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Like many filmmakers and other storytellers do, DOOM and Ghostface use reverse chronology to obscure the plot. The first verse (Ghostface) is actually the conclusion or resolution of the plot, while the second and final verse (DOOM) moves from the exposition to the climax. By witholding critical information until the end of the song, Doom and Ghost ensure an epic ending that warrants immediate replay from the listener.
The song circulated on the Internet since 2006, when it was included on a compilation released by the record label Nature Sounds.
"It’s funny, really, it’s like this: my songs are always like sketches that are in the making until I finalize them. So that particular one was a sketch. The cats who put it out apparently couldn’t wait and just went ahead and released it knowing that it was an unfinished track. I have mad different sketches of me and Starks doing different takes and stuff. So the first version everyone heard was an unfinished version. The version on Born Like This is the final version.
I gave it to Starks without the drums, and he’s one of those rappers that can just spit over it without hearing drums. Certain niggas is nice like that. So the first version is actually unfinished because I didn’t get to put the drums on it. So I just released this version as “the album version”. People tend to lean toward the first version because that’s the first one they heard and they’re used to it. I hear people be like “why’d he changed it?” but they don’t realize that it was just a sketch that they happen to catch a glimpse of."
– MF DOOM, Nerdtorious
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