The Missing Notebook Rhymes

The Missing Notebook Rhymes was announced on 7 August 2017 on both Doom{{cite web |title=ADULT SWIM PRESENTS Doom'S "THE MISSING NOTEBOOK RHYMES" |url=https://gasdrawls.com/home/adult-swim-presents-Dooms-the-missing-notebook-rhymes |website=GasDrawls.com |access-date=19 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808113307/https://gasdrawls.com/home/adult-swim-presents-Dooms-the-missing-notebook-rhymes |archive-date=8 August 2017 |date=7 August 2017 |url-status=dead}} and Adult Swim's{{cite web |title=The Missing Notebook Rhymes |url=https://www.adultswim.com/music/Doom/ |website=Adult Swim |access-date=19 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808015513/https://www.adultswim.com/music/Doom/ |archive-date=8 August 2017 |url-status=dead}} websites after Adult Swim received a folder from Doom containing 15 rare or unreleased songs.{{cite web |title=Adult Swim to release Doom's The Missing Notebook Rhymes track by track |url=https://www.thewire.co.uk/news/47735/adult-swim-to-release-Doom-s-the-missing-notebook-rhymes-track-by-track |website=The Wire |access-date=20 March 2021 |date=11 August 2017}} The first track, "Notebook 00 - Negus", was released on Adult Swim's website alongside the announcement.{{cite web |last1=Darville |first1=Jordan |title=Adult Swim Will Release 15 Brand New Doom Tracks, And You Can Listen To One Now |url=https://www.thefader.com/2017/08/07/adult-swim-15-new-Doom-tracks-missing-notebook-rhymes-negus-sean-price |website=The Fader |access-date=20 March 2021 |date=7 August 2017}} In an interview with Mass Appeal, Adult Swim creative director Jason DeMarco said, "They’re tracks that [Doom] either doesn’t have a home for, or they are part of other projects which aren’t necessarily complete, but we can sort of tease them . . . It’s sort of a peek at everything he has going on right now." The second track, "Notebook 01 - True Lightyears", was intended to double as the second Missing Notebook Rhyme and also as the first single from Doom's original group KMD's still-unreleased comeback album Crack In Time.{{cite web |last1=Montes |first1=Patrick |title=Doom & Jay Electronica Collide for KMD's First Album Single in 24 Years, "True Lightyears" |url=https://hypebeast.com/2018/8/Doom-jay-electronica-kmd-true-lightyears |website=HypeBeast |access-date=20 March 2021 |date=16 August 2017}}

