He was only 19 years old when he was pronounced dead.Ī matter of days after, the elder Dumile brother was summoned to the offices of Elektra, the label set to release KMD’s sophomore album. Instead of listing examples and misleading you into thinking I was ever an avowed fan of comic books, let’s cut to the chase scene: the story of MF DOOM begins with a teenage Daniel Dumile, born to a Trinidadian mom and a Zimbabwean dad in London (more on that later), and adopting the alias of Zev Love X, stealing the show on 3rd Bass’ hip-hop purist quasi-anthem “The Gas Face” with glimpses of the brilliant deadpan wit and internal rhyme mastery which would eventually earn him a spot on hip-hop’s all-time greats list.Īfter his group KMD went from trio to duo (alongside his brother Dingilizwe, who went by DJ Subroc), they darkened the corners of their Native Tongues-adjacent sound and titled their sophomore album Black Bastards, a mostly caustic rebuke of institutionalized racism and anti-Muslim sentiment.Īs Black Bastards neared completion, Subroc was struck down on the Long Island Expressway. This has been recited to the point of cliche over the past number of days, but cliche is simply universal truth repeated ad nauseum.
THE GAME IS NOT ONLY DANGEROUS BUT IT’S MOST STRANGEĮvery villain’s origin, at least the ones worth their weight in blueprints for world domination, is forged from catastrophe of malice or circumstance.
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