MF Doom

MF Doom's Born Like This is his last solo album. The album features collaborations with Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, and seminal American poet and writer Charles Bukowski, with beats from J Dilla, Madlib, and ol' Metal Fingers himself.

"I’ve been a fan of Bukowski for a while. It was a friend of mine – damn, I forget the name – from Life Sucks Die, it’s a graffiti magazine but it’s real kinda edgy, out of Minneapolis. They did an interview with me and then me and Andrew [Broder] were friends ever since then. He said, ‘Your shit reminds me of this dude Bukowski, you gotta read his stuff.’ I was a little apprehensive at first, ‘cos I was like, ‘What kinda weird shit is this?’ Then he gave me a book, The Most Beautiful Woman In Town, and after that I just got into it. “So for this album, to celebrate all us writers, emcees, if you look at it, it’s a lot of words that we say, and we all write those words: if it was written down on a piece of paper it could be a short story or like a good book. So I saw where Andrew was coming from where he sees the similarities. In tribute to Bukowski I said let me get him as a guest appearance…” Doom as quoted in HHC.