was born miraculously. Born Like This and will die like this. After all, Born Like is the Last Supper, there's nothing after. Portrait of a Musician? Metal Fingers' Special Herbs Box Set, thats what. Got to be. Undeniably, unquestionably so. That said, The Box Set is the Portrait of a Musician but who is the Musician? Unpacked Special Herbs Volumes got the answer like;
1. Special Herbs Vol 1 - Portrait of Isabelle d'Este
2. Special Herbs Vol 2 - La Belle Ferronniere
3. Special Herbs Vol 3 - Ginevra de' Benci
4. Special Herbs Vol 4 - Dreyfus Madonna
5. Special Herbs Vol 5 & 6 - The Benois Madonna
6. Special Herbs Vol 5 & 6 - Madonna of the Carnation
7. Special Herbs Vol 7 & 8 - Madonna Litta
8. Special Herbs Vol 9 & 0 - Head of a Woman
Leonardo and Collaborator made The Triumph of Aemilius Paulus, thats the Keys to the Cuff. Add another face and its The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne. 1,2,3 like The Virgin, the Child and Saint Anne. That Trinity is like KMD, Kausing much Damage even when incomplete. They both share those fates. The Child don't care, he busy grappling with the lamb that symbolizes his Passion. So is Zev Love X, a Passion that involves a death underground, a rebirth above ground as a villain, that villain's first operation, that villain's first collaboration and that villain's death so no, the Child has no time to look at the mountains. Pity, they are truly incredible. Less so is The Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist but thats only because its a lost composition. So is Crack in Time by KMD. It was just an announcement. Madonna of the Yarnwinder or rather, Czarface and MF DOOM was announced and they delivered. Then delivered again some years later, call it Virgin of the Rocks-esque. Not Operation Doomsday quality, no way, but the versions are true, its got two. The Bucclech Madonna and Lansdowne Madonna are it. The former Madonna is Czarface Meets Metal Face and the latter Madonna is Super What? Super What? Lowkey, thats what, call that A Miracle of Saint Donates of Arezzo which is NehruviaDOOM. The Virgin and Child with Two Angels is WestSideDOOM's 2-track EP. All know who the Child is so I dare not speak on the Virgin. Catholics might really gun me down. Or the Anglicans, the Oriental Orthodox and never forget the Lutherans, they can get villainous like Luther. As for Eastern Orthodox…
In other news, Christ has been baptized, call that Venomous Villain. Go into a desert and you'll find a lion with with its mouth open, its not roaring but astonished at how aged the hermit looks. A shadow of his former self, hermit's like a ghost, Ghostface Killah. Of course the lion is MF Doom. Of course the unfinished painting is an unreleased album. Of course, Saint Jerome in the Wilderness is Swift & Changeable. Changing the topic to the Adoration of the Magi, I'm stumped…
Are you stumped for what to say? Don't be for I want to know what you think about how I have done it. Unload on me and don't be shy. I'm word-proof (I think).