"Rhymes Like Dimes" is a song by British-American rapper MF Doom from his debut studio album Operation: Doomsday (1999).
Produced by MF Doom himself, it contains a sample of "One Hundred Ways" by Quincy Jones featuring James Ingram.
[2][3] He laments that "Only in America could you find a way to earn a healthy buck / And still keep your attitude on self-destruct",[4] and also repeats a verse.
[5] In a review of Operation: Doomsday, Neil Drumming of CMJ New Music Monthly commented that MF Doom "flows in a rambling torrent that wobbles from first to third person and easily merits its own chamber right between RZA's jumble and Raekwon's pasta poetry", citing lyrics from "Rhymes Like Dimes" as an example.
[6] Ian Cohen of Pitchfork included the song's "entire-verse hook" as a reason why Operation: Doomsday is "above all else an extremely accessible album.