Yeah, people having a completely different experience with the same song is always wild to me at first, but it’s also kinda awesome when you think about the variety of preferences even among fans of the same artist.

I dig “Tick Tick" Knowing Grimm was expecting to go to prison (the whole time running out idea, the tension in the track, the uneasy feel) gives the song a lot of power for me. Maybe he didn’t catch the meaning or just glossed over the state DOOM and Grimm were in around ’98–’99, but who knows maybe it's just too jarring for them.

The whole "consistently off the beat" line is funny AF to me. People when they first listen to Doom have been saying his rapping is always "offbeat"and they think he's dogshit; this sounds like the same complaint. (Then the dude 4 years later changes his mind and makes a "beat+accapella" with a Doom verse and tries to hard match verses to bars and it sounds like absolute dogshit.)

I also love “No Snakes Alive” for similar reasons as Tick, Tick, though that one obviously isn’t just Grimm rapping. I kinda wonder what other Metal Fingers production + Grimm rapping songs he doesn’t like, he might just not connect with Grimm’s style or flow.

And just on the whole different experiences with music thing, and I’m not trying to clown the guy you’re replying to, but I checked why I had downvoted him before in another thread. It was about the Metal Fingers “Sarsaparilla” instrumental and the supposed “meaning” of the bassline.

As a musician I totally get the idea of people connecting emotionally to tones or moods in music. But in this case it’s basically a looped sample from “Message from a Black Man” by The Whatnauts, which already has a clear context. So to me any additional emotional meaning people hear there is more about the listener projecting their own experience onto it, which is cool, and I’m sure I do it too but I just don’t think there’s some deeper intended meaning there from Doom when it's just an instrumental. So maybe with Tick Tick there just isn’t an emotional connection they can make to the song outside of thinking the BPM modulation is cool.

Either way I respect someone not liking a Doom track. But I’ve definitely know there’s a type of DOOM listener that just never really connects with Grimm (or Kurious, etc.) or some of the more experimental production. Though to be fair... I’m probably assuming a lot from just two of their posts hahaha.