The world continues to tremble after the news of the death of rapper and producer MF DOOM, reported on Thursday. MF DOOM, whose name was Daniel Dumile, died on October 31; the news was confirmed by his wife Jasmine to that of the artist Instagram account. Dumile was 49 years old.
DOOM: whose name I will continue to spell in capital letters, as he demanded – was one of the most respected figures in hip hop. Q-Tip, another of the greats, perfectly crystallized his legacy with one tweet Thursday, respecting him, calling DOOM “your favorite MC”.
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the enigmatic rhyming and narrative sharpness of the enigmatic metal-faced villain. A series of very influential releases with various names between the late 90s and mid-2000s, since Operation: Doomsday a Madvillainy i The mouse and the mask – consolidated DOOM’s place in the underground hip hop pantheon. The fact that he had never seen the cup behind the mask only added to his myth. The root has a good obituary in DOOM that I recommend you check out.
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Like many of us, I’ve been listening to the DOOM catalog almost exclusively since the tragic news broke before the long weekend. Although he had always enjoyed his music, he didn’t know much about Dumile, the man, although of course that’s how he wanted things. You could imagine my joy and surprise, when I learned that I was an avid enthusiast of radio-controlled cars.
In 2012 he was interviewed with DOOM Intersection, a car culture and fashion magazine, about his hobby. The text has been kept online using Issue, and begins on page 164. Includes photos of DOOM testing his rides at a BMX park in London. Some screenshots of the shoot published in Imgur, show him playing with his son, King Malachi Ezekiel Dumile, who died in 2017 at the age of 14. The pictures leave me crying but smiling.
Obviously, DOOM didn’t drive much those days, as it told Intersection it was unlicensed. That didn’t stop him from making occasional cheers on his wife’s Lincoln Navigator, though thankfully he claims he was never caught. Instead, it tends to fix it with a RC car remote control in hand:
“I have like 13 of these suckers at home,” [DOOM] he says as he points the radio control cars at the ground.
“I will easily spend two thousand dollars on one of these. All children want to have a remote control car. But when I was little we couldn’t afford it. So now I am living the dream. Reliving that part of my childhood that I didn’t have a chance to do then. One day I said well that I would be treated and threw $ 500 for one of these. It was a T-Maxx from the Traxxas company. And I’ve always been into electronics, mechanics and shit like that. Modify things. Change parts all the time. It’s a hobby. It keeps me out of trouble. “
The feature continues to see DOOM review their favorites from their collection: the highlight is their black Porsche Cayenne with monster truck tires, adorned with Apple stickers. The rest of the list is all Tamiya, including a buggy, 80s Toyota Hilux, first-generation Jeep Wrangler and Ford Bronco.
There’s something delicious in DOOM that talks about brushless motors and three-speed gearboxes with childlike enthusiasm. “Wild Willy is on the track pulling it off again,” he says of the Jeep. “We can’t stop him! It reminds me of Wacky Races or some shit. ” All of this makes me want to dump DOOM’s discography into a search for bars about RC cars.
Rest in peace, legend.