From The New Yorker:
ABSTRACT: ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about the rapper MF Doom. The writer first heard the rapper Daniel Dumile when he was fourteen and hip-hop was just beginning to bloom. Performing under the name Zevlove X, Dumile made his debut in 1989 with a verse on a song called “The Gas Face.” Two years later, as a member of the group KMD, Dumile released the album “Mr. Hood.” Dumile’s style is vibrant and freewheeling; he skates over the beat, sliding words into the empty spaces between the snare and the kick drums. In 1993, Dumile’s brother Dingilizwe, also a member of KMD and known as Subroc, was hit by a car and killed. Dumile vanished from the national scene and began living as a civilian in New York City. He had a child. Then, in 1999, Dumile released a solo record, “Operation: Doomsday,” under the moniker Metal Face Doom.
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