https://twitter.com/phil_lewis_/status/1344754547038826496?s=21

RIP Villan

What else would "transitioned" mean?

It *is* DOOM so it makes sense we'd need rapgenius to dissect his obituary.

And as eluded in another post, because it's DOOM any room for interpretation has to make you at least think "what if" this is all some weird Doomposter-esque shit. But 2020 would NOT be the year to pull something like that.

RIP. Awful news. I can't believe the family were able to keep it under wraps for two months.

www.engadgethd.com - the other stuff i'm looking at

all of his rap associates?

He's that kind of guy

about them. Extreme loners can make themselves very hard to get in touch with, but in cases like these, it might be hard to have on your conscience if you don't at least reach out every now and then if only just to ask if they're good and KIM.

49 is way too young to go.

I kinda dig the way the fam broke the news tho. We gon take our two months to grieve before we even tell the rest of yall. Gotta respect it.

Wild how the news was kept a secret for two months.

Wild

....ever since the womb ‘til I'm back where my brother went,
that's what my tomb will say,
Right above my government;
Dumile
Either unmarked or engraved, hey, who's to say?



"Get ready....for your blessing....."
"Bury me by my Grand-Grand and when you can come follow me"

>https://twitter.com/phil_lewis_/status/1344754547038826496?s=21

I will chill and see how this plays out before allowing this to hit me. He is my all time favorite rapper.

I'm legit sad. One of my favorite artists through and through.

2020 is a supremely fucked up year :/
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he was so young...

d

"But rest assured, in my luxurious house built on the backs of people darker than me, I am sipping fine scotch and scoffing at how stupid you are." - bshelly

The DOOM concept was brilliant. And he went from being homeless in the streets of NY, to buying a crib in Atlanta. Iron determination.

I know a Madlib tribute is coming soon. RIP Zev Love X.

crazy crazy year


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"There is much temptation to use what has worked before,
even when it may exceed its effective scope."

"Roll me further bitch"

operation doomsday was a revelation when i first heard it in 01. it was literally unbelievable to me that someone could be so skilled at lyricism, compound rhyming, and rhyme schemes AND have an utterly unique voice and delivery

DOOM is extremely influential to this very day. he's possibly my favorite rapper of all time. there will never be another like him

RIP to a true god MC

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I was blessed to discover DOOM in The Lesson. The multi-level rhymes, clever wordplay and uncanny beats hooked me immediately. Prayers for his family.

>I was blessed to discover DOOM in The Lesson. The multi-level
>rhymes, clever wordplay and uncanny beats hooked me
>immediately. Prayers for his family.

I have no words, but this comes close.^^^^
RIP Metal Face.

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miserable niggas yo
cant let nobody have nothing
"god save the queen pip pip cheerio tea time princess di" ass niggas (c)white desus

*skatin' the rings of saturn*


..and miles to go before i sleep...

who's to say?' (c) DOOM


air just left my lungs. damn damn damn.

i listen to his music all the time and was just thinking earlier in the week, and wondering does this old lyric mess him up, given that his son passed.

i put my daughter onto Sade, by pointing out the origin of the sample on Doomsday (she already listens to a lot of DOOM). and we been listening to Sade the last 2 weeks.

damn, man. this is upsetting.


peace & blessings,

x.

www.twitter.com/poetx

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I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

Having a hard time with the timing of it all.

I’m going to not believe this is real.

Can’t be..

Peach Fuzz

Rest In Peace.

I was not expecting to cry today

WTF is this year?

Rest in Power, Metal Face

My greatest Emcee of all time. He is one of two emcees to be great for over 4 decades. The other is Kool Keith.

My favorite DOOM verse:

“I once sold an inbred skinhead a nigga joke,
plus a brand new chrome smoker with the trigger broke,
I thought I told him firing pens were separate,
he’ll find out letter when tries to go and rep it.”

ALL CAPS when you spell the man’s name.

The beats, rhymes, personas, the mask. So dope in so many different ways. So many memorable little one liners. Dude was one of a kind. RIP.

