Tag: All things hip hop
MF DOOM The Man Behind The Mask. Documentary
Listening to MF Doom is very hip hop educational!
Elfen’s Neosoul Hip Hop New Music Tuesday for Jan 5th 2021 MF DOOM
If you’ve never heard of MF DOOM. Now’s the time. Doom was the illist lyricist of my generation. MF DOOM Died Oct 31st 2020. Cause of death unknown. Doom kept his Business to him and himself. In fact he’s been known to have a concert and have DOOM look alikes perform in his place.
this evening I’m giving you his 1999 hour operation Doomsday! This album is heavy in sampling from the 1980s R&B. I failed to mention that he was an avid comic book reader as a child. His style and his lyrical choice centered around comic book characters. You can find MF Doom on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube music. See you next Tuesday! Peace, Love and Neosoul!
Hip Hop artist MF Doom DEAD at 49
LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Daniel Dumile, best know as the rapper and producer MF Doom, died on October 31, his wife announced on the artist’s Instagram page on Thursday afternoon. He was 49.
To Dumile. The greatest husband, father, teacher, student, business partner, lover and friend I could ever ask for,” his wife wrote. “Thank you for all the things you have shown, taught and given to me, our children and our family. Thank you for teaching me how to forgive beings and give another chance, not to be so quick to judge and write off. Thank you for showing how not to be afraid to love and be the best person I could ever be. My world will never be the same without you. Words will never express what you and Malachi mean to me, I love both and adore you always. May THE ALL continue to bless you, our family and the planet. All my Love, Jasmine.”
No cause of death was provided, only that MF Doom had “transitioned” on October 31.
One of the most celebrated, unpredictable and enigmatic figures in independent hip-hop, Dumile was born in London, but relocated to New York City as a child. He began his music career under the name Zev Lov X as part of the trio K.M.D. alongside his brother DJ Subroc, and the group had a minor hit in the early 1990s. After Subroc was killed in a car accident in 1993, the group disbanded, and Dumile retreated from public view, only to reemerge toward the end of the decade with a new name and an extravagant new persona.
Now calling himself MF Doom and wearing a metal mask inspired by the Marvel Comics villain Dr. Doom, Dumile released “Operation: Doomsday” in 1999. Produced by Dumile himself under the pseudonym Metal Fingers, the album couldn’t have been more out of step with hip-hop’s mainstream; featuring Dumile’s signature plainspoken flow and head-spinning volleys of intricate internal rhymes, off-the-wall cultural references and non-sequiturs, the album gained him a sizable cult following.
Dumile’s career was anything but straightforward, and he followed up the notoriety gained through “Doomsday” with a flurry of collaborations, instrumental releases and projects under the alternate alias Viktor Vaughn. His aligned with the influential Minneapolis label Rhymesayers for his second album as Doom, “Mm…Food,” in late 2004, but it was another project from earlier that year that truly established him among the uppermost ranks of independent hip-hop figures. Released via the Highland Park indie Stones Throw, “Madvillainy” united Dumile with California producer Madlib, with whom he established an uncanny chemistry. By turns cerebral and goofy, drugged-out and lucid, the album offered heady, jagged-edged collages of jazz samples and obscure film dialog, while Doom’s rhymes were as absurd, inventive, hilarious and endlessly quotable as ever. The album saw Dumile enter the lower rungs of the Billboard top 200 album chart, and brought with it substantial press attention and praise from some of the biggest names in hip-hop.
The following year, Dumile returned to the charts ― this time breaking into the top 50 ― via a collaboration with producer Danger Mouse, dubbed “The Mouse and the Mask.” Dumile’s subsequent recording career was characteristically erratic, releasing plenty of unexpected projects (including repeat work with Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim), while other long-rumored collaborations (particularly a joint album with the Wu-Tang Clan’s Ghostface Killah) failed to materialize. Never seen in public without his metal mask, Dumile became notorious for sometimes sending masked impostors to lip-sync in his stead at concerts; asked about this habit by Rolling Stone, he explained, “everything we do is villain-style.”
His last full album as Doom (having since dropped the MF) was released in 2009 ― titled “Born Like This,” it featured production from Madlib as well as the late J Dilla, and saw Dumile break into the album charts for the first time as a solo artist.
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Elfen’s NEOSOUL Hip Hop Quarantine Friday
When I listen to music I always come across these interesting album covers that catch my eye and this one is DOPE as HELL! And the music is sexy crazy cool. This is the type of COVID19 quarantine music you listen to inside your house with you and yourself with your dog or your cat laying 6 feet away while listening to this album you won’t be disappointed
Why This Chair Is On So Many Album Covers VOX mini Doc
The More You Know…..
Elfen’s Sunday Monday Classic 1990’s Hip Hop Music Video of the week Artifacts C’mon Wit Da Git Down
It’s 1994 ya’ll! We had our boom box on blast to this joint!! Here’s Artifacts C’mon Wit Da Git Down. #20somethingblackwomen90shiphip
Elfen’s Neosoul Hip Hop EXTRA EXTRA HOT MUSIC VIDEO Will i am feat Lady Lashurr, The Lioness and Ms Bank pretty little thing
Will i am is hangin’ with Ms. Bank, The Lionness and Lady Leshurr and they all about a she/he a pretty little thing. They Celebrating all the melanin goodness !! ???????✊?✊?✊?✊?
The Breakfast Club Erik Sermon Interview May 23rd 2019
Erik Sermon sits down with the breakfast club crew. To talk about his new album. NYC Hip Hop and Much more! Currently listening to Erik Sermon Vernia
Elfen’s Neosoul Hip Hop Music presents E. Jones REVISTED
In 2018 I wrote what I wrote and I meant what I wrote below #PUSHPLAY #TURNUPDABASE ?????????????
This week I found a headbanger of an hip hop album! Peeping at Spice Adams FB Fan Page I saw he was featuring E. Jones in one of his skits Anthony Spice Adams is a true underground hip hop head. He listens to anything 9th wonder. Anything old school hip hop and underground. But I’m straying away from this DOPE ASS album Deadstock vol 2 from E. Jones.
I know some of ya’ll may disagree with sampling. I call it an art. To take a song like I found love on a two way street and add a Funky beat and loop the Chorus O M G. All 22 tracks are just 52 minutes of deliciousness. I’ve been listening to E. Jones all weekend and most of today. TRUST ME this is the dopist album so far this year.