I have been a Doom fan for a while. This one he wrote in cold blood with a toothpick» is one of my favourite lines in rap music ever. I was a KMD fan back in the olden days. Dude's real name is Daniel Dumile. He used to be MF Doom - MF standing for metal-fingers or metal-face - and recently he's dropped the MF so he's now just known as Doom. Dumille modelled his Doom persona after the one and only Marvel Super Villain, Dr. Doom and actually refers to himself as the Super Villain. I copped a set of the Doom Dunks when they dropped.
Doom likes to be mysterious. He's been playing around with the fine line between the product and the person behind the product since he put the mask on. It was originally meant to be a statement against the materialism that had plagued rap music. Doom did bring it back to basics, however Doom was embroiled within a paradox that he at first may not have realised that he had created. He had crystalised the Anti-Image image rather than escaping the form he wished to be freed from - limited/shallow.
Doom teamed up with Danger Mouse and Adult Swim in 2006 to form Dangerdoom. In building this post I came across a pic of Danger Mouse dressed as the Tin Woodsman from The Wizard of OZ.
Danger Mouse dressed up as The Tin Woodsman form The Wizard of OZ. NOte the PsalmTree entrainment forming a vege-corona.
I first got introduced to Danger Mouse via his 2003 Lex Records release "Ghetto Pop Life" when he teamed up with rapper Jemini. Danger Mouse released "The Grey Album" in 2004, a mashup of Jay-Z raps from "The Black Album" and The Beatles "White Album"...
Doom's mask has changed over the years. The current form is a replica of the mask worn by Russel Crowe in the film Gladiator:
So this links the Black Bird to the web as Russel's surname envokes The Crow.
Gladiator was relaeased the same year (2K) as Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. You may recall this scene in Gladiator that includes a Tiger:
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Crouching Gladiator, Unhidden Tiger...
Anyway, Doom's recently been interviewed by EyeWeekly.com and I thought I'd drop a quote here for its 214 resonance.
Here on the dark side of Jupiter, the weather is great around this time of the year. Atlanta and New York are both home as well.
Doom lived in NY/OZ. He's since moved to Atlanta/Atlantis. Now he states that he's living on the dark side of Jupiter? I knew there was always more to this fella than met the eye/ear.
Marvel's Super Villain is a Green Tinman. Resonator of all that is BAD. His vanity motivated him greatly.
You will notice around 1:24 that the beat changes to "Phantom of the Synths" by the late J Dilla. This beat resonates with me in a plethora of ways but links up to this blogs initial post. In that post I try to mark out my synchro-journey UP to that particular point. The journey was marked by rap music. In particular, it was "The Pledge" by Jay Electronica that contained a shout to DMT/dimethyltryptamine - known to be a key ingredient of Ayahuasca. At 2:14 DOOM says "Villain" which is pretty BADass. Well Jay Electronica has another track that is called "Dimethyltryptamine". It utilises the same J Dilla beat as Doom uses in Gazillion Ear. Check it...
JD's beat's name vibes with Phantom of the Opera (The Instrumentation for Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom includes 27 parts), which resonates with Jupiter in Pisces.
Doom himself has taken on the phantom persona, further echoing Jupiter.
Corny, but it synchs up...
Aesthetic Apparatus have a poster print called Phantom Doom that has Jeus-Bolts a-plenty:
Gears/Bolts/ScissorTongue/Blood/Drops/Bullseyes = Phantom Doom (The tear-drop has been following me around these days too)
Check this page of the AA site for Bluebirds, Diamonds, Abe lincoln and Triggerfinger action. In addition to these themes, the same page features the Saturn Finger.
Peace
UPDATE:
Doom has also recorded as Viktor Vaughn. "Vaudeville Villain" is classic DOOM. It carried a track titled "Rae Dawn" vibing a recent vid Jake Kotze did for Radio 8-Ball.
Enjoy!
