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. There have been a lot of hip-hop tragedies lately, but there’s nothing that has personally hit me harder than MF DOOM.

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