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Doom: Born Like This - Album Review

>After making a notable album with DJ Dangermouse that got good exposure because of an affiliation with Catoon Networks Adult Swim program, as well as a strong body of work that seemed endless in previous years, KMD member MF Doom stopped making CD's. He supposedly had collaborative albums with Dangermouse, Madvillian and Ghostface Killah coming in the future. His production was widely circulated on Wu-Tang records and Talib Kweli said he wanted to sign him. That was 2005, in 2009 MF reemerged as just Doom with the album born like this.

This album is produced by Jake One, J Dilla, Madlib and Doom, short and sweet, that makes a good producers crew. The album kicks off with "Gazillion Air" which features Doom rhyming straight through a crazy Dilla beat that immediately made it my new favorite songs. Good things continue with Ballskin, which is cool, but cuts off way to short at a 1:30.

The album moves on to Yessir featuring Raekwon. I think he's really trying to get his name back out in the circles. He's been on songs with Lil' Wayne, Wyclef, The Game and Outkast, he's probably trying to plug that Cuban Linx 2 is comming out to a wider audience now that it's not on Aftermath and it's probably not going to get promoted well. It's good if you aren't tired of the UFO sample. "Absolutely" is a sad song that’s not bad if you want to get introspective with Doom.

"Rap ambush" and "Lightworks" both start off sounding good but are under 2 minutes. Maybe this is some kind of budget album that actually took all of Dooms best work, even if it wasn't finished. Maybe that would explain why they put "Batty Boys" on the album with Lyrics that aren't even that entertaining if you liked bashing homosexuals and a sample called from a play called “Jeff Dunham: Spark of Insanity”. Still Dope is a worthy of its title, but it’s not Doom, instead “Empress Sharhh” rhymes this one. Then the next 3 songs are too short, “Supervisions” is too much, “Bumpy’s message” is rapper Freddie Foxx giving Doom his props, and “Thank you” ends the album on a decent but not fulfilling note. This album has good songs but most are too short with only four clocking in at over 3 minutes on a 17 track album. Born Like this will leave you unfulfilled, but impressed. 3.5\5

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Blame Michael Curry?

I Remember Michael Curry playing in Detriot with Jerry Stackhouse and Ben Wallace, when the Piston's kept getting into the playoffs off the strength of wonderful coaching by Defensive Minded coach Rick Carlise. As a player, Curry was a very smart, hardnosed dender who started at Small forward for the Pistons under Carlise, even though he was 6'6 and barely ever scored any points. If my memory serves me correctly Curry ended up being cut after Larry Brown took over the team and played for Toronto and Indiana, reuniting with Carlise for his last season. He stayed on as leader of the players union even when he was having trouble finding a roster spot, none of the players seemed to care, so I think he must have gotten a lot of respect.

So Detriot goes on without Curry on the Roster, hirers Larry Brown to coach, trades for Rasheed Wallace, wins a title, looses in a championship series the next year, Replaces LB with Flip Saunders, looses Ben Wallace in 2006, Looses Flip Saunders after 2008 when the team decides the guy can coach to get wins, but not a championship.

In all honestly I always thought those Detroit teams were overratted, Curry got replaced in the Rotation by Darvin "Ham-Slamwich" Ham, who was like 8th or ninth in the rotation between, the Wallaces, Tayshaun Prince, Rip Hamilton, Chauncey Billups, the rest of the bench filled up like this:

	Mehmet Okur
	Corliss Williamson
	Mike James
	Elden Campbell
	Lindsey Hunter

Okur wasn't the player he was then that he is now, Mike James Rarely played, I never thought this roster was a championship calliber one, but still, for the next four years Detriot would stay winning with basic variations of this Roster, Most importantly, Ben Wallace left for Chicago and got replaced by Antonio McDyess.

At Whatever point Joe Dumars finally decides he is going to shake things up, gets rid of Offensively minded Flip Saunders and Replaces him with the defensive minded, inside-the-organization favorite Michael Curry.

But at what point was this team ever going to become defensive anyways? They had a bunch of old guys in a team that out-gunned the others. Their undersizes and probably need to play more up-tempo basketball. Chauncey played two games this season for the Pistons before being traded for an undoubtedly bigger talent - Allen Iverson.

So Iverson goes into this new situation missing training camp, but believing with Detriots Record in the last few seasons, that they can be a championship contender. Ask any basketball analyst if they actually believed this.

AI lost his first game as a Detroit Piston when Devin Harris dropped 50 points on them in a close loss to the Nets? Why? Because new Point Guard Rodney Stuckey couldn't keep up With Harris, and the much quicker, but smaller, AI had to guard Vince Carter because "In Detroit you guard your posistion" according to Michael Curry.

Wouldn it have made more sence to switch the Defensive schemes to have 6'0 180 pound Iverson to guard Harris and the slower but stronger 6'5, 205 pound Stuckey to guard the shooting guard.

Does this really make any sense in any situation?
I thought Curry was sabotaging the team.

Still a media love affair began with Iverson, who was willing to sacrifice for the betterment of the team. And Sacrifice he did, AI averages 18 points a game in Detriot, and he takes less shots. Before the season Iverson was 3rd all time in scoring Average only Behind Jordan and Chamberlain, he's sacrificing History right now to play the way they want him to play on a sub- .500 team.

The Piston's actually beat the Lakers soon after the Nets game, and hopes were high again. Of course, this was with little coaching help as Iverson had not yet adjusted to the trade. If you believe his is now, they just suffered an eight game loosing streak.

For the people buy into the fact that the Piston's would be better this season with Billups, who is flourishing right now in Denver are kidding themselves, you can't tell how the Pistons were going to do with Billups, he was only there for two games. Obviously Detriot wasn't going to win a championship, they got no better than last season and were pretty willing to get rid of Chauncey. Who now plays for the up-tempo type team Iverson would fit great on if they didn't have so many scorers.

Curry was always a defensive player, its hard to imagine his type of player mentality fits the ones of those he coaches now. Rasheed Wallace is guarenteed a technical if anything ever gets to physical, Hamilton and Prince are too skinny to guard 3's and 4's, and that why having all 3 guards in the lineup never worked.

Throughout this whole time, Stuckey has been the most inconsistent, he has up and down games all the time and has proven he is not a defender. Sorry Pistons, but he is not the franchise.

Now Iverson is going to come off the Bench (when he returns from injury), making this the forth major change in the lineup this season. Is Detriot really going to be any better taking their only all-star off the Bench, or did somebody else handle the situation wrong? If you ask my, I think it's the latter.