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This post is from DOOM’s wife’s Jasmine. If Jas wrote it it’s legit.
I’ll tell some DOOM stories a bit later, for now I need to process... Dude made me laugh and made me furious, almost got me fired and I STILL loved him. Rest in Power to one of the greatest to ever do it. https://twitter.com/mfdoom/status/1344750709531619329
I’ll tell some DOOM stories a bit later, for now I need to process... Dude made me laugh and made me furious, almost got me fired and I STILL loved him. Rest in Power to one of the greatest to ever do it. https://twitter.com/mfdoom/status/1344750709531619329
Okay here’s a DOOM story or two. Daniel Dumile aka MF DOOM was someone I first worked with on the DangerDOOM project. During the making of the album, I would sometimes pick him up to take him to the studio to lay vocals.
Before picking him up I was told “bring him beer when you come.” I was picking him up at 9am. I brought beer and the second I entered his apartment, he started drinking and in fact by 10am *I too* was drinking, sitting around with him as he read some rhymes from his notebook.
DOOM had a chaotic energy, but he was always a sweet goofball who just wanted to hang around and tell stories. When you were with him you really felt like you were a part of his family.
Because of that, he got me to do shot for him I NEVER would’ve done for anyone else. For instance. After DangerDOOM came out and did so well, I got Adult Swim to sign DOOM to a record deal for another album. We have him a 45k advance. And then... nothing. He dipped.
I heard nothing from him and didn’t get my phone calls returned for like 3 years. After which, he would call me and I wouldn’t return HIS phone calls. I got in a lot of trouble for wasting 45k of the company’s money. But I weathered it. It hurt though.
I don’t care about the money but making me look and and fucking with my livelihood was a bridge too far. Somewhere in the time frame where I wasn’t speaking to him, DOOM sent me two huge paintings he had made (they are still hanging at work). We had bonded over loving cartoons.
And he had wanted to honor that and, I guess, say “I’m sorry.” I later found out that during the time where he split, he had a child who was in the hospital and was deathly ill. That softened my heart somewhat.
Flash forward to like a decade later and I hear DOOM really wants to work with me again. After several talks with his management we came up with the idea of the Missing Notebook Rhymes. Of course, once we start releasing them, we find two things out:
A) DOOM hadn’t paid the producers who made these songs or cleared the other vocalists or samples (of course he told us he had it all cleared).
B) DOOM owed music to a record label. Literally anything he released he owed to them. He didn’t tell us this. So the label came after us
B) DOOM owed music to a record label. Literally anything he released he owed to them. He didn’t tell us this. So the label came after us
It was, in short, a total boondoggle and of course we had to shut it down and apologize to a lot of people and pay a ton of money to a bunch of others. All because DOOM was... DOOM, lol. I again got yelled at by my bosses, who asked “why would you go BACK to this guy???”
Which is a valid question. All I could say was, “it’s DOOM. He’s one of the greatest to ever do it. And I was just hoping we could make it work.” Ive been thinking about what happened a lot, every before hearing about his death.
And you know what? I’m not sorry I gave him another shot, even if it didn’t work out for me. DOOM was a mess, and a genius, and a goofball who loved cartoons, and I loved him even after he fucked us over because he was just that special. Pour one our for the super villain. RIP.
