Alert icon
We're changing our privacy policy. This stuff matters.  Learn more  Dismiss

MF DOOM - Dead Bent

Loading...

Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon
Upgrade to the latest Flash Player for improved playback performance. Upgrade now or more info.
5,992
Loading...
Alert icon
Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon

Uploaded by on Jan 5, 2012

From 1999 Album: "Operation: Doomsday"...[Artist info below].....

Get Doom's Music:
http://www.amazon.com/MF-Doom/e/B000APKTXS/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?_encoding=UT...
&
http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/mf-doom/id3864756

Daniel Dumile (pronounced /duːməleɪ/) is a British-born American hip hop artist who has taken on several stage names in his career, most notably MF DOOM (also known as DOOM) , where the "MF" stands for Metal Face or Metal Fingers. He has appeared in several collaborative projects such as Danger Doom (with Danger Mouse) and Madvillain (with Madlib).

Dumile was born on January 9, 1971 in London, England, the son of a Trinidadian mother and Zimbabwean father. He then moved with his family to New York and was raised on Long Island, New York.

As Zev Love X, he formed the group KMD with his younger brother DJ Subroc and another MC called Onyx the Birthstone Kid.[1] A&R rep Dante Ross learned of KMD from the hip hop group 3rd Bass, and signed the group to Elektra Records.

Dumile and KMD's recorded debut came on 3rd Bass's song "The Gas Face" from The Cactus Album, followed in 1991 with KMD's album Mr. Hood, which became a minor hit through its singles "Peachfuzz," "Who Me?" and heavy video play on cable TV's Yo! MTV Raps and Rap City.

Subroc was struck and killed by a car in 1993 while attempting to cross a Long Island expressway before the release of a second KMD album, titled Black Bastards. The group was subsequently dropped from Elektra Records that same week. Before the release of the album, it was shelved due to controversy over the its cover art, which featured a cartoon of a stereotypical pickaninny or sambo character being hanged from the gallows.

With the loss of his brother, Dumile retreated from the hip-hop scene from 1994 to 1997. He testifies to disillusionment and depression, living "damn near homeless, walking the streets of Manhattan, sleeping on benches." In the late 1990s, he left New York City and settled in Atlanta. According to interviews with Doom, he was also "recovering from his wounds" and swearing revenge "against the industry that so badly deformed him." Black Bastards had become bootlegged at the time, leading to Doom's rise in the underground hip-hop world.

In 1998, Dumile began freestyling incognito at open-mic events at the Nuyorican Poets Café in Manhattan, obscuring his face by putting a stocking over his head. He meanwhile had taken on a new identity, MF Doom, (Inspired by his good friend MF Grimm) patterned after and wearing a mask similar to that of Marvel Comics supervillain Doctor Doom. He wears this mask while performing and isn't photographed without it, except for very short glimpses in videos such as Viktor Vaughn's "Mr. Clean," "Question," and in earlier photos with KMD. MF Doom's mask has undergone at least one design revision since its adoption.

Extended & updated info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mf_doom

Link to this comment:

Share to:

Top Comments

  • AAAY!! THEY GOT THE DOOM ON THIS BITCH?!

  • lol dooms bald spot haha dope track! classic!

see all

All Comments (26)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • hella gay

  • @TheAbdullah23 the hell you on about

  • RIP MF DOOM

  • Str8 up f-r-e-s-h!!!

    RIP SubRock

  • @n000bsaib0t As the well as the fact that he is associating himself with Dr. Doom.

  • vraiment bon !!!

  • @n000bsaib0t The mask is used to embody the old era of hip hop where it didn't matter how your face looked but whether you could rap or not.

  • Why does he wear the mask

  • a classic song and video.

  • Liked, Favorited & Posted!!! PEACE

Loading...

Alert icon
0 / 00Unsaved Playlist Return to active list
    1. Your queue is empty. Add videos to your queue using this button:
      or sign in to load a different list.
    Loading...Loading...Saving...
    • Clear all videos from this list
    • Learn more