Mos Def, MF Doom, Congress Theater, 2/13/10

So, not the greatest night. Actually quite a huge disappointment. Got there at 8 (show started at 7), will call line was four blocks long. Almost two hours later we finally get inside (it was 18º outside mind you). Then, we have to listen to Mike Relm remix "Charlie Bit Me" for what seemed like a lifetime.
People are getting antsy. Are Mos and DOOM even showing up? It's midnight...we're tired, things have been thrown, boos have been, well booed, one guy had an anger ridden episode and found himself wrestled by security.
Finally at 12:15 Mos comes out in a DOOM mask and pretends for a wee bit to be the DOOMster himself, then off comes the mask...relief, it's Mos.
It's quite obvious Mos doesn't want to be there, while doing his best to look and sound "into it" it just isn't enough to make up for the 5 hour wait. Mos does his thing though, and God bless him, he showed up...for 45 minutes.
Then out comes "DOOM" (the quotation marks are appropriate, you'll see). So yeah, "DOOM" pops out, and within about five minutes it becomes apparent to almost everyone that there's a very good chance this isn't MF DOOM. It's been done before, and will be done again, but yes, in all likelihood DOOM sent out an impostor.
We were duped by DOOM.
Now I can't be 100% positive it wasn't him, you know the mask and all. Maybe I was projecting my tiredness and irritation to come to the worst possible conclusion. But these are the facts: First of all, he sounded very quiet. Much quieter than his hype man, secondly the volume of his voice was eerily uniform. Now, if it really was DOOM listlessly wandering around the stage moving his arms out of time, then I am just going to pretend it was an impostor anyway. Because, really, that was weak.
I don't want to say it was a waste of money because I love Mos Def and MF DOOM, but you know what? It was definitely a waste of time.