“From the top of the key for three, villain.” 🎤 In that husky, low timbre, MF DOOM starts off his first of two guest verses on “Rock Co.Kane Flow,” the album closer for De La Soul’s seventh album, ‘The Grind Date.’ It’s an anticipated moment, even now, 20 years since the album was released. Although it’s hard to come across any De La interviews where the group spoke about creating the track with DOOM, there is this bit from The Guardian where Posdnuos shared what it was like working with him: “In the studio, he didn’t have the mask on. He was like a kid: ‘Pos, what do you think of this?’ with this sneaky little laugh with his hand over his mouth. Then he’d get in the booth and lay down a rhyme so mind-blowing I’d have to rewrite mine.” Read our full essay. 🔗 LINK IN BIO. #MFDOOM #DeLaSoul #TheGrindDate