“Rapp Snitch Knishes,” with its delicious puns, punchlines, and rhythmic rhyme patterns, remains one of the greatest verbal exercises in hip-hop history. His food obsessions were established with 2004’s MM.FOOD, where he blended his love of culinary arts with his passion for great lyrics. His first record as DOOM, 1999’s Operation: Doomsday, introduced audiences to the artist’s brilliant rhyme patterns and penchant for obscure cultural references. He quickly became a freestyling force in New York City’s underground, initially wearing pantyhose over his face before he could afford his signature metal mask. Dumile retreated, eventually reemerging as a new comic-book-inspired character: the masked marauder MF DOOM. By 1993, Dumile’s world shattered when his older brother was killed trying to cross the Long Island Expressway. After moving to the U.S., he got his professional start in 1988 under the moniker Zev Love X in the alt-rap trio KMD with his younger brother, DJ Subroc, and friend Onyx the Birthstone Kid. The masked MC, who posed as a supervillain, was born Daniel Dumile in London, England, in 1971. MF DOOM exited this world as mysteriously as he emerged.
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