MF Doom?

I still love that he dropped the beat to go acapella just to call himself Hip Hop’s Benny Hill. He was so much more than the villain

He was never realy a villain

I have the original Fondle Em pressing of Operation Doomsday, hate to part with it but I wonder what that will go for now

i have the 2001 reissue of bl_ck b_st_rds, it might be one of the few semi-rare things i own.

(i mean not "rare" but not landfill either)

xxxp Tho sending imposters to shows and being like "guys I'm literally a villain what do you want" lol....

how did the brainfeeder Twitch go in the end?? took me a minute to find the video, starting it now.. Check out this video "Quantumbliss" http://www.twitch.tv/timeboy/v/857284031

DJ set started after new year countdown at like 51min

probably did the best post-ODB production wu-tang with “9 Milli Bros.” RIP to a legend.

all time best use of fenugreek the beat or the spice

looks like all the special herbs beat compilations are on this youtube playlist. this really more my speed right now

I have those special blend albums he did. Not sure if they are bootleg pressings but the mix he did of MOP was ridiculously hard

can't imagine it was all cleared and whatever but those are by doom yeah

xp to Western® with Bacon Flavor: I was listening to Special Herbs last night, and I had forgotten (if I ever knew) that DOOM made the beat for "Underwater", one of my favorite Ghostface solo joints

This seems so out of the blue, even by 2020 standards... any word on cause of death? Or why it took his family two months to announce?

I feel so awful for his wife, was there ever any more information about what happened to their son?

'To the gone and lost forever like "Oh My Darling Clementine"
He hold his heart when he telling rhyme
When it's his time, I hope his soul go to Heaven'

When MF Doom officiated a wedding in 2009! pic.twitter.com/tSJ4elyLcC

— Amanuel Teferi (@AManYouLove_T) January 1, 2021

RIP to The Villain. Of all the artists who've had formative, life changing effects on my tastes in music that've been lost to this horrible year... this one might hurt the most.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/01/mf-doom-a-hip-hop-genius-who-built-his-own-universe-of-poetry

The price hikes for his records online overnight are pretty staggering

Madvillainy is brilliant but I prefer his own solo stuff, album wise. Madvillainy just had more of a push which is why more people are familiar with it I think. Hos own production is more idiosyncratic and interesting, also just thicker sonically.

I rarely pay attention to lyrics but listening to Operation Doomsday made me pay attention and made me want to listen to more hip hop artists. His flow, his voice, his lyrics and how great the beats sounded.

Madvillainy is also brilliant and one of the best hip hop albums I’ve ever heard but I hope his legacy ends up in people looking past that album and listening how great the rest of his work is. Lots of gems amongst his other monikers and collaboratios.

I rank it like
Born like this
Mmm food
Doomsday

But tbh it's hard to decide...

Doomsday, geedorah, madvillainy, and viktor Vaughn in some order

And the second kmd album

The Jody watley sample on that album is so hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQL-B3PNkeI

If you're including all his stuff, then the king geedorah album has to be in there too. The best version of black bastards is the bootleg I got with the bass turned up a lot.

i have no idea how he managed to clear all those samples on doomsday.

villainy iirc

of all things it was the Sesame Street sample on Mm Food's last track that had to be removed on all later pressings. The original "Kookies" beat is worth finding. Looks like it's on YouTube for the moment.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAYdO30Tcu4

The first thing I heard from him was the Four Tet Madvillain remixes and I pretty much sought out everything Doom did after that.
to this day I think that remix album is some of the most amazing music I’ve ever heard.

Especially “Accordion”.

I thought this video was very charming - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTBIvIDnnv8

Sweet but reminded me why mos' voice is not one of my favourites.

Stretch Armstrong shared about 15+ minutes of Doom on his and Bobbito's show in 1997. Pretty great stuff.

Happy to share Doom joining me, @koolboblove and @lordsear on the @StretchandBob Show on 4/24/97. I sarcastically say “hiiii Doom” because he had been staying at my place recording, and was at my house more than I was. Enjoy. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 https://t.co/gvbVoz37Py

— Stretch Armstrong (@StretchArmy) January 1, 2021

Thank you so much for that Mos clip, what an absolute joy.

There's an alternate universe where Mos had the most amazing career.

Theres an alternate universe where mos actually made better music post rawkus.

There will always be that one slick Rick jam. Well unless you look on Spotify, where his best post-Rawkus album seems to have been taken down

Was The New Danger post-Rawkus? There was some good stuff on that - the Marvin Gaye tribute was fantastic - but I felt the clashes with the label over what to do with the Black Jack Johnson stuff sent his career in a weird, self-destructiv direction. So much talent, tho - and a really charismatic, alive interviewee.

interesting thread from the guy at Adult Swim who DOOM worked with - explains that cancelled "Missing Notebook" series from a few years ago.

Flash forward to like a decade later and I hear DOOM really wants to work with me again. After several talks with his management we came up with the idea of the Missing Notebook Rhymes. Of course, once we start releasing them, we find two things out:

— SPIRAL CURSE DEMARCO (@Clarknova1) December 31, 2020

It’s Crazy to me... the irony of an artist dying in 2020 mostly known for wearing a mask. Just wow.

— Qurley? (@questlove) January 1, 2021

wow that adult swim stuff is crazy

xp he also died on halloween, which was once the only night most people wore masks

masks all the way down

this is good

THE FIRST TIME I MET DOOM.

It’s weird telling this story about THE FIRST TIME I MET MF DOOM because I don’t think I’ve ever spoken about it other than in passing or word of mouth so sitting down to write about this considering that he’s gone just has me all sorts of fucked up. pic.twitter.com/ANsRchYQp3

— COSMO BAKER (@CosmoBaker) December 31, 2020

There should be a book about him. Some of the myths and anecdotes around him are like those surrounding old blues men like Robert Johnson or something.

Here's a nice outtake from Dangerdoom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJpwKJcLjao

Supposedly he got the operation doomsday cover from tracing around the character outline on an episode on vhs that he paused on his TV

Wtf lol etc

I'm going to give dangerdoom another chance as I thought dangermouses beats were ho hum the first time

xpost

I have been thinking the same thing, but trying to dig up anecdotes and truths and details about Daniel Dumile kind of seems antithetical to what DOOM was about

I would be up for a book of unprovable tall tales about Doom tbh. Print the legend.

blunts the size of tree trunks