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The estate of MF DOOM has issued another request for Now-Again Records founder Eothen “Egon” Alapatt to return several of the late rapper’s handwritten notebooks In a post shared across both Instagram and Twitter on Wednesday, DOOM’s widow Jasmine Dumile shared a series of Gmail screenshots that shows communications between Alapatt, herself, and DOOM under his Karlo […]
IDK continues his prolific run of new music with the rollout of his latest single “Monsieur Dior.” Notably, the track (credited producers of which include CashMoneyAP and IDK himself) includes a sample of Cortex’s “Huit Octobre 1971,” a composition that should be familiar to fans of the late MF DOOM. Hear “Monsieur Dior” below via Spotify and/or listen via […]
MF DOOM’s widow says she’s made multiple attempts to retrieve the late rapper’s rhyme books, but a certain music executive refuses to give them up. In a statement provided to Complex, Jasmine Dumile claims the precious document remain with Eothen “Egon” Alapatt, the president and founder of Now-Again Records. Egon reportedly met DOOM about 20 years ago, when […]
After a petition was launched months ago to have the East Hudson Street block between Riverside Boulevard and Long Beach Road in Long Beach, New York home renamed “KMD-MF DOOM Way” in honor of MF DOOM, it has been reported that the request is finally being met. According to HipHopDX, Dr. Patrick C. Graham, the architect behind the petition […]
MF DOOM’s first posthumous album has arrived. Announced earlier this week, the highly anticipated Super What? project is a joint effort with Czarface—the hip-hop supergroup made up of DJ 7L, Esoteric, and Wu-Tang Clan member Inspectah Deck. Czarface shared the album’s cover art via Instagram on Wednesday, along with a brief breakdown of how the […]
Within hours of Whole Lotta Red’s perfectly timed Christmas 2020 arrival, fans were quick to draw attention to a few lines from “Punk Monk” in which Playboi Carti reflected on his efforts to sign Pi’erre Bourne. In the track, Carti says he thought he had a Pi’erre signing locked down “but the label tricked me.” […]
A petition was launched Monday to get a street in New York named “KMD-MF DOOM Way” in honor of the late rapper and producer. The KMD-MF DOOM Way Committee is requesting that the Long Beach City Council consider renaming the block on East Hudson Street between Riverside Boulevard and Long Beach Road, and has already received over 150 […]
Elusive beatmaker and hip-hop savant Madlib has collaborated with everyone from Kanye West, to Erykah Badu, to the late MF DOOM, but he apparently missed the opportunity to join forces with Kendrick Lamar on the Grammy award-winning album To Pimp a Butterfly. In a new interview with the Guardian, the prolific producer admitted that he […]
Streams of MF DOOM‘s music experienced a significant surge following news of his untimely death. According to Billboard, the legend’s music catalog, which included his solo and side projects, racked in over 25 million on-demand streams from Dec. 31 to Jan. 5 in the United States. That’s about an 870 percent increase from the 2.6 million streams his catalog […]
The founder of Stones Throw Records, Peanut Butter Wolf, revealed that the sequel to MF DOOM and Madlib‘s classic project, Madvillainy, could be released to fans in the near future. Peanut Butter Wolf made an appearance on a new episode of Pete Rosenberg and Cipha Sounds’ Juan Ep is Dead podcast. During the conversation, he disclosed that the project is close to “85 percent […]
