St. Petersburg boom bap collective OL’ MadNess step forward with “DOOM,” a standalone single built to introduce the whole crew in one record. All four voices are on it: VYNEZ, TDP Boba Fatsax, Barabbas the MC and Dun-Dee Willie E, trading bars over hard, sample-driven production.
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OL’ MadNess DOOM arrives as a standalone
DOOM is a standalone single, not an album cut, and it is built like a statement record. There is no album cycle around it and no outside feature carrying the introduction. One song has to do the whole job: establish the sound, the lineup and the banner in a single pass. The crew keeps the focus on the bars. Four MCs with four different pockets share one beat, and the record moves like a cypher pressed to wax, each voice handing the track to the next. Even the title plays the villain card the crew’s name promises. That structure is the crew’s calling card, East Coast, lyric-first boom bap filtered through the Gulf Coast, and DOOM states it plainly for anyone meeting OL’ MadNess for the first time: this is a rap record, made by rappers, with nothing standing between the verses and the listener. For a collective, the standalone single is also a roll call. Every member has to show up and be counted, because a listener who catches one voice here goes looking for the rest of the catalogue. DOOM is sequenced with that job in mind, a first handshake from a crew that has been building under its own banner for well over a decade.
Four voices under the Southern Shaolin banner
OL’ MadNess is a four-man collective out of St. Petersburg, Florida: VYNEZ, TDP Boba Fatsax, Barabbas the MC and Dun-Dee Willie E. Their official emblem, the artwork carried on their Bandcamp page, reads Southern Shaolin across the top and Est. 2012 along the bottom, with the motto “HipHop Strikes Back” and a pelican worked into the OM monogram, a nod to home. The crew’s Bandcamp bio calls them “the formidable boom bap hip-hop collective blazing trails with razor-sharp lyricism,” and says the four members “form this powerhouse,” crafting rhymes that cut deep. The lineage is stated just as plainly in TDP Boba Fatsax’s Music Gateway bio, which lists his influences as Wu-Tang Clan, UGK, 2 Live Crew and Dead Prez and describes a southern backpack style. East Coast, lyric-first boom bap filtered through Florida is the crew’s whole identity, and it is the tradition DOOM stands in.
A catalogue that keeps moving
DOOM does not arrive from a crew with nothing behind it. The OL’ MadNess catalogue on Bandcamp runs through Kami, a five-track project released in 2025 on Southern Shaolin Music, the Chaos & Disarray: World Domination EP, House of MadNess, and the P.I.M.P. (Previews Into My Perception) album, home to tracks like “Warren Sapp,” “Beta C.R.E.A.M” and “Straight Off The Top.” Kami spreads the crew across every cut, from “Super Kami Guru” and “Dionysus” to “Pray for thy enemies,” with the four members trading credits as writers and featured voices. The single run shows the same work rate: “Hacksaw McNugget” put Dun-Dee Willie E, Jimbo Shrump, TDP Boba Fatsax and Barabbas Tha MC on one record. College Radio Charts reviewed Chaos & Disarray and heard “surgical wordsmithing, boom bap production, and anarchic humor,” placing the crew for fans of MF DOOM, Run The Jewels, JID and Wu-Tang Clan. Tracks like “World Domination” and “Toxic Avengers Assembly” built the villain-crew persona the name plays on, and Faygoluvers put House of MadNess through its 120 Seconds spotlight in January 2024. DOOM is the newest record in that line, a single standing on its own while the catalogue keeps stacking behind it.
In the crew’s own words
Black Lotus Clan Empire, the crew’s house, closed their note to the site with a line worth printing in full:
“Appreciate the platform for independent artists.” (Black Lotus Clan Empire)
The crew’s catalogue, videos and links all live at the Black Lotus Clan Empire hub, the full discography is up on their Bandcamp page, and the crew posts on Instagram at @blc_empire. DOOM is the record OL’ MadNess chose to put in front of the iimiTV audience: a standalone boom bap single from a St. Petersburg collective whose own emblem dates the crew to 2012.
