DOOM: Every Album Ranked From Worst To Best

Madvillainy might be the greatest album of the 2000s. DOOM and Madlib are both at the top of each other's respective games, finally making good on their promises of dismantling a genre. 

The album birthed a new cool through DOOM's abstract delivery and Madlib's dizzying production. From an instrumental standpoint alone, its deceptive simplicity rewards with every listen. 

Songs like "Accordion" and "Strange Ways" are their own brand of warped. Whether it is through the instrumentation (i.e. the use of an accordion as the focal point of a beat) or it's lyrical content (the Western World's hypocritical foreign policy), each song is its own act of rebellion. 

The last three songs in particular: "All Caps," "Great Day Today," and "Rhinestone Cowboy" might be the greatest stretch of songs on any album. Period. Despite the duo reinstating their greatness with every song, this final stretch serves as some sort of sonic victory lap. You say "how much better can this album get?" and Madvillain says "we'll show you like it's nothing." 

The album ends with applause. Perhaps a pretentious or cliched statement if it existed on any other record, but on Madvillainy it could not make more sense. The applause is deserved.