MF DOOM IS BORN
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Victor Von Doom is such a significant character within the Marvel universe that added coloring to the studio’s ongoing story arcs throughout its history. His character traits distinguish him as a gifted, corrupted soul garmented under gritty, monotonous textured armor and a curdling voice heaving through his mask. Dr. Doom’s backstory involves his parents being murdered by the ruthless leader of his native land, the Baron.
After running off from the Baron’s territory, Doom took advantage of his grit and aptitude to develop such devices that would later land him to study in the United States. Doom then encountered a severe accident, falling victim to the severing of his facial contours.
After being expelled and ending up being taken in by a group of monks in the Tibetan mountains, Doom produced the infamous armor and declared vengeance against those who have fatally wronged him.
Born in London in 1971, Daniel Dumile spent his adolescence in the central focus of Hip-Hop culture in Long Island, New York. Dumile began his career as a Rapper and Record Producer in the bravado and eccentric Hip-Hop group, KMD, under the pseudonym Zev Love X. Included in the modicum was Rapper Onyx the Birthstone Kid, Rapper Rodan, and Rapper, DJ, and Dumile’s own brother, DJ Subroc.
The group centered in Hip-Hop’s surge as a vital musical movement representing the underprivileged in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Their hit singles included the songs Peach Fuzz and Plumskinzz. They also demonstrated proactivity within interpersonal politics that dealt with issues traversing their urban climate.
In the prolonged successful chronology of KMD, they anticipated on releasing their second full-lengthed album through Elektra Records in 1993. Unfortunately, during the same year, both the album was rejected from the label due to the seemingly controversial nature of their cover art, as well as the passing of DJ Subroc in an inadvertent automobile accident.
As a result, the group had broken off, and listeners haven’t heard from Zev Love X in nearly six years. Reaching right before the turn of the millennium, a trivial character appeared in an album cover showed him under an atypical rendition of Dr. Doom’s signature mask, wielding a microphone towards him, entitled Operation: Doomsday.
After the album’s release in 1999, Dumile was consistently present in the scene of Hip-Hop. He was later signed into the infamous California label, Stones Throw Records, that currently carries the names of underground legends such as Madlib, Mayer Hawthorne, and the late J Dilla.
Releasing project after project, year after year, his name was slowly developing a formidable stance within Hip-Hop.
His lyricism was unlike what Hip-Hop had witnessed beforehand. His entanglement between animated, obscure, and frivolous themes matched with his breathless flow polarized listeners at the time.
As Operation: Doomsday clenched onto the turn of the new millennium, it was projects like Mm.. Food in 2003 and Madvillainy in 2004 that launched his name into Hip-Hop’s ether. It seemed that Dumile could never run out of witty alliterations, insulting euphemisms, and an ongoing flow that couldn’t be matched with.
Contemporary rappers, such as Danny Brown, Earl Sweatshirt, and Kanye West, all have stated in the past that MF Doom is one of their inspirations for the creative route they took. Even with the minimal number of projects released in recent years, Dumile’s name is still relished by Hip-Hop fans and artists.
Dumile finally got what the industry deserved, and is now one of the most innovative and mentioned artists in Hip-Hop’s history, thanks to his diabolical plan.