{{track listing

| extra_column = Performer

| title1 = Notebook 00 - Negus

| length1 = 3:06

| note1 = featuring Doom

| extra1 = Sean Price

| title2 = Notebook 01 - True Lightyears

| length2 = 2:25

| note2 = featuring Jay Electronica and Doom

| extra2 = KMD

| title3 = Notebook 02 - Doomsayer

| length3 = 2:01

| extra3 = Doom

| title4 = Notebook 03

| length4 = 3:03

| extra4 = Doom

| title5 = Notebook 04

| length5 = 2:29

| note5 = featuring Kool Keith

| extra5 = Doom

| title6 = Notebook 05 - No Refunds

| length6 = 1:24

| extra6 = Viktor Vaughn

| title7 = Notebook 06 - Pause Tape

| length7 = 1:10

| note7 = Remix

| extra7 = Doom

| total_length = 15:38

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = RapReviews

| rev1score = 7.5/10

}}

• "Notebook 00 - Negus" also appeared on Sean Price's 2017 posthumous album Imperius Rex, which was released one day after the song's initial release as the first Missing Notebook Rhymes track.{{cite web |last1=van der Doelen |first1=Doelen |title=Behind the Scenes of MF Doom's New Adult Swim Project |url=https://massappeal.com/mf-Doom-adult-swim-missing-notebook-rhymes-behind-the-scenes/ |website=Mass Appeal |access-date=19 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818183905/https://massappeal.com/mf-Doom-adult-swim-missing-notebook-rhymes-behind-the-scenes/ |archive-date=18 August 2017 |date=14 August 2017 |url-status=dead}}
• "Notebook 01 - True Lightyears" was intended to appear on KMD's comeback album Crack In Time, which remains unreleased.{{cite web |last1=Carmichael |first1=Rodney |title=Doom And Jay Electronica Debut 'True Lightyears,' Teasing A New KMD Album |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/08/16/543876382/Doom-and-jay-electronica-debut-true-lightyears-first-kmd-track-in-nearly-25-year |website=NPR |access-date=19 March 2021 |date=16 August 2017}}
• "Notebook 03"'s verse later appeared on the 2022 Danger Mouse and Black Thought song "Belize".{{cite web |last1=Spinelli |first1=Adrian |title=DangerDoom Reunites Thanks To MF Doom's Posthumous Verse On Danger Mouse & Black Thought's 'Belize' |url=https://uproxx.com/music/dangerDoom-reunites-mf-Doom/ |website=Uproxx |access-date=13 August 2022 |date=12 August 2022}}
• "Notebook 06 - Pause Tape (Remix)" is an excerpt from the JJ Doom song "Pause Tape", released on the 2014 Bookhead EP, which cuts off just before the start of Jneiro Jarel's verse.{{cite web |last1=Hiphop |first1=Hotnew |title=The Missing Notebook Rhymes.zip mp3 – MF Doom |url=https://hotnewhiphop.co.uk/missing-notebook-rhymes-zip-mp3-mf-Doom/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112032311/https://hotnewhiphop.co.uk/missing-notebook-rhymes-zip-mp3-mf-Doom/ |archive-date=12 November 2020 |url-status=dead |website=HotNewHipHop |access-date=20 March 2021 |date=4 October 2017}}

On 26 September 2017, following the release of "Notebook 06 - Pause Tape (Remix)", Adult Swim removed The Missing Notebook Rhymes from their website.{{cite web |last1=Scott |first1=Dana |title=Doom's "Missing Notebook Rhymes" Series Appears To Be Doomed |url=https://ambrosiaforheads.com/2017/09/Dooms-missing-notebook-rhymes-series-appears-to-be-Doomed/ |website=Ambrosia for Heads |access-date=20 March 2021 |date=27 September 2017}} In a statement made the next day to Mass Appeal, an Adult Swim spokesperson stated, "Adult Swim is ending our relationship with Doom, and thus, the remaining Missing Notebook Rhymes will unfortunately have to remain…missing." No reason was officially given for the cancellation, with both Doom{{cite web |last1=Gerth |first1=Austin |title=Adult Swim takes Doom's Missing Notebook Rhymes too literally, deletes them and cut ties with Doom under mysterious circumstances |url=https://www.tinymixtapes.com/news/adult-swim-severs-ties-mf-Doom-deletes-his-ongoing-missing-notebook-rhymes-series |website=Tiny Mix Tapes |access-date=20 March 2021 |date=28 September 2017}} and Adult Swim{{cite web |last1=Monroe |first1=Jazz |last2=Blais-Billie |first2=Braudie |title=Adult Swim Cuts Ties With Doom, Deletes The Missing Notebook Rhymes |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/adult-swim-cuts-ties-with-Doom-deletes-the-missing-notebook-rhymes/ |website=Spin |access-date=20 March 2021 |date=27 September 2017}} declining to comment.{{cite web |last1=Juon |first1=Steve |title=MF Doom :: The Missing Notebook Rhymes |url=https://www.rapreviews.com/2021/01/mf-Doom-the-missing-notebook-rhymes/ |website=RapReviews |access-date=20 March 2021 |date=26 January 2021}} The album's page on Adult Swim's website began redirecting to a cryptic short story called "What I Remember of the Crash", but soon just redirected to their homepage.{{cite web |last1=Breihan |first1=Tom |title=Adult Swim Mysteriously And Prematurely Ends Its Partnership With Doom |url=https://www.stereogum.com/1964568/adult-swim-mystereiously-and-prematurely-ends-its-partnership-with-Doom/news/ |website=Stereogum |access-date=20 March 2021 |date=27 September 2017}}{{cite web |last1=Geslani |first1=Michelle |title=Doom and Adult Swim cancel The Missing Notebook Rhymes series |url=https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/09/Doom-and-adult-swim-cancel-the-missing-notebook-rhymes-series/ |website=Consequence of Sound |access-date=20 March 2021 |date=27 September 2017}}

