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Shock, disbelief and sadness spread across the community of fans, family and people who loved him.
My story with DOOM started in 2004. I was working on
The Beautiful Struggle tour for Talib Kweli and DOOM was the opener. I was rushing around backstage when I saw him and Benn Grimm waiting to go onstage.
“You got a dutch?” I asked him, pushing past Benn who seemed like he was trying to block him. “Nah I don’t have one, he replied, flashing a smile of 18k gold fronts. At that moment, Kweli walks by and says, “Oh you met DOOM, this is my assistant Courtney Brown Court, you know DOOM is from KMD?’
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The year was almost over. 2020, that terrible, no-good, stinky, rotten year was behind us. Before us, 2021 shone a (murky) light in the tunnelâa new year, a new president, a potential vaccine for the coronavirus. Then, the news came in, as sharp and as deep as a pothole: Daniel Dumile, better known as MF Doom, a pioneer of underground hip-hop, had died.
The new year broke with overdue news: The villain had died on Halloween. The enigmatic Daniel Dumile, better known as the iconic rapper/producer MF Doom AKA Metal Face, AKA Viktor Vaughn, AKA King Geedorah, and, once upon a time, Zev Love X was dead at 49.
Doom’s story is one of legend in the hip-hop world: He was a mythical figure, elusive to the public, and a dominant king of underground hip-hop. He started his voyage in rap lore with his brother Subroc and their group KMD. But Subroc got hit by a car attempting to cross the Long Island Expressway after the group s first album,
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“God fucking damnit,” he tweeted. “What the fuck!!?!? Are u serious? My souls is crushed. The weight of this moment. I know we are in a pandemic but we have to celebrate DOOM. Just playing the music isn’t good enough.”
A fan then suggested to FlyLo that fans had been anticipating more collaborations from the two, specifically a longer project, to which he revealed that the two had actually been working on such a project.
“I hate to say this but we were actually working on an EP,” he wrote. “There were more songs that I haven’t even heard.” He didn’t give anymore details, but it sounds as if they didn’t get to wrap it up before his untimely death.