There’s even a full-blown tribute to the treacherous three in the form of “A.T.H.F.”, which features a special guest appearance by the Teens’ crazy, sweat-panted neighbor Carl. But if you really want to bust a gut, fast-forward to the tracks featuring the almighty Aqua Teen Hunger Force, including skits that find Master Shake stalking Danger Mouse’s answering machine and a nasty freestyle by Meatwad at the end of the disc. And don’t sleep on the hilarious “Vats of Urine”, featuring Adult Swim newcomers the Mooninites. Make sure you check out the collab with Space Ghost on “Space Ho’s” if you want to hear the Scott La Rock “Super Ho” theory go into interstellar overdrive. Luckily, Doom and Mouse sidestep the pratfalls hip-hop has unfortunately endured whenever it has rubbed elbows with television culture by allowing the nuts behind the likes of “Sealab 2021” and “Harvey Birdman” to flex their comedic muscle with the same respect they gave such high profile MC’s as Ghostface Killah, Talib Kweli and Cee-Lo here.
#THE MOUSE AND THE MASK FULL#
Released in conjunction with the Cartoon Network’s late night subsidiary Adult Swim, “The Mouse and the Mask” boasts perhaps the most bizarre and dazzling array of cameos rap music has ever witnessed, as the popular cult channel’s biggest stars all step up to the mic to ensue full frontal insanity. If you want the true LOL LP of 2005, look no further than the long-awaited collaboration between underground hip-hop sensations Danger Mouse and MF Doom. It all adds up to the best album of the year in the hip-hop underground, and perhaps the best with any degree of popularity.Forget what you’ve heard about frat boy jokester Dane Cook having the comedy album market on lock. He calls on the same type of rollerskating pianos, brassy fanfares, flutes, vibraphones, and cavernous drum loops that anyone of a certain age will recall from Fat Albert or Electric Company.
Danger Mouse's productions have the same punch and catchy flair as on Gorillaz's Demon Days, but they're even more impressive here with the absence of Damon Albarn's interference and need to court a pop audience.
#THE MOUSE AND THE MASK SERIES#
Doom's dense flow and ciphered allusions have much in common with Adult Swim both presuppose a large body of cultural knowledge to appreciate what's going on and both rely on a series of bankable eccentricities presented at light speed with high artistry and innumerable subtleties for later parsing by fans. No, it's the experts who handle nearly all of this record, and they're at the top of their game. Granted, none of these cartoon characters are rappers, and they're wisely given only backgrounds, transitions, or samples (all of them hilarious). Their partners for The Mouse and the Mask are the characters of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block, a cast whose creators share with Danger Mouse and MF Doom the same influences (obscure '70s superheroes, some making a resurgence on Adult Swim) and motivations (a parade of surrealist fantasies intersecting with real life, like the crusading happy meal that airs on Cartoon Network as Aqua Teen Hunger Force). Next out of the box is Danger Doom, the stunning and welcome collaboration of two of hip-hop's most innovative artists, both of whom already have close ties to the world of animation - Danger Mouse not only named himself after a cartoon but is also a part-time Gorillaz beatmaker, and the rapper MF Doom has imagined himself variously as a comic-book character and fire-breathing monster-movie hero (not to mention, he's rarely photographed without wearing an iron mask that makes him look like an early version of the Marvel supervillain Doctor Doom). Rapping with cartoon characters was artistic suicide until Gorillaz dropped a bomb in 2001 with a platinum album and what turned out to be a surprisingly long shelf life.
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