>https://twitter.com/phil_lewis_/status/1344754547038826496?s=21

Getting older is a process that involves lots of loss.

As humans, maybe we’re getting better at giving flowers while folks can smell em and all of that. But when someone goes it still feels like maybe it wasn’t enough. MJ and Prince are strong examples in my opinion.

Doom? I don’t know. But RIP. Special crafter of beats and best in show-level rapper. A 1-man Wu Tang if that’s even something to aspire to be. He did justice to what came before him and set a wonderful stage for others afterwards to work from. Roc Marci, who I love, seems like a cousin for instance.

What a fucking year

https://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=17&topic_id=2246&mesg_id=2246&listing_type=search

that was from '04. so many folks that just listened casually thought he was just making up shit. the double and triple entendres and elliptical references...


peace & blessings,

x.

www.twitter.com/poetx

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I'm an advocate for working smarter, not harder. If you just
focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
not having much to show for it. (c) mad

damn.

I got a super late pass, but it was y’all that got me into him about five years ago. In less than two weeks he cracked my top 3. ALL respect due.

I gotta come cry here cause the lesson is empty

I also used to be a rep for Caroline Distro and did all the street promo in Seattle for the re-release of Operation: Doomsday and the re-issue of KMD's Black Bastards.

i've just been listening to DOOM nonstop since i heard the news. this one hit kinda home just because memories from him and his art are very valuable to me.

Grateful for his output.
Man this one hurts.

So many reasons to be sad about 2020 and this is the fucking rotten cherry on top I guess.

RIP to The Best MC With No Chain Ya Ever Heard.

I do a podcast called Rap Rankings and we will be recording a special MF DOOM memorial show this evening. If you would like to leave us a voicemail letting us know your favorite DOOM song or memory, give us a call at 718-635-0743 and we'll play it on the show.

not at all surprised that it happened nearly two months ago.

Anybody heard a cause?

DOOM has me lmao all day

Holy $hit is his discography fun to revisit

Salute!

>DOOM has me lmao all day
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>Holy $hit is his discography fun to revisit
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>Salute!

>DOOM has me lmao all day
>
>Holy $hit is his discography fun to revisit
>
>Salute!

Soooooo fucking fun. No funnier MC. Been revisiting all day today and I'm on Vaudeville Villain now. Was just picking my jaw up off the floor over this:

Viktor the director flip a script like Rob Reiner
The way a lotta dudes rhyme their name should be "knob shiner"
For a buck, they'd likely dance the Jig or do the Hucklebuck
To Vik it's no big deal, they're just a buncha knuckle-fucks

And this:

Mellow out what y'all bellow out ya yellow mouth
What happened to the typa spit that used to help a fellow out?
No doubt, leave a rapper in a body cast
And wonder what he was doing while we was in a karate class
Snotty ass, it's really like he was a white-belt
Right before he "night-night" ask him how the light felt

Even in more awe of the work DOOM and Madlib did creating some of these beats. Much respect due to the man or woman that went through the trouble to cobble this video together. Hope this won't get frowned upon.

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

this was pre whosampled/youtube
miss that job

It was very fascinating, he dropped so many jewels in this, definitely worth watching if you haven't seen it yet. I put a little something together from a couple of the soundbites: https://youtu.be/qmBQ2BDefKM

was so good. Geedorah was/is my favorite character of his. I play the hell out of that Take Me To Your Leader, album. Good stuff.

saw this one the other night and erykahs the week before. saw qtips and rakims since then.

https://youtu.be/pYw6hZgfWvc

RIP to one of the greatest to ever do it

https://twitter.com/thomyorke/status/1345329230591221760?s=21

pulled this from the Lesson. Lupe is just...a monster, man. Perfect tribute. Style, cadence, beat...everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fCGNaUR4qQ

I still dont want to accept that its real.

And/or reading about him. Whether tributes from the past week, or old interviews with or about him.