On 31 December 2020, in the wake of the announcement of Doom's passing, Jason DeMarco gave his explanation for why the project had been cancelled in a series of Tweets after three years of silence: {{blockquote|Flash forward to like a decade later and I hear Doom really wants to work with me again. After several talks with his management we came up with the idea of the Missing Notebook Rhymes. Of course, once we [Adult Swim] start releasing them, we find two things out: A) Doom hadn’t paid the producers who made these songs or cleared the other vocalists or samples (of course he told us he had it all cleared). B) Doom owed music to a record label. Literally anything he released he owed to them. He didn’t tell us this. So the label came after us[.] It was, in short, a total boondoggle and of course we had to shut it down and apologize to a lot of people and pay a ton of money to a bunch of others.{{Cite tweet |last=DeMarco |first=Jason |author-link= |user=Clarknova1 |number=1344794164886646786 |date=31 December 2020 |title=Flash forward to like a decade later and I hear Doom really wants to work with me again. |script-title= |trans-title= |language= |retweet= |location= |access-date=26 April 2021 |link= |archive-url= |archive-date= |ref=}}{{Cite tweet |last=DeMarco |first=Jason |author-link= |user=Clarknova1 |number=1344794165616513027 |date=31 December 2020 |title=A) Doom hadn’t paid the producers who made these songs or cleared the other vocalists or samples |script-title= |trans-title= |language= |retweet= |location= |access-date=26 April 2021 |link=no |archive-url= |archive-date= |ref=}}{{Cite tweet |last=DeMarco |first=Jason |author-link= |user=Clarknova1 |number=1344794166279237635 |date=31 December 2020 |title=It was, in short, a total boondoggle |script-title= |trans-title= |language= |retweet= |location= |access-date=26 April 2021 |link=no |archive-url= |archive-date= |ref=}}}}

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|data1=File:Music Folder - The Noun Project.svg [https://soundcloud.com/elmodisco METALFACE] – Doom's SoundCloud page with the eight songs theorized to have been intended for inclusion on The Missing Notebook Rhymes}}

The Missing Notebook Rhymes was cancelled with eight of its 15 songs still unreleased, leading to fans scouring the internet for the remaining tracks.{{cite web |last1=Leask |first1=Hugh |title=Deep Fried Cutz: Nine Doom rarities from the untouchable enigma's vaults |url=https://www.factmag.com/2017/10/19/mf-Doom-deep-cuts/ |website=Fact |date=19 October 2017 |access-date=20 March 2021}} Three weeks after the cancellation of the project, it was discovered that Doom's previously-unused SoundCloud page had suddenly began uploading new songs, the first of which was a Young Guru remix of the Missing Notebook Rhymes track "Notebook 02 - Doomsayer". Eight new tracks were uploaded in total, which have been theorized by many to be the eight missing tracks from the album.{{cite AV media |date=11 January 2021 |title=The Search for the Missing Notebook Rhymes |trans-title= |medium= |language=English |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0yCG3uybDs |access-date=22 March 2021 |archive-url= |archive-date= |format=YouTube |time=3:26 |location= |publisher= An Absurd Existence |id= |isbn= |oclc= |quote= }}{{Better source needed|date=January 2022}}

