How Zev Love X Became MF Doom

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The New York Times

Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

3.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Conversations about the legacy of the beloved rap figure’s early career, which set the table for the artist he would become. Guests: Stretch Armstrong, Bobbito Garcia and Dante Ross.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times,
0:05.0	Pop Gas, Your I had this style ever
0:07.0	ever ever ever.
0:08.0	Welcome to the New York Times, Pop Gas, Your,
0:10.0	I had this style ever since I was a child,
0:12.0	a music news and criticism. I had this style ever since I was a child.
0:12.6	Music News and Criticism.
0:14.8	I'm your host, John Caramonica.
0:16.5	They go like, I hold mics, like,
0:18.8	to hold their girls tight, but I ain't at the hub,
0:21.0	probably you're acting with Pearl White, the the hook or not as many times I'm
0:24.8	splitting to be specific more times the dimes in the brisnet when you broke nor if I
0:29.4	crash the barbecue like where they got the announcement that M. F. Doom, one of the most
0:46.7	special and visionary rappers of the 90s and the 2000s, had passed away. He passed away in October. His family did not announce that he had
0:55.9	died until December 31st. Doom was an incredibly special, you know, to me as a listener in the late 90s, the way that he was playing
1:06.7	with emotion and texture and feeling and really
1:15.0	formative for me as a listener.
1:18.0	He made very powerful music.
1:20.0	Operation Dumes Day, which is his debut album, came out in 99 on Fondalombeau album, came out in 99 on Fondalum following a few 12 inch
1:26.8	singles really stands not just as kind of one of the the signature 10-poll
1:31.6	records of what we look back on as the independent rap explosion of that era, but also just of hip-hop in the 90s in general.
1:40.0	It extends back to the kind of post native tongue's work that Doom was doing as
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