It was just: we’re two people who, right now, are exceptional. It’s not like Refused, where they’re like ‘we’re going to write the best album ever’. I’ve listened to interviews with them since, where they say they were just drinking and getting stoned and then they’d try and do a song and then get stoned some more.
Then Madlib, obviously – it was just the perfect point in both of their careers. But MF Doom is able to sound so comfortable, he’s effortlessly a genius. And when someone's so loose that they’re not good obviously no one likes that. When someone’s exceptionally tight I respect it a lot, but don’t often get caught up in it. It’s really tight but it sounds loose, and I find that more human. I love the tone of his voice and the way that he raps. But for me, just the sound of his voice and his flow are the things that really draw me to him. You can find really exhaustive videos of people online analysing everything that he’s said. Obviously with MF Doom you can really get lost in his rhyme schemes and his word play.
Stuff like The Get Up Kids was just like ‘I relate to that and I like it’, whereas this was like ‘He’s saying that, which can also mean this’ or ‘He’s actually talking about himself on this song, but it’s an alias’. It was also the first time I got into lyrics properly in terms of analysing them, and realising there was a lot more to it. And the more I’d listen, the more I’d find a new favourite each time. All the songs are so brief that, on first listen – especially if you’re like I was at the time and don’t listen to much rap music – you kind of go, ‘where’re the hooks?’ But there was something about the production and the sound of his voice that kept making me want to go back to it. Then I was like, ‘why have I not explored alternative and underground hip-hop more when I clearly like it?’ I was getting quite complacent with what I was discovering, so I think I literally Googled ‘best underground hip-hop albums of all time’ and Madvillainy was at the top.Īgain, I remember listening to it for the first time and being like ‘OK, yeah, it’s fine, I don’t see why it’s at the top’. Then I got really into indie rap – bands like Why? and a lot of stuff on Anticon. Then I went away from that and into nu metal, which at the time I thought was rap, so I’ll forever have that on my conscience.
Dawn and would rent rap compilations out of the library. I liked De La Soul and a lot of bands like P.M. When I was a little kid, I got into really poppy hip-hop. I literally discovered it seven years ago or something, when I was trying to broaden my horizons with hip-hop. The NFT art is expected to fetch prices from £10,729 GBP ($15,000 USD) to £53,647 ($75,000), with 10% of the proceeds going back to DOOM’s estate in the form of royalties to fund other projects.I know probably a lot of people put this, but that’s because it's one of the best albums ever, so that’s fine. In a joint venture between DOOM’s widow Jasmine Dumile, hip-hop label Rhymesayers Entertainment and digital marketplace Illust Space. MF DOOM’s song downloads and album sales also increased significantly from December 31 to January 5, growing 2,879% and 1,264%, respectively, compared to figures recorded from 25-30 December.įollowing the cryptocurrency boom, the MF DOOM estate are auctioning off augmented reality NFT (non-fungible token) art of his trademark masks in honour of the late rapper. Between 31 December and 5 January, his catalogue was streamed 25.4 million times, compared to the 2.6 million streams in the week before. Since his death, streams of DOOM’s music has risen by an incredible 870% according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. The LP has recorded a new peak, charting at Number 73.Īn anagram for MF DOOM, Stereogum named MM.Food as DOOM’s best album in 2012 and in 2015 NME named it one of the “one of the 23 maddest and most memorable concept albums”.ĭOOM’S wife, Jasmine Dumile, announced on New Year’s Eve that the rapper passed away a few months prior on 31st October 2020, with the cause of death not made known to the public. This comes after the studio album Madvillainy, from the duo Madvillain, comprising of DOOM and producer and Madlibs re-entered the Billboard Album Charts for the first time since 2014 in January. The album that features the tracks ‘Beef Rapp’ and ‘Hoe Cakes’ received universal acclaim upon its release and originally peaked at number 17 on Billboard’s Independent Albums chart and number 9 on Heatseakers Albums chart. British-American rapper MF DOOM‘s album Mm.Food has entered the American Billboard 200 chart for the first time since its release in 2004.
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