With the Super Bowl taking place in Atlanta over the weekend, just about anything could have happened. As the cultural epicenter of contemporary hip-hop, the city’s… By Gary Suarez / Feb 7, 2019 1:12 pm Music News Rest In Peace: MF Doom’s Teenage Son Passes Away Hip-hop sta...
All this while navigating personal tragedy. In 2017, he announced the death of his son Malachi, yet another major loss the rapper suffered through the course of his career. Still, the output remained steady. Through the past several years, it wasn’t uncommon to see a new MF DOOM feature...
MF Doom, AKA Daniel Dumile, was born in London in 1971 to a Trinidadian mother and Zimbabwean father, moving to New York as a child. He had a first flush of success in the early 1990s with the group KMD, signing to major label Elektra Records, but his burgeoning career collapsed with...
You never knew what you were going to get with MF DOOM. Notorious for hiring stand-in performers for his live shows, the rapper was known as a trickster. And the bamboozlement seems to even continue after death. For years, we celebrated Metal Face’s birthday on January 9th. It was onl...
He is best known for being Doom, the central character on two of his better albums, the disarming 1999 debut Operation: Doomsday (Fondle 'Em) and last year's celebrated Madvillainy (Stones Throw), recorded with fellow recluse Madlib under the name Madvillain. In the coming year, there are ...
Untangling MF DOOM’s Lifelong Struggle With the U.S. Immigration System Previously unreported immigration documents show the rapper’s attempts to gain legal residency in the U.S. before his death in October 2020 By Noah YooJune 22, 2021 Graphic by Drew Litowitz “Villain got banished/Refused...
MF DOOM - Change The Beat A modern day marvel, but terrible—better—horrible When he grab the mic from son, he crushed up all his metacarpals He said he ain't mean it—totally by accident After the show, he didn't follow where y'all taxi went ...
mf doom, a masked rapper who awed hip-hop fans and fellow musicians with intricate wordplay, has died. he was 49. the british-born rapper rarely appeared in public in recent years without his signature mask, modeled after the marvel comics villain doctor doom. his death was confir...
Doomsday in 1999 by independent label Fondle 'Em marked the official turning point for Dumile in his reinvention of himself from a major label recording artist of minor status to independent artist, where he would find his greatest success. In 2000, Doom released his first collaboration with MF...
DOOM was forced to decamp to London after being denied entry to the United States (a country he had lived in nearly all of his life) and announced last year that his teenage son had died. With the exception of his undated Missing Notebook Rhymes verses, he’s sounded increasingly ...