It served something of a supervillain origin story - in 1999 he returned with Operation: Doomsday, now calling himself MF DOOM and wearing a metal mask.
Doom withdrew from the music industry for years. The endeavor ended in tragedy when DJ Subroc, Dumile’s younger brother, was hit by a car and killed in 1993, and the group was dropped from their label later that same week. You simply have to listen.īorn Daniel Dumile of Trinidadian and Zimbabwean parents in London, MF DOOM grew up in New York and started his musical career as Zev Love X in KMD, one of the great “what might have been” early 90s rap groups.
I can write down his lines that thrilled me, and you may see how many impressively dense, multi-syllable rhymes he creates – in some cases all the syllables of the set up line will rhyme with all the syllables of the line that follows (“The rest is empty with no brain but the clever nerd/ The best emcee with no chain ya ever heard”) - but it wouldn’t communicate much. With MF DOOM – or King Geedorah, or Viktor Vaughn, or any other number of alias’ he released albums under – I confront my purest version of that problem I don’t know how to do him justice. It’s an ongoing theme of the blog that writing about music is always, to some degree, a failure. MF DOOM, the masked MC, your favourite rapper’s favourite rapper, is gone.
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