Born Like This is the sixth and final solo studio album by British-American rapper/producer MF Doom. It was released under the pseudonym "Doom" on March 24, 2009 through Lex Records. It debuted at number 52 on the Billboard 200 chart, having sold 10,895 copies as of March 29, 2009. In addition to tracks produced by MF Doom, the album includes production by frequent collaborator Madlib, as well as J Dilla. The album title is borrowed from Charles Bukowski's poem "Dinosauria, We", which employs it as a cadence. The track "Cellz" opens with a sampled recording of Bukowski reading the poem.

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Born Like This received an average score of 77% based on 21 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Born Like This ranked at number 4 on The Skinny's "2009: A Year in Records" list. Pitchfork included it in their best albums of 2009, placing it at number 48.

Track listing

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Personnel

Charts

Cover art

The album cover shows a MF DOOM mask looking at a stone with text that decodes to “Doom born like this, dying because of this” in the English language.