Top Albums 1/12/2021 WERU sends weekly reports to the music industry representatives which keeps new music flowing into the station. Below are our most recent top recording reports for the past week. Our next airplay chart will be computed and posted on Tuesday, January 19th, 2021! Community Radio WERU-FM 89.9 (Blue Hill) weru.org
MF Doom Influenced Scores of Musicians. Hear 11 of Them. Daniel Dumile, who died in October, paved a path for rappers, producers and beyond to embrace personas, fill their music with lyrical complexity and reach for sounds outside of the usual boxes. The impact of Daniel Dumile, who recorded as MF Doom, went far beyond his formidable microphone skills.Credit.Roger Kisby/Getty Images By Christopher R. Weingarten Published Jan. 12, 2021Updated Jan. 14, 2021 Daniel Dumile, the reclusive musician who performed as the masked villain MF Doom, died on Oct. 31 at 49, though the news wasn’t revealed until New Year’s Eve. Dumile spent more than two decades as one of the most recognizable and beloved artists in underground hip-hop, a rapper known for his unexpected word choices and intricate stacks of rhymes.
This romp through the history of swearing is mainly limited to the United States and could have done with a bit more bite and depth The most difficult thing about writing this review was how to refer to the six unprintable words that actor Nicolas Cage dissects through the course of this documentary series. The series showed the way with “minced oaths,” which is using a proxy for the curse word. So the series looks at fudge, shoot, the nickname for Richard, lady dog, cat and darn managed who hoo! Also Read: Get First Day First Show , our weekly newsletter from the world of cinema, in your inbox. You can subscribe for free here
Advertisement “God fucking damnit,” he tweeted. “What the fuck!!?!? Are u serious? My souls is crushed. The weight of this moment. I know we are in a pandemic but we have to celebrate DOOM. Just playing the music isn’t good enough.” A fan then suggested to FlyLo that fans had been anticipating more collaborations from the two, specifically a longer project, to which he revealed that the two had actually been working on such a project. “I hate to say this but we were actually working on an EP,” he wrote. “There were more songs that I haven’t even heard.” He didn’t give anymore details, but it sounds as if they didn’t get to wrap it up before his untimely death.
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.
OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST: These two comedians are friends. And you may know them as co-hosts of Comedy Central s The New Negroes and Funny Or Die s Call & Response. It is returning champion Baron Vaughn and first-time contestant Open Mike Eagle. Hello to you. Hello. BARON VAUGHN: So happy to return - a champion at that. JONATHAN COULTON, BYLINE: (Laughter). (LAUGHTER) EISENBERG: So Baron and Mike - so you two met now years ago at a comedy rap battle. Is that right? VAUGHN: Yeah. EISENBERG: Yeah. So tell me about this meeting that ended up with you both collaborating on multiple projects. Why?
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) JONATHAN COULTON, BYLINE: This is NPR s ASK ME ANOTHER. I m Jonathan Coulton. Here s your host, Ophira Eisenberg. OPHIRA EISENBERG, HOST: Thanks, Jonathan. So many of us are stuck at home playing video games, so the rest of today s show will be extra Gamey. Is That The Right word. COULTON: It sounds like the right word, yeah. EISENBERG: OK. Comedians Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle are on the line. Are you ready for your next challenge? OPEN MIKE EAGLE: Oh, yeah. BARON VAUGHN: Sure. OPEN MIKE EAGLE: You know it. EISENBERG: It s called This, That or the Other. OK. It s pretty simple. We ll give you the name of something. You just have to tell us which of three categories it belongs to. Jonathan Coulton, what are today s categories?
The Legend of MF DOOM thenation.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thenation.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.