<P> Dumile released three singles on "Bobbito" García's Fondle' Em Records, "Dead Bent", "Greenbacks" (1997), and "The M.I.C." (1998). In 1999 Fondle' Em released MF Doom's first full - length LP, Operation: Doomsday, which included these singles and their b - sides, and additional tracks . Dumile had used the spelling variant "M.F. Doom" for the singles releases, but thereafter changed this to MF Doom . Among the collaborators on these tracks were fellow members of the Monsta Island Czars collective (The M.I.C.), for which each artist took on the persona of a monster from the Godzilla mythos . Dumile went by the alias King Geedorah, a three - headed golden dragon space monster, modeled after King Ghidorah, the Toho movie monster who was a three - headed dragon that often battled Godzilla . Some of his appearances on the LP are as, and are credited to, this persona instead of that of MF Doom . Dumile would revisit this character later under various name - spellings . </P> <P> In 2001, he began working with Prince Paul, co-producing MC Paul Barman's "Paullelujah!" with MikeTheMusicGuy and Phofo . In 2002, he appeared on the Sound - Ink's Colapsus collection, on a very hard to find track titled "Monday Nite at Fluid", featuring Kurious with production by King Honey, who also produced some tracks for Dumile's album Vaudeville Villain . </P> <P> Dumile has produced all the instrumentation tracks for his solo releases, with very few exceptions . Beginning in 2001, under the "Metal Fingers" moniker, Dumile began releasing his Special Herbs instrumentals series . Many of these beats can be heard as the instrumentation tracks throughout his body of work . A separate website catalogs for which tracks each instrumental has been used . </P> <P> In 2003, Dumile released the King Geedorah album Take Me to Your Leader . Geedorah is credited as producer, but only appears as an MC on four tracks . The majority of vocal tracks feature guest MCs, and the album features several instrumental montages of sampled vocals from old movies and TV shows--a technique employed on most of Dumile's albums . Later in 2003, Dumile released the LP Vaudeville Villain under the moniker Viktor Vaughn (another play on Doctor Doom, whose "real name" is Victor von Doom). In 2004 he released a follow - up LP under the Viktor Vaughn moniker, Venomous Villain . Later in 2004, the second MF Doom album MM...Food was released by Minnesota - based label Rhymesayers Entertainment . Doom's first commercial breakthrough came in 2004, with the album Madvillainy, created with producer Madlib under the group name Madvillain . Released by Stones Throw Records, the album was a critical and commercial success . MF Doom was seen by mainstream audiences for the first time as Madvillain received publicity and acclaim in publications such as Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Spin . A video for "All Caps" and a four - date U.S. tour followed the release of Madvillainy . Additional videos for "Rhinestone Cowboy" and "Accordion", both directed by Andrew Gura, were released on the DVDs Stones Throw 101 and Stones Throw 102: In Living the True Gods, respectively . </P>

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