It’s sad to see someone who meant so much disappear before their time, of course, but we can still hold onto their light and celebrate it. To use those glimmers to fuel us, to help us fight where we need to. It’s important, I think, in times like these, to try hold onto the glimmers of hope and light where we can.
DOOM could be so many different things in his artistry, all while pushing hip-hop into a new stratosphere. I spent much of the next few days reading stories about him, watching videos of him, learning about how funny he was, how infuriating he could be, how game changing he was, how much he meant to so many people. DOOM is one of those rappers whose legacy and music is like magic, it’s tangible in your bones, it’s fully incomparable. While the world found out about his death on New Year’s Eve, his family revealed that it was actually October of 2020 he. It is every bit as mindblowing, rich and warm as when I first heard it. It has been half a year since the transitioning of the iconic MF DOOM. On the final day of 2020 the news broke that he had died, and it felt jarring at best – not least upon discovering he had actually left us months before (but also, how fitting for our favourite masked supervillain to have cloaked his own passing).Īnd so I laid on my bed and listened to Madvillainy – in truth, I hadn’t listened to it through in a long time. Daniel Dumile is a British-American hip hop artist who has taken on several stage names (KingGeedorah, MF DOOM, ViktorVaughn, Zev Love X) in his career. Flying Lotus - 'Between Villains' (featuring Viktor Vaughn, Earl Sweatshirt, Captain Murphy, and Thundercat) Produced by: Flying Lotus.
He was cited as one of Earl Sweatshirt's greatest and earliest influences. I imagine like a lot of people, I rang in the new year listening to MF DOOM. Daniel Dumile Thompson (born Jdied October 31, 2020)), professionally known as MF Doom (stylized as MF DOOM), was an English-born American rapper and record producer. The arbitrary “fresh start” energy seems even more arbitrary right now, but still it feels right to acknowledge that there is a lot we’re leaving behind in 2020. It feels weird in the midst of everything to have started a new year.