I was telling another DOOM fan friend of mine that I probably hadn't listened to really any of his albums front to back in close to a decade, because I didn't need to. I can still recite so much of them from memory after having listened to them all on repeat throughout college and the years immediately after (in other words during his most prolific period 03-05 and probably through the end of that decade).

So revisiting all his albums and collaborations now over the past couple of days, I sort of feel like I'm reliving that entire time period. Which is nostalgic, jarring, surreal, depressing, fun, exciting ... a bunch of feelings and emotions all at once.

I'm so sad he's gone. And so sad that time passes us by so quickly and without warning, both as it pertains to DOOM and his life but also just in general. His death and revisiting some of my favorite music from some of the best years of my life is yet another reminder of that sad fact.

I have so much more to say, so many more thoughts about him but they're all so jumbled I may never get around to putting them in writing. This just really sucks.

But fuck was his music and artistry incredible.

i remember seeing lupe fiasco with doom's mask on recently,
maybe he knew then.

This has been a tough one. RIP DOOM

I'm playing a DOOM celebration set tonight @9pm est (IG & Twitch)

https://www.instagram.com/stories/dj_chief_one/2481436774782472162/


We'll be digging a little deeper into his catalogue tonight.. come hang out & keep your phasers on stun..


https://www.twitch.tv/djchiefone
https://www.instagram.com/dj_chief_one

I was burnt out on hip hop and listening only stuff I liked when I discovered DOOM.

>I was burnt out on hip hop and listening only stuff I liked
>when I discovered DOOM.

HOW MANY OF US HAVE a similar story?





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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/arts/music/popcast-mf-doom.html


Bob talks about Fondle 'Em and what he saw in DOOM when he re-emerged, Stretch talks about how fun it was to bring those records to their radio show and Dante talks about the behind the scenes politics that went into Black Bastards getting shelved.


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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

.. the Juan Ep DOOM special earlier this week. He was great per usual and had awesome insight. Excited to hear more from him and Stretch, and definitely Dante who I don't think I've heard from yet.

Edit: looks like Juan Ep made a 2nd DOOM ep w/Just Blaze (?), Pete Nice, Hannibal Buress, Onyx, and Big Benn. 3 hours long. Not sure if it's Onyx the group or the ex-KMD member. Hope it's the latter.

>Edit: looks like Juan Ep made a 2nd DOOM ep w/Just Blaze (?),
>Pete Nice, Hannibal Buress, Onyx, and Big Benn. 3 hours long.
>Not sure if it's Onyx the group or the ex-KMD member. Hope
>it's the latter.

It has to be the latter. I'm interested, especially since dude has been almost completely MIA for the better part of three decades (There's a video of him delivering a euology at a funeral from at least a decade ago).

I don't think I'd interested at all in what Onyx the group had to say about Zev/DOOM.

>I don't think I'd interested at all in what Onyx the group had
>to say about Zev/DOOM.

Because it's the first time I'd EVER heard his name pronounced DOOM-ILL-LAY (even the Times said it the way I've always imagined it's said, DOOM-ISLE) but it's also pretty good, if a little more surface level in part one (Sean Fennessey and Jeff Weiss address him from the perspective of white dudes who got into rap journalism because of the mystique of DOOM on message boards in their early 20s) but part two is also a mix of expected (Dante, Bob) and unexpected - Adam Bhala talking making his music videos and some cool behind the scenes stories from Kurious and Open Mike Eagle.


https://www.theringer.com/2021/1/5/22215407/remembering-mf-doom-part-1
https://www.theringer.com/2021/1/7/22219410/remembering-mf-doom-part-2


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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

They've had a couple good DOOM pieces in the last few days, too.

Final Fantasy fans refer to this kinda thing as a "Phoenix Down" moment, when you realize it's referring to the literal feather of a phoenix, not some metaphor for reviving your character

I spent like 18 years thinking that lyric was one thing when it was another entirely

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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." � Jay Bilas
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/archive/contributor/517
Hip Hop Handbook: http://tinyurl.com/ll4kzz

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