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Rapshack 'Concentrate' Artist profile-MF Doom.

MF Doom or simply Doom, has appeared in several collaborative projects such as Danger Doom (with Danger Mouse) and Madvillain

(with Madlib), but it was his first group, KMD that he formed with his brother, Subroc and another MC, Onyx the Birthstone

Kid.. They were signed to Elektra Records after their A+R man learned of them through 3rd Bass.

It was on 3rd Bass' album "The Cactus Album" that they had there recorded debut featuring on a song called "Gas Face". In

1991 their debut album, "Mr Hood" was released and got alot of video play on Yo! MTV Raps, MTV show.

Two years later in 1993 subroc was struck down by a car and wass killed just before the release of their second album, "Black

Bastards". The Album was shelved due to it's cover art, a cartoon of a stereotypical pickaninny or sambo character being

hanged from the gallows.

With the loss of his brother, Doom retreated from the hip-hop scene from 1994 to 1997. He testifies to disillusionment and

depression, living "damn near homeless, walking the streets of Manhattan, sleeping on benches."[1][3] In the late 1990s, he

left New York City and settled in Atlanta. According to interviews with Doom, he was also "recovering from his wounds" and

swearing revenge "against the industry that so badly deformed him."[1] Black Bastards had become bootlegged at the time,

leading to Doom's rise in the underground hip-hop world.

A year later in In 1998, Doom began freestyling incognito at open-mic events at the Nuyorican Poets Café in Manhattan,

obscuring his face by putting a stocking over his head. He meanwhile had taken on a new identity, MF Doom, (Inspired by his

good friend MF Grimm) patterned after and wearing a mask similar to that of Marvel Comics supervillain Doctor Doom. He wears

this mask while performing and isn't photographed without it.


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