Ironically, the rapper gains notoriety for defining his signature sound through his quirky cartoon sampling, witty puns, and vulnerable streams of consciousness.Īrguably, MF DOOM would have never been born if it weren’t for Dumile carrying his brother’s legacy. He tells the magazine, “At that time, I was damn near homeless, walking the streets of Manhattan, sleeping on benches and shit.”ĭaniel Dumile reemerges in the scene in 1997, taking those years of hurt and misfortune, and creates the supervillain character we all know as MF DOOM. A 2005 profile with The Wire offers that he spent that time raising his son and splitting his time between Atlanta and New York. The rapper ends up taking a long break from hip-hop, and never really revealed much about the sabbatical. It’s like him-and-me-combined-as one type shit.”Īfter Subroc’s untimely death, KMD split and is dropped from Elektra Records. “What I’m doing now, creatively, is different. I mean you give a fuck, you care about what goes on… but to a point where you now know that shit is real.” Later on however, he adds that in a way, he carries the torch for Subroc. To tell you the truth, you just don’t give a fuck no more. Initially, he came off as unbothered, saying, “N***** be passing away so much. In a June 1994 article from The Source, Dumile opens up about how his brother’s death affected him. DJ Subroc was hit by a car while crossing the Long Island Expressway, and passed away. On April 23, 1993, KMD and Dumile’s career trajectory tragically changed forever. He would go on to perform in the collective alongside his brother, DJ Subroc for 5 years. The rapper’s career started in 1988, when he joined rap group Kausing Much Damage (KMD) under the alias Zev Love X. With the good comes the bad, and it’s no secret that DOOM experienced his share of adversities. And his music was so relatable, it inspired today’s generation of hip-hop music. His collaborative work with a wide variety of artists continued to advance the culture. The rapper cultivated a scene where being yourself was cool. Although famously known as the supervillain, MF DOOM’s impact on the world is much more good than bad. Friends and collaborators poked fun at outsiders for thinking we knew anything about the artist, but things like these come as no surprise to fans who have gotten accustomed to the enigma that is MF DOOM.īut for those who have followed his career, it’s become clear that we have to distinguish the difference between the character and the human. It was only this year where we all learned his real birthday was July 13th. For years, we celebrated Metal Face’s birthday on January 9th. And the bamboozlement seems to even continue after death. Notorious for hiring stand-in performers for his live shows, the rapper was known as a trickster. You never knew what you were going to get with MF DOOM.
The man behind the mysterious mask was Daniel Dumile, and when the news broke in December that the rapper had passed away two months prior, the whole community was in shock and mourned together.
MF DOOM FOREVER.There have been a lot of hip-hop tragedies lately, but there’s nothing that has personally hit me harder than MF DOOM. We wish peace and healing to his family, friends and everyone touched by the gifts he shared with the planet. I speak for everyone involved when I say we were incredibly fortunate to have collaborated with DOOM.he was a one-of-a-kind, never-to-be-duplicated emcee, producer, and visionary. What you'll be hearing was finalized, mixed & mastered in the summer of 2020, and it's our honor and privilege to share it with you Friday. When COVID-19 struck and the world stopped, we chose to pull it, focus on family, and fine tune a few elements on it. Czarface writes:Ĭzarface & MF DOOM: "Super What?" was recorded and slated to drop in April of 2020. It features DMC, Del The Funky Homosapien, Kendra Morris, and Godforbid. The news recently broke that DOOM and Madlib's Madvillainy sequel was "85% done" and could see the light of day, and today it was revealed that DOOM and Czarface (Inspectah Deck, 7L & Esoteric) had completely finished a followup to 2018's Czarface Meets Metal Face called Super What? which they intended to release in April 2020 but halted the release due to COVID. Before the legendary MF DOOM's life was sadly cut short at age 49 last year, he was prolific as ever and left behind a vault of unreleased music.