The Illest Villain: A Tribute to MF DOOM
I. THE GAME IS NOT ONLY DANGEROUS BUT IT’S MOST STRANGE
Every villain’s origin, at least the ones worth their weight in blueprints for world domination, is forged from catastrophe of malice or circumstance. This has been recited to the point of cliche over the past number of days, but cliche is simply universal truth repeated ad nauseum. Instead of listing examples and misleading you into thinking I was ever an avowed fan of comic books, let’s cut to the chase scene: the story of
MF DOOM begins with a teenage Daniel Dumile, born to a Trinidadian mom and a Zimbabwean dad in London (more on that later), and adopting the alias of Zev Love X, stealing the show on 3rd Bass’ hip-hop purist quasi-anthem “The Gas Face” with glimpses of the brilliant deadpan wit and internal rhyme mastery which would eventually earn him a spot on hip-hop’s all-time greats list.