This week, Danger Doom, a hiphop CD by veteran rapper MF Doom and new jack producer Danger Mouse, entered the American pop charts at 41. This is bloody impressive! Rarely do underground (college radio) hiphop acts enter the billboard’s top 200, and I have no recollection of one act cracking the top 50. This may signal a new age or turn for hiphop, because Danger Doom is not a pop record by industry standards; it’s as intelligent and experimental as hiphop can get. Music execs must be on some “what’s going on” shit.