I was a huge Ghost fan in 04/05 so the opening cartoon wasn’t jarring in fact it all felt familiar. Instead, I hear a wild style clip, which automatically gave me Illmatic vibes. I pressed play expecting the lyrical version of The Simpsons “Comic Book Nerd” He sent me MM.FOOD via AOL instant messenger. ‘Round 05, on the Okp boards, my good friend Joshua dm’d* me “Yo you would like DOOM, DOOM a street nigga that love to rap.” Josh put me on to the Smiths & UGK, so I trusted whatever he said. DOOM fans were on some overproof “real rap” stuff that just turned me off. In 2005 I was a hip-hop fan that didn’t subscribe to the conscious/street dialectic, I just liked dope shit from the Lox to Dilated Peoples.
I remember my nerdy grad school colleagues praising DOOM and Rhymesayers stuff and telling me I didn’t know “real rap.”. I was leaving the post office late Thursday and I got a text from a close friend that read : DOOM died?” I hurriedly went to twitter and saw other posts, “Not my nigga DOOM,” I yelled to nobody on the subway platform I mumbled for minutes “DOOM, not my nigga DOOM.” MF DOOM wasn’t just a rap favorite, or a scion of indie rap to me listening to DOOM always felt like talking to a long lost friend from the neighborhood and hearing of his death hit me similarly.įunny thing is I avoided DOOM early on.
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