DANGERDOOM was a hip hop project consisting of Danger Mouse and

MF DOOM Daniel Dumile ( ; July 13, 1971October 31, 2020), best known by his stage name MF Doom or simply Doom (both stylized in all caps), was a British-American rapper and record producer. Noted for his intricate wordplay, signature metal mask, and ...

. Their first album, ''

The Mouse and the Mask ''The Mouse and the Mask'' is an album by Danger Doom, a collaboration between the hip hop artists Danger Mouse and MF Doom. It was released on October 11, 2005, by the independent punk label Epitaph Records in the United States. It was also rel ...

'', was released in 2005, and followed by the '' Occult Hymn'' EP in 2006.

Background

Danger Mouse and MF DOOM had previously collaborated on "Social Distortion" from

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's ''

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'', Danger Mouse's remix of

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's "Somersault", and the track "November Has Come" from

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' second studio album, ''

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''. MF DOOM had stated that he hoped there would be a second Danger Doom album in which he would "rap from the perspective of the cartoons and in their voices, rather than simply create stories around them". Danger Mouse was also slated to reunite with MF DOOM in 2008,Danger Mouse + Beck = DangerBeck
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Adult Swim Adult Swim (AS; stylized as

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and often abbreviated as s is an American adult-oriented night-time cable television Television channel, channel that shares channel space with the basic cable network Cartoon Network and is programme ...

, a block of animated television shows airing on cable's

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Master Shake This is a list of characters featured in the Adult Swim animated television series ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force''. Main characters Master Shake Voiced by Dana Snyder, Master Shake (or simply Shake) is a narcissistic, lazy, shallow, selfish, and idi ...

Frylock This is a list of characters featured in the Adult Swim animated television series ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force''. Main characters Master Shake Voiced by Dana Snyder, Master Shake (or simply Shake) is a narcissistic, lazy, shallow, selfish, and idi ...

Meatwad This is a list of characters featured in the Adult Swim animated television series ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force''. Main characters Master Shake Voiced by Dana Snyder, Master Shake (or simply Shake) is a narcissistic, lazy, shallow, selfish, and idi ...

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, and Err from the Adult Swim television show

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all make appearances on ''The Mouse and the Mask''. References to other Adult Swim shows are found in the song "El Chupa Nibre", in which the voices of Brak (from ''

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'' and ''

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'') and

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(from ''

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'') are heard. Both the song's title and its lines "Chew an MC like El Chupa Nibre/Digest a group and sell the poop on eBay" reference the show

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. Two songs, "Perfect Hair" and "A.T.H.F.", are direct references on the shows from which they derive their names, "

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" and "

". The song Basket Case also has

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, Mentok the Mind taker, and other characters in the show

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, another show on Adult Swim. The song "Sofa King" is also an Aqua Teen Hunger Force reference. It features the Aqua Teen Hunger Force cast and BillyWitchDoctor.com from the episode "

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." Danger Doom's music has also been played on Adult Swim; one of these songs is "Space Ho's". Danger Doom was awarded Best Hip-Hop album of the year by PLUG Independent Music Awards for their album, ''

''. In 2017 DOOM’s Metalface Records reissued ''The Mouse and the Mask'' with the previously unreleased track
Mad Nice
featuring

Black Thought Tariq Luqmaan Trotter (born October 3, 1973), better known as Black Thought, is an American rapper, actor and the lead MC of the Philadelphia-based hip hop group the Roots, which he co-founded with drummer Questlove (Ahmir Thompson). Regarded ...

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. DOOM would later posthumously appear on Danger Mouse's track "Belize" off his 2022 album ''Cheat Codes''.

Discography

;Albums ;EPs ;Singles

References

External links

Epitaph
(U.S. Label site)
Lex Records
(non-US Label site)
Waxploitation
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