{{track listing

| extra_column = Performer(s)

| headline = Theorized completed track listing

| title8 = DoomsayerSlayer.GuMix

| length8 = 2:20

| extra8 = Doom

| title9 = Masquatch

| note9 = featuring Doom

| length9 = 1:50

| extra9 = Flying Lotus

| title10 = Hydrochloric Acid

| length10 = 2:10

| extra10 = Doom

| title11 = Highs and Lows

| note11 = featuring MF Doom and Phonte

| length11 = 4:38

| extra11 = PRhyme

| title12 = In the Streets

| note12 = featuring MF Doom and BJ the Chicago Kid

| extra12 = Busta Rhymes

| length12 = 4:22

| title13 = Chinatown Wars

| length13 = 3:40

| extra13 = Ghostface Killah and Doom

| title14 = Reign... in the Subway

| extra14 = Doom

| length14 = 2:25

| title15 = Lil Mufukuz

| extra15 = Dabrye

| note15 = featuring Doom

| length15 = 2:45

}}

• "DoomsayerSlayer.GuMix" is a Young Guru remix of "Notebook 02 - Doomsayer".
• "Masquatch" was made for the 2013 video game Grand Theft Auto V.{{cite web |last1=Helman |first1=Peter |title=Flying Lotus - "Masquatch" (Feat. Doom) |url=https://www.stereogum.com/1720440/flying-lotus-masquatch-feat-Doom/news/ |website=Stereogum |access-date=29 April 2021 |date=20 November 2014}}
• "Hydrochloric Acid" is an excerpt from the WestSide Gunn and MF Doom song "2 Stings", released on the 2017 EP WestSide Doom.{{Cite AV media notes|title=WestSide Doom|others=WestSide Gunn; MF Doom|year=2017|type=liner notes|publisher=Daupe!; Griselda Records|id=DM-SP-029|location=London, England; Buffalo, New York}}
• "Highs and Lows" originally appeared in 2015 as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of PRhyme's self-titled album.{{cite web |last1=Camp |first1=Zoe |title=PRhyme (Royce Da 5'9" & DJ Premier) Team With Doom and Phonte for "Highs and Lows" |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/62258-prhyme-royce-da-59-dj-premier-team-with-Doom-and-phonte-for-highs-and-lows/ |website=Pitchfork |access-date=29 April 2021 |date=24 November 2015}}
• "In the Streets" originally appeared on Busta Rhymes' 2015 mixtape The Return of the Dragon: The Abstract Went On Vacation.{{cite web |last1=Pearce |first1=Sheldon |title=The Return of the Dragon (The Abstract Went on Vacation) |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21397-the-return-of-the-dragon-the-abstract-went-on-vacation/ |website=Pitchfork |access-date=29 April 2021 |date=14 January 2016}}
• "Chinatown Wars" was made for the 2009 video game Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.{{cite web |last1=Breihan |first1=Tom |title=Ghostface Killah / Doom "Chinatown Wars" |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/11122-chinatown-wars/ |website=Pitchfork |access-date=29 April 2021 |date=18 March 2009}}
• "Reign... in the Subway" is an excerpt from the Czarface and MF Doom track "Nautical Depth", released on the 2018 album Czarface Meets Metal Face.{{Cite web|date=2018-02-08|title=Czarface & MF Doom – "Nautical Depth"|url=https://www.stereogum.com/1982308/czarface-mf-Doom-nautical-depth/music/|access-date=2021-07-06|website=Stereogum|language=en}}
• "Lil Mufukuz" also appeared on Dabrye's 2018 album Three/Three.{{cite web |last1=Darville |first1=Jordan |title=Dabrye and Doom assert their dominion on "Lil Mufukuz" |url=https://www.thefader.com/2018/01/22/dabrye-Doom-lil-mufukuz |website=The Fader |access-date=29 April 2021 |date=22 January 2018}}

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• [https://soundcloud.com/elmodisco Doom's SoundCloud page] with the eight songs theorized to have been intended for inclusion on The Missing Notebook Rhymes